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June 08, 2006
Consumer Culture and Contemplative Prayer
Topics: CommentaryA commentary from an Opus Dei numerary member suggests:
Can consumer culture be combined with contemplative prayer? For us in Opus Dei it can. Our ideal is the life Christ lived before his public life, his life of ordinary work in an ordinary family. God became a man and made human realities divine.However, Jesus never did this:
For the record, I do wear a spiked metal band on my leg for a couple of hours a day just like the [the Da Vinci Code Movie]'s murderous Opus Dei numerary, Silas
Consider that very little is known about Jesus' life prior to His ministry. It is simply not revealed. Similar to many contemplative methods, groups hypothesize and develop doctrines and practices that are extra-biblical to the point of contradicting what is revealed. "Corporal mortification" — intentional (self-inflicted) physical pain - is not a route to deep communion with God or personal holiness.... and neither is emptying one's mind in contemplative prayer.
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Posted by calvin at June 8, 2006 10:48 AM
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