Episode 1:
Our restless, insatiable spirit (27 min.) "We humans are infinite spirits in a finite situation, and that's a sure formula for restlessness," Fr. Rolheiser tells interviewer Tom Fox. "You want to make love to the whole world, you want to consume the planet but you're confined to one person, one place. . These energies - this divine fire -make up our spirit. How we direct that spirit is spirituality. Our spirit is restless because it's divine and insatiable."
Episode 2:
Being missionaries to our children (27 min.) "The real mission field is not Africa and Asia," Fr. Ron Rolheiser tells Tom Fox. "Our missionary work today is with our own children." Rolheiser tells Tom Fox about being at World Youth Day in Toronto with Pope John Paul II. A million young people showed up, he said. The energy was tremendous. But what nagged at the back of his mind, he said, were the 50 million young people who were not there. Those are the people he wants to reach and, he said, the language of dogma and doctrine won't reach them. He searches for "the language of the soul." "I believe the dogma, I believe the catechism, but something farther has to be done. Somebody has to take this language and say this is what it means in our lives. And that language has to be created."
Ronald Rolheiser, a Roman Catholic priest and member of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, is president of the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, Texas.
He is a community-builder, lecturer and writer. His books are popular throughout the English-speaking world and his weekly column is carried by more than sixty newspapers worldwide.
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