Understanding what it takes to be a true disciple of Jesus
Everybody struggles in different ways
All of us struggle, and we struggle in three ways. First, sometimes we struggle simply to maintain ourselves, to stay healthy and stable, to stay normal, not to fall apart, not to have our lives unravel into chaos and depression. It takes real effort just to maintain our ordinary health, stability and happiness. But, even…
The spirituality of chastity and the rich legacy of Artemis
Ancient Greece expressed much of its psychological and spiritual wisdom in its myths. The Greeks didn’t intend these to be taken literally or as historical, but as metaphor and as an archetypal illustration of why life is as it is and how people engage life both generatively and destructively. Many of these myths are centred…
The unhappy cost of resentment
Our need to cut down someone else is an infallible sign of our own jealousy and bad self-image
Taking sacred permission to be human
The Bible gives us sacred permission to feel the way we feel sometimes
Five people who have helped give me some self-understanding
I was forever longing to be more connected to life
Everyone needs the Father’s blessing
Anthropologists tell us that a frustrated desire to be blessed by our own fathers, is one of the deepest hungers in the world today
Reacting to criticism and bitter opposition
Natural instinct does not want to try to understand the position of the one who has belittled us
Our timidity in the face of God’s abundance
A mindset of scarcity rather than of abundance debilitates us in several ways
May your kingdom come… but not yet
Having God become concrete in their lives was far too threatening.

Fr Ronald Rolheiser