Speaking of Faith
Last night as I was driving to my women's spirituality group meeting, I listened to National Public Radio. I was delighted that I got in the car just in time to listen to the first 20 minutes of "Speaking of Faith," one of my favorite radio programs. This weekly show profiles faith, meaning and ethics and often leaves me thinking for days.
Last night's show was perhaps the best by far. It profiled a group of young people, the New Monastics, who are reclaiming the gospels. They have removed the political agenda of the right and left and stand firmly on the teachings of Christ to live simply and help those who need it.
I urge you to check out this show and other fine programs in Speaking of Faith's archive. You can find them all online at: http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/. Download it to listen to while you're driving, working out, or at home. I promise you won't be sorry you took the few extra minutes to listen.
posted by Jill @ 6:49 AM
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As a Byzantine Catholic I grew up surrounded by St. Francis, Mother Teresa, Dorothy Day and many other saints who the New Monastics look to for direction. :-) It is an old path that still fits even today!:-)
I ordered his book and played the story for my children. It was my way of showing them that their "chastity" pledges weren't so "weird"! That there were other people choosing to walk a path today that they have read about in the history of their faith, discussed within their own family and had chosen for themselves. It's not so old fashioned after all! :-)
In today's violent world the hardest part of Christ's path to walk is the "loving/peace" part.
As a mother, to teach my children to "turn the other cheek" and to "give them your coat" is the most frightening call of Jesus!
If I do teach them this I will be sending them out, like lambs, into a world that practices, preaches and believes in "survival: of the most wealthy, the better armed, those of the most perfect body, those holding the right religion, those of the right political view point...and woe to the poor, the weak or those that get in the way or believe differently".
I sit in front of my Sorrowful Mother icon of Mary praying for just a mustard seed of her faith. The faith she held within her heart and the strength it gave her as she watched and walked with her only Son along this very same path. All the while knowing what ending it held for Him.
So I will now add the members of the New Monastics to my prayer list, as I sit there. I will place them in the loving arms of our mother, Christ's mother and ask her to guide and strengthen them as they answer the most frightening and most marvelous call of Christ!
Deborah
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