Category Archives: Fr Ron Rolheiser

http://ronrolheiser.com/ Before you get serious about Jesus, first consider how good you are going to look on wood! That’s a line from Daniel Berrigan that rightly warns us that faith in Jesus and the resurrection won’t save us from humiliation, … Continue reading →

February 10th – February 16th 2018 http://ronrolheiser.com/ In his book, The Divine Milieu, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin confesses that throughout his life he was haunted by two great loves, God and pagan beauty. Both had the power to take his … Continue reading →

http://ronrolheiser.com/ In his autobiography, Morris West suggests that at a certain age our lives simplify and we need have only three phrases left in our spiritual vocabulary: Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! He is right, if we understand fully … Continue reading →

October 14, 2012 http://ronrolheiser.com/ One of the wonderful features of young children is their emotional honesty. They don’t hide their feeling or wants. They have no subtlety. When they want something they simply demand it. They holler. They cry. They snatch … Continue reading →

http://ronrolheiser.com/ None of us likes to think about death, and that isn’t necessarily bad. Our every heartbeat blocks out death, pushes it away, and keeps us focused on living. That’s nature and God working. And this denial of death stems … Continue reading →

http://ronrolheiser.com/ We are besotted by celebrity. For most of us, the rich and famous take on a god-like status and our own lives seem small, empty, and hardly worth living in comparison to what we imagine theirs to be. Fame, … Continue reading →

http://ronrolheiser.com/ In the movie based upon Jane Austen’s classic novel, Sense and Sensibility, there’s a very poignant scene where one of her young heroines, suffering from acute pneumonia, is lying in bed hovering between life and death. A young man, … Continue reading →