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February 25, 2012
Quiet Days Apart: Endings and Beginnings, a Sacred Rhythm of Life

A year of new mini-retreats for 2012 with Trish Stefanik at Priest Field Pastoral Center  (also planned for October 20, December 1)


Sisters of Mercy foundress Catherine McAuley once said: "We have one solid source of happiness in all our journeying - we can keep our hearts fixed on God."

February 25, 2012
Quiet Days Apart: Learning in Autumn to Trust and Let Go to God

A year of new mini-retreats for 2012 with Trish Stefanik at Priest Field Pastoral Center  (also planned for December 1)


Sisters of Mercy foundress Catherine McAuley once said: "We have one solid source of happiness in all our journeying - we can keep our hearts fixed on God."

February 25, 2012
Quiet Days Apart: Springtime Newness and Resurrection Possibility

A year of new mini-retreats for 2012 with Trish Stefanik at Priest Field Pastoral Center  (also planned June 30, August 18, October 20, December 1)


Sisters of Mercy foundress Catherine McAuley once said: "We have one solid source of happiness in all our journeying - we can keep our hearts fixed on God."

February 25, 2012
Quiet Days Apart: Stilling Our Hearts, Making Room for Christ

A year of new mini-retreats for 2012 with Trish Stefanik at Priest Field Pastoral.


Sisters of Mercy foundress Catherine McAuley once said: "We have one solid source of happiness in all our journeying - we can keep our hearts fixed on God."

February 25, 2012
Quiet Days Apart: Summer’s Delight and Gratitude for the Ordinary

A year of new mini-retreats for 2012 with Trish Stefanik at Priest Field Pastoral Center  (also planned August 18, October 20, December 1)


Sisters of Mercy foundress Catherine McAuley once said: "We have one solid source of happiness in all our journeying - we can keep our hearts fixed on God."

September 9, 2010
Soul Brothers

Men in the Bible Speak to Men Today, By Richard Rohr

November 1, 2009
We Need to Take Better Care of Sister Earth

If the nations that built on the Judeo-Christian heritage do not soon see the work of earth care and climate change as a moral and spiritual imperative, one wonders how we will have any moral authority left?

As a priest of the Franciscan Order, the very first European "invaders" in the States of New Mexico, Florida, Georgia, Texas, and California. I think we have been around long enough to see both the good and the bad that we brought with us. We usually found it congenial to live among the Native peoples of the new world, because they already shared our vision of both a simple and a communal life. In fact, they often taught us how to live it!

April 1, 2006
On the Edge of the Inside

The edge is a holy place, or as the Celts called it, "a thin place" and you have to be taught how to live there.  To take your position on the spiritual edge of things is to learn how to move safely in and out, back and forth, across and return. It is a prophetic position, not a rebellious or antisocial one.

One is struck in the study of saints, angels, and gods by a pattern that seems quaint and harmless, yet it is so common that I know there must be a deeper meaning. There always seem to be guardians and spirits of doors, bridges, exits, and entranceways. I saw it all over Asia, read about in Egypt and Mesopotamia, and am familiar with it in Greek mythology, guardian angels, and Catholic saints like St. John Nepomuk, St. Christopher, and even St. Peter. What is going on here?

November 1, 2005
Sadness

Richard Rohr sums up this whole spirituality of initiation in a one liner: the young man who cannot cry is a savage, the old man who cannot laugh is a fool.

It's a privilege to speak to a group of people who, from your first hand experience in the field of healthcare, most likely know much more about the topic of sadness than I do. In my remarks this evening I will speak as a Christian but more out of my Roman Catholic tradition as I think it might be helpful to the context of sadness.

July 1, 2003
Made Not Born: Men and Power

Richard Rohr has spent much time in the last twenty-five years observing and researching the state of the male psyche, both in the secular and spiritual worlds. His work in many countries allowed him to do it in a comparative way, and his retreat work allowed him to do it in an in-depth way. The conclusions he has come to are rather discouraging, but they also confirm the reasons why most cultures deemed the "initiation" of the male absolutely necessary for social survival. It was a fundamental structure of almost every traditional culture.

The Cherokee elder said to his son before he sent him out on the great Vision Quest, "Why do you waste your time brooding, son? Don't you know you are being driven by great winds across the sky!"

October 1, 1990
Naming the Father Hunger

"All men know how to do is pass on roles, money and opinions, but not who they are," says Father Richard Rohr, O.F.M. The fundamental drive affecting male spirituality, he believes, is "father hunger."

"All men know how to do is pass on roles, money and opinions, but not who they are," says Father Richard Rohr, O.F.M. The fundamental drive affecting male spirituality, he believes, is "father hunger."

September 1, 1988
Masculine Spirituality

Masculine spirituality is not just for men, although it is men who are most likely going to have to rediscover and exemplify it.

Masculine spirituality. Perhaps the term sounds new, different, even wrong or unnecessary. Why would we bother speaking of a spirituality that is especially masculine or male? Is there anything to be learned here? Anything that can help both men and women to meet the Christ? I am convinced that there is. Let's see if we can look at it.