The task of the prophet today (Fr. Ron Rolheiser)

   We need persons, prophets, who have wide enough loyalties, deep enough hearts, and extensive enough sympathies to help hold together a community that is dangerously fragmented… The task of prophecy today is to absorb division.  To be a prophet today, in the church or in the world, is to let your person and your loyalties be wide enough so that they can be that place wherein all the different sides can meet, where the various indignations can spend themselves, like the storms they are, and where liberal and conservative, feminist and bishop, pro-life and pro-choice, victim and perpetrator, legalist and nihilist, puritan and liberated, socially concerned and privately obsessed can be at one table sat down.  The task of the prophet today is to keep incarnate the wide, all-embracing heart of God, a heart that has many rooms.

--Fr. Ron Rolheiser, Prophets as Shock Absorbers

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