Richard Rohr's Daily Meditations
From the Center for Action and Contemplation
Week Forty-Five: Divine Love in Uncertain Times
Prayer, Politics, and God’s Love
To pray is to practice that posture of radical trust in God’s grace—and to participate in perhaps the most radical movement of all, which is the movement of God’s Love.
—Richard Rohr
Father Richard’s faithful trust in God’s love leads him to both prayer and action.
I’ve often said that we founded the Center for Action and Contemplation in 1987 to be a place of integration between action and contemplation. I envisioned a place where we could teach activists in social movements to pray—and encourage people who pray to live lives of solidarity and justice. As we explained in our Center’s Radical Grace publication in 1999:
Action and contemplation were once thought of as mutually exclusive, but we believed that they must be brought together or neither one would make sense. We felt that we were trying to be radical in both senses of the word, simultaneously rooted in tradition and boldly experimental.... We believed ... that the power to be truly radical comes from trusting entirely in God’s grace and that such trust is the most radical action possible. [1]
