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is a painful loss in our emotional lives and a disastrous loss for the safety of life on earth. In woman, it affects her central identity; and in man, it affects his ability to feel and value. The loss of the feminine in man causes him to feel moody and lonely. In woman, it causes her to lose faith in herself. We are slowly awakening to the crisis
... See moreTsultrim Allione • Wisdom Rising: Journey into the Mandala of the Empowered Feminine
It was Arendt who showed me that Augustine was a cartographer of the heart.
James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
Ministry, I believe, is the most potent form of resonance because it draws us into affection with the otherness of God’s self in and through a concrete encounter with our neighbor. This encounter calls us deeper into life as we participate affectionately and emotionally with those who are up against a death experience. It is a concrete experience (
... See moreAndrew Root • The Congregation in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #3): Keeping Sacred Time against the Speed of Modern Life
Wonder includes the capacity to be in awe of humanity, even your own. It allows us to jettison the dangerous belief that things worthy of wonder can only be located on nature hikes and scenic overlooks. This can distract us from the beauty flowing through us daily. For every second that our organs and bones sustain us is a miracle. When those bones
... See moreCole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
God, I pray first of all for the brothers and sisters in this jail, that you might strengthen them. I pray for the people who come to the Downtown Chapel to get something to eat and for the staff that provides for them; I pray for all the poor; I pray in thanksgiving for all the people who help me here and for Father Gary, who comes to see me. Plea
... See moreGary Smith • Radical Compassion: Finding Christ in the Heart of the Poor
The household of ministry will raise its voice when those in the world are kept from experiencing rest and peace. It is not ideology that should motivate this household of ministry but the spotting of inhumanity, seen concretely as a person’s inability to discover, in rest, his or her humanity.
Andrew Root • Faith Formation in a Secular Age : Volume 1 (Ministry in a Secular Age): Responding to the Church's Obsession with Youthfulness
My dearest Father Gary, I cannot adequately put into words what your friendship has meant to me over the past few years. You have been my steady rock in the raging storm. You’ve been the father to me that I always wished for when I was growing up. You’ve given so much, and I know you’ve got so much more to give. Your ministry has just begun. When t
... See moreGary Smith • Radical Compassion: Finding Christ in the Heart of the Poor
This flow is powerful and deeply subterranean. It shapes our deepest inclinations, our fears, our desires, our sense of imagination and wonder. Our deeper minds are constantly in motion, together.