Contemplative Worship Team - October 19, 2025
Hope in Focus: Week 3
"Every mystic lives in a radically different world than the one we take for granted. Francis saw the same sorts of objects and events we see. He just organized them differently. Or - more accurately said - he discovered the world to have a different organization and to require a different sort of response than the world inhabited by the rest of us. His bodily and mental experimentation altered his consciousness so that the world of everyday dissolved into a sacred universe: God’s world, the kingdom of heaven, the land- and mindscape revealed by Jesus. . . . Francis did not so much imitate the things Jesus did as discover for himself through relentless experimentation how the cosmos of Jesus could be established and lived in thirteenth century Italy." -John Ryan Haule, The Ecstasies of St. Francis: The Way of Lady Poverty
Scripture References: Psalms 18:1-50
From Series: "Contemplative Worship"
Contemplative Worship with The Center for Christian Spirituality in Houston, Texas. A ministry of Chapelwood United Methodist Church
