Dancing Standing Still<\/strong><\/a>\nMonday, February 3, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n<p>The Franciscans found a way to be both very traditional and very revolutionary at the same time. By emphasizing practice over theory, or orthopraxy over orthodoxy, the Franciscan tradition taught that love and action are more important than intellect or speculative truth. Love is the highest category for the Franciscan School, and we believe that authentic love is not possible without true inner freedom, nor will love be real or tested unless we somehow live close to the disadvantaged, who frankly teach us how little we know about love. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Love is the goal; contemplative practice and solidarity with suffering are the path. Orthodoxy teaches us the theoretical importance of love; orthopraxy helps us learn <em>how to love<\/em>, which is much more difficult. To be honest, even my Franciscan seminary training was far better at teaching me how to obey and conform than how to love. I\u2019m still trying to learn how to love every day of my life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As we endeavor to put love into action, we come to realize that, on our own, we are unable to obey Jesus\u2019 command to \u201cLove one another as I have loved you\u201d (John 13:34). To love as Jesus loves, we must be connected to the Source of love. Franciscanism found that connection in solitude, silence, and some form of contemplative prayer, all of which quiet the monkey mind and teach us emotional sobriety and psychological freedom from our addictions and attachments. Otherwise, most talk of \u201crepentance\u201d or \u201cchange of life\u201d is largely an illusion and pretense. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Early on, Francis found himself so attracted to contemplation, and to living out in the caves and in nature, that he was not sure if he should dedicate his life to prayer or to action. So he asked Sister Clare and Brother Sylvester to spend some time in prayer about it and then tell him what they thought he should do. When they came back after a few weeks, Francis was prepared to do whatever they told him. They both, in perfect agreement, without having talked to one another, said Francis should not be solely a contemplative, nor should he only be active in ministry. Francis was to go back and forth between the two as Jesus did. Francis jumped up with great excitement and immediately went on the road with this new permission and freedom. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before Francis, the \u201csecular\u201d priests worked with the people in the parishes and were considered \u201cactive.\u201d Those who belonged to religious orders went off to monasteries to be \u201ccontemplative\u201d and pray. Francis found a way to do both and took his prayer on the road. (That\u2019s why Franciscans are called friars instead of monks.) In fact, prayer is what enabled him to sustain his life of love and service to others over the long haul, without becoming cynical or angry. Francis didn\u2019t want a stable form of monastic life; he wanted us to mix with the world and to find God amidst its pain, confusion, and disorder. [1] For me, that is still the greatest art form\u2014to dance while standing still! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alternative Orthodoxy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cac.org\/simply-living-the-gospel-2020-02-02\/\"><strong>Simply Living the Gospel<\/strong><\/a><br>\n<strong>Sunday, February 2, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The <\/em><em>Rule <\/em><em>and the <\/em><em>life <\/em><em>of the <\/em><em>Friars M<\/em><em>inor is <\/em><em>to <\/em><em>simply live the Gospel. <\/em>\u2014St. Francis of Assisi (1182\u20131226) [1] <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the things I most appreciate about my Franciscan heritage is its <em>alternative orthodoxy. <\/em>The Franciscan tradition has applied this phrase to itself and its emphasis on \u201corthopraxy\u201d; we believe that lifestyle and practice are much more important than mere verbal orthodoxy. While orthodoxy is about correct beliefs, orthopraxy is about right practice. St. Thomas Aquinas (1225\u20131274), the famous Dominican Doctor of the Church, may have been influenced by St. Francis when he wrote, \u201c<em>Prius vita <\/em><em>quam<\/em><em> <\/em><em>doctrina<\/em>.\u201d [2] Or, \u201cLife is more important than doctrine.\u201d All too often Christianity has lost sight of that in spite of Jesus\u2019 teaching and example. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jesus\u2019 first recorded word in at least two Gospels, <em>metanoia<\/em><em>,<\/em><em> <\/em>is unfortunately translated with the moralistic, churchy word <em>repent<\/em>. The word quite literally means <em>change <\/em>or even more precisely \u201cChange your minds!\u201d (Mark 1:15; Matthew 4:17). Given that, it is quite strange that the religion founded in Jesus\u2019 name has been so resistant to change and has tended to love and protect the past and the <em>status quo<\/em> much more than the positive and hopeful futures that could be brought about by people agreeing to change. Maybe that is why our earth is so depleted and our politics are so pathetic. We have not taught a spirituality of actual change or growth, which an alternative orthodoxy always asks of us. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Francis loved God above all and wanted to imitate Jesus in very practical ways. Action and lifestyle mattered much more to him than mentally believing dogmatic or moral positions to be true or false. Francis directly said to the first friars, \u201cYou only know as much as you <em>do!<\/em>\u201d [3] Franciscan alternative orthodoxy has never bothered fighting popes, bishops, Scriptures, or dogmas. It just <em>quietly but firmly pays attention to different things<\/em>\u2014like simplicity, humility, non-violence, contemplation, solitude and silence, earth care, nature and other creatures, and the \u201cleast of the brothers and sisters.\u201d These are our true teachers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Rule of Saint Francis\u2014which Rome demanded Francis develop\u2014was hardly a rule at all and was more thought of as \u201cTips for the Road.\u201d Like Jesus, Francis taught his disciples while walking from place to place and finding ways to serve, to observe, and to love the world that was right in front of them. <em>Observation with love<\/em> is a good description of contemplation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In <em>Laudato<\/em><em> Si\u2019: On Care for Our Common Home, <\/em>Pope Francis writes, \u201cIn the heart of this world, the Lord of life, who loves us so much, is always present. God does not abandon us, God does not leave us alone, for God has united . . . definitively to our earth, and God\u2019s love constantly impels us <em>to find new ways forward<\/em>. Praise be to God!\u201d [4] I believe the Franciscan worldview with its alternative orthodoxy can help us \u201cfind new ways forward\u201d and stop being so afraid of change. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Knowing and Not Knowing<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cac.org\/knowing-and-not-knowing-weekly-summary-2020-02-01\/\">Sunday, January 26\u2013Friday, January 31, 2020<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alongside all our knowing must be the equal and honest \u201cknowing that I do not know.\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/cac.org\/a-hidden-wholeness-2020-01-26\/\">Sunday<\/a>) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is amazing how religion has turned the biblical idea of faith into a need and even a right to certain knowing, complete predictability, and perfect assurance about whom God likes and whom God does not like. (<a href=\"https:\/\/cac.org\/all-spiritual-knowing-must-be-balanced-by-not-knowing-2020-01-27\/\">Monday<\/a>) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We lost almost any notion of paradox, mystery, or the wisdom of unknowing and unsayability\u2014which are the open-ended qualities that make biblical faith so dynamic, creative, and nonviolent. (<a href=\"https:\/\/cac.org\/soul-knowledge-2020-01-28\/\">Tuesday<\/a>) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>God, it seems, cannot really be known, but only related to. Or, as the mystics would assert, we know God by loving God, by trusting God, by placing our hope in God. (<a href=\"https:\/\/cac.org\/the-cloud-of-unknowing-2020-01-29\/\">Wednesday<\/a>) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>God is eternal, the human mind is finite. If God could be comprehended, surrounded by a concept, this would make us greater than God. <\/em>\u2014Martin Laird (<a href=\"https:\/\/cac.org\/god-cannot-be-thought-2020-01-30\/\">Thursday<\/a>) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>To be united to God we must \u201c<\/em><em>break through<\/em><em>\u201d the sensible world and pass beyond the human condition to move beyond knowing to unknowing, from knowledge to love. <\/em>\u2014Ilia Delio (<a href=\"https:\/\/cac.org\/love-the-highest-form-of-knowing-2020-01-31\/\">Friday<\/a>) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Practice: <\/strong><strong>Simply That You Are<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We must find a prayer form that actually <em>invades<\/em><em> our unconscious<\/em>, or nothing changes at any depth. Usually this will be some form of Centering Prayer, walking meditation, inner practice of letting go, shadow work, or deliberately undergoing a long period of silence. Whatever you choose, it will feel more like unknowing than knowing, more like surrendering than accomplishing, more like nothing than anything at all. This is probably why so many resist contemplation at the start. Because it feels more like the shedding of thoughts in general than attaining new or good ones. It feels more like just letting go than accomplishing anything, which is counterintuitive for our naturally \u201ccapitalistic\u201d minds! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, let\u2019s try a practice leading to embodied knowing. I discovered an especially good one in <em>The Book of Privy <\/em><em>Counsel<\/em>, a lesser-known classic written by the same author of <em>The Cloud of Unknowing<\/em>. I like this practice because it is so simple, and for me so effective, even in the middle of the night when I awake and cannot get back to sleep during what some call the \u201chour of the wolf,\u201d between 3:00 and 6:00 a.m. when the psyche is most undefended. (Others simply call it \u201cinsomnia\u201d!) I warn you: This pattern only gets worse as you grow older, so you will do yourself a favor to learn the following practice early! I have summarized and paraphrased the author\u2019s exact words for our very practical purpose here: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First, \u201ctake God at face value, as God is. Accept God\u2019s good graciousness, as you would a plain, simple soft compress when sick. Take hold of God and press God against your unhealthy self, just as you are.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Second, know how your mind and ego play their games: \u201cStop analyzing yourself or God. You can do without wasting so much of your energy deciding if something is good or bad, grace given or temperament driven, divine or human.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Third, be encouraged and \u201cOffer up your simple naked being to the joyful being of God, for you two are one in grace, although separate by nature.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And finally: \u201cDon\u2019t focus on what you are, but simply that you are! How hopelessly stupid would a person have to be if they could not realize that they simply are.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hold the soft warm compress of these loving words against your bodily self, bypass the mind and even the affections of the heart and forgo any analysis of what you are, or are not. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSimply that you are!\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I like this practice because over time it can become an embodied experience of what we\u2019ve been talking about this whole week: knowing and unknowing. 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<\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n<p>The Franciscans found a way to be both very traditional and very revolutionary at the same time. By emphasizing practice over theory, or orthopraxy over orthodoxy, the Franciscan tradition taught that love and action are more important than intellect or speculative truth. Love is the highest category for the Franciscan School, and we believe that authentic love is not possible without true inner freedom, nor will love be real or tested unless we somehow live close to the disadvantaged, who frankly teach us how little we know about love. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Love is the goal; contemplative practice and solidarity with suffering are the path. Orthodoxy teaches us the theoretical importance of love; orthopraxy helps us learn <em>how to love<\/em>, which is much more difficult. To be honest, even my Franciscan seminary training was far better at teaching me how to obey and conform than how to love. I\u2019m still trying to learn how to love every day of my life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As we endeavor to put love into action, we come to realize that, on our own, we are unable to obey Jesus\u2019 command to \u201cLove one another as I have loved you\u201d (John 13:34). To love as Jesus loves, we must be connected to the Source of love. Franciscanism found that connection in solitude, silence, and some form of contemplative prayer, all of which quiet the monkey mind and teach us emotional sobriety and psychological freedom from our addictions and attachments. Otherwise, most talk of \u201crepentance\u201d or \u201cchange of life\u201d is largely an illusion and pretense. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Early on, Francis found himself so attracted to contemplation, and to living out in the caves and in nature, that he was not sure if he should dedicate his life to prayer or to action. So he asked Sister Clare and Brother Sylvester to spend some time in prayer about it and then tell him what they thought he should do. When they came back after a few weeks, Francis was prepared to do whatever they told him. They both, in perfect agreement, without having talked to one another, said Francis should not be solely a contemplative, nor should he only be active in ministry. Francis was to go back and forth between the two as Jesus did. Francis jumped up with great excitement and immediately went on the road with this new permission and freedom. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before Francis, the \u201csecular\u201d priests worked with the people in the parishes and were considered \u201cactive.\u201d Those who belonged to religious orders went off to monasteries to be \u201ccontemplative\u201d and pray. Francis found a way to do both and took his prayer on the road. (That\u2019s why Franciscans are called friars instead of monks.) In fact, prayer is what enabled him to sustain his life of love and service to others over the long haul, without becoming cynical or angry. Francis didn\u2019t want a stable form of monastic life; he wanted us to mix with the world and to find God amidst its pain, confusion, and disorder. [1] For me, that is still the greatest art form\u2014to dance while standing still! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alternative Orthodoxy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cac.org\/simply-living-the-gospel-2020-02-02\/\"><strong>Simply Living the Gospel<\/strong><\/a><br>\n<strong>Sunday, February 2, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The <\/em><em>Rule <\/em><em>and the <\/em><em>life <\/em><em>of the <\/em><em>Friars M<\/em><em>inor is <\/em><em>to <\/em><em>simply live the Gospel. <\/em>\u2014St. Francis of Assisi (1182\u20131226) [1] <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the things I most appreciate about my Franciscan heritage is its <em>alternative orthodoxy. <\/em>The Franciscan tradition has applied this phrase to itself and its emphasis on \u201corthopraxy\u201d; we believe that lifestyle and practice are much more important than mere verbal orthodoxy. While orthodoxy is about correct beliefs, orthopraxy is about right practice. St. Thomas Aquinas (1225\u20131274), the famous Dominican Doctor of the Church, may have been influenced by St. Francis when he wrote, \u201c<em>Prius vita <\/em><em>quam<\/em><em> <\/em><em>doctrina<\/em>.\u201d [2] Or, \u201cLife is more important than doctrine.\u201d All too often Christianity has lost sight of that in spite of Jesus\u2019 teaching and example. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jesus\u2019 first recorded word in at least two Gospels, <em>metanoia<\/em><em>,<\/em><em> <\/em>is unfortunately translated with the moralistic, churchy word <em>repent<\/em>. The word quite literally means <em>change <\/em>or even more precisely \u201cChange your minds!\u201d (Mark 1:15; Matthew 4:17). Given that, it is quite strange that the religion founded in Jesus\u2019 name has been so resistant to change and has tended to love and protect the past and the <em>status quo<\/em> much more than the positive and hopeful futures that could be brought about by people agreeing to change. Maybe that is why our earth is so depleted and our politics are so pathetic. We have not taught a spirituality of actual change or growth, which an alternative orthodoxy always asks of us. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Francis loved God above all and wanted to imitate Jesus in very practical ways. Action and lifestyle mattered much more to him than mentally believing dogmatic or moral positions to be true or false. Francis directly said to the first friars, \u201cYou only know as much as you <em>do!<\/em>\u201d [3] Franciscan alternative orthodoxy has never bothered fighting popes, bishops, Scriptures, or dogmas. It just <em>quietly but firmly pays attention to different things<\/em>\u2014like simplicity, humility, non-violence, contemplation, solitude and silence, earth care, nature and other creatures, and the \u201cleast of the brothers and sisters.\u201d These are our true teachers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Rule of Saint Francis\u2014which Rome demanded Francis develop\u2014was hardly a rule at all and was more thought of as \u201cTips for the Road.\u201d Like Jesus, Francis taught his disciples while walking from place to place and finding ways to serve, to observe, and to love the world that was right in front of them. <em>Observation with love<\/em> is a good description of contemplation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In <em>Laudato<\/em><em> Si\u2019: On Care for Our Common Home, <\/em>Pope Francis writes, \u201cIn the heart of this world, the Lord of life, who loves us so much, is always present. God does not abandon us, God does not leave us alone, for God has united . . . definitively to our earth, and God\u2019s love constantly impels us <em>to find new ways forward<\/em>. Praise be to God!\u201d [4] I believe the Franciscan worldview with its alternative orthodoxy can help us \u201cfind new ways forward\u201d and stop being so afraid of change. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Knowing and Not Knowing<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cac.org\/knowing-and-not-knowing-weekly-summary-2020-02-01\/\">Sunday, January 26\u2013Friday, January 31, 2020<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alongside all our knowing must be the equal and honest \u201cknowing that I do not know.\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/cac.org\/a-hidden-wholeness-2020-01-26\/\">Sunday<\/a>) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is amazing how religion has turned the biblical idea of faith into a need and even a right to certain knowing, complete predictability, and perfect assurance about whom God likes and whom God does not like. (<a href=\"https:\/\/cac.org\/all-spiritual-knowing-must-be-balanced-by-not-knowing-2020-01-27\/\">Monday<\/a>) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We lost almost any notion of paradox, mystery, or the wisdom of unknowing and unsayability\u2014which are the open-ended qualities that make biblical faith so dynamic, creative, and nonviolent. (<a href=\"https:\/\/cac.org\/soul-knowledge-2020-01-28\/\">Tuesday<\/a>) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>God, it seems, cannot really be known, but only related to. Or, as the mystics would assert, we know God by loving God, by trusting God, by placing our hope in God. (<a href=\"https:\/\/cac.org\/the-cloud-of-unknowing-2020-01-29\/\">Wednesday<\/a>) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>God is eternal, the human mind is finite. If God could be comprehended, surrounded by a concept, this would make us greater than God. <\/em>\u2014Martin Laird (<a href=\"https:\/\/cac.org\/god-cannot-be-thought-2020-01-30\/\">Thursday<\/a>) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>To be united to God we must \u201c<\/em><em>break through<\/em><em>\u201d the sensible world and pass beyond the human condition to move beyond knowing to unknowing, from knowledge to love. <\/em>\u2014Ilia Delio (<a href=\"https:\/\/cac.org\/love-the-highest-form-of-knowing-2020-01-31\/\">Friday<\/a>) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Practice: <\/strong><strong>Simply That You Are<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We must find a prayer form that actually <em>invades<\/em><em> our unconscious<\/em>, or nothing changes at any depth. Usually this will be some form of Centering Prayer, walking meditation, inner practice of letting go, shadow work, or deliberately undergoing a long period of silence. Whatever you choose, it will feel more like unknowing than knowing, more like surrendering than accomplishing, more like nothing than anything at all. This is probably why so many resist contemplation at the start. Because it feels more like the shedding of thoughts in general than attaining new or good ones. It feels more like just letting go than accomplishing anything, which is counterintuitive for our naturally \u201ccapitalistic\u201d minds! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, let\u2019s try a practice leading to embodied knowing. I discovered an especially good one in <em>The Book of Privy <\/em><em>Counsel<\/em>, a lesser-known classic written by the same author of <em>The Cloud of Unknowing<\/em>. I like this practice because it is so simple, and for me so effective, even in the middle of the night when I awake and cannot get back to sleep during what some call the \u201chour of the wolf,\u201d between 3:00 and 6:00 a.m. when the psyche is most undefended. (Others simply call it \u201cinsomnia\u201d!) I warn you: This pattern only gets worse as you grow older, so you will do yourself a favor to learn the following practice early! I have summarized and paraphrased the author\u2019s exact words for our very practical purpose here: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First, \u201ctake God at face value, as God is. Accept God\u2019s good graciousness, as you would a plain, simple soft compress when sick. Take hold of God and press God against your unhealthy self, just as you are.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Second, know how your mind and ego play their games: \u201cStop analyzing yourself or God. You can do without wasting so much of your energy deciding if something is good or bad, grace given or temperament driven, divine or human.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Third, be encouraged and \u201cOffer up your simple naked being to the joyful being of God, for you two are one in grace, although separate by nature.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And finally: \u201cDon\u2019t focus on what you are, but simply that you are! How hopelessly stupid would a person have to be if they could not realize that they simply are.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hold the soft warm compress of these loving words against your bodily self, bypass the mind and even the affections of the heart and forgo any analysis of what you are, or are not. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSimply that you are!\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I like this practice because over time it can become an embodied experience of what we\u2019ve been talking about this whole week: knowing and unknowing. By repeatedly placing whatever it is you think you \u201cknow\u201d at that hour of the night under \u201cthe soft warm compress\u201d of God\u2019s loving presence, your own body becomes a place of relaxation and inner rest. You know that you don\u2019t know, and you trust that you don\u2019t need to know. You are simply in God\u2019s loving care. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alternative Orthodoxy Dancing Standing Still Monday, February 3, 2020 The Franciscans found a way to be both very traditional and very revolutionary at the same time. By emphasizing practice over theory, or orthopraxy over orthodoxy, the Franciscan tradition taught that love and action are more important than intellect or speculative truth. 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