Sentences with phrase «faithful prayer life»

Through a faithful prayer life and regular Mass, Confession and Eucharistic Adoration we are filled with the Holy Spirit and the graces of God (even if we don't feel that we are).

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I now believe it does a tremendous disservice to honorable people who are faithful believers to place on them the additional burden of guilt, shame and magnified suffering that comes from the kind of doctrine that promotes (sells) prayer as a magic talisman which will somehow change God's mind, alter physical circumstance, and fix intractable problems — if only the one praying has enough faith or asks in the right way or lives a holy enough life or professes Jesus enough or waits patiently or never gives up or any of a hundred different gotchas that can be called upon to justify the lack of an affirmative answer.

Every day millions of faithful souls in monasteries and back pews and small apartments exercise the priesthood of all believers in prayer practices that bring life to the church as the beating heart brings blood to the body.

I have been baptized in the Holy Spirit, I walked the aisle, I am born again, I will rise up to be with Christ at the rapture, I name and claim many things over my life and my childrens, (I have never name and claimed a mercedes, or useless materialstic worldly things), I have prayed the sinners prayer and am a Christian, a Christ follower, a faithful believer in Jesus Christ, I am Spirit Filled, I am forgiven, redeemed, a new creation.

Indeed I often pray the Offertory prayer in my own private devotions before the Blessed Sacrament: (Suscipe Sancte Pater...) «Accept O Holy Father Almighty and Eternal God, this holy and unblemished victim which I thy unworthy servant offered unto Thee, my living and true God for my own innumerable sins, offences and negligence and for all here present and for all the faithful living and dead that it may profit me and them for salvation to eternal life».

All Christ's faithful are called to hand it on from generation to generation, by professing the faith, by living it in fraternal sharing, and by celebrating it in liturgy and prayer.6

Likewise, the Mass is not simply the self expression of the community as «Spirit in The World», but it does gather the lives and prayers of the faithful and the gifts of Nature and bring them to God at the altar.

In the West, the religious orders that are faithful to their charism, have an authentic, vital prayer life and apostolate, (and often a distinctive religious habit), witness to joy, and are welcoming, are the ones that tend to have more vocations!

And it's beautiful to see how God has answered and still is answering the faithful, specific prayers of faith - filled parents in the lives of these young, godly women.

Because when you're ten years old and getting ready for bed, on a night that's just like any other night, no darker or starrier or more silent or more full of smells than usual, with the familiar sound of the muezzins calling the faithful to prayer from the tops of the minarets just like anywhere else... no, when you're ten years old - I say ten, although I'm not entirely sure when I was born, because there's no registry office or anything like that in Ghazni province - like I said, when you're ten years old, and your mother, before putting you to bed, takes your head and holds it against her breast for a long time, longer than usual, and says, There are three things you must never do in life, Enaiat jan, for any reason... The first is use drugs.