Thomas Berry Place
In this Place, we strive to embody The Great Work envisioned by Thomas Berry, C.P. “The work of ensuring a just, healthy, beautiful, and sustainably life-giving world for future generations.” Drawing inspiration from Pope Francis and discerning the movement of God’s Spirit: We will listen carefully, and intentionally respond to the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor. We will create a Place of sacred hospitality, prayer, and restoration. And we will provide a space for encounter, dialogue, education and service, working toward an integral human ecology.
The Passionists at Our Lady of Florida belong the St Paul of the Cross Province. To learn more about becoming a Passionist, please go to the Province website, or read a short description here.
Environment
We need a spirituality that emerges out of a reality deeper than ourselves, even deeper than life, a spirituality that is as deep as the earth process itself, a spirituality born out of the solar system and even out of the heavens beyond the solar system. There in the stars is where the primordial elements take shape in both their physical and psychic aspects. Out of these elements the solar system and the earth took shape, and out of the earth, ourselves.
(Thomas Berry C.P. The Sacred Universe, Page 74)
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Faith
The spiritual journey of the Russian Pilgrim begins when he comes across a phrase of Saint Paul in the First Letter to the Thessalonians: “Pray constantly, always and for everything give thanks” (cf. 5:17-18). The Apostle’s words strike the man and he wonders how it is possible to pray without interruption, given that our lives are fragmented into so many different moments, which do not always make concentration possible. From this question, he begins his search, which will lead him to discover what is called the prayer of the heart. It consists in repeating with faith: “Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner!”. “Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner!” A simple prayer, but very beautiful. A prayer that, little by little, adapts itself to the rhythm of breath and extends throughout the day. Indeed, breath never stops, not even while we sleep; and prayer is the breath of life. (Pope Francis, June 9th, 2021)
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