Yearning for the kingdom (St. Charbel Makhlouf / Fr. Ron Rolheiser)

Do not start anything on earth,
if it does not end in heaven;
and do not walk on a path on earth
that does not lead to heaven.

 --St. Charbel Makhlouf 

       The kingdom of God is about immortality and consummation, and knowing and being known, about luxuriating in ecstatic embrace, and it is precisely these things that we dream of in our most uncensored daydreams. It is indeed toward these things that we are relentlessly propelled by every aching cell inside us. Yearning for the kingdom is written into our very DNA. 

--Fr. Ron Rolheiser, OMI,
Facebook, December 4, 2023 

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