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Transforming Faith Lenten Series

• St. Jude’s

March 10, 2019 Joy Andrews Hayter

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 “Most of us were taught that God would love

us if and when we change. In fact, God loves you so that you can change. What empowers change, what makes you desirous of change is the experience of love. It is that inherent experience of love that becomes the engine of change.”

― Richard Rohr

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 Was it sudden, or gradual? What was it like?  Perhaps you might have felt that it was:

 Beyond rational intellect, non-linear  Sense of Presence, Love

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…The most profound fruit of the transformative process is that the individual…is transformed into one “through whose life Greater Life resounds”.

• -Karlfried Gras von Durkheim*

*Author of spiritual classic: The Way of Transformation (1971)

Heart nebula

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 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with

all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.”

• Mark 12:30-31

 “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for

those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent

• me. I have given them the glory that you gave

me, that they may be one as we are one—I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.

• John 17:20-23

 "The physical universe is not a collection of fixed objects

but a luminous web of interconnectedness. Space is not an empty container for atoms to bounce around like billiard balls in the air; rather, space is replete with overlapping fields of energy. Nature thrives on local networks of interlocking energy fields.“

• Ilia Delio

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(Franciscan Sister, Theology professor)

 Mystics and scientists see the oneness. It is often called Love. 

Teilhard de Chardin

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Cynthia Bourgeault

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Ilia Delio

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Beatrice Bruteau

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Thomas Merton

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Thomas Keating

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Richard Rohr

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Storm Reid, in A Wrinkle in Time

 Flat earth (heaven, hell)  Duality (me/you, here/there)  Church focus: doctrinal

differences, hierarchy

 God displeased with us  Rewards for our good deeds

 We build right to go to Heaven

 Self outside of God  Unworthy of God’s love  Relational Field  Non-duality (no separation)  Spiritual journey, contemplative

dimension of Gospel

 Basic core of goodness  Grace inspires our good

actions

 Self in God, God everywhere  Christ unites us with God in

Love

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Transforming Faith series, St. Jude the Apostle Church Joy Andrews Hayter, 10 March 2019

“THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS INDIVIDUAL SALVATION”

• Katharine Jefferts Schori

Doomed Star Eta Carinae

 In a sense, asking people that haven’t

transformed their consciousness and begun to put the mind in the heart to live the Gospel path, is as insane as picking up a stone and asking it to fly to the sea. We can’t yet. The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. I think it’s

• ur cumulative covered-up frustration of the

fact that we, at 2,000 years into the Christian journal, are clueless about how to put on the mind of Christ. That it’s easier to go to church and talk about it, sing beautiful hymns, and engage in worthy projects [these are all important! but…] that don’t confront the eye of the needle that will take you through to the unity, which lies so close on the other side.

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 Powerlessness before

transformation:

 Times of crisis, humbling  Surrender

 Small self not working

 Security, esteem, power and

control

 “Whoever wants to be my disciple

must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me and for the gospel will save it.” -Mark 8:34-35

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Eric Law: Kaleidoscope

 What events, actions bring

you to the foot of the cross?

 Humility, awe, wonder,

surrender to Love

 Relating with more of your

being than just your head

 The arts  Nature  Service  Contemplative practices

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Mary Souza

 “Consent on the go”  Movement One: Focus, feel and sink into what

you are experiencing this moment in your body.

 Movement Two: “WELCOME” what you are

experiencing this moment in your body as an

• pportunity to consent to the Divine Indwelling.

 Movement Three: Let go by repeating the

following sentence: “I let go of the desire for security, affection, control, and embrace this moment as it is.”

 “To welcome and to let go is one of the most radically

loving, faith-filled gestures we can make in each moment of each day. It is an open-hearted embrace of all that is in ourselves and in the world.”

• Mary Mrozowski

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 Take time to slow down  Mad rush driven by “False self”

 Sense of separation

 “Never enough” mentality

 Security, money  Praise, accomplishment  Power, control  Addictions

“The real problem with any constrictive motion (taking, defending, hoarding, clinging) is that it makes us spiritually blind, unable to see the dance of divine generosity that is always flowing toward us.”

• Cynthia Bourgeault

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 Whatever form helps you detach from

thinking long enough to find/trust the other intelligence deep inside you. -C Bourgeault

 Balance of 3 centers:

 Moving, emotional, intellectual

 Lectio Divina  Active prayer sentence

 (Jesus prayer, mantra)

 Chanting  Centering prayer  Body Prayer  Welcoming prayer

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 Knowing with more of you: Not just

intellect, but body, and Heart

 Non-dual: Sees sense of unity, harmony,

connection, patterns

 Gift of the spirit  Physical brain changes

 Become a transmitter of love!

 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new

• creation. The old has passed away. Behold the

new has come!

• 2 Corinthians 5:17

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• ne can see rightly; what is

essential is invisible to the eye.

• Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

 Present with sensations  Body Prayer

 Prelude:

 horizontal and vertical

 Hands together  Bow  Receiving  Taking in  Sharing  Grounding

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 Action: Hold your ground

 Not out of anger or self-righteousness  Genuine engagement  Not tied to outcome:

 you may never see the fruits

 Prayer, in a relational field, affects

profoundly

 Pray in solidarity with those in action

 Contemplation: wait for true calling to act

 I am absolutely certain that anyone in any religion or no religion

who sincerely commits to the transformative process is changing the world more than they could by any other activity. In due time, they will have particular activities recommended to them by the Spirit as part of their vocation, but the most important work is to work on ourselves. -Thomas Keating

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 What are you already doing?  Do you love it? Do it with presence  If it drains you, can you let it go?

 What might that feel like?

 Even the smallest actions, done with genuine

engagement, affect the world profoundly

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 How about in this present moment?  Not memories of the past or thoughts / plans for

the future

 Ways I would rather God show love  What I would like to become so God will love me more

 So what’s the point of living? As far as I can see,

it’s to give God the chance to take over our very complicated human lives and situations completely. Whatever we do is in the service of that project. We don’t have to think about it if we are in the present moment. It is happening.” -Thomas Keating

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 Above all, trust in the slow work of God.

We are quite naturally impatient in everything to reach the end without delay. We should like to skip the intermediate stages. We are impatient of being on the way to something unknown, something new. And yet it is the law of all progress that it is made by passing through some stages of instability— and that it may take a very long time.

 And so I think it is with you;

your ideas mature gradually—let them grow, let them shape themselves, without undue haste. Don’t try to force them on, as though you could be today what time (that is to say, grace and circumstances acting on your own good will) will make of you tomorrow.

 Only God could say what this new spirit

gradually forming within you will be. Give Our Lord the benefit of believing that his hand is leading you, and accept the anxiety of feeling yourself in suspense and incomplete.

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Multi- centered awareness: Sensations Emotions Images Thoughts

 Richard Rohr emails  Cynthia Bourgeault books, e.g. Wisdom Way of

Knowing, Centering Prayer & Inner Awakening

 Contemplative Outreach newsletter  Online courses: Center for Action &

Contemplation, Spirituality & Practice

 Centering Prayer as Practice and Process Online class

3/11-4/18. Spirituality & Practice

 Online meditation chapel

 Vince Pizzuto Lenten talk: Christian mysticism. The

Meditation Chapel, Saturday 4/6 11-12:30

 Local retreats: El Retiro, Villa Maria, Mercy

Center Burlingame, San Damiano, New Camaldoli

 Mercy Center upcoming retreats: Centering Prayer

May 19-25, Wisdom School August 14-18

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