Bonaventure with Sr. Margaret Carney

Everything Belongs: Living the Teachings of Richard Rohr Forward

Center for Action and Contemplation

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 723 Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

How can we meet the Divine with both our minds and our hearts? Today Richard guides us through the Eleventh Chapter of his book, Eager to Love, entitled, "Bonaventure: To Return to Love is to Yield to the Source". We're then once again joined by the inimitable Sr. Margaret Carney, who delves into the life and teachings of Bonaventure, exploring his significance in the Franciscan tradition, his mysticism, and the three great truths that underpin his theological vision. Sr. Carney, along with hosts Paul Swanson and Drew Jackson, discuss the importance of love in academia, the journey back to God, and how Bonaventure's teachings can be applied to contemporary challenges. Margaret Carney, OSF, STD is a member of the Sisters of St. Francis of the Neumann Communities. She holds degrees in education and theology from Duquesne University, a degree in Franciscan Studies from St. Bonaventure University and a doctorate from the Pontifical University Antonianum in Rome. Primary themes of her teaching focus on early Franciscan women, the history of the Third Order Regular and the challenges of Franciscan collaboration in the current era. She resides in Pittsburgh and continues to serve through various committees and boards of higher education and Franciscan service. Among her many honors she includes the Monika K. Hellwig Award of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities and the Pro Pontifice et Ecclesiae Award given by Pope Francis in 2016. Hosted by CAC Staff: Paul Swanson, and Drew Jackson Resources: Grab a copy of Eager to Love here. The transcript for this episode can be found here. Pick up Sr. Margaret Carney's book, Light of Assisi: The Story of Saint Clare, here.

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0:00.0	You're listening to a podcast by the Center for Action and Contemplation. To learn more, visit cac.org.
0:07.6	Hey, everyone. Welcome back to the Everything Belongs podcast. Today, we're going to focus on chapter 11 of Richard's book, Eager to Love, Bonaventure, To Yield to Love, is to return to the source. I'm joined here in conversation
0:24.4	with one of other hosts, Drew Jackson, Drew. Great to have you here. So good to be here, Paul.
0:30.6	And so always good to be in conversation with you. Yeah, ditto. And I'm excited that today we
0:35.8	get to explore some of the themes of Richard's chapter
0:39.0	on Bonaventure. And, you know, the first half of the conversation is Mike and I over at Richard's
0:43.9	house. And then the second half of the conversation is you and I in conversation with sister
0:48.8	Margaret Carney, who we had so much fun talking to about Claire that we're like, let's get her
0:52.9	back for Bonaventure.
0:54.8	And I really feel like we dug into some really important roots around what Bonaventure
1:01.5	was trying to do with Franciscan spirituality and trying to form it and share it in a way.
1:07.5	That could be life-giving in times that, you know, Franciscanism was in a bit of a state.
1:13.9	So curious for you, what were the themes that you were most excited to explore after reading
1:18.8	this chapter and being in conversation with Sister Margaret Carney?
1:23.3	Yeah, after reading the chapter, I was sitting a lot with those three great truths that Richard talks about in the chapter that come from the teaching of Bonaventure.
1:34.8	These big theological, philosophical words of emanation, exemplarism, consummation.
1:42.2	And really, I appreciate in both the conversation with Richard
1:45.7	and Sister Margaret, really kind of unpacking those, bringing those down, and kind of putting
1:51.0	the, in the simplest terms, helping us understand Bonaventure's heart of getting into what it
1:58.3	means to be on this journey from love to love, right?
2:02.3	And how that really is the heart of this relationship with God and what it means to be human,
2:10.6	to be a created being in this world.
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