Father Rohlheiser reflects on crowds. Some crowds can be good and purposeful, but others can get caught up in the fever of group-think and be mindless.
Father Ron Rolheiser: Reindeer Games
Father Ron Rolheiser: The Spirituality of Eugene de Mazenod
The founder of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, Saint Eugene de Mazenod, said that Christian discipleship and spirituality is something of value and importance for everyone.
Father Ron Rolheiser: The Law of Gravity and the Holy Spirit
The Scriptures tell us that the Holy Spirit is both a physical and a spiritual force, the source of all physicality and of all spirituality all at the same time.
Father Ron Rolheiser: Helplessness as Fruitful
Sometimes passivity is more fruitful and generative than if we were doing something. We see an example of this in Jesus. He gave both his life and his death for us – but in separate moments.
Father Ron Rolheiser: The Power of Words
Words give us meaning. We can’t make or remake reality, but the words we choose to name our reality can lift us out of the humdrum of everyday experience.
Father Ron Rolheiser: A Subtler Kind of Poverty
Whenever I see people working in service jobs such as cooking in cafeterias, cleaning houses, mowing lawns, working in construction, doing janitorial work, and other work of this kind, I am often left to wonder, are they like my brother?
Father Ron Rolheiser: Our Deepest Loneliness
Lonliness can affect us in different ways. We feel restlessness despite experiencing intimacy, and we feel a nostalgia for a home we can never quite find.
Father Ron Rolheiser: A Single Line Says It All!
St. Augustine felt there is an incurable restlessness inside each of us that keeps us perpetually dis-eased spirituality.