Sentences with phrase «in communes with»

From the page that you link, in the explanation of voting in communes with more than 1000 inhabitants1, it explains:

In communing with Christ and each other, so also were we communing with all the saints.

The way that her character is so easily understood by us, the viewer, and at the same time the wonderful drama of watching her trying to exist again in the real world after her time in the commune with Patrick (John Hawkes) is just wonderful to behold.

She once lived in a commune with a rock band, and has worked as an exhibiting artist.

Not exact matches

Jo Freeman spent much of the 1960s living with her activist peers on communes — including a stint as part of a women's liberation collective in which everyone had equal say and stature.

This resonates deeply with me as someone who communes with nature on a daily basis in the boreal wilderness.

As for me, I want to know and commune with a being that, in my belief system, created me and died for me.

Poets like Wordsworth see the human person as capable of communing with the whole of reality, or at least with aspects in a deeper, more profound way.

Our forebears learned the practical effects of collectivist methods: No one in a commune feels a personal motive to stay up at night with a sick cow (someone else will do it, I'm too tired), and the hardest workers who observe the loafers and free riders will begin to reduce their own labors.

You wouldn't be fixing cars or be a lawyer, detist or work in a grocery unless it was so you could provide food for yourself and everyone else you lived with in that commune.

so if we are bound by our ideology about god, we are not actually communing with god in the bondage of the ideology about god.

It calls the disciple to live, at least part of the time, as if he or she were already in the next world, a world where all share freely and constantly commune with God — in short, a life of love.

He had been a committed Christian for several years, and he introduced me to his friends who lived with him in a commune.

Obviously, I'm not saying if you stay in your room all day and commune with imaginary characters then you will achieve the virtue of empathy.

It's why I commune with Him, trying to get His perspective, but I'm still limited in my understanding.

Only that last doctrine comes from the Methodist Church to which he actually belongs (though with which he does not now commune — the Episcopalians down the street have drawn him in with weekly celebration of the Eucharist).

Now I am able to see Him, believe in Him, have the Spirit dwelling within me to comfort me commune with me and enable me to follow Christ.

This puts me in the mind of Satan's character here is a being that was so very close to God himself, that most assuredly communed with God often.

To «see» in this sense is to commune with and to enjoy the world as it is.

Despite an inadequate development of neighbourly relationship between the communes, Buber feels that the Jewish communes are of central significance in the struggle for a structurally new society in which individual groups will be given the greatest possible autonomy and yet will enjoy the greatest possible interrelationship with each other.

From the bottom end, it is the understanding, the receiving, the accepting, the willingness to commune with the Beautiful Beyond, the Absolute, the All - in - All.

But to suppose that one has not really communed with God until his own personality is lost in the Infinite and he is oblivious to all else is to call for an experience which, whether desirable or not, is seldom attainable.

The rapid influx of Jewish refugees into Palestine has resulted in many cases in the rise of a quasi-elite who have not been able to provide true leadership for the communes and have come into conflict with the genuine chaluzim.

Today, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is an American Lourdes: a pilgrimage site where the living come to commune with the dead and to reckon with war and their own mortality in the medium of the mirror that is the Wall.

I do not understand those that want to commune with their version of a god can not do so in a beautiful area of the world and at the same time commune with nature and cut out the middle man.

At a time when individualism was still, generally speaking, obscuring the fullness of traditional catholic teaching on this mystery, he wrote: «When Christ comes to one of his faithful it is not simply in order to commune with him as an individual;... when, through the mouth of the priest, he says Hoc est corpus meum, these words extend beyond the morsel of bread over which they are said: they give birth to the whole mystical body of Christ.

I listen to Presbyterian preaching, commune with Catholics, pray for Mary's intercession, sing non-denominational worship music, memorize Scripture like an evangelical and teach my children how to find the love of God in all things.

Liturgically, it begins with the gathering of those who will invoke, address, and commune, and finally «depart in peace» through a pattern of behaviors that characterize their performance practice.

We commune with those who believe in the actually presence of Christ in the supper and the actual forgiveness of sins received in it, as promised in the witness of the Bible and the words of Christ.

My journey went via evangelical Christianity, studying with Jehovah's Witnesses, study of other mythologies, studying some in the mystical traditions and studying and communing as best I could with nature.

Participating in the life of this totem is a way of communing with the sacred.

Our salvation — our ability to commune with God and be in His presence — is predicated on faith.

The soul that is to ascend this mount of perfection, to commune with God, must not only renounce all things and leave them below, but must not even allow the desires, which are the beasts, to pasture over against this mount — that is, upon other things which are not purely God, in whom every desire ceases: that is, in the state of perfection.

Religion gives purpose in the form of getting into heaven, communing with a god, and spreading the word to others.

Believers must be baptized and in remembrance of Him, we must commune and fellowship with one another.

He does not commune with God in the same way that the messiah IS God Himself.

A spirituality is a mode of being in which not only the divine and the human commune with each other, but we discover ourselves in the universe and the universe discovers itself in us.

You don't hear from, communicate with, receive guidance from, gain inspiration from, or commune with God in those settings?

It is popular in some circles to envision the afterlife as a parliament of world religions — where Jesus and Buddha and Shankara and Muhammad and Confucius and Mahavira and Moses, along with shamans, bodhisattvas and spirit guides of all descriptions would converse and commune together.

It is not clear whether Timothy McVeigh had Christian Identity associations, although press reports have linked him with Elohim City, a Christian Identity commune in Oklahoma.

He wrote short (the best and most prayerful way), and I have frequently taken five or seven minutes out of a spare part of the day to commune with his forward - tumbling paragraphs and cascading sentences, admiring their intricate construction, delighting in their whimsy, astonished by their unlikely sturdiness while carrying all that weight all that distance with all those commas.

As a day, and no more, it reminds us first to protect ourselves from AIDS, and from communing too closely with others in the process, while at the same time it assuages our guilt at being one of the lucky ones by encouraging us to «remember» the saints of AIDS, about whom we know almost nothing but that they had it.

We are communing with the saints who have gone before every time we gather together in Jesus» name, taking the sacraments together, saying the creeds.

In the end each believer needs to see if the group they are meeting together with are communing with Christ, caring for the saints and ministering Christ to the community.

Our faith in Christ sees the Incarnation of God in human form as securing a definitiveness to the human being; while the human physical make - up is open to a degree of change - such as getting gradually taller - a species able to commune with God in virtue of being made up of body and soul will not mutate into a new one.

But you feel peace when you pray / commune with the notion of «God» in your head — for certainly you don't talk or do things together as most people in real relationships do.

If America's ghettos and gray areas are poorer and more wretched and neglected than they were ten years ago, that is no reason to join the carrot - patch communes or affluent exurbanites who align with Ellul in denouncing cities.

Human life has evolved to a stage of development that enables the human being to commune with the source of life, to stand in awe of it, to feel both alienated or out of touch with it, and in communion with it, and that is worship.

Shamans would imbibe hallucinogens in order to transcend the physical and commune with the spirit world.

However, he was seldom seen In Wittenberg, having taken his bride to his parish of Orlamunde, where, calling himself Brother Andrew, he cultivated the Glebe land in peasant's clothes and invited Muntzer to come to join the commune and help with the worIn Wittenberg, having taken his bride to his parish of Orlamunde, where, calling himself Brother Andrew, he cultivated the Glebe land in peasant's clothes and invited Muntzer to come to join the commune and help with the worin peasant's clothes and invited Muntzer to come to join the commune and help with the work.