2024-10-06 Amazing Grace – Adventure and Return
This homily focuses on the descent of incarnation through various levels of ‘body’ – from Ineffable Source to physical ‘spacesuit’. It goes on to speak of the four tracks of Ascension:
1) That of the individual soul during a single lifetime; 2) That of the individual soul during many lifetimes; 3) That of the entire human species over history; and 4) That of the cosmos itself over the lifespan of the universe. The homily looks at various mappings of the human journey: Shakespeare’s Seven Ages of Man, Erik Erikson’s Eight Psycho-social stages, Confucius’ Five Constant Relationships, Catholicism’s Seven Sacraments and the Kalenjin people’s Three Rites of Passage. The homily ends with an admonition:
If you want to be a Warrior on the Way, you have to be prepared to face the possibility of death
many times; and not just the death of the spacesuit but the death of the etheric, astral, mental, and psychic bodies; and even the soul self. Waves are simply temporary manifestations of the Ocean, and the Ocean will always bring her children back home. Why would you settle for a single separated perspective when you can have a Unitive perspective as God?
About Fr. Seán ÓLaoire, PhD
Fr. Seán ÓLaoire, PhD, was ordained a Catholic Priest in 1972 and is Spiritual Director of Companions on the Journey, a community which seeks to recognize the God / divinity within each and all of us. Through homilies and lectures, Fr.Seán inspires and empowers us to develop our own personal cosmology where each individual’s spirituality is seen as derived from his / her experiences of God, immanent and transcendent, and illuminated by the teachings of Christ and the wisdom of other spiritual traditions. People of all faiths are welcome to liturgical services Sunday, 9:30 AM, in person at the Seventh Day Adventist Church, 786 Channing Avenue, Palo Alto CA 94301 or via Zoom. To contact Fr. Seán directly, please visit https://www.SpiritsInSpacesuits.com/c...