How Then Shall We Live?
Dorothy Day, Saint of the Gutter Beautiful
Is there not an heretical imperative implicit in the Gospel and in our absolute amazement in awakening to the core teaching of Jesus Christ: the Kingdom of Heaven is within you-us!
Is it not true that the Gospel, and the Heart of Every Religion, is an invitation to build, with a radical faith and hope, intentional communities rooted in the Mystic-Abode of the Kingdom, of pan-sacramentalism? Is it not true that the Gospel, and the Heart of Every Religion, calls us to live lives of prayer, cooperation, compassion, service, justice, simplicity, and nonviolence (a Beatitude life)? Is it not true that the Gospel, and the Heart of Every Religion, calls us to save Planet Earth by living in such a way that we serve all species and the re-generation of our Home? Is it not true that the Gospel, and the Heart of Every Religion, calls us to gender / race / and class equality; and the equality of the personhood of all human beings?
Is it not true that the Gospel, and the Heart of Every Religion, calls us to the inward journey of contemplative prayer, gratitude of mind, availability and vulnerability of heart, and a harmony of body, mind, and soul? Is it not true that the Gospel, and the Heart of Every Religion, calls us to surrender to the Divine Wisdom of the Feminine, in the Mother, for the conscious cultivation of the Growing Christ: our human and planetary evolution? And finally, is it not true that the Gospel and the Heart of Every Religion, are roadmaps of the Eternal Way into a Living and Greening identification with the Christ Consciousness of the Kingdom of Heaven (within us and within everyone)?
-- Core Questions,
for Companions of the Way
Vow of the Order of the Sacred Earth: "I promise to be the best lover and defender of Mother Earth that I can be."
"What I wear is pants.
What I do is live.
How I pray is breathe."
-- Thomas Merton
Is there not an heretical imperative implicit in the Gospel and in our absolute amazement in awakening to the core teaching of Jesus Christ: the Kingdom of Heaven is within you-us!
Is it not true that the Gospel, and the Heart of Every Religion, is an invitation to build, with a radical faith and hope, intentional communities rooted in the Mystic-Abode of the Kingdom, of pan-sacramentalism? Is it not true that the Gospel, and the Heart of Every Religion, calls us to live lives of prayer, cooperation, compassion, service, justice, simplicity, and nonviolence (a Beatitude life)? Is it not true that the Gospel, and the Heart of Every Religion, calls us to save Planet Earth by living in such a way that we serve all species and the re-generation of our Home? Is it not true that the Gospel, and the Heart of Every Religion, calls us to gender / race / and class equality; and the equality of the personhood of all human beings?
Is it not true that the Gospel, and the Heart of Every Religion, calls us to the inward journey of contemplative prayer, gratitude of mind, availability and vulnerability of heart, and a harmony of body, mind, and soul? Is it not true that the Gospel, and the Heart of Every Religion, calls us to surrender to the Divine Wisdom of the Feminine, in the Mother, for the conscious cultivation of the Growing Christ: our human and planetary evolution? And finally, is it not true that the Gospel and the Heart of Every Religion, are roadmaps of the Eternal Way into a Living and Greening identification with the Christ Consciousness of the Kingdom of Heaven (within us and within everyone)?
-- Core Questions,
for Companions of the Way
Vow of the Order of the Sacred Earth: "I promise to be the best lover and defender of Mother Earth that I can be."
"What I wear is pants.
What I do is live.
How I pray is breathe."
-- Thomas Merton
Francis of Assisi, Saint of the Poor and Mother Earth