FR. RON ROLHEISER, omi

Circumstance and history ask each generation to carry a certain pain and to redeem it through suffering. We are no exception. Our generation in the Western world is being asked to carry the pain of ecclesial disprivilege.

FR. RON ROLHEISER, omi

• We know what to do for someone who comes to church, but we don't know how to get someone to come to church.
• We know how to be Christian when we are poor, under-educated and culturally marginalized, but we struggle to be Christian when we are affluent, educated and have a full place in the culture.

FR. RON ROLHEISER, omi

Carlo Carretto, one of the leading spiritual writers of the past half-century, lived for more than a dozen years as a hermit in the Sahara desert. Alone, with only the Blessed Sacrament for company, milking a goat for his food, and translating the Bible into the local Bedouin language, he prayed for long hours by himself.