Sentences with phrase «life of prayer»

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

As you think about and plan for your own life of prayer, be in prayer.

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

It was a Tradition embroiled in the life, loves and sins of all people everywhere and was strongly organisational, authoritative and liturgical (meaning that it catered in its acts and life of prayer for the mass of the people to whom it addressed itself).

Those speaking on the DVD clearly live lives of prayer which enable them to speak on the topic with a great sense of love and understanding which certainly gives encouragement and rejuvenation to those watching it.

From the time she wrote The Life of the Spirit and the Life of Today (based on her 1921 lectures at Oxford's Manchester College) until she died in 1941, her most constant theme was that of bringing in the kingdom through a balanced life of prayer and action.

Indeed, we are perhaps in greater danger, because we think that our theorizing is the same as a true Christian life of prayer, faith, self - denial and humility.

Paesius gave everything he had to churches, monasteries, and prisons, learned a trade to provide for his own needs, and devoted himself to a solitary life of prayer.

Numerous critics have pronounced The Divine Milieu to be the only original Christian treatise on the interior life of prayer to be produced in the twentieth century.

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.

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.

While these may contain valuable suggestions, it remains as a task for every generation to discover new ways in which to deepen and to enrich the basic experiences which make up the creative life of prayer.

With all this information it may be time for you to fashion your own unique life of prayer.

The virtues of the «religious» life — poverty, chastity and obedience — were the formal signs of the special life of prayer and dedication, but they had somehow ceased to be its raison d'etre.

It will be strongly organisational, perceptive, and liturgical in the true sense of that word — catering in its acts and life of prayer for the mass of the people to whom it addresses itself.

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

«The life of prayer is nothing but a longing for God,» says West.

There is no playbook for the life of prayer for a retired pope, Hilgartner said.

The leader of 1.2 billion Catholics around the globe will leave his seat at the ornate Apostolic Palace and retire to a former gardener's house at the Vatican to lead a life of prayer, likely removed entirely from public life.

-- or shall one, in want of any certainty, eschew the life of prayer entirely?

Augsburg Fortress) explore the life of prayer as exemplified by Christian monks of ancient Egypt.

The Church must walk closely beside such couples, and families have a responsibility to encourage each other in their life of prayer and sacrifice.

«What is unique about the ITI is our philosophy of the students living here on campus, a distinctly beautiful and Catholic environment, a life of prayer, study and community — the three pillars of the ITI.

One thinks of Theresa with her comparison of the life of prayer to a medieval castle, of John of the Cross with his lovely story of the lover in the garden of cypresses, and of Meister Eckhart (the most abstract of them all) with his talk about a spark of deity that seems to become the very self of the person praying.

The blurb on the back of the DVD gives me the impression that it is designed for those who have already started a life of prayer and who are maybe struggling, going through a dry patch or maybe need some encouragement.

In the twentieth century, several religious teachers have stressed the interconnectedness of the life of prayer and contemplation and that of practical action.

The Second Vatican Council revived the ancient Order of Virgins in the life of the Church, in which the individual is consecrated to virginity, to a life of prayer and penance, and to the service of the Church under the jurisdiction of the bishop.

Such matters can not only be disrupting in themselves, but when rebelled against in self - pity as they often are, can upset one's entire psychophysical balance including the life of prayer.

It is a place [where] a life of prayer is more effective than anywhere else.

Collected Papers of Evelyn Underhill contains two lectures on «The Parish Priest and the Life of Prayer» first given to the Worcester Diocesan Clergy Convention.

General Theological Seminary in New York City supports a Center for Christian Spirituality and continually provides courses that relate justice and economics to the life of prayer, discernment and stewardship.

Those who live their Christian life in the world, who may have a demanding job and a growing family to look after, do not have this advantage and often struggle to maintain their life of prayer and keep contact with the wellspring of Christian revelation.

It's living a life of prayer, letting God's Spirit speak within the daily doses of «groan» up life, and then honing your ability to hear what He's actually saying.

He eventually came back to his pastoral duties, but he was never really comfortable in the role, always longing for the life of prayer and study that the monastic life offered.

When I was a novice the training in a life of prayer included the basic rule of a morning Act of Adoration.

I like to imagine the life of prayer as a long and winding path on which God calls us to journey.

Instead, he listened to the stranger, took him seriously and ultimately included him in the life of prayer.

The forms of prayer described below are offered as a possible next step in your life of prayer.

Another element in fashioning one's life of prayer is the inclusion of others.

Like the woman who lost one of her ten silver coins and called her friends and neighbors together to rejoice (Luke 15:8 - 10), we can know joy when we return to the life of prayer.

I was not sure I was living a life of prayer.

On the other hand, the purpose of the classical disciplines of the life of prayer — such as postures, directing of thoughts, or devotional objects — is to provide what have proved in actual experience to be the most favorable conditions for real prayer.

When we truly know God to be at the center of our lives we are living a life of prayer.

His fear of vulnerability in his interpersonal life was also active in his life of prayer.

I knew I could help students explore many ways of praying, but could I teach them about a life of prayer?

Recognize that as part of your life of prayer.