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January 10, 2011
The Greatest Art Form: Action and Contemplation

I dare to call action  birthed from contemplation the greatest art form because I believe it is. It underlies all those other, more visible art forms we see in great sculpture, music, writing, painting, and most especially in the art form called human character. when these two (action and contemplation) are one, the result is always beauty, symmetry, and transformative form -- lives and actions that inherently sparkle and heal.

With ith most people the process of uniting contemplation and action begins on the "action" side. It is surely this way for the first half of life for almost all of us, even introverts. We learn, experiment, try, do, stumble, fall, break, and find. It is largely done in the outer world of activity, starting with crawling, walking, playing, and speaking. The stage gradually gets larger for these "enactments," but we are still constructing our own good stage on which to perform. (We just don't know it yet!)

February 25, 2012
Poorer, Poorer. Smaller, Smaller. Slower, Slower.

Bob Sabath, one of Sojourners' founding members, looks back on 40 years of creating community. "It takes a contemplative mind to see one’s own inner contradictions, the failures and inherent betrayals within our own lives and the institutions that we help to create," he says.

"Be anything you want. Be madmen, drunks, and bastards of every shape and form. But at all costs avoid one thing: success."
 - Thomas Merton

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."

February 23, 2012
Fourth Annual Pilgrimage of Peace

Join in a daily rhythm of sung prayer, silence, and common work. Stay for as long as you want, for part of a day or an entire week.

A Friends of Silence Retreat with Br. Stefan Waligur (Macushla)
Still Point Mountain Retreat
Rolling Ridge Study Retreat Community

Join in a daily rhythm of sung prayer, silence, and common work
Stay as long as you want, for part of a day or an entire week

January 9, 2011
The Stories That Make Us: An Intergenerational Gathering of Men

Reinhold Neibuhr once said, ‘Nothing worth doing can be accomplished in a single lifetime.’  Good and heroic men are generations in the making—cradled in the hearts and initiated in the arms of fathers who were cradled in the hearts and initiated in the arms of their fathers.

Feliciana Retreat Center
Norwood, Louisian (North of Baton Rouge)

Woven together, stories are the very fabric of our lives.  They tell us from where we came, speak of who we are, and dare to utter what we may become.  There is great power in the telling and retelling of our stories, vast potential for healing, growth and transformation.  Join Fr. Richard Rohr, Belden Lane, and Joel Blunk for a weekend of telling the stories that make us./p>

September 9, 2010
Beloved Son Series

A series on teachings masculine spirituality, male initiation, and the responsibilities of the initiated man.

Fr. Richard Rohr’s teaching on the Beloved Sons Series can be ordered by going to the Center for Action and Contemplation (CAC) website section - Men's Resource Materials.  They offer a thorough and concise (approximately 35 minutes each) explanation of the following topics:

1: Masculine Spirituality

September 9, 2010
Movies, Videos, DVDs

Movies, Videos, DVDs that might prompt good discussions about male issues by Richard Rohr, OFM

Richard Rohr suggests some moviies, videos, and DVDs that might prompt good discussion about male issues:

July 1, 2010
Boys Don't Cry

Why developing an inner life is essential to healing men from the explosive violence bottled up within.

We are getting used to the troubling news reports of men who kill their whole families, their wives, their children, or their fellow workers. We are, of course, appalled and saddened, and suspect that these men must have been mentally ill or drunk or on drugs. They often are, but more often the "reason" is probably even deeper and less obvious than addiction or illness.

September 1, 2003
The Two Halves of Life?

History has recognized that there are at least two major movements in the spiritual journey. Richard Rohr calls them the path of ascent and the path of descent.

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.