In communing with Christ and each other, so also were we communing with all the saints.
From the page that you link, in the explanation of voting
in communes with more than 1000 inhabitants1, it explains:
The way that her character is so easily understood by us, the viewer, and at the same time the wonderful drama of watching her trying to exist again in the real world after her time
in the commune with Patrick (John Hawkes) is just wonderful to behold.
She once lived
in a commune with a rock band, and has worked as an exhibiting artist.
Not exact matches
Jo Freeman spent much of the 1960s living
with her activist peers on
communes — including a stint as part of a women's liberation collective
in which everyone had equal say and stature.
This resonates deeply
with me as someone who
communes with nature on a daily basis
in the boreal wilderness.
As for me, I want to know and
commune with a being that,
in my belief system, created me and died for me.
Poets like Wordsworth see the human person as capable of
communing with the whole of reality, or at least
with aspects
in a deeper, more profound way.
Our forebears learned the practical effects of collectivist methods: No one
in a
commune feels a personal motive to stay up at night
with a sick cow (someone else will do it, I'm too tired), and the hardest workers who observe the loafers and free riders will begin to reduce their own labors.
You wouldn't be fixing cars or be a lawyer, detist or work
in a grocery unless it was so you could provide food for yourself and everyone else you lived
with in that
commune.
so if we are bound by our ideology about god, we are not actually
communing with god
in the bondage of the ideology about god.
It calls the disciple to live, at least part of the time, as if he or she were already
in the next world, a world where all share freely and constantly
commune with God —
in short, a life of love.
He had been a committed Christian for several years, and he introduced me to his friends who lived
with him
in a
commune.
Obviously, I'm not saying if you stay
in your room all day and
commune with imaginary characters then you will achieve the virtue of empathy.
It's why I
commune with Him, trying to get His perspective, but I'm still limited
in my understanding.
Only that last doctrine comes from the Methodist Church to which he actually belongs (though
with which he does not now
commune — the Episcopalians down the street have drawn him
in with weekly celebration of the Eucharist).
Now I am able to see Him, believe
in Him, have the Spirit dwelling within me to comfort me
commune with me and enable me to follow Christ.
This puts me
in the mind of Satan's character here is a being that was so very close to God himself, that most assuredly
communed with God often.
To «see»
in this sense is to
commune with and to enjoy the world as it is.
Despite an inadequate development of neighbourly relationship between the
communes, Buber feels that the Jewish
communes are of central significance
in the struggle for a structurally new society
in which individual groups will be given the greatest possible autonomy and yet will enjoy the greatest possible interrelationship
with each other.
From the bottom end, it is the understanding, the receiving, the accepting, the willingness to
commune with the Beautiful Beyond, the Absolute, the All -
in - All.
But to suppose that one has not really
communed with God until his own personality is lost
in the Infinite and he is oblivious to all else is to call for an experience which, whether desirable or not, is seldom attainable.
The rapid influx of Jewish refugees into Palestine has resulted
in many cases
in the rise of a quasi-elite who have not been able to provide true leadership for the
communes and have come into conflict
with the genuine chaluzim.
Today, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is an American Lourdes: a pilgrimage site where the living come to
commune with the dead and to reckon
with war and their own mortality
in the medium of the mirror that is the Wall.
I do not understand those that want to
commune with their version of a god can not do so
in a beautiful area of the world and at the same time
commune with nature and cut out the middle man.
At a time when individualism was still, generally speaking, obscuring the fullness of traditional catholic teaching on this mystery, he wrote: «When Christ comes to one of his faithful it is not simply
in order to
commune with him as an individual;... when, through the mouth of the priest, he says Hoc est corpus meum, these words extend beyond the morsel of bread over which they are said: they give birth to the whole mystical body of Christ.
I listen to Presbyterian preaching,
commune with Catholics, pray for Mary's intercession, sing non-denominational worship music, memorize Scripture like an evangelical and teach my children how to find the love of God
in all things.
Liturgically, it begins
with the gathering of those who will invoke, address, and
commune, and finally «depart
in peace» through a pattern of behaviors that characterize their performance practice.
We
commune with those who believe
in the actually presence of Christ
in the supper and the actual forgiveness of sins received
in it, as promised
in the witness of the Bible and the words of Christ.
My journey went via evangelical Christianity, studying
with Jehovah's Witnesses, study of other mythologies, studying some
in the mystical traditions and studying and
communing as best I could
with nature.
Participating
in the life of this totem is a way of
communing with the sacred.
Our salvation — our ability to
commune with God and be
in His presence — is predicated on faith.
The soul that is to ascend this mount of perfection, to
commune with God, must not only renounce all things and leave them below, but must not even allow the desires, which are the beasts, to pasture over against this mount — that is, upon other things which are not purely God,
in whom every desire ceases: that is,
in the state of perfection.
Religion gives purpose
in the form of getting into heaven,
communing with a god, and spreading the word to others.
Believers must be baptized and
in remembrance of Him, we must
commune and fellowship
with one another.
He does not
commune with God
in the same way that the messiah IS God Himself.
A spirituality is a mode of being
in which not only the divine and the human
commune with each other, but we discover ourselves
in the universe and the universe discovers itself
in us.
You don't hear from, communicate
with, receive guidance from, gain inspiration from, or
commune with God
in those settings?
It is popular
in some circles to envision the afterlife as a parliament of world religions — where Jesus and Buddha and Shankara and Muhammad and Confucius and Mahavira and Moses, along
with shamans, bodhisattvas and spirit guides of all descriptions would converse and
commune together.
It is not clear whether Timothy McVeigh had Christian Identity associations, although press reports have linked him
with Elohim City, a Christian Identity
commune in Oklahoma.
He wrote short (the best and most prayerful way), and I have frequently taken five or seven minutes out of a spare part of the day to
commune with his forward - tumbling paragraphs and cascading sentences, admiring their intricate construction, delighting
in their whimsy, astonished by their unlikely sturdiness while carrying all that weight all that distance
with all those commas.
As a day, and no more, it reminds us first to protect ourselves from AIDS, and from
communing too closely
with others
in the process, while at the same time it assuages our guilt at being one of the lucky ones by encouraging us to «remember» the saints of AIDS, about whom we know almost nothing but that they had it.
We are
communing with the saints who have gone before every time we gather together
in Jesus» name, taking the sacraments together, saying the creeds.
In the end each believer needs to see if the group they are meeting together
with are
communing with Christ, caring for the saints and ministering Christ to the community.
Our faith
in Christ sees the Incarnation of God
in human form as securing a definitiveness to the human being; while the human physical make - up is open to a degree of change - such as getting gradually taller - a species able to
commune with God
in virtue of being made up of body and soul will not mutate into a new one.
But you feel peace when you pray /
commune with the notion of «God»
in your head — for certainly you don't talk or do things together as most people
in real relationships do.
If America's ghettos and gray areas are poorer and more wretched and neglected than they were ten years ago, that is no reason to join the carrot - patch
communes or affluent exurbanites who align
with Ellul
in denouncing cities.
Human life has evolved to a stage of development that enables the human being to
commune with the source of life, to stand
in awe of it, to feel both alienated or out of touch
with it, and
in communion
with it, and that is worship.
Shamans would imbibe hallucinogens
in order to transcend the physical and
commune with the spirit world.
However, he was seldom seen
In Wittenberg, having taken his bride to his parish of Orlamunde, where, calling himself Brother Andrew, he cultivated the Glebe land in peasant's clothes and invited Muntzer to come to join the commune and help with the wor
In Wittenberg, having taken his bride to his parish of Orlamunde, where, calling himself Brother Andrew, he cultivated the Glebe land
in peasant's clothes and invited Muntzer to come to join the commune and help with the wor
in peasant's clothes and invited Muntzer to come to join the
commune and help
with the work.