Monthly Archives: April 2019
The Center for Christogenesis Online Magazine
One Eye, One Self, One God
Q: Meister Eckhart and Thomas Merton have talked about how the “eye with which you see God is the eye with which he sees you.” In his book “The Experience of God” Raimon Panikkar suggests that our...
Repair my house which has fallen into ruins
I was enjoying a perfectly lovely quiet time of Holy Week retreat at St. Jane House in Minneapolis when i learned the news of the fire at Notre Dame. Even as my heart was breaking, I started to draw on my iPad. I lead Art and...
The Resurrection and the beginning of a new earth
Faith in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ expresses the belief that “Love is strong as death” (Song 8:6). Resurrection is the greater strength of love in the face of death. When someone values love more highly than...
Dead and Alive
He is not here! But we are… Tragedy and Beauty Sorrow and Mystery Innocent lives killed in the midst of God’s glory. What kind of God is this Who rises from the dead Amidst the dead? Let us not get too comfortable...
An Easter Reflection on Suffering, Death, and Resurrection
There is no compassion without suffering, no transformation without death. No growth without decay, no development without loss, no complexity without danger. Imagine how it feels for a loving God to know there is no other...
SUFFERING AND DEATH: A REFLECTION
Each day we awake to a new world of struggle.The abuse crisis of the Catholic Church continues unabated, children and refugees are held captive in the U.S. borderland camps, racial profiling and inner city violence continue...
To Die on the Day of Resurrection
One year before Teilhard de Chardin died, his nephew heard Teilhard say that, “I should like to die on the day of Resurrection.” A year later, on April 10th, 1955 Chardin did die. It was Easter Sunday. That day, Teilhard had...
Second Annual Omega Center Conference
Love at the Heart of the Cosmos: Living in Relational Wholeness Commonwealth Chateau at...
Authentic religion “Within me and between me and thee”
Ours in the West is largely a secularized society. However, especially after 9/11, we have become much more aware of the influence of religion—mostly bad in many people’s eyes. This, I believe, is a bum rap for authentic...
Catholic to the Core
Q: Is the Omega Center “Catholic.” Is it in line with the institutional Catholic Church. Ilia: Recently, a question was submitted as to whether or not the Omega Center is “Catholic.” The inquirer wanted to know if the Omega...
