Sentences with phrase «simple prayers of»

Live sacramentally: teach yourself and the people in your church simple prayers of gratitude for what others have done for us.

FOLKS ITS NOT ABOUT ACCEPTING GAYS, ITS ABOUT MANKIND AND HOW SOCIETY / WORLD HAS TURNED AWAY FOR A LOVING GOD, WE ARE ALL SINNERS IN THE EYES OF GOD, AND I AM SO GLAD HE IS WILLING TO FORGIVE US IF WE ARE WILLING TO TURN FROM OUR WAYS, A SIMPLE PRAYER OF ASKING FOR HIS FORGIVENSS, THATS IT, WOW NO ONE IS GUARANTEED TMRW, WE ARE HERE BY THE GRACE OF GOD EACH DAY, AND EACH DAY IS AN OPPORTINITY TO REPENT, MAY GOD HELP US, MAY OUR EYES BE OPEN TO THE TRUTH, AND MAY HE HEAR OUR PRAYER BEFORE ITS TOO LATE,

On this Sunday of Divine Mercy — as we look forward to the Holy Year of Mercy — may we know in our lives the mercy of God and be able to wholeheartedly repeat that simple prayer of Saint Faustina: «Jesus, I trust in you.»

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The simple act of praying God's Word back to Him can put us back in that place of prayer, surround us with the truth and promises of who He is and His love for us.

He even deleted whole pa.ssages like the story of the adulteress in the Gospel of John in which Jesus declares «Let him who is without sin cast the first stone» and Jesus's prayer on the cross, «Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing «since, according to Schlafly, «the simple fact is that some of the persecutors of Jesus did know what they were doing.

The ignorants who fear a takeover by Catholics because of simple prayer to me are more fearful of being proven wrong and finding that there IS a God.

One of Jesus» most memorable directives about prayer is the simple mandate, «Ask and you shall receive.»

An «arrow prayer» is a very simple and direct petition or word of thanksgiving and praise, which may be said at any time and in any place.

When the disciples came to Jesus and said «Lord, teach us to pray,» he gave them no simple manual of instruction but an immortal and, if taken seriously, a very demanding prayer.

Dreams, for example, were given a high place as media of divine revelation; (Genesis 20:3; 26:24 - 25; 28:10 - 16; 31:24; 37:5; 41:1; 46:1 - 4; Judges 7:13 - 15; I Kings 3:5 - 15 etc.) omens were trusted, such as the first word to be uttered at an expected meeting, (I Samuel 14:8 - 15) or a chance action regarded as a sign, (Genesis 24:12 - 14) or wind in the mulberry - trees taken as Yahweh's command to join battle; (II Samuel 5:22 - 24) and, in general, dealing with the superhuman world suggested nothing so simple and spiritual as private communion in prayer, but rather a whole array of magical techniques and, from the modern point of view, incredible superstitions.

Providing basic catechesis Leonard creates a simple introduction to the main points of Catholic teaching on the Sacraments, prayer, personal holiness and the call to evangelise those around us, with a bit of salvation history thrown in too.

The CTS has done a competent job with Jim Gallagher's simple booklet telling the story of John Paul's life - the childhood marked by his mother's early death along with that of his brother; the deep, strong bond with his father; the grim years of the German occupation and his tough job in a stone quarry; the mysticism and prayer - life; the youth drama groups; the ordination in a Poland coming to grips with what was to be a decades - long imposition of Communism.

It involves stilling the mind by focusing on a simple word or phrase that is repeated with every breath, such as «maranatha», «love», or — Shaun's preferred focus — the Jesus prayer: «Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.»

The have left the cultural world to focus and devote their lives to God in the simple and daily practices of prayer, ritual, and service.

By treating the forgiveness of sin and thus all Christian living as a simple given, Jesus» prayer precludes all boasting.

On the basis of current information from 25 institutions, it appears that a simple liturgical framework (hymn, prayer, lessons, responsively read psalm, anthem, sermon, hymn, benediction), using traditional materials adapted as needed to suit the participation of Protestants, Catholics and Jews, is the most prevalent form.

3, The simplest part of this Prayer is to ask Jesus one question.

I said, «I'm a Christian, I'm not trying to convert you or force it down your throat, but out of love alone can I say a simple prayer for you?»

As he did so, I could sense the power of this simple prayer, and made the commitment to memorize it and pray it several times a day.

My prayer life and church life us quite simple and sober, and also free of all Methodism and Pentecostalism, so I personally may not be able to relate to any of the things you mention.

Scripture, simple prayers and notes of encouragement mean more than you can imagine.

Such prayer may use a repeated phrase to ward off distractions, or be wholly silent; it may he a simple Quaker attentiveness, or take a charismatic expression (such as the use of quiet rhythmic «tongues»).»

«I thank thee, Father,» he is recorded to have said, in one of the very few echoes of his personal prayers that have come through into the gospels — «I thank thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for hiding these things from the learned and wise, and revealing them to the simple.»

The disciples asked Jesus to teach them how to pray and he gave them a very simple straightforward prayer of great profundity.

Some Further Reflections on the Origins of the Doctrine of the Trinity,» Coakley writes that «it is the perception of many Christians who pray either contemplatively or charismatically that the dialogue of prayer is strictly speaking not a simple communication between an individual and a distant and undifferentiated divine entity, but rather a movement of divine reflexivity, a sort of answering of God to God in and through one who prays.»

Moore showed that the development of the moral and spiritual virtues depended on simple ascetical practices including prayer and penance.

That's the type of prayer God longs for; that is simple prayer.

He read some Bible passages in Urdu, gave a long prayer in impossible Panjabi, and then made a little speech, in simpler Panjabi, illuminating the significance of the day's event.

And so, when frail and more than a little tired, and wracked with rheumatic pain, they will be forming the minds of their children's children in their first prayers, and in the simple love of God.

One simple, powerful ministry of the Temple is its open - door policy: it leaves the air conditioning or the heat on in the sanctuary and keeps the sanctuary open for prayer.

J. D. Myers sheds the religious and superstitious garb off of prayer and makes a simple, provocative, and liberating claim: Prayer is talking to God as you would talk to a fprayer and makes a simple, provocative, and liberating claim: Prayer is talking to God as you would talk to a fPrayer is talking to God as you would talk to a friend.

26.39 also omits the Aramaic word, but offers an alternative translation of it: «My Father... «Both «Father» and «My Father» are correct translations of abba, since this particular form of the word served both as the substantive and as the substantive with the first person singular suffix the Lord's Prayer tradition, Luke 11.2 again has the simple «Father» clearly representing abba here, as it did in 22.42, whereas Matt.

He will be buried beside his wife, Ruth, at the foot of the cross-shaped brick walkway in the Prayer Garden on the northeast side of the Billy Graham Library, in a simple pine casket made by inmates at the correctional facility in Angola, Louisiana.

There is something to be said for the scale of time spent in the effort of prayer because, like all worth - while things, prayer is not an easy — although it is a very simple — thing for us.

The actual sustaining of «prayer» comes from the mental release associated with the simple act of letting go of the sense of control that we don't actually have in the first place.

The sensuous imagery of vestments, candles, bells, and other physical media of worship, the solemn hush of the assembly as the prayers of the ages are said, the bowed head, the bended knee, the music which is never frolicsome but searching in its simple cadences — all this tends to produce an impression of worship which even without much ideological content is deep and compelling.

I met Jesus through 6 sessions of compassion therapy and mindfulness meditation, and then moving on to Christian meditation where the practice is sitting in silence with the simple prayer «come Lord».

«I want to thank those parishioners whose prayers, counsel and concern brought this issue to light and ensured that their Archbishop was properly attuned to the important symbolism of simple actions and the challenges faced by many of the faithful in the Archdiocese of Atlanta,» Gregory said in a statement.

In other words there is a simple and basic «being there» about these things which makes them particularly appropriate in talk about the mysterious business of prayer.

Notice, then, that in the prayer Jesus taught the order of things is this: first, identification with God, his will, his kingdom of sovereign love; next, asking for daily bread or what is needed to make life possible; then, deliverance from evil and from the test that will be too much for us; and all of it, as Matthew's gospel recognizes when it adds the doxology to the simpler Lukan version, to God's glory — so that the divine will may be done, and be seen done, «in earth as in heaven.»

And would it not be better to regard prayer as a simple matter of silence, not including any phrasing of our thoughts, desires, and aspirations in verbal form?

We have atheists hanging banners in Times Square, taken prayer out of school, out of the Military, out of gov.. We have seen the 10 Commandments removed from these same places, We have see a simple desert cross taken down and not allowed to be put back up and once the battle had finally been won in courts the O admin would not erect it back.

How about something simple like God taking time out between watching football games and answering the prayers of the Christians on offense or the Christians on defense?

And we may say that, in fact, there is only one prayer, just as we have seen that there is only one religion and one way of worship — starting in crude and simple ways and rising to higher and higher levels, until prayer becomes Christian prayer, informed by the Spirit of Christ and uttered in His name.

And she explains the life of St. Francis very well - revealing, for example, that the process of change was a gradual thing and that it began with simple gifts to the poor and a real commitment to prayer, and the more dramatic events such as the encounter with the Crucifix at San Damiano came only after this preparation.

Janet Baxindale, who lectures around the country on the spiritual potential of Catholic traditions like the Liturgy of the Hours, comments, «Among the adults I - teach, more often than not, a simple presentation of the theology of the liturgy and the role of all the baptized in the liturgical prayer of the church is greeted with «I never knew that.»»

The report recommended various forms of community life which would bring about renewal in life and mission such as «Base» Christian communities, House churches, Prayer groups, Monastic communities and other groups seeking a simpler life - style or seeking involvement in various kinds of mission.

A sermon, some moments of common prayer, or even a simple conversation that inspires can be sacramental in this sense.

The history of the personal piety of these religions is largely a history of mysticism of the speculative - theological kind as well as the mysticism which expresses itself in simple prayers.

@Teddy I will say it again: «proof» should be the simplest of things to obtain if God exists and if you truly have a personal relationship with him that uses prayer — assuming prayer works as well... Just ask God to give us the proof that he surely already knows would be acceptable.