Sentences with phrase «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.

It is for people who are looking for a deeper life of prayer.

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The heroic virtue he displayed in death was the result of a life rooted in deep personal prayer and ascetic discipline.

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.

Forgiveness is an active instance of a deep prayer life.

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».

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.

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.»

September 6, 2017 by Bee Filed Under: Boy Mom, Deep Thoughts, Family, Grief, Life Lessons, Love and Loss, Month of Prayers, Parenting