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Homilies by Fr. Richard Rohr, OFM

No one is ready for the shape of God

Homilies by Fr. Richard Rohr, OFM

Center for Action and Contemplation

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2019

⏱️ 17 minutes

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No one is ready for the shape of God By Fr. Richard Rohr

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A reading from the Holy Gospel has written to us by John.

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John said to his disciples, I have much more to tell you,

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but you cannot bear it now.

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I want you to hold on to that sentence.

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It's translated of course in different ways.

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You're not ready for this.

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Or you can't take it, or you'll never get it, all of which are true when we're talking

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about the Trinity.

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When the spirit comes, the spirit of truth the spirit will guide you to all truth he she

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will not speak on his own or her own but they will speak what they hear and they

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will declare to you the things that are coming. The spirit will glorify me because he or she will take from what is mine and declare it

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to you.

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And of course you've already figured out what I'm saying is that God is beyond gender

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so we can't apply male or female to God it doesn't mean anything.

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Everything that the Father has is mine.

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For this reason I told you that he will take from what is mine and will declare it to you.

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This is good news from the Lord.

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Thank you. So you're not ready for this certainly applies.

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And it's no accident that after 2,000 years, the doctrine of the Trinity is abstruse, abstract,

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unhelpful, unbelievable to most people.

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