Forgiveness is an active instance of
a deep prayer life.
Not exact matches
It reads the way people might tweet about their inner
prayer life, updating their status with their
deepest spiritual insights.
The heroic virtue he displayed in death was the result of a
life rooted in
deep personal
prayer and ascetic discipline.
He went on to say: «This has not been an easy journey and honestly, Leo's had quite a dramatic
life so far, but I am completely blown away by my wife's consistency in such
deep prayer.
The CTS has done a competent job with Jim Gallagher's simple booklet telling the story of John Paul's
life - the childhood marked by his mother's early death along with that of his brother; the
deep, strong bond with his father; the grim years of the German occupation and his tough job in a stone quarry; the mysticism and
prayer -
life; the youth drama groups; the ordination in a Poland coming to grips with what was to be a decades - long imposition of Communism.
The priest enters and draws the congregation to
prayer with words written by the Iona community in Scotland: «Breath of God, Breath of
life, Breath of
deepest yearning.»
It is obvious to me that I altered my brain significantly after years of intense /
deep prayer and meditation and that as a result of these contributory experiences I was a high - functioning schizophrenic for a good portion of my
life — there were things going on in my biology which predisposed me to being a depressive and a high - functioning schizophrenic but engaging in intense /
deep prayer and meditation was only exacerbating this problem by altering my state of consciousness which precipitated the psychotic symptoms and psychic phenomena which I experienced.
Psychosis / most psychiatric illnesses often arise in adolescence or in early adult
life however 75 per cent of children with mental health disorders / issues do not get the help they need — I fell into that 75 per cent, I was misdiagnosed by a doctor and then the self - induced trance - like altered state of consciousness induced by intense /
deep meditation and
prayer coupled with the theology about how
prayer and God work in a Christian's
life (more on this below) just pushed me right over the edge.
I sat down at the computer again to try to find a few words to say how I find God in this daily place and in this work, how I only learned to pray when I began to pray with my hands and my attention on purpose and how most of
prayer to me now is listening and abiding, how I believe it would be nice to have a lovely housekeeper and a clean house and to create amazing soaring art with all of the white space of an uncluttered
life and glorious heights of transcendent spirituality, I guess, but I need the God who sits in the mud and in the cold wind, in the laundry pile and in the city park, who embodies grief and joy, wisdom and patience, loneliness as companionship, renewal with simplicity and a good
deep breath, and who even now shows up in the unlikeliest and homeliest of
lives too, as a sacrament of and blessing for the ordinary things.
Based on his contact with the Missionaries of Charity, he emphasizes the need for
living a
life of
deep prayer while immersed in the world.
From an early age, I had a
deep and active
prayer life, comfortable shootin'the breeze with Jesus about whatever was on my mind — my friends, my sins, my hopes, my questions, my fears, my obsession with that boy.
We need to be
living our faith to the full, with a personal
life of
prayer, a committed love for Christ and a
deep devotion to Our Lady.
These
prayers remind us of the
deep inner
life which sustained Newman on his pilgrim journey, and together with the illustrated biography from Gracewing, this book will surely be welcomed by all devotees of Newman's
life and thought.
Prayer is the intentional opening of human
lives to, the alignment of human wills with, and the direction of human desiring toward, the cosmic Love that is
deepest and highest in the world because it is the main thrust or drive through the world toward sharing and participation in genuine good — and hence toward the truest possible fulfillment of human personality as God wishes it to become.
If I tried to summarize my
deepest spiritual aspiration, I would use the words of St Paul, «It is no longer I that
live, but Christ Jesus
lives in me» (Galatians 2, 20), or I would echo the yearning from the
Prayer of Humble Access in the Book of Common
Prayer that «I might evermore dwell in Christ and he in me».
In another study, churchwomen similarly revealed the division between their personal faith,
prayer life and
deepest concerns, on the one hand, and their involvement with pastor, parishioners and church activities, on the other.
For spiritual communion is by no means merely an act of longing for the reception of the Lord under the sacramental signs; much
deeper, and more properly, it is the act of
prayer of a
living and understanding faith, by which it enters into
living communication and communion with Christ, the eternal and
living Truth.
There sin is a
deep, inward defilement; goodness is an interior fountain of spiritual quality; penitence concerns what a man is behind what he does; and the desire for a good
life calls out the
prayer for spiritual rebirth,
We learn of the importance he attached to daily Mass, his fidelity to
prayer, the rosary, promoting Eucharistic adoration, weekly confession of sins, his attention to the needs of others as though he or she were the only one he'd ever met, his self - sacrifice in imitation of Maximillian Kolbe whom he had canonised; most importantly, we learn of his very
deep understanding of how
life is transformed through chastity for married and single alike.
they hunger and thirst after God (it shows in their worship,
prayer, study and
lives) I agree â $ «I can not remember
deep and meaningful worship (at another local church setting that is) quite like I have experienced at Rothesay.
To the parish priest of today, Pope Francis issues a call: to a
deeper faith and
life of
prayer, to purity and holiness of
life, to a trust in the call of the Father, and above all to a
life of ceaseless sacrificial love and preaching» a service that is in turn rooted in
prayer and holiness.
«To Officer Familia's family, friends, and brothers and sisters in the NYPD and the 46th Precinct, including those who bravely responded to the call and prevented further loss of
life, I offer my
deepest condolences and
prayers in this dark and horrific time.»
We end with a soothing Savasana (
deep relaxation) and chanting to honor pregnancy as a
living prayer.
It is for people who are looking for a
deeper life of
prayer.
It is for people who are looking for a
deeper life of
prayer.
It is for people who are looking for a
deeper life of
prayer.
It is for people who are looking for a
deeper life of
prayer.
September 6, 2017 by Bee Filed Under: Boy Mom,
Deep Thoughts, Family, Grief,
Life Lessons, Love and Loss, Month of
Prayers, Parenting