Author: Resa Pearson

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Autobiography in Five Short Chapters

I.

I walk down the street.

There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.

I fall in. I am lost. I am helpless.

It isn’t my fault.

It takes forever to find a way out.

II.

I walk down the same street.

There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.

I still don’t see it. I fall in again.

I can’t believe I am in the same place.

It isn’t my fault.

It still takes a long time to get out.

III.

I walk down the same street.

There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.

I see it there, I still fall in.

It’s habit. It’s my fault. I know where I am.

I get out immediately. 

IV.

I walk down the same street.

There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.

I walk around it.

V.

I walk down a different street.

–Portia Nelson

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Litany of Humility

O Jesus! meek and humble of heart, Hear me.

From the desire of being esteemed,

Deliver me, Jesus.

From the desire of being loved…

From the desire of being extolled …

From the desire of being honored …

From the desire of being praised …

From the desire of being preferred to others…

From the desire of being consulted …

From the desire of being approved …

From the fear of being humiliated …

From the fear of being despised…

From the fear of suffering rebukes …

From the fear of being calumniated …

From the fear of being forgotten …

From the fear of being ridiculed …

From the fear of being wronged …

From the fear of being suspected …

That others may be loved more than I,

Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.

That others may be esteemed more than I …

That, in the opinion of the world,

others may increase and I may decrease …

That others may be chosen and I set aside …

That others may be praised and I unnoticed …

That others may be preferred to me in everything…

That others may become holier than I, provided that I may become as holy as I should…

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Karl Rahner

Big Ideas – 3:11 
The Christology of Karl Rahner – 27:44
The Core of Karl Rahner’s Theology – 4:57
The Christian of the Future – 1:44
Karren Kilby on Karl Rahner – 9:19
Which Type of Theologian Are You? – 7:58
Why study Karl Rahner, with Karen Kilby – 12:07 
It’s a Grace-Full Life – 4:35
Ignatian Spirituality and Mindfulness in Rahner – 12:45
Karl Rahner  – 22:21
A Wider Hope in Karl Rahner’s Theology – 16:31
The Christian of the Future 1:44
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Hans urs von Balthasar

Part 1 Bishop Barron – 12:22
Part 1 Karen Kilby- 8:27
Beauty in the Tradition D.C. Schindler – 38:31
Part 2 Bishop Barron – 12:36
Part 2 Karen Kilby – 10:11
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Songs

“Mary” Patty Griffin
Julia Fischer and Gordan Nikolic recording Mozart
“God Walks the Dark Hills” Iris Dement
Guy Penrod, David Phelps
Peace Train, Yusef et al
The Prayer, Pentatonix
You raise me up, Josh Groban
It is well with my soul
Os justi – Bruckner – Tenebrae, Nigel Short
It’s OK, Nightbirde on AGT
Come to Jesus, Chris Rice
“Plowshare Prayer” Spencer LaJoye
“Show the Way” David Wilcox
“Ave Maria” Frank La Rocca
“Master, the Tempest is Raging” Acapeldridge
In Christ Alone, Living Stones Quartet
Kyrie from Mass in E flat, VOCES8
Chant of the Mystics “O filii et filiae” 2:00
Holy as the Day is Spent, Carrie Newcomer
There was Jesus, Zach Williams &: Dolly Parton
Holy Water, We the Kingdom
If Ye Love me, Thomas Tallis, The King’s Singers
 ‘Empty Chairs At Empty Tables’ from ‘Les Miserables’ Cormac Thompson 3:14 
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Fr. Ron Rolheiser, OMI

“Sanctity has to do with gratitude. To be a saint is to be fueled by gratitude, nothing more and nothing less.”

“Every choice is a thousand renunciations. To choose one thing is to turn one’s back on many others.”

“Faith is not a question of basking in the certainty that there is a God and that God is taking care of us. Many of us are never granted this kind of assurance. Certitude is not the real substance of faith. Faith is a way of seeing things.”

“We prepare to die by pushing ourselves to love less narrowly. In that sense, readying ourselves for death is really an ever-widening entry into life.”

“The incarnation began with Jesus and it has never stopped . . . God takes on flesh so that every home becomes a church, every child becomes the Christ-child, and all food and drink become a sacrament. God’s many faces are now everywhere, in flesh, tempered and turned down, so that our human eyes can see him.”

On the Mystically Driven Life – 19:02
Walking in Light and Darkness – 1:00:19
Prayer: Lifting Mind and Heart to God – 9:32
How to Truly Love Yourself – 57:59
Creating Sabbath Space – 8:42
The Passion of Christ – 8:26
Ron Rolheiser: The Cross of Christ 4:53
The Holy Longing: The Search for a Christian Spirituality
Henri Nouwen: A Saint for the Complex – 1:01:01
Why is God Hidden – 9:04
Compassion is Leaving Judgement to God – 9:32
Adam and Eve – 16:53
The Cross of Christ – 4:53
The Incarnation: Keeping God in the Flesh – 5:19
Ron Rolheiser: Cross of Christ Part 2 5:15
Ron Rolheiser: The Passion of Christ 8:26
Sacred Fire: A Vision for a Deeper Human and Christian Maturity

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Meister Eckhart

God is at home, it’s we who have gone out for a walk.

If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.

God does not work in all hearts alike, but according to the preparation and sensitivity He finds in each.

What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.

The very best and highest attainment in this life is to remain still and let God act and speak in you.

Do exactly what you would do if you felt most secure.  

God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction.

If you focus too narrowly on a single path to God, all you will ever find is the path.

And suddenly you know: It’s time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.

Meister Eckhart & Christian Mysticism – 44:12
Meister Eckhart by Rudoph Steiner – 32:53
Knowing through Unknowing – 16:13
Meister Eckhart: Selected Writings
Christmas According to Meister Eckhart – 26:42
Active Contemplation – 20:50
Meister Eckhart, from Whom God Hid Nothing
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Films

The Impossible, Juan Antonio Bayona
The Mission, Roland Joffe
Scent of a Woman, Martin Brest
Les Miserables, Tom Hooper
Hotel Rwanda, Terry George
The Blind Side, John Lee Hancock
Temple Grandin, Mick Jackson
Hacksaw Ridge, Mel Gibson
Into Great Silence, Phillip Groning
The Pianist, Roman Polanski
Of Gods and Men, Xavier Beauvois
The Flow, Irena Salina
The Way Way Back, Nat Faxon & Jim Rash
Silence, Martin Scorsese
The Way, Emilio Estevez
The Biggest Little Farm, John Chester
October Sky, Joe Johnston
Cinderella Man, Ron Howard
The Man Who Knew Infinity, Matt Brown
A Hidden Life, Terrence Malick
Two Strangers Who Meet Five Times – 12:11
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Rene Girard

Explains Mimetic Desire – 2:12
Rene Girard on Peter’s Denial – 10:12 
Bishop Barron on René Girard – 9:43