But, difficult though it may be, we must enter into
the deep places of faith and the soul and ask the hard questions of Christianity with some kind of faith that answers are really there.
Not exact matches
At the time, there were so few
places who were willing to «go there» into the wounds and hurts and
deeper questions
of our
faith, so few who were listening to those
of us outside
of the usual shiny - happy - Jesus - people narratives.
The so - called Tridentine rite,
of course, far from being «medieval» has roots
deep in pre-medieval antiquity (it is in any case a strange view
of history in which the Counter-Reformation took
place in the middle ages), and is a living manifestation
of the Newmanian principle
of development, wherebya process
of continuous change is inevitable if the essence
of the Church's
faith is to remain the same: for, as The Catholic Herald pointed out in its admirable leader, the reforms
of Pope St Pius V, enshrined in the Missal
of 1570, itself containing ancient elements, «were inspired by the Council
of Trent.
There is obviously a
place for logical deduction in the actual formulation
of dogmatic decrees, but Newman interposes a kind
of deep internal sense which enters the mind through the grasp
of faith before being formulated objectively.
The
deeper truth is that the Christian gospel and the
faith which it evokes do, as a matter
of fact, bring us to the
place where our only response is worship; and a
faith which does not involve and express itself in the worship
of God through Christ is a
faith which is radically imperfect — so imperfect, indeed, that one may doubt that it is true Christian
faith at all.
For Christians who come from cultures shaped by another
faith, an even more intimate interior dialogue takes
place as they seek to establish the connection in their lives between their cultural heritage and the
deep convictions
of their Christian
faith.
He distinguishes between early and late apostasy; between «shallow» apostasy that rejects a particular religion but retains a form
of spirituality, and «
deep» apostasy that concludes there is no deity at all; and between the «mild» apostasy
of those who were only nominally religious in the first
place and the «transforming» apostasy
of those who had been seriously committed to the
faith they later abandoned.
India is a
place where divisions based on religion and class is
deep rooted and there are areas where religious leaders actively propagate the idea
of having more children so that «our
faith stays alive».
To come into
deeper contact with what our souls know to be true: that our response to illness, from a
place of deep faith in the body, is our best treatment, and that mindful living is our best prevention.
We talk about everything from uncovering the
deepest parts
of ourselves so we can live a more intentional life and have more fulfilling relationships, to running a
faith - filled business, and we even talked a lot about racial reconciliation and what coming from a
place of true compassion looks like.