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Reverencing

Revering God's most amazing and diverse creation is a beginning point for our journey towards sustainability. It is a way of being. A point of contemplative practice. The creation stories in the Judeo Christian scriptures remind us that all that has been created is good. As humans, we are made in God’s image. Soil is the holy ground from which we are humbly created, with God-breath in our being (Genesis 1 & 2). Yet, all other created things also reflect God’s image back to us. Unspoken words pour forth God’s handiwork in visible glory all around us (Psalm 19). The Hebrew in the Genesis 2 creation account renders human and animal creatures with the very same word. The Hebrew alliteration, nephesh chayyah, is translated as “living beings” or “living souls” (Genesis 2:7 & 19). All of creation is of the same stuff!

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What we are doing

The CAC is committed to both action and contemplation. Our purpose as teachers of the contemplative life is to call people to deepen their spiritual lives through a daily practice of prayer and regular spiritual formation. This gives us new ears and eyes through which to see ourselves, God, one another and the whole created order. It is a way of waking us up to the beauty and holiness in all of life and how we can participate in this goodness as a whole being. As Richard Rohr says, "When we can see the image of God where we don’t want to see the image of God, then we see with eyes not our own."

This contemplative practice necessarily leads us to action in the world. How do we then live kindly, humbly, justly, in right relationship with all with whom we share this planet? You are invited to join us for our internships, conferences or Men’s Rites of Passage. All of these will lead you to a more examined life, which we hope will take you on the path of sustainable action in the world.

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