What is Contemplative Prayer and Why is it so Needed? with Fr. Richard Rohr

This is very self centered. We should be Christ centered. I guess this guy really does not teach Christ. When Antichrist come he will cast down the truth and trample it.

Richard is a guest on the Rob Bell podcast a few times, and all the episodes are stellar! I suggest checking them out.

Love his little spinner at the end
They were very popular in uk a few years ago. Dont see them now. Thankyou richard.

This guy is awesome.

Hi

A leaf skittering down the sidewalk during a walk early one morning in Tucson. I experienced a simple joy in that sound and can now insert myself into a contemplative space by accessing that memory

Re packaged eastern mysticism slapping Christian on it. Don’t be devieved

It's really interesting to hear him talk about dualistic thinking like this. Especially when he's drawing dualistic dichotomies between dualistic thinking and contemplative thought to say that dualistic thought is bad. Maybe he actually means "some" when he says "all"? Maybe he means it isn't dualistic thinking when he does it? Maybe if I adopt this model of contemplative thinking I won't see these kinds of distinctions anymore and will just be receptive and accept whatever it is he's trying to convey.

Thank you Father Richard Rohr. I first learned about contemplative prayer in the Jesuit novitiate in 1982. Since then it has become a part of me. Thank you for this insight. Greetings from Indonesia

Richard is such an inspiring man. He inspires. To look at a leaf as a book of creation all on its own. Can we please start feeding him pickles so he lasts forever?

What happened to meditating on the Word of God day and night. . .

Beautiful words. thank you

Read Bible first 💖🙏🌷

It’s meditation.

In the silence... the demonic moves... contemplative prayer is a pagan prayer practice... and since pagans worship demons... the mystical experiences one has while engaging in contemplative prayer is demonic. If you do what pagans do... you get what pagans get. 1 Timothy 4:1 is applied to contemplative prayer. Ray Yungen did a great job explaining this in his book, A Time of Departing. Be careful not to do any of what Contemplatives do... do not empty your mind, say mantras or repetitive Scriptures to still the mind, do not sit in the silence attempting to hear God's voice. Be biblical in your prayer life.

WOW Thank you. I've heard the term Contemplative prayer all of my life. But I never knew what it meant. Also, I didn't realize that meditation and trying to stay in the moment activities integrated so beautifully into our Catholic traditions.

The first time I read the words "contemplative prayer" it was cast in a negative light. So I knew I had to look into it.

That was over a decade ago and it was one of the first times that I had found a name for a practice that I just did, naturally.

Over the next ten years or so many of my personal practices would be revealed as having names and nearly all of them would be disparaged by the modern church.

After releasing my attachment to the internal struggle that arises when the heart and the head are in different places I came to a realization.

That was a beautiful moment, I laughed and cried simultaneously.

Duality is an illusion, there's no beginning, no end, only now.

We all have a road to walk, though the path may be narrow it is easy. One foot goes in front of the other, one breath follows the next. Stay upright and do not think too much and all of life's decisions become easy.

Hello fellow mystics and contemplatives something is happening because we are beginning to find each other.

I have NEVER heard anyone use the term "fast food religion" in my life and that is the perfect way to describe it now. The have it your way approach and keeping it transactional rather than what it truly is. I am not saying this to judge but more of my astonishment that statement alone connected the dots for me and made me realize I've never learned how to properly communicate with anyone until this second.

The real loving work that God accomplished on the cross. He came to die for sinners. Without the real Jesus we are left with the self. The me, myself and I guy and the reality of trying to lay our good works before God and attempt to cover over what Jesus did on the cross. Saved by grace through faith in the real Lord Jesus Christ only. Not man centered but Christ centered. The way to the Father is Christ and the Holy Spirit is given by Jesus. The Three are One. Find Him. Confess sin, repent and surrender to Him. To remain contemplative (meditate) on the Word of God. The old King James Bible and not the new conversions. God never changes.

My prayer is that more people discover the ever present God waiting for a beautiful time with Him as individuals, especially in this chaotic and conspiracy theories filled world of ours.
Contemplating prayer moments will soothe our ever anxious and worried souls.

Just this is justice

This is fantastically wise and helpful and true. What a wonderful man ❤

I'm not Catholic myself but Father Richard is an obviously good man and worth listening to.

I have taken the time to study all the mainline religions and philosophy and in my contemplation of these as well as life itself I have discovered that truth is in everything but it is always mixed with falsehood. I believe that learning to discern the true from the false our eyes open and we begin to see God in everything. God wears a veil which is our false beliefs and biases and once we learn to penetrate these false beliefs and discard them our eyes open to behold God.

Contemplative prayer is new age.

Just enjoy God's beautiful creation and not what he told you..read King James Bible..that is where you will find the truth and not a lie from hell

He is no gift..he is a curse

Does no one have discernment on this site..foolish people who has bewitched you

I live in a very Christian country in Europe and nobody I know uses contemplation.

They sometimes pray or go to church, but they don't know contemplation and deep spiritual practices.

For everybody who thinks he is terrible, Thomas merton wrote a whole book encouraging and discussing contemplative prayer. Do you hate Thomas as well?

Beutiful 🙏🧘

where can i find the full interview?

This man is so deceived by Satan

"Fast Food Religion" is such a great description of the diluted, dull, guilt-ridden version of Catholicism I was raised in. This could not hold up to the view of my developing intellect and I fell away as a youth into a convenient agnosticism. But I sadly threw away the baby with the bathwater. I so much wish I had come across Thomas Keating or Anthony de Mello back then. I and so many of today's youth were done a disservice by The Church and if The Church is to remain relevant and perhaps undergo a renaissance, contemplative prayer will play an essential part.

The best thing that ever happened to me as a Christian was being a Buddhist and learning about meditation... It is what Christians were always missing.

Contemplation is being deeply aware of God presence in everything we do . Whether washing dishes or washing a child , be thankful you’re alive to do it . Breathe in the spirit of the Divine Embrace , the Invisible, the Immortal God

I have to stop watching political television. Even EWTN television and live radio is often how he describes it—I’m right, you’re wrong. Our whole political discourse is wholly unhealthy, full of hatred, vindictive. No wonder we are where we are. I gotta find those voices who focus on unity, with God and each other. Is it possible? Gotta make the attempt. For the love of God, we have to try.

To live in the present moment 🕊️ this practice sounds like the writings of the servant of God Louisa Piccarreta

absolutely spot on today!!! His Spirit is in full flow for me today !! THANKS

Some great thoughts here. Thank you

The best way to explain ever. thank you

Prayer need not require hominid speech within mind or through the mouth. Just see sunshine and soil and hear wind on n on. Stop talking. Words are irrelevant much of the time. Peace ✌️

Seems to me that love and grief are first cousins. On those rare moments when i can, and do, see God’s tender beauty in something, I’m filled with a kind of heartbreaking love that chokes me up.

I have questions for Mr.Rohr himself not someone taught by him.

Pray in secret. Do not be like the hypocrites who love everybody to see what they are doing.

True Christianity focuses on the Truth that "God became man so that man could become God." Humility, nonjudgement, moderation, service, fraternity, and nonconfrontation are the original teachings of the Christ. All else is corruption.

Scripture is no more helpful than a hundred Hail Mary’s without a foundation of connection with the source of the breath that keeps you going.

Heretic!