“In Bonaventure’s view only one who is on a journey to God can really know God; faith seeks understanding through the path of love.”
― Christ in Evolution
― Christ in Evolution
“The journey of prayer for Franciscans is the discovery of God at the center of our lives. We pray not to acquire a relationship with God as if acquiring something that did not previously exist. Rather, we pray to disclose the image of God in which we are created, the God within us, that is, the one in whom we are created and in whom lies the seed of our identity. We pray so as to discover what we already have—“the incomparable treasure hidden in the field of the world and of the human heart. (St. Clare)”
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“The resurrection happens in the present moment, but it is a present moment bathed in future, a new relationship with God, a new union, a new wholeness—a new catholicity—by which life is wholly unified.”
― Making All Things New: Catholicity, Cosmology, Consciousness
― Making All Things New: Catholicity, Cosmology, Consciousness
“I want to highlight the spirit of Pope Francis. Elected to the papacy following the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI, Pope Francis (Jose Maria Bergoglio), in his late seventies, brings a new spirit to the Church that reflects a consciousness of catholicity that we explore here. His is an inner spirit of freedom grounded in the love of God, guided by the gospel message of the new kingdom at hand, and open to a world of change. He desires a Church on the margins, where the poor and the forgotten can be brought into a new unity; a Church that advocates life at all costs and promotes peaceful life in a war-torn and violent world; a Church that models justice in an age of greed, consumerism, and power; a Church centered on the risen Christ, empowering a consciousness of the whole. This is a church leader who desperately wants to breathe a new spirit of catholicity into a world dying for wholeness and unity.”
― Making All Things New: Catholicity, Cosmology, Consciousness
― Making All Things New: Catholicity, Cosmology, Consciousness
“God is the newest thing there is, the youngest thing there is. God is the beginning and if we are united to God we become new again.”
― The Emergent Christ: Exploring the Meaning of Catholic in an Evolutionary Universe
― The Emergent Christ: Exploring the Meaning of Catholic in an Evolutionary Universe
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