Category Archives: Fr Ron Rolheiser

Easter. www.ronrolheiser.com./ One of the most popular images in all of scripture (an icon that’s been endlessly painted, sung, put into litanies, written up into poetry, and used to triggered every kind of pious feeling) is the image of Mary, … Continue reading →

Finding God in Community  http://www.ronrolheiser.com/ Some years ago I attended a symposium on religious experience. A variety of speakers made presentations on how they tried to experience God. One woman, a professor of religious studies, shared how she spent nearly three hours … Continue reading →

EVERYDAY LIFE AS SACRAMENT www.ronrolheiser.com. For Christians, ultimately the whole world is holy and everything in it, especially the physical, is potential material for sacrament. Our belief is that the universe shows forth God’s glory, that each of us is … Continue reading →

OVERCOMING HYPERSENSITIVITY www.ronrolheiser.com. In her autobiography, Therese of Lisieux describes what she considers as one of the key moments of conversion in her life: She was the youngest in her family and her father’s favorite. He doted on her and every … Continue reading →

BESOTTED BY CELEBRITY www.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 … Continue reading →

GETTING AND NOT GETTING THE SECRET http://www.ronrolheiser.com/ What’s life’s deep secret? Do we ever really understand life? Do we ever really get things right? What lies at the center of life? These are the deeper questions that gnaw away inside … Continue reading →

MORAL INTELLIGENCE http://www.ronrolheiser.com/ There are different ways of being intelligent, of being awake. Not everyone is bright in the same way. Some people are gifted mathematically and philosophically. That’s the intelligence of an Albert Einstein, an Alfred North Whitehead, a … Continue reading →