They are sustained by
an inner life of prayer and by the vision of Christ and his Kingdom set forth in the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius.
Not exact matches
11 The Pope suggests that in Christ it is now possible reach a maturity whereby one's interior
life is fully attuned to the prompting
of the Spirit.12 St John
of the Cross, meanwhile, in the Ascent
of Mount Carmel teaches us a specific path by which we might attain this
inner mastery through self - denial and contemplative
prayer.
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.
Providing for the spiritual needs
of the non-religious not does not include trying to force them into some religion or participate in public
prayer ceremonies, it means helping these soldiers identify,
live up to, and find
inner - peace with their values and principles, same as what it means for religious soldiers.
Today more and more
of us expect a rich variety
of experiences — including work and
prayer — in our
lives, and many are reaching into the Catholic or Eastern religions» treasure houses to recapture the more
inner - directed spiritual wisdom
of an earlier day.