<div dir="ltr">Very good reflection by Br David<div>Thanks Catherine</div><div>Tina</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 9:24 AM Catherine Walther via Sundaycommunity <<a href="mailto:sundaycommunity@lists.integralshift.ca">sundaycommunity@lists.integralshift.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">mechown</strong> <br>Date: Sun, Oct 22, 2023 at 6:42 PM<br>Subject: Catholic Network for Women's Equality Going to the fire...<br>To: Catholic Network for Women's Equality (CNWE) <<a href="mailto:cnwe@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">cnwe@googlegroups.com</a>><br></div><br><br><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif"><font color="#0433ff">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'. </font></span></div><div><br></div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif"><font color="#0433ff"><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif"><font color="#0433ff"><br></font></span></div>"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."</font></span><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:ArialMT"><span style="font-family:sans-serif"><font color="#0433ff"><br></font></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:ArialMT" dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif"><font color="#0433ff">Brother David Steindl-Rast </font></span></div>
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