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Richard Rohr
Fr. Richard Rohr is a Franciscan priest of the New Mexico
Province. He founded the New Jerusalem Community in Cincinnati, Ohio
in 1971, and the Center for Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque,
New Mexico in 1986, where he presently serves as Founding Director.
Richard was born in Kansas in 1943. He entered the Franciscans in
1961, and was ordained to the priesthood in 1970. He received his
Master’s Degree in Theology from Dayton that same year. He now lives
in a hermitage behind his Franciscan community in Albuquerque, and
divides his time between local work and preaching and teaching on
all continents.
He considers the proclamation of the Gospel to be his primary
call, and uses many different platforms to communicate the message.
Themes he addresses in service of the Gospel include Scripture as
liberation, the integration of action and contemplation, community
building, peace and justice issues, male spirituality, the Enneagram,
and eco-spirituality.
Joan
Chittister
Sister Joan D. Chittister, OSB (born April 26,
1936) is a Benedictine nun, author and an international lecturer.
She is a member of the Benedictine Sisters of Erie, Pennsylvania,
where she served as prioress of the community for 12 years. Sister
Joan is the founder and current executive director of Benetvision, a
resource and research center for contemporary spirituality that is
also located in Erie. She is co-chair of the Global Peace Initiative
of Women, a United Nations-sponsored organization of women faith
leaders, working for peace, especially in the Middle East.
In 2007, she received the Hans Küng Award from the Association for
the Rights of Catholics in the Church and the Outstanding Leadership
Award from the Leadership Conference of Women Religious.
Joyce
Rupp
Sr Joyce Rupp is well known for her work as a
writer, a spiritual "midwife," and retreat and conference speaker.
She has led retreats throughout North America, as well as in Europe,
Asia, Africa, Australia and New Zealand. Joyce has a B.A. in
English, a M.R.E. in Religious Education, and a M.A. in
Transpersonal Psychology.
She is a member of the Servites (Servants of Mary) community and a
volunteer for Hospice. She currently resides in Des Moines, Iowa.
Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton (31 January 1915 – 10 December 1968) was a 20th
century American Catholic writer. A Trappist monk of the Abbey of
Gethsemani, Kentucky, he was a poet, social activist and student of
comparative religion. He wrote more than 70 books, mostly on
spirituality, as well as scores of essays and reviews. Merton was a
keen proponent of interfaith understanding.
He pioneered dialogue with prominent Asian spiritual figures,
including the Dalai Lama, D.T. Suzuki, the Japanese writer on the
Zen tradition, and the Vietnamese monk Thich Nhat Hanh. Merton is
the subject of several biographies.
Merton's influence has grown since his death and he is widely
recognized as an important 20th-century Catholic mystic and thinker.
Interest in his work contributed to a rise in spiritual exploration
and his letters and
diaries, reveal the intensity with which their author focused on
social justice issues, including the civil rights movement and
proliferation of nuclear arms. He had prohibited their publication
for 25 years after his death. Publication raised new interest in
Merton's life.
His writings has attracted much interest in Catholic practice and
thought, and in the Cistercian vocation.
Henri
Nouwen
Henri Jozef Machiel Nouwen (Nouen), (Nijkerk, January 24,
1932 - Hilversum, September 21, 1996) was a Dutch-born Catholic
priest and writer who authored 40 books on the spiritual life.
Nouwen's books are widely read today by Protestants and Catholics
alike. After nearly two decades of teaching at the Menninger
Foundation Clinic in Topeka, Kansas, and at the University of Notre
Dame, Yale University and Harvard University, he went to share his
life with mentally handicapped people at the L'Arche community of
Daybreak in Toronto, Canada. After a long period of declining
energy, which he chronicled in his final book, Sabbatical Journey,
he died in September 1996 from a sudden heart attack.
His spirituality was influenced by many, notably by his friendship
with Jean Vanier. At the invitation of Vanier he visited L'Arche in
France, the first of over 130 communities around the world where
people with developmental disabilities live and share life together
with those who care for them.
Edward Hays
Edward Hays has been a Catholic priest in the Archdiocese of Kansas
City since 1958. After thirteen years in the parish ministry,
including seven years as a pastor to Native Americans, he made an
extended prayer pilgrimage to the Near East, Israel, and India. He
served as director of Shantivanam, a contemplative center in the
Midwest, and as the priest chaplain at the Kansas State Penitentiary
in Lansing.
Over his long and illustrious writing career, Hays has been a
pioneer manifesting a daring mystical sensibility and an unbridled
imagination that makes his vision of Christianity consistently fresh
and invigorating. He creatively uses parables and stories to discern
God’s presence within the precincts of everyday life. He often
presents startling images for believers — tears are "prayer beads,"
a question mark is a "holy symbol," sleep is "a sacrament as God’s
Good Night News," and a smile is "an outward sign of a laughing
soul."
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