What is Contemplative Prayer and Why is it so Needed? with Fr. Richard Rohr
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- "A Long, loving, look at the Real" - If you have not yet discovered contemplative prayer for yourself get ready. Soon you'll want to be doing nothing else! In this video Fr. Rohr dives into the essence of a contemplative inner life, what it is, how to start and its historical context in the Christian story.... Check out his daily meditations at cac.org for more. This particular issue is all on contemplative prayer: cac.org/the-se...
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So refreshing to hear someone embrace the magnitude, the omnipotent and omnipresence of God in every thing.
My prayer is that more people discover the ever present God waiting for a beautiful time with Him as individuals, especially in this chaotic and conspiracy theories filled world of ours.
Contemplating prayer moments will soothe our ever anxious and worried souls.
Oh thank you so very much, I arrived at 76years of age and wondered why so many of us never got our prayers answered, then we beat ourselves up its because we are a wretched sinner as our R C school/church taught us.
Do you know how many of us feel your a real breath of fresh air. It took a long time to reach you to understand why we don't understand the bible we was never taught it in school, at church the mass was always in Latin I WOULD COME OUT THINKING I NEVER UNDERSTOOD A WORD OF THAT. PRAYER WAS JUST PARROT FASHION. THANK YOU GOD FOR RICHARD ROHR GODS BLESSINGSXXXXXXX THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR EXCELLENT VIDEOS I TRULY THANK YOU.
Father Richard has helped me expand Christianity in me. I hope it keeps expanding until my body is gone from this earth...
absolutely spot on today!!! His Spirit is in full flow for me today !! THANKS
I'm not Catholic myself but Father Richard is an obviously good man and worth listening to.
He does not believe Jesus is God..stay away from him
@@fagan354 I think he should answer that himself.
@fagan354 God is the creator, only God is God, and anything within creation is an idol. You can worship an idol but eventually you'll have to let go of anything you idoloize to get to God.
@@fagan354He is a Catholic, all Catholics say Jesus is God. You have broken the Ninth Commandment
This guy is awesome.
This spoke to me (and my inner child). Thank you for everything, Fr. Richard.
This spoke to me as well. Father Richard is not like the Priests of my childhood. I have had Catholic guilt my entire life and I am now 61. This Priest makes sense to me.
If you want to know about prayer just read the Bible folks Jesus will teach you everything you need to know
@@cherylbaker3353 ... a let a Good Understand Priest of God help you along the way - Thanks Fr Rohr also study Church history and Traditions that Pre-dates the Bible. What did the early church do before the Bible followed Traditions and Church Fathers Teaching.
Brother Lawrence book helped me. Practising the Presence of God.
I heard good things about Brother Lawrence and that book 🙏🙏🙏!!
Thank you, Father Richard, for helping me to understand prayer.
Thank you Father Richard
God is always Love.
The first time I read the words "contemplative prayer" it was cast in a negative light. So I knew I had to look into it.
That was over a decade ago and it was one of the first times that I had found a name for a practice that I just did, naturally.
Over the next ten years or so many of my personal practices would be revealed as having names and nearly all of them would be disparaged by the modern church.
After releasing my attachment to the internal struggle that arises when the heart and the head are in different places I came to a realization.
That was a beautiful moment, I laughed and cried simultaneously.
Duality is an illusion, there's no beginning, no end, only now.
We all have a road to walk, though the path may be narrow it is easy. One foot goes in front of the other, one breath follows the next. Stay upright and do not think too much and all of life's decisions become easy.
Hello fellow mystics and contemplatives something is happening because we are beginning to find each other.
I have NEVER heard anyone use the term "fast food religion" in my life and that is the perfect way to describe it now. The have it your way approach and keeping it transactional rather than what it truly is. I am not saying this to judge but more of my astonishment that statement alone connected the dots for me and made me realize I've never learned how to properly communicate with anyone until this second.
Wow! Thanks for such a wholesome explanation brother Richard. So honest, practical and real. When we come to the realization that Christ our Intercessor and "All in all" via His indwelling Spirit is always there for us, this is a great start to letting "…the Peace of Christ rule" and help us to "pray never ceasing"
Beautiful :)
It's Father Rohr. He's a priest.
Wonderful. Stay in the flow.
I really really appreciate you Richard Rohr.
To live in the present moment 🕊️ this practice sounds like the writings of the servant of God Louisa Piccarreta
Thank you Fr. Richard!
Thomas Merton was on the true path to God realization. Fr. Richard Rohr is astutely describing the way. An Indian guru, Paramahansa Yogananda came to the US in the 20's and brought with him a method of meditation called Kryia yoga that he said came from Jesus, to Babaji, who told it to Lahiri Mahasaya who told Sri Yutekswar that a young guru would take this to the states as the direct path to God realization, and that guru was Paramahansa Yogananda who was taught by Sri Yutekswarji, Contemplative prayer is another method to have a relationship with God that is within us.
I myself followed the teachings of yogananda or Kriya yoga, as you wish, and I can safely say that their are some major, important differences between this and the Christian, contemplative path. God bless
Toni, I am with you another teaching of the Hindu is to only share the understanding of meditation practice not to change who you are praying to. They want the people in America to hold onto their teachings they are only sharing the kriya yoga concept which means union, one in being with the spirit. No duality.
True Pray asks for nothing and receives everything !NAMASTE
Richard is such an inspiring man. He inspires. To look at a leaf as a book of creation all on its own. Can we please start feeding him pickles so he lasts forever?
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Just this, by Fr. Richard Rohr.
I have the contemplative mind. I delight in times like this morning on my walk when I encountered my two deer. I just stood with them, even though they were scared, and just wanted to be one with them. But then I get yanked out of it. A commercial jet shrieking overhead just enrages me. I don't know how to avoid that problem. Noise pollution particularly takes me out of contemplation. And it happens a lot. I just bought the book Just This. thank you.
how is what you described different from anyone else in ordinary life? if that was all he meant, THEN WE ALL HAVE THE CONTEMPLATIVE MIND AND HIS TEACHINGS ARE UNNECESSARY. he said we can't be happy when we carry around dualisms, and he even gave examples of how the church falls into it. you just expressed the dualism of harmonious nature scene vs disruptive flying machine. that's NOT the contemplative mind. he couldn't have been more clear. you're assuming knowledge you don't yet have, and it's preventing you from hearing him. if this offends you, i'm sorry.
I understand. And I knew that already. But doesn't it say in the bible that we are to be stewards of the earth? And what about stealing life from future generations by what we're doing? But then I ask myself if I know the future, and what it will bring. And I don't. So I'm pretty confused. This isn't just some idle problem I'm having. This is a 50 year battle. I watched the trees bulldozed for housing subdivisions when I was a child. And from then on out I've watched in horror. I used to say, be fruitful and multiply, but give it a break already! I find it impossible to not stress as I watch the destruction of this planet. I guess it was made once, and it can be made again. But how does one not be upset when they see their mother being raped?
What you are talking about is "silence" not contemplation. Traditional christian contemplation (especially if you are describing it from the experience of the desert fathers as he does) is an infused gift. You cannot do anything to get it but you can practice meditation and silence with the hope of recieving the gift. For His own reasons God gives the gift to those whom he chooses but not to everyone.
el-sig yes you are so correct , God decides whether you receive Infused Contemplation , which is supernatural , nothing can describe this grace . Infused Contemplation is supernatural , although you can't make it happen , you can pave the way so to speak by living in a State of Grace , receiving the Sacraments , prayer , solitude , allowing God's will to be done whether or Not you like it & finally giving your heart to God. I can assure you , sinners & those who you would never suspect receive this grace & am somewhat certain the trails & sufferings in their lives are somewhat difficult. When God takes the Infused Contemplation away
..often the pain is greater than if the gift was never given in the first place. God knows what he's doing. Very difficult to find a Spiritual Director to which one feels aligned with to be directed by , it's Not an easy journey by No means although the graces definitely strengthen you & one sits in awe of God through it ALL ! plus there are physical symtoms with the Infused Contemplation.
"Some people prefer solitude. They say their peace of mind depends on this. Others say they would be better off in church.
If you do well, you do well wherever you are. If you fail, you fail wherever you are. Your surroundings don't matter. God is with you everywhere -- in the market place as well as in seclusion or in the church.
If you look for nothing but God, nothing or no one can disturb you. God is not distracted by a multitude of things."
- Meister Eckhart
Contemplative prayer to dwell in the holy moment,No past no future just divine awareness in the Holy moment, no thoughts,,to see and feel the body of Christ in its fullest.
Richard and I disagree on a vast number of theological issues, but on this we agree.
"Fast Food Religion" is such a great description of the diluted, dull, guilt-ridden version of Catholicism I was raised in. This could not hold up to the view of my developing intellect and I fell away as a youth into a convenient agnosticism. But I sadly threw away the baby with the bathwater. I so much wish I had come across Thomas Keating or Anthony de Mello back then. I and so many of today's youth were done a disservice by The Church and if The Church is to remain relevant and perhaps undergo a renaissance, contemplative prayer will play an essential part.
Thank You
YES😊
For all of those who have misunderstood this it is simply having graduated towards God for all that he is , and maintaining a focus on that. And stop putting this man down and being hateful, that is definitely not a Christian attitude.
Anonymous Monk first of all I never said anything about his being a Christian or not, I was only explaining contemplative prayer and warning not to judge, which you just did regardless of my warning, I also stated that the poor attitudes on display in the comments did not reflect the Christian attitude ,to which you in-turn displayed your own poor attitude. As for understanding The meaning or Christian, I am a preacher of over twenty five years and have been a Christian for 32 years. ( Christian) “ Christ like” this is a follower of Christ and a imitator in body and spirit May God bless you and keep you always.
Anonymous Monk I know that you just want to argue , and I’m not going down that road with you, so take your stupidity some place else.
Anonymous Monk what is your problem, why do you want to argue with someone so bad ? Did the church hurt your feelings, maybe mommy didn’t give you enough attention, or maybe you just hate the world, I didn’t bring anything you addressed me. I never said you are stupid I said the way you are acting is stupid, I don’t want to argue, I was simply explaining something for those who lacked information on the subject. Now we can do this forever or we can have an intellectual conversation on the subject, and maybe we can help each other, but if you just want to argue then I’m not going to be a part of it. So do you want to converse or is this over? Your choice.
St Patrick he was trying to explain the Holy Trinity to the Irish so he reached down and picked up a shamrock ☘️ that is the same concept Richard was referring to. One in being with the spirit.
The Long Loving Look at the Real... That`s the synthesis of Contemplation, is so simple, that is to hard to teach... Una Larga Mirada Amorosa a lo Real... Esa es la síntesis de la Contemplación, tan simple, que es demasiado difícil de enseñar... Are great coments of (Son comentarios geniales de) Richard Rohr
An epiphany to me. Thanks bro, I will remember that one.
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What happened to meditating on the Word of God day and night. . .
Opposite what he’s talking about. The word of God is one thing. It’s not so clear in the bible.
@@bobobrien8968 Jesus warned us about not doing "contemplative prayer". It creates a passive mind - opened to demonic influence. An active mind thinks about what we read in the Word. The King James Bible (written at the 5th grade level) is clear (and it is the only Bible out there not corrupted by the Vatican (Mystery Babylon)). We want to make it our foundation for truth.
"A long loving look at the real"--Walter Burghardt, S.J. Please attribute it to its source.
That may have been unavoidably necessary, if it were a pure scholarly talk
Here we have simply an enlightened spiritual exhortation
Fanning up the flame of faith is the chief goal here,
more powerful than meditation
In Matthew 6:5-18 Jesus teaches about prayer and fasting. Jesus is meek and lowly Matthew 11:29. Take My yoke upon you and learn of Me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. Jesus died for all so that we may be saved. Free from condemnation… free from the bondage of the world… He says to come to Him. We only go to Jesus. Nothing of this world.
I live in a very Christian country in Europe and nobody I know uses contemplation.
They sometimes pray or go to church, but they don't know contemplation and deep spiritual practices.
Jazakallah
My Prayer to Jesus Christ Son of Almighty God
Oh! Precious Lord Jesus, Son of Almighty God my Father,
I place all my faith, hope, trust, and love in Thee
Whatever may befall me Lord, though dark the hour of the day may be,
In all my joys, sorrows, persecutions and sufferings, in this life,
though nothing but grief l see,
Oh! Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place my trust in Thee!
As I walk through the valley of the shadow death,
Guide me by the Anointing power of Thy Holy Spirit!
Deliver me from despair, depression and the sin of doubt,
Keep me always in your Sacred Heart!
Stay with me on the straight and narrow path.
That by the Light of the CROSS, l may never lose my way,
Oh! LORD, turn my eyes on Jesus, looking always in His wonderful face!
enraptured by the Light of His Loving Sacred Heart,
Oh! LORD through JESUS only I pray, keep my faith pure and true.
Holy Spirit of Christ my Lord, strengthen me to faithfully endure,
to the end of my days of life on earth, always abiding in God our Father's will.
Jesus Lord and Master stay with me,
Grant me the Grace to fulfill my Vows of Love for Thee
Obedient in humble adoration, worshiping God the Father in LOVE,
only through the Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ,
The Way, the Truth, the Tree of Life!
The Cross of Christ is the door to Life,
And the Door Way through Christ, is the Key to the
Kingdom of Eternal Life..
😇 🕊🙏 📖 ✝️ 📖 🙏 🕊 😇
Opus by
Vanessa Thérèse Risi
23rd psalm King David being chased by Solomon?
@@ThomasBrennanthombre55
Dear Thomas Gerard Brennan,
I wrote My Prayer to our Lord Jesus Christ in 1998, after I was diagnosed with Malignant Cancer.
I was given 3 months to live if I did not have Chemo Therapy.....and maybe another 3 years if I Sold my Townhouse to pay Doctors for the Therapy.. I was 54 yo and not working. If I sold my home to pay Doctors to live another 3 years. There was no guarantee I could be healed.. I was in so much pain I could not walk up one step to enter my front door.
After the diagnosis I came home from the Doctor's Room, lay on my bed and started to Pray.
I told the whole story to our Lord Jesus. I Lit a Candle and looked at a Crucifix which I had made a few years before..it is still in my Study.. I made it because the Church wanted R 750.00 for a Crucifix.
I confessed all the sins I'd comitted, that I could remember and then begged our Lord to please
Forgive me..
I told our Lord what the Doctor had told me, I realized I was dying, and that I deserved to bear all my suffering and the terrible death, I would have to endure, because of my own sins.
I did not ask our Lord to heal me. I did not deserve to be healed because of sins I had comitted in my whole life.. Because the wages of sin is death.
I wrote the above Prayer 24 years ago. After I prayed🙏 and talked to Our Lord, I still had to go for more tests and receive the results of the last Biopsy... The Doctor could not find any Cancer in the report.
The Biopsy came back, perfectly clear of Cancer. The whole story is longer, but l can't write it all now.
All I can honestly tell you, with a clear conscience, I was Miraculously Healed by the Power of Jesus Christ my Divine Lord and Savior, I tell my story through my prayer...
I believe anyone who is suffering an Incurable sickness, or threatened with loosing everything they have, to Pay Doctors for their Medical Expenses or Chemo Therapy, can say my Prayer and make it their own from a sincere heart of repentance and faith. Maybe the Prayer I wrote will help them to put all their Faith, Hope and Love in the SACRED ❤ HEART OF JESUS CHRIST, to save them and heal them if they truly repent with a broken and contrite heart. Psalm 51:
I was just like the Thief on his Cross dying next to Jesus.. I was on my own Cross, suffering and dying because of my sins, just like that thief, he had a few hours left to live in excruciating suffering and pain.
I had 3 months to live..I did not deserve anything but the Death penalty.
That Night I was Saved and made whole. I was Redeemed All Praise and Glory to Jesus Christ.
He Led the Way, to show me the way to Life is through Death, the death of SIN. SIN is Cancer, it kiills the whole person, spirit, soul, mind and body.
It is in Dying to Sin that we are Born Again...Gospel of John 3: 1 - 21..
🕊🙏 📖 ✝️ 📖 🙏 🕊 😇
Simply be x
Reading the books of the New Testament, we probably asked ourselves more than once: *"Why 2000 years we do not see those miracles that accompanied the Сhurch of Christ in the I century, as described in the New Testament?"* Why do the so-called preachers of Christ have to prove that Jesus really existed and atheists boldly deny the historicity or divine origin of Christ? Maybe because the Сhurch of Christ has not existed for 2000 years?
The Сhurch does not exist in the form in which it is presented in the books of the New Testament, but there are Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant and other christian sects claiming to be the place of the Church, but they not have the only thing that distinguishes the divine from the human and is characteristic of just the Сhurch of Christ -the reinforcement of the word with signs, that is, miracles (Mark 16:15-20). Therefore, some researchers doubt the historicity of Christ, and some of them are not opposed to declaring him a an ordinary philosopher, teacher. But even if Jesus were an ordinary philosopher, his disciples would be ordinary followers of Jesus. And they would not dare to write about the miracles that not only Jesus, but also his disciples, could perform. In this world, the great fertility of atheism can be explained by the fact that there is no main opponent of critics of the Bible - the Church. If there were the Church in our time as described by the authors of the New Testament books, where miracles are performed, the sick are healed, where prophesied, and the dead are raised, no one would doubt the historicity of Christ. Then there would be the same controversy throughout the world as in the first century - Jesus the Son of God or the false prophet who seduces the world by miracles. As a result, we can say that the emergence and development of christian sects and atheism was the result of the fact that over the 2000 years the Сhurch of Christ did not exist.
Find *"The Mystery about the Church of Christ"* video on UA-cam. The video reveals the prophecy of the disappearance and reappearance of the Church of Christ before the End of the World. Watching this video will give hope to all who sincerely seek God and will interest those who are not too lazy to think freely. Click on my name to watch the video (The video is in Russian, but English subtitles are included).
"Hard to teach"...........Maybe it can't be taught. Pray wholeheartedly for the gift and maybe God, by his grace, will grant it.
Very possible...happened for me :)
This is panentheism and pantheism and is nowhere in scripture that we are supposed to be doing this. Run! He talks about dualism of right and wrong. He sets up new categories of dualism/non-dualism and so the very category of non-dualism is dualistic.
Rohr’s doublespeak and web of tangled thought is very hard to follow unless you have taken the lure. Then he drags you wherever he, with his great knowing mystic mind wants to take you. You are the fish, he is the fisher. In order to do this the first thing he has to do is disavow identity, or the first premise of logic and reasoning A is A. He calls it dualistic thinking but it is really monistic for it must start with a thing is what it is. This of course leads to A not being Not A. That is not dualism. Rohr’s is dualistic thinking because the first thing it does is sets off the spiritual from the material, or the mind/body problem. In this dualism Rohr goes with the Beginning-less Mind and in doing so will eventual deny substitutionary atonement and that Jesus and the Christ are not the same thing, Jesus being the historical man and Christ the incarnation of God in all matter. How does he know all these things? It’s mystical and you can’t understand it unless you enter the mystical mind. Let go! Caught!
AI Milligan ~ ...Dont be scared.
"Nothing has ever been said about God that hasn't already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.” - Thomas Merton
On the one hand you have the gospel of the cross resurrection, on the other mystics like RR. Which do you think is going to be there ten thousand years from now? (If man is still alive. )
@@todd92371 Merton's quote is absurd. The wind in the pine trees is saying something? What?
@@almilligan7317 The complexity of life on this planet never ceases to amaze me and its mystery points to a diverse and infinitely brilliant God. When I see nature work. See its complexity. It breathes and beats with the brilliance of a creator. Photosynthesis and its complex relationship between the sun and life. An invisible pressure differential that makes the leaves dance high in the trees above. For me, it's all wonder. I stand beneath the tall pines and am in awe. The sheer wonder of a beautiful God who made all of this for us. At least that is what I hear. I have and always will feel God's peace when I'm in the woods.
Just enjoy God's beautiful creation and not what he told you..read King James Bible..that is where you will find the truth and not a lie from hell
3:36 - America’s anger today (as he is putting it) is a result of centuries of Greek dualistic thinking and philosophy. It’s influenced the Western church more than just about anyone cares to admit. Today’s church has lost most of its Hebrew roots (which isn’t dualistic, it’s wholistic).
Fast food religion.
It's such a shame that tee word contemplation has come to mean so many things, inthe understanding of Thomas merton it was non of that teaching wellbeing or meditation is not contemplation but today commercial church is teaching contemplation in weekendand the church is full of contemplatives at aprice in commercial church thomas merton must regret mentioning it ,because it is creating those who consider themselves spiritual elete like hippy movement in the sixtys if anybody does know contemplation they certainly wouldn't cheapen it.
People of God, you need answers to prayer. Answers. That's the goal. Masturbation is not love-making, is it?
Father, use NEPSIS. Controls thoughts...the Jesus Prayer. It t'aint easy but that's what the war of love is for. AMEN.
I had no idea what contemplative prayer was until now. As a Christian, I pray daily. Many times a day. When I was a 6 7 yr old child, I would walk home from church, talking to Jesus, and everything around me. The bushes, trees, birds,grass, sidewalks, even the air around me.I remember, loving the feeling of complete love, and knowing I was safe, and loved by God, but really didn't know it was a form of prayer. I had so much adoration for God, at such a young age. I was so innocent. I'm so thankful we have such a loving and forgiving God, I praise, and thank Him daily. God bless everyone. ❤
Boy, you sound like me as a young girl...Did the same...
To me, just enveloping myself in a Nature experience (a walk, a day at the beach, visiting a botanical garden, being within ear-shot of a children's playground - hearing their sweet voices as they play) ALL these jettison me to that Spiritual plane, where Joy & Peace exist...Sweet & Beautiful...is our God...
I promise you, if you got you're information from Catholic Monk Richard Rohr, who preaches a progressive false Gospel. A lot of what this man teachers comes out of the New Age movement, it isn't always obvious and you have to do you're home work. The Bible teaches us that People like him will bring false teachings into the Church. He is an expert when it comes to manipulating language, and twisting Scripture to fit his new age thinking. He is asking people to go against what Scripture teaches. Please do not take my word for what I am saying, in the end it is you who will have to stand in line before a Just God and give account of why you did or didn't do this or that. We are commanded to be discerning. Some of what Rohr says is actually right, but some yes, that is how he manages to sneak the New Age stuff past the undiscerning Christian. I believe Richard Rohr is responsible for the shipwrecking of many people's salvation. I implore you, do your homework, do not just accept things. Contemplative prayer at it's root is right of of New Age thinking, it's about emptying the mind. That is not the sort of Prayer Christians have preached for millennia, suddenly Richard Rohr has all the answers, I think not. I have no problem in denouncing this man as a dangerous man who preaches a false gospel, the results of which will reverberate throughout eternity for those unlucky people who listen and followed this man's false teach. One more time, do your homework, check out a young man who came out of the New Age, his name is Steven Bancaz, listen to what he has to say about Rohr's false teaching and it's obvious connection to New Age teachings. The question always come down to this, is Jesus Christ the Son of God, is he God, is he part of the Triune Godhead, Richard Rohr will dance you around the dance floor of clever words and before you know it the questions have been lost sight of, Rohr has changed the subject. Pray is connection with God we pray for any number of reasons, we should also be thank God in prayer for the mercy, the graciousness and the share love he poors out upon those who are his. Things asked for in pray may be right for you, God I believe always want's what is best for you but he will say NO to things that are not. Do we repent when praying, do we take our sin to the Lord and confess it, then turn away from that sin, fully realising that we in this world are not perfect and Christians will sin again, we just need to be read to repent and recommit to turning from sin. In some cases it took me years, I pray regular for God to change my thinking, never to empty my mind, Rohr is playing with Doctrines of Demons, the give away is always when one comes along and starts rewriting the Bible to fit the Spiritual Journey they are on, I most certainly wouldn;t want to be on the same path as Rohr, that I believe 100% would mean I was unsaved, and lost, and that my eternal future was bleak to say the least. Discernment, discernment, discernment, check out what these guru's who take from various religions like Hinduism, Buddism etc, the Christian Bible needs not teach noe lessons from them. Just because some answers are not liked or even hated in the secular world means nothing, the question for eacj of us is The Word of God True, it is there you need to make your decision and if it is True then the Richard Rohr's of this world are the Wolves the Bible talks about and should be avoided at all costs. Check out Alisa Childers, Doreen Vitue (former New Ager), and Steven Bancaz (former New Ager), view their Channels and Posts on such men and woman who would take you away from Scripture to follow a new gospel they have come up with over time as they incorporate bits and pieces of other religions into the false, fake gospel they are selling, and I might add becoming very rich in. So, one more time, be discerning, dig into the history of what they are saying, in Rohr's case, it's obviously a lot of his teachings come from Hinduism and Buddhism and of course a large chunk of New Age belief and teaching. This guy books are akin to recieving a hotch potch quilt that incorporates many different belief systems, he is big on Hinduism inspired teaching, Mindfulness is part of that, avoid that like the plague, sadly it is actually sweeping the secular and Christian worlds like a plague, run, run, run from it, it will being you no good, it just starts of at the beginning giving an allusion of 'good.' it's not, it's part of Hinduism and has no place in Christianity period! As I've said here, don't take my word, if you do the homework diligently you'll see Richard Rohr and his like for the Wolves in sheep clothing that I believe they most certainly are. But we should always pray that they will repent, turn from their sin and find the Genuine Jesus, not the New Age version, and The Gospel, the True Gospel in which God talks to His people and outlines as our Creator what it is he would have us do. I'm not God, although Rohr thinks we are all gods, that comes from New Age, New Thought false teachings,
LWe
Soo Terrific Pastor Rohr. Inspirational. When does your book Just This come out?
Same here.😃
Thank you
Richard whipping out the fidget spinner is the best thing I’ve seen today!
lmaooo best part of the video
@@bruhmoment3731 you missed so much, sad
@@terryjp3050 u must be fun at parties
Contemplation is being deeply aware of God presence in everything we do . Whether washing dishes or washing a child , be thankful you’re alive to do it . Breathe in the spirit of the Divine Embrace , the Invisible, the Immortal God
I had a walk in the park today. The park is alongside a meandering river. I came across a group of ducks that were leisurely floating and preening their feathers. It made me stop and open up to the Unity of life and the special little things we overlook in every minute of our lives. A few more steps and I came across a piece of moss laden tree bark that was on the ground. The sunlight was on it, and it was resplendent with artistic beauty; almost ethereal. It made me stop again with a profound sense of emptiness that was filled with Glory. And now I came across this video of Fr. Rohr talking about taking in a leaf with a sense of wonder. I think this was all meant to be!
Yesss! Contemplative walking is one of my favorite ways to pray. I'm happy that you do this too :) Peace and blessings.
The incredible, priceless Gift of Nature, our environment is always FOOD for the Spirit, as well as the Mind & Body...I can ALWAYS find Him there...Always....
So glad that His beauty & Peace were made manifest to you!
😂 “think”?
"I'd rather be sitting in the mountains, thinking about God... than sitting in church thinking about the mountains."
Ummm what ??? No!
This explanation of Contemplation appears to be influenced by modern new age psychology. Richard Rohr admits he is not there yet, whereas Saints and Doctors Theresa of Jesus and John of the Cross have guided Christians for centuries in Contemplation as they knew and lived it. Richard Rohr’s non-dualistic philosophy sounds contrary to a Christian’s need to distinguish between good and evil. Is there no distinction between right and wrong in false accusations, in murder, in adultery? A person does not need to conclude that there is no distinction between man and woman to conclude that one is not better than the other albeit different. A person does not need to arrive at some pretended enlightenment that there is no difference between right and wrong to arrive at union with God; to the contrary, we are called to follow the Truth. It seems that non-dualistic thinking would be troubled by the fact that we are on the one hand created in the image of, and temples of, God, and on the other hand we are sinners and nothing without God; which also brings us to consider the reality that we have two hands, thankfully not one (though I often find myself wanting more when carrying in the groceries). Unity in consciousness is an acknowledgement and an appreciation of duality, which enables the person to make decisions for or against whatever confronts him or her. Contemplation is not just another word for prayer as commonly understood, although it is life in prayer. It is not an evolutionary result of exercise in the manner as are larger muscles from lifting weights, a result that one acknowledges is deserved from the effort. Rather, Contemplation is a loving inflow of God in the Soul, a Grace, in a manner of a relationship of persons, that one recognizes is not deserved but is pure gift, that transforms a person’s life. The recognized “practice” is to love God (which includes prayer) by conforming your life to his commandments (which requires distinguishing the duality of what is right from wrong) and to love your neighbor in God, which culminate in a single effort encouraged by human effort perfected by Grace.
Seems you can’t touch the face of God if your theology and doctrine is evil and wrong. 🤷♂️
WOW Thank you. I've heard the term Contemplative prayer all of my life. But I never knew what it meant. Also, I didn't realize that meditation and trying to stay in the moment activities integrated so beautifully into our Catholic traditions.
Beautiful talk. Just be present. Here and now. Look deeply. Find your own ways to do that. Don't expect anything to happen. That's overriding universal flow. Just be there. Participate. Life is full of challenges. Don't think of them as problems. They are opportunities, gateways. You can learn to almost internally smile when a challenge arises. Just be present then.
“The mainline of Christianity had become the fast food of religion.” Already, a couple of hundred years after Jesus. And it just went downhill from there. I love this man. Can you imagine all religion was like what he’s talking about? Man, what a world this could be!
All I know is that they kept hunting down the apostles and disciples, trying to eradicate Christians but failed. So Satan placed the Pharacees in power under a new name and they seized power using Christianity; but very different Christianity, one that brought back the law which Christ fulfilled and abolished. They brought back altars, rituals, ceremonies, idols, sacrifice (changing wine and host into body and blood), laws, regulations, tidings, indulgences, etc. The Vatican where all the cardinals sit with the pope in the middle looks exactly like the Jewish sonhidron. They basically put a hold on a free spread of Christianity and ruled with an iron fist; salvation was basically impossible under their laws, and there were no Bibles in Europe - even today, people in Eastern Europe and Russia don't read the Bible, except for few Protestants and clergy. Bibles are just decorations for those who happen to have one; we had one but it was hidden, how sad. That's why God took me to the U.S., and this is why God sends down saints who pick up the faith and inspire the masses, usually at the cost of their lives.
@Anonymous Monk care to enlighten me on what your religion is then?
Prayer need not require hominid speech within mind or through the mouth. Just see sunshine and soil and hear wind on n on. Stop talking. Words are irrelevant much of the time. Peace ✌️
This is the secret to a faith that lasts! Ever notice how many seem to come and go from faith? We all struggle with this. I believe that if we improve our prayer life - which, in turn, improves our relationship with God - our faith will overcome any challenges we may face.
Pray in secret. Do not be like the hypocrites who love everybody to see what they are doing.
Some great thoughts here. Thank you
I am opening myself to contemplation as well. However, decrying revealed truth on dualistic matters is dualistic in itself. I guess what I’m experiencing is that right and wrong exist, and I can still be contemplative.
Yes he thinks dualism is wrong so it naturally defaults to dualism vs non-dualism. It is self refuting.
True Christianity focuses on the Truth that "God became man so that man could become God." Humility, nonjudgement, moderation, service, fraternity, and nonconfrontation are the original teachings of the Christ. All else is corruption.
So grateful for Richard Rohr! Going to buy Just This right now. Shalom!
Staying with the flow....loving words...such important work to be done
Yes :) for ourselves and for our world. I'm glad your in :)
Father Richard makes me to believe in God again.
Wow! That's wonderful. I love people like him that can do that for us! Peace and blessings.
Amen.
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Sorry but the only Father I know is Our Holy Father who art inHeaven thank you very much. Your lost. Jesus told us how to pray to Jehovah! You dont get wired to everything around you ! Truth do you know the Truth?! I dont need anyone to reply!
Stay in the flow, your gift comes naturally is a perfect description of the open trusting heart surrendered to the movement of the will of the Divine. The objective of my life is to maintain this attitude. Your sincere faithful guidance helps to make possible the union of polarity remembering itself as Source.
I practice centering & contemplative prayers. Alpha Brains Waves will be recorded on EEG.
"You can't go around saying the Our Father all day" Very funny and englightened man.
Right or wrong tho.
I think it's because he follows the life of Saint Francis of Asissi, but I may be biased ;) lol BTW, if you liked this, he has some great books too!
Just keep god in your mind somewhere close by
You definitely can
Actually I think you could say the Our Father all day. Every prayer, in some form or fashion, is the Our Father. Padre Pio prayed many rosaries per day (30 or more). And his advice was simply to "love the Madonna and pray the rosary often and well." He called the rosary his "weapon." And so there is a necessary dualism in the spiritual battle, between the Good and that which is evil; between the Truth and lying falsehoods. The Mother of God, at Fatima, said to "pray the rosary everyday." The rosary, prayed well, may lead to contemplation, but the point is to serve and adore almighty God, now, and hopefully, for all eternity in Heaven.
I have to stop watching political television. Even EWTN television and live radio is often how he describes it-I’m right, you’re wrong. Our whole political discourse is wholly unhealthy, full of hatred, vindictive. No wonder we are where we are. I gotta find those voices who focus on unity, with God and each other. Is it possible? Gotta make the attempt. For the love of God, we have to try.
The God of Israel is needed.
You idolize prayer in stead of God.
Huh - Contemplative Prayer is to and with GOD. You idolize repeating whatever you are feed without LISTENING and thinking for YOURSELF
It’s seems at 7:08 that Brother Rohr needs the aid fidget spinner to help quiet the mind.
lol whatever works for him
@@bruhmoment3731 100%
Wow, such beautiful and inspiring words, thank you father!
This is fantastically wise and helpful and true. What a wonderful man ❤
This is one lecture I find useful to hear several times. Thank you.
Thank you Richard for your work - it is such a blessing to so many. Why did we make following the real Jesus so complicated and unattractive when it should be something that everyone would want to partake in? Whom the Son has set free is free indeed. Pure joy.
True story!
Richard Rohr! I love listening to you . I can listen and listen and listen. Thank you
Wisdom! Blessings for Fr. Richard :)
"Long loving look at the Real"
Great video ty learning do much from your teaching. Along with Girard, Rabe, Du tiot.
Christian contemplation is not only looking, it's also being present (which is sacrificial). Present to creation, present to the Presence - it is then that we realize that contemplation is also an invitation from Another. It is, fundamentally, a response. This is what distinguishes it from a mere self-discipline, a psychological practice. Contemplation is profoundly interpersonal and transcendent, answering the still, small voice of God. "It is not you who have chosen me, it is I who have chosen you."
Wow. Very true. It's a deeply interpersonal relationship! Thanks for sharing. Peace and blessings.
Love your comment..."ours is a response to answering that still, quiet Voice..."... Yes...
Utterly brilliant man!
Pope Richard the First 😀
I wonder how contemplative prayer can help with addictions
I think it would help to be able to stay strong when temptation creeps in, not allowed duality to win over your will to be sober or straight, staying one in being with the spirit.
Thank you spreading the word about contemplative prayer.
Contemplative prayer makes sense and is really efficient, if you think about it. It's basically praying in spirit! You don't have to subvocalize. It's all about intention and getting the message across to God. After all, Heaven is a spiritual place!
This is a fantastic and remarkably well said and clear. I want to get the book!
The best way to explain ever. thank you
Thank you Father Richard Rohr. I first learned about contemplative prayer in the Jesuit novitiate in 1982. Since then it has become a part of me. Thank you for this insight. Greetings from Indonesia
WoW the Power of Now is the presence indwelling Spirit of Christ!
Scripture is no more helpful than a hundred Hail Mary’s without a foundation of connection with the source of the breath that keeps you going.
So awesome and beautiful
I was already thinking this guy’s great - then I saw he had a fidget spinner and he blew my mind! 🤣
Only thing I think he may have said poorly or wrong was that it's their loss at 8:18 - 8:22. I see young men and women in the dating world say this often, if they get rejected it's the other persons loss. Well, no. It's everyone that loses. When two people don't make a connection and get to know one another and the nuances of how they connect both parties lose and sometimes their networks of friends and family lose. When someone doesn't develop that relationship with God, God loses another loved one. If he truly loves them that will break his heart and if we love God knowing his heart is breaking will break our hearts. Every person that that person doesn't pray for, every blessing that the world doesn't receive that was stored for them to simply ask for is lost. There is a silence and a sadness in knowing all that is lost when someone turns away from God or rejects his word. But, as we all probably know, God is not invasive and gives us choice. In the same way, you can't force or pressure them to get to know God. Rather, you invite them and delight in their coming to Christ and share that delight with them and everyone around, or you let your heart break a little and go to that quiet place within yourself and see if you can comfort God and be comforted by God.
My opinion here is subject to being wrong.
Very Zen.
I have Always wanted to reach a contemplative state of mind. I decided a few years ago to practice detachment and discernment and let things go.Duality mind is a subject-object problem that leaves the mind in the sate of confusion that can be removed by the practice of detachment and discernment and then prayer can be used additionally and you will reached contemplation !
But Father, what do you think of the existence of Satan and what do the scriptures and the saints refer to as the World which has to be opposed? Those two things give the impression that Christianity has been dualistic from the very beginning, unless you say that whole believes in that is a fundamentalist, which would include the likes such as Theresa of Avila.
The spiritual exercises of Ignatius Loyola that include contemplative prayer are programs with occult methodologies and techniques that are being introduced and practiced in churches, seminaries and youth rallies around the world. These exercises are taken from the old Catholic and Eastern Orthodox traditions and are the antithesis of the meditation presented in God’s Word. Other examples of these practices are the Walk to Emmaus, Cursillo, Centering Prayer, Ignatian Awareness, Examen, chanting, biblical imagination, prayers of discernment, and the Jesus Prayer.
Disguised Practice?
Most evangelicals would immediately reject divination practices like the Ouija board, for example, and see it as a device for contacting evil spirit entities, which the Bible condemns and calls an abomination (Deuteronomy 18:10-12). But the Catholic Spiritual Exercises, such as contemplative prayer, appear to the uneducated in God’s Word less threatening as it is disguised under church related activities.
The term “contemplative” means to think about something intently. So by the name, one would assume contemplative prayer to be earnest communication with God. However practitioners of these contemplative methods don’t do that. The goal of these practices is to get people beyond thinking and into the realm of “experiencing” God. A tutorial of this movement is The Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola which introduces occult visualization. Sadly, these visualized apparitions are demons that take actual forms and usher the practitioner into the world of the occult and away from God.
Not Biblical
Contemplative prayer is not Biblical prayer because mystical “spirituality” downplays the role of faith in the Scriptures. It exalts “transcendental” experiences that raises the person from the earthly experiences into a supposedly higher “spiritual” stand. It is based on “experiences” rather than Bible based doctrine. God has given His Word and His Holy Spirit to help His children know what is of Him and what is not. The scriptures clearly teach that we should “give attendance… to doctrine” (1 Timothy 4:13).
Faith that is based on mysticism is subjective and does not rely upon the absolute truths of God. The Word of God has been given to us as a light the leads us to the path of righteousness (2 Timothy 3:16-17). Trusting in feelings and experiences is not Biblical, we must “walk by faith, not by sight” (2 Corinthians 5:7). And “faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God” (Romans 10:17).
We do not see any of the apostles, prophets or disciples ever using contemplative prayer to connect with God. On the contrary all sorcery and divination were fully condemned (1 Samuel 15:10) and for practicing these evils, the Jews were led into captivity and destroyed (2 Kings 17:17; Jeremiah 14:14; Malachi 3:5). And the apostle Paul lists sorcery as one of many sinful practices that rob people from having eternal life: “Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife . . . and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God” (Galatians 5:19-21).
Spiritual truth is greater than the bible
@@TheGuiltsOfUs no Spiritual truth can be found apart from the bible my friend it’s the word of God ❤️
The WORD is solely CHRIST!!!
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The same was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men. 5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
◄ Psalm 33:6 ►
King James Bible
By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.
◄ Isaiah 55:11 ►
King James Version
So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
Read the transcript of what Richard spoke about duality finding fault in the other, one way is not to judge others but instead be compassionate and see the spirit of Christ in every person, how does this go against what Jesus taught his deciples, one in being with the spirit, contemplative prayer, reaching for unity in our lives not division, these are Christ teachings
@@ThomasBrennanthombre55 absolutely and it’s not about finding fault in others. It’s about how Christ teaches us to pray in the bible. We should pray intelligently with words. A contemplative mystic lifestyle is new age beliefs all wrapped up in Christian lingo.
Sue and Ron, can I present on FOM?
Eventually not not soon