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

[Tina Neves]

Very good reflection by Br David
Thanks Catherine
Tina

On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 9:24 AM Catherine Walther via Sundaycommunity <
sundaycommunity at lists.integralshift.ca> wrote:

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> 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>
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> 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'.
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> "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."
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> Brother David Steindl-Rast
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