But, if dissent on core truths, then I dissent myself out
of communion with the Faith.
You have found a ministry and
communion with others through the simple things that make routine life a pleasure.
Shooting for a «unified» mind is as mistaken (in my worldview) as shooting
for communion with a god.
You and your partner have everything you need to be successful in marriage
through communion with the author of love.
Books and movies can provide our own private oasis, but also a way to
find communion with others.
Recovery of this capacity for
subjective communion with the earth is a consequence and a cause of a newly emerging spirituality.
This involves a new spiritual and even
mystical communion with the earth, a true aesthetic of the earth, a sensitivity to earth needs, a valid economy of the earth.
He returns from this
holy communion with the most precious gift, the forgiveness of sins, the healing of the broken covenant.
They do not establish an understanding of that authentic experience in contemporary life oriented toward
communion with creation processes.
I can tell you, you will probably settle your soul and heart if you can find an
organic communion with others that is free and nurturing.
This means commitment and trust, tenderness, respect for the other, and the desire for ongoing and
responsible communion with the other.
I tried to be tolerant and respectful and did not participate in their communion service because I was not
in communion with their beliefs.
Without the Fall of man, without the original sin of Adam and Eve, Christ's sacrifice, His sacred deed, would have been to draw together the whole of humanity into a relationship of full
communion with God in one act of joyful recognition and adoration.
She must ever live in full
communion with Christ because she is the spouse of God, for her separation is unthinkable, let alone the divorce of apostasy; she is the body of which the Messiah is the head, and a living body may not be truncated and yet live.
In all great adventures of the spirit — creating a work of beauty, falling in love, devoting oneself to a great cause, entering
into communion with God for his service — there are some things to do and others not to do.
(His answer is clearly yes, and some Catholics would agree, while questioning whether the Reformation still needs churches separated from
communion with Rome.)
I get a perverse sense of happiness when I imagine asking them this question: Now that you have experienced something not being true that you were 100 % was true based on what you believed to be evidence and all the emotional proof that came
from communion with God about the rapture, isn't it possible that your belief in God, which your rely on the same type of evidence for its proof, is also not justified?
It reports that some bishops think that if
spiritual communion with Christ in the liturgy of the Eucharist is possible, then why not allow the divorced and remarried to receive?
It passes into the creation of man, when matter of its own law and formula, at its unique peak, requires the soul as co-principle of being, and a new creation - spiritual and material in synthesis - now lives in
direct communion with God as its law of life and being.
Here are the breezy artist's top tips for thriving in a small space, harnessing a
deeper communion with nature, and living simply and with intention.
Three weeks after the earthquake I had
taken communion with people next to the pile of jagged rubble that was once the church.
In so doing, Christ establishes the New Covenant and a level of worship which is in effect the blessing of
eternal communion with God.
In a time when the word «spirituality» has become suspect» so connected is it with all the flailings about of unbridled desire and dubious therapies» this is a bracingly orthodox guide to
fuller communion with God through Christ.
Seventh and finally, the song of redemptive hope, of the resurrection of the body; of our bodies that encompass the stuff of the creation of which we are part; of our bodies that participate in the body of Christ that is the Church, and therefore anticipate, already now, that
perfect communion with God for which the whole creation waits with eager longing.
However, by the end of the year, the church council forced Calvin to resign his position and leave Geneva because he wanted to force church members to sign his doctrinal statement and articles of church organization (which few people wanted to do), and because he refused to
serve communion with unleavened bread on Easter Sunday.
Again, this is not to say that women have special graces simply because of their femininity — in Christ there is neither male nor female (cf. Gal 3:28)-- but that very femininity can be offered to God in order to allowwoman to enter into divine
communion with such attentive receptivity that it becomes the image upon which John Paul patterned all created holiness.
As I understand it, this is the highest degree of
inner communion with God in the «unitive way» as St. John of the Cross describes it.
Think «I am Sam and I am an ant,» not «To him who in the love of Nature
holds communion with her visible forms.»
But what is important is that these displaced people for whom almost everything was out of control set out to reorder and recover life through an intentional resolve
about communion with God.
We think that, in addition to our Zen -
like communion with the earth, tipped the scales in our favor.