Don't stay brooding and pondering and trying to unravel
the whole mystery of why things didn't work out.
In whatever way it is done, it remains what Thomas Aquinas once finely called it, «the summing up of
the whole mystery of our salvation.»
Indeed
the whole mystery of Christ and his mission of salvation might be summed up under the theme of «Mercy».
With the right teacher, the glories of Christian art and architecture, the saints and heroes, and
the whole mystery of what it means to be human and to have a soul, could be opened up.
That continuity is rooted in apostolic succession, by which
the whole mystery of Christ is handed on through the bishops.
The name of the Theotokos expresses
the whole mystery of God's saving dispensation.
I refer especially to
the whole mystery of evil.
Not exact matches
Even in an age
of possibility that has stitched us together mechanically and virtually, our planet remains a forbidding place - always ready to upend lives, swallow airplanes
whole and create enduring
mysteries.
When we understand these two bookends
of the Bible as framing the
whole Christian
mystery, the marriage
of man and woman takes on its true nature as an image that points us towards our ultimate destiny marriage to God.
Anyway, all this to say that you have finally be able to unlock a major
mystery for me and give me insight into the possible reason that God allowed me to be so viciously attacked (I was maligned, kicked out
of church, lost all my friends, the
whole bit... There are still people posting publically that I'm satan spawn, a worker
of unrighteousness sent to destroy Gods Church, etc, etc — all because I refused to «repent
of my pride which believes I chose to accept Jesus as my personal Lord and Savior».)
There is a great
mystery here, but The Catechism
of the Catholic Church teaches that «God permitted such painful upheavals as the angels» fall and man's sin only as occasions and means for displaying all the power
of his arm and the
whole measure
of the love he wanted to give the world» (CCC 760).
In a single dense volume this fine survey offers an account
of the
whole by close consideration
of the various parts: sacrifices, religious associations, domestic religion, the cult
of the dead,
mystery religions, magic, the cult
of the rulers, and philosophical religion (e.g., Stoicism), with a concluding chapter on Gnosticism.
«The sacraments are an essential part
of God's plan to communicate His great
mystery to the
whole of humanity»
My primary goal is to raise my daughters to be
whole persons, complete women, loving themselves, rejoicing in their femininity, proud
of their bodies, capable
of entering the bond
of marriage and the bed
of marriage with confidence, anticipation, joy, and abandon; free to give and to receive, free to be fulfilled and to fulfill, free to explore the
mystery of sex with their husbands, exalting in the love that gives life and produces life.
There is great
mystery in how this worked for Jesus, but if we read the actions
of Jesus back into the actions
of God in the Old Testament, and we see there how God took the sins
of Israel onto Himself through the inspired revelation
of Scripture, then this helps us somewhat understand how Jesus accomplished this for the sins
of the
whole world on the cross.
The child knows the Thou before it knows the separated I. «But on the height
of personal existence one must truly be able to say I in order to know the
mystery of the Thou in its
whole truth.»
If the resurrection is the true dénouement
of the
whole story and not a «happy ending» tacked on to a tragedy, then there is an element in the story itself which brings us to the frontiers
of normal human experience, where experience runs out into
mystery.
Thirteen governments [
of the original states] thus founded on the natural authority
of the people alone, without a pretence
of miracle or
mystery, and which are destined to spread over the northern part
of that
whole quarter
of the globe, are a great point gained in favor
of the rights
of mankind.
All
of the other pages and articles listed on our website explain the deep hidden
mysteries of God and how and by whom this
whole world has been deceived as confirmed in Revelation 12:9.
«Well beyond the monastic cloister, numerous faithful have benefited from his project,» wrote Pope John Paul II, «becoming aware that the unfolding
of the «mystical seasons»
of the liturgical year» can help them «to relive the different stages
of the
Mystery of Christ... It is by their participation in liturgical life in the heart of the ecclesial community that the faithful are to affirm their faith, because they are put in permanent contact with the sources of revelation and the whole of the Christian mystery.
Mystery of Christ... It is by their participation in liturgical life in the heart
of the ecclesial community that the faithful are to affirm their faith, because they are put in permanent contact with the sources
of revelation and the
whole of the Christian
mystery.
mystery.»
It is a
Mystery both sublime and humble, which embraces the
whole universe in the arms
of a tiny child.
However, and this is precisely the point, the
whole «magic» or «
mystery»
of the show is predicated on the fact that we can conceive that the rabbit might just have appeared out
of nothing and that the egg might just have vanished into nothing — with no «cause,» except the waving
of a «magic» wand.
The political commitments
of the movement are, on the
whole, a
mystery to me.
I wasn't trying to act nice or add some fluffy words to a
whole bunch
of sharpened ones to soften the blow; those specific words poured out
of a place that is a
mystery to me.
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.
What we have said is that through the vast
mystery of the
whole world - process we are able to see the pervasive presence
of the divine activity which makes this world the habitation
of God's creatures and, in some measure,
of His good.
We can approach things from both angles and capture a more
whole view
of a great
mystery, rather like light behaving as waves and particles.
«Since it has been entrusted to the Church to reveal the
mystery of God, Who is the ultimate goal
of man, she opens up to man at the same time the meaning
of his own existence, that is, the innermost truth about himself... For by His incarnation the Father's Word assumed, and sanctified through His cross and resurrection, the
whole of man, body and soul, and through that totality the
whole of nature created by God for man's use» (41).
But for Kaufman the symbol or concept «God» is principally defined by its role in enabling us to imaginatively bind together our world into a meaningful
whole in the face
of mystery.
It is with God that the
mystery of man and
of the
whole universe is revealed.
«As a sacrament
of the Church, marriage... [is] a word
of the Spirit which exhorts man and woman to model their
whole life together by drawing power from the
mystery of the «redemption
of the body».
We need a
whole range
of ways if we are to begin to explore this
Mystery, and Scripture, Liturgy and Tradition offer us a
whole range
of ways.
But if we never forget that Calvary is the culmination
of a
whole life
of obedience, self - surrender, and self - giving to God, and that the medieval sayings are right which speak
of «the
whole life
of Christ as the
mystery of the Cross» and
of the sacrifice
of Christ as «not the death but the willingness
of him who dies,» we are delivered from this danger so far as our Lord's death is concerned.
Soon LHC (large Hadron Collider) will open a
whole new realm
of mystery and magic
of parallel universes and the wisdom
of the gods will be open to us.
Sometimes we file the
whole universe away in that pigeonhole as we experience the «ontological shock»
of the great
mystery that radiates from the universe: Why is there something and not nothing at all?
«13 Scientific analysis
of their «material basis» is the exclusive key to unlocking the
mysteries of life, mind and the universe as a
whole.
There is not much room for
mystery or subtlety on her part when the
whole jungle knows
of her condition.
In «placing myself at the other's service, even to the point
of self - denial,» is «a dynamism that refers beyond the self; it is the experience
of a good that leads to being drawn out and finding oneself before the
mystery that encompasses the
whole of existence.»
We know Jesus / God is the «
mystery that encompasses the
whole of existence» and if we are to have him, we must place ourselves at the service
of the other.
The liturgical changes
of the 1960s were intended primarily to restore the sacramental rite to its true and full meaning for the
whole church: participation as a community not in the performance
of rituals or in the fulfillment
of requirements but in the
mystery of God's love.
The fact that Jesus came as a lowly carpenter, and came as Savior
of the
whole world is another
mystery.
We must not be surprised at this, since the Mass is the synthesis
of the
whole Christian
mystery.
By placing his gift in this context, Jesus shows the salvific meaning
of his death and resurrection, a
mystery which renews history and the
whole cosmos.
How can one doubt that especially now, on Golgotha, this expression goes to the very heart
of the
mystery of Mary, and indicates the unique place which she occupies in the
whole economy
of salvation?
The Pope says that the passage contains a great
mystery which is to be understood «as God's salvific plan in regard to humanity, it contains the «central theme
of the
whole of revelation, its central reality.
Things that seemed to be household routines and petty indulgences in the parish are by myth lifted to the
mystery of the
whole storied world, the oikoumené
How Mister Softee manages to dip a soft - serve cone in a chocolate shell without losing the
whole of the ice cream will remain one
of life's great
mysteries, at least to moi.
I prefer something all natural and made with
whole ingredients rather than a long list
of mystery items.
Used a
mystery squash with a dark orange flesh which I cut in half and roasted to take advantage
of the oven already in use, doubled the lemon grass, used a quart
of home made chicken stock from the freezer, and zipped up the
whole thing with a hand blender right in the pot.
Most
of us are first timers and have never been to a truffle hunt before and that lends a certain excitement and
mystery to the
whole proceedings.