Sentences with phrase «of ancient prayers»

One of the most robust veins of wisdom lies in the structures and patterns of ancient prayers.

The use of ancient prayers in public worship unites us with our ancestors in the Christian way; modern prayers bring us into contact with the contemporary world and its needs, as well as with our brethren across the world in our own day.

In the words of an ancient prayer, it is the visible expression of «that wonderful and sacred mystery» which speaks to us and works on us, through the very imperfection, weakness, error, and even the sin of the empirical institution, to manifest in the world of time and space the abiding reality of God's operation in the event of Christ for human wholeness.

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So how do you go from that reasoning to «Since it wasn't accidental then it must have been this ancient male diety named (fill in blank depending on religion) who loves me and knows me and cares for me and wants me to perform rituals that have nothing to do with morality like prayer, not eating certain things, sabaath and many more just because he said so, even though we have no record of him saying anything, just records of humans who wrote things down that they claim he said, but I want to believe it all so badly I will base my beliefs on no other evidence than «it just can't be accident».

Saying prayers that were written hundreds of years ago can feel dry and empty when an ancient form is divorced from the living tradition.

But praying at the limit of our own ability has sent us searching for resources ancient and new that turn prayer into something like a school for our souls.

The ancient practice of liturgy has helped us see how God is remaking us into a people who can become the answer to the prayers the Spirit is praying through us.

So if a Mormon missionary tells you God answered his prayers and told him the Joseph Smith story is true and The Book of Mormon is an accurate translation of ancient writings on golden plates, you believe him?

The ancient Second Prayer highlights the epiclesis, the beseeching of the Holy Spirit to transform the gifts, and the anamnesis, the «memorial... linked to the Lord's Paschal Mystery».

«We follow the ancient liturgy of the church (chanting the Kyrie, readings from scripture, chanting the Psalm, sermon, prayers of the people, Eucharist, benediction, etc.) We also sing the old hymns of the church.

Jensen succeeds in her efforts because she understands that, in baptism, «visible images and actions, along with verbal recitation of ancient stories, prayers, hymns, all contributed to making an invisible presence more palpably sensed» (Jensen, Baptismal Image 3).

With the ancient altars no longer standing, with the sacrificial cultus interpreted as a mere foreshadowing of the access to God that Christians spiritually enjoyed, with the growing rituals of the new churches still plastic and unformed, personal prayer became the typical method of divine fellowship.

we are direct descendants of the Egyptians living at the times of the pharaohs and the greeks that have come afterwards... we still use the ancient demotic language (spoken ancient Egyptian) in our liturgies and prayers.

Mindfulness has a rich history in the Christian tradition through the ancient practice of contemplative prayer, which dates back to the Desert Fathers and Mothers during the fourth and fifth centuries.

The best and most important evidence for the currency of the eschatological Kingdom of God expectation at the time of Jesus and its lack of definite form is the Kaddish prayer of the ancient synagogue.

The discipline of fixed - hour prayer gave me the words I just couldn't conjure on my own, words that connected me to the ancient, worldwide church.

It combines two ancient traditions of prayer: intercession and pilgrimage.

Social justice causes, candles in worship services, v - necks and big neck tattoos on worship leaders, screenings of PT Anderson films at church, heavy use of Helvetica font in church bulletins, bald pastors who always wear black clothes from Banana Republic, beer at church barbecues, a renewed interest in corporately reading ancient creeds or prayers, Nooma videos, Sufjan Stevens and everything related to Sufjan Stevens.

Two other ancient prayers, the eleventh of the Eighteen Benedictions, from the period before the destruction of the Temple in AD 70, and the Alenu prayer, probably from the third century AD, both use a form of the verb mlk, «to reign, be king», with God as the subject.

The immediate background to Jesus» use of Kingdom of God is certainly the use in the ancient Jewish prayers and in the apocalyptic literature.

Nevertheless, it's not clear how belief in a personal God — a God who creates and who answers prayers — is to he aligned with the scientific view of the cosmos as an ancient universe governed by impersonal and tightly knit laws.

Pious heathen of ancient and modern times all want to come to God themselves, by prayer, by a virtuous life, by stern discipline, by a holy life.

Bondi shares what she has learned about the practice of prayer from her study of Christian monks of ancient Egypt.

But from what I understand out of the ancient monastic materials I work on, prayer is really an entire relationship, and the verbal part is only one element.

Both the ancient prayer and the ancient command have been given a modern edge of urgency by the current increase in our life expectancy and the special illnesses that age brings with it.

Since the process of theosis is very challenging, requiring a great deal of resistance to pride and constant prayer, some Orthodox would worry that those who are not even trying to follow the ancient path, don't even know about it, may not reach salvation.

There lived in ancient time a holy man, Called Manu, who by penances and prayer Had won the favor of the Lord of Heaven.

Whatever fault we may find with that document in other respects — and Anglicans may be grateful that it is no longer commonly said, as ancient prayer books required, at public worship on certain great festivals of the Christian year — it gives us the right understanding of this triunitarian conception of God when it affirms «This is the Catholic faith: that we worship Godhead in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity.»

The books of Judith, Tobit, Wisdom, Sirach, First and Second Maccabees, above all the Psalms in their final revision, and the great prayers of the Synagogue, the primitive Kaddish and the ancient Palestinian recension of the Shemoneh Esreh, echoing in almost every line the thought of the Psalter and the Second Isaiah — it is here that we feel the vital pulse - beat of genuine Judaism.

In it, as an ancient prayer from the age of the church fathers puts it, «the mystery of Christ's dispensation is accomplished so far as in us lies.»

Then we may continue to say the most ancient and wide - spread prayer of all religions: Our Father in heaven.

His first book, The Way of the Prisoner (Lantern, 2003), deals with centering prayer and abounds with examples of how ordinary Christians can practice what ancient monks did in their cells.

Furthermore, I would like to point out that prayers from Christianity are based off of that from Pagans of the ancient cultures of Rome, Greece, Egypt, Persia, Asia Minor, and else where where the Mysteries were.

The series incorporates contemporary Bible study with the church's most ancient way of reading Scripture, lectio divina, and moves the reader from study (lectio), to reflection (meditatio), to prayer (oratio), to discernment (contemplatio), and action (operatio).

Could this not have been the prophetic insight of Pope Paul VI which moved him to insist that this ancient prayer be retained in the Roman Rite?

As we haveseen with the aid of Saint Augustine's pastoral theology itself refined in the crucible of an ancient ecclesial crisis, that prayer in its original form gave authentic voice to the lay faithful's indispensable role in ecclesial reconciliation.

Thomas Cranmer, the sixteenth - century English divine, translated many ancient Latin prayers for the new English Prayer Book of 1549.

The ancient Greek theologian John of Damascus said that prayer is «the elevation of the mind to God.»

We need an understanding of prayer that will bring up to date the truth in the ancient Benedictine maxim: orare est laborare, «to pray is to work,» and its converse, «to work is to pray.»

«4 And Haydon's friend, Rabbi Solomon Goldman, added: «The ancient techniques of prayer and ritual need to be retained only in so far as they are aesthetically appealing.

Vespers for the Feast of the Transfiguration February 15 St. Peter's Church is holding a participatory Vespers service combining ancient Christian prayer forms with contemporary popular and improvisatory music.

The ancient prayers substitute page after page of medieval poetry which has the effect of a pep rally for the G - d Team.

Taking time each day to reflect on a Psalm, the text of a hymn or a prayer in an ancient liturgy can often be an illuminating and inspiring experience.

The prayerful cry, «Not mine, but thy will be done,» has come from the lips of Christian as well as non-Christian men of prayer, ancient philosophers, and the pious men of Hindu, Buddhist, and Muslim religions.

There are many collections, ancient and modern, and prayers which have stood the test of time are likely to be full of great spiritual meaning.

The appropriate response to me comes from the ancient prayer of the church: «Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner.»

Rather, they contend, the Anglican way of discerning truth is by means of communion itself, through the unity of a Scripture - immersed and sanctified people whose lives are shaped by the Church's ancient eucharistic worship and prayer.

43 The Prayer Book uses it only of bishops; in monastic usage the tide «Father» for abbots, or for older, professed, or ordained members of the monastic family generally is ancient; in modern times it gradually spread, through the active missionary orders doubtless, to the Roman Catholic clergy of Ireland; the heroic ministry of Charles Lowder and other priests during the cholera epidemic of 1866 in London seems to have started the common use of «Father» for nonmonastic Anglicans.

Here one finds the dull report of the census - taker, the uninspired but minute directions for the performance of the cult, stories of man's beginnings and that of many of the common experiences of his life, such as language, relationship of races, why the rainbow; colorful stories, of the might and prowess of ancient ancestors of the race, riddles, puns, fables, prayers, songs that have become almost the universal songs of the human race, the history of the rise and fall of dynasties, the preaching of reformers and prophets, the questioning of it all by men grown weary of the struggle, proverbial sayings of great wisdom; the dreams of conquest both of earth and heaven.

According to an ancient chronicle (preserved in the Abd - Al - Kadir manuscript), Omar, who was known for his ability to cure the sick through prayer, was once exiled from Mocha in Yemen to a desert cave near Ousab (modern day Wusab, about 90 km east of Zabid).