[Sundaycommunity] Fwd: Catholic Network for Women's Equality Going to the fire...

[Catherine Walther]

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From: mechown
Date: Sun, Oct 22, 2023 at 6:42 PM
Subject: Catholic Network for Women's Equality Going to the fire...
To: Catholic Network for Women's Equality (CNWE) <cnwe at googlegroups.com>


I just was reading some of Benedictine monk, David Steindl-Rast's
reflections and came across this... loved the image of volcanic fire and
our desire that our Church rediscover this and resist the temptation to be
'dead rock'.


"The religions start from mysticism. There is no other way to start a
religion. But, I compare this to a volcano that gushes forth ...and then
...the magma flows down the sides of the mountain and cools off. And when
it reaches the bottom, it's just rocks. You'd never guess that there was
fire in it. So after a couple of hundred years, or two thousand years or
more, what was once alive is dead rock. Doctrine becomes doctrinaire.
Morals become moralistic. Ritual becomes ritualistic. What do we do with
it? We have to push through this crust and go to the fire that's within it."

Brother David Steindl-Rast
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