I just came back from a formation weekend with other men and women in religious formation in the area. The theme for this weekend was to be about the catholic social teaching, living in right relationship. I was pleasantly surprised to find that our presenter for the weekend, Sr. Joan Gallagher, CSJ, presented the catholic social teaching with "The New Story" of the Universe (or "New Cosmology," etc.) as the backdrop and really the purpose of our exploration and conversation. I hope, in later posts to share more and more of what the weekend unpacked. Today, I just wanted to take this Sun-day :) to share a poem that was shared towards the end of our time together.
I'm also including a link to a trailer for Journey of the Universe, the first video that I saw on the topic last September...though the trailer doesn't even "wet the appetite" well, if you will, to all that the whole film (all of like 20-25min) will trigger in curiousity...and perhaps even a desire for a change of heart and in consciousness of your existence as a dimension of the universe!
RADIANCE by Marianne Williamson
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who I am to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small doesn't serve the world.
There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so
that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We are meant to shine, as children do.
We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine,
we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
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