Job 8: 6 If thou wert pure and upright; surely
now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness
prosperous.
~ LENT ~
"Lent comes providentially to reawaken us, to shake us
from our lethargy."
~ Pope Francis
"Prayer is reaching out after the unseen; fasting is
letting go of all that is seen and temporal. Fasting helps express, deepen,
confirm the resolution that we are ready to sacrifice anything, even ourselves
to attain what we seek for the kingdom of God."
~ Andrew Murray
~ Andrew Murray
"Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose
our arguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our
prayers."
~ Sidlow Baxter
"Everything in life has its own time. There is time to
celebrate and there is time to mourn. This is the time for reflection and
transformation. Let us look within and change into what we ought to
be."
~ Aaron Saul
~ COMMUNION ~
“Christians should put survival of the planet ahead of
national security...Here is the mystery of our global responsibility: that we
are in communion with Christ- and we are in communion with all people...The
fact that the people of Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador, Russia, Afghanistan,
and Ethiopia are our brothers and sisters is not obvious. People kill each
other by the thousands and do not see themselves as brothers and sisters. If we
want to be real peace-makers, national security cannot be our primary concern.
Our primary concern should be survival of humanity, the survival of the planet,
and the health of all people. Whether we are Russians, Iraqis, Ethiopians, or
North Americans, we belong to the same human family that God loves. And we have
to start taking some risks- not just individually, but risks of a more global
quality, risks to let other people develop their own independence, risks to
share our wealth with others and invite refugees to our country, risks to offer
sanctuary- because we are people of God”
~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
“Faith is not knowledge of an object but communion with it.”
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
“We who have turned our lives over to Christ need to know
how very much he longs to eat with us, to commune with us. He desires a
perpetual Eucharistic feast in the inner sanctuary of the heart.”
~ Richard J. Foster
~ Richard J. Foster
“At the heart of Galatians 2 is not an abstract
individualized salvation, but a common meal. Paul does not want the Galatians
to wait until they have agreed on all doctrinal arguments before they can sit
down and eat together. Not to eat together is already to get the answer wrong.
The whole point of his argument is that all those who belong to Christ belong
at the same table with one another.
The relevance of this today should be obvious. The differences between us, as twentieth-century Christians, all too often reflect cultural, philosophical and tribal divides, rather than anything that should keep us apart from full and glad eucharistic fellowship. I believe the church should recognize, as a matter of biblical and Christian obedience, that it is time to put the horse back before the cart, and that we are far, far more likely to reach doctrinal agreement between our different churches if we do so within the context of that common meal which belongs equally to us all because it is the meal of the Lord whom we all worship. Intercommunion, in other words, is not something we should regard as the prize to be gained at the end of the ecumenical road; it is the very paving of the road itself. If we wonder why we haven't been travelling very fast down the road of late, maybe it's because, without the proper paving, we've got stuck in the mud.”
~ N.T. Wright
The relevance of this today should be obvious. The differences between us, as twentieth-century Christians, all too often reflect cultural, philosophical and tribal divides, rather than anything that should keep us apart from full and glad eucharistic fellowship. I believe the church should recognize, as a matter of biblical and Christian obedience, that it is time to put the horse back before the cart, and that we are far, far more likely to reach doctrinal agreement between our different churches if we do so within the context of that common meal which belongs equally to us all because it is the meal of the Lord whom we all worship. Intercommunion, in other words, is not something we should regard as the prize to be gained at the end of the ecumenical road; it is the very paving of the road itself. If we wonder why we haven't been travelling very fast down the road of late, maybe it's because, without the proper paving, we've got stuck in the mud.”
~ N.T. Wright
~ AWAKEN ~
“When we awaken to our truth, we realize we are free.”
~ Kristi Bowman
~ Kristi Bowman
“The degree to which your Consciousness expands, is the
degree to which you understand yourself and the universe.”
~ Gina Charles
~ Gina Charles
“To love those who love us and are good to us is easy. To
love those who are indifferent to us is workable, but to love those who have
harmed us, intentionally or not, is true growth and realization.”
~ Patsie Smith
~ Patsie Smith
“Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly
passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken. Awaken!
Take heed, do not squander your life.”
~ Dōgen
~ Dōgen
Rom. 13: 11 And that, knowing the time, that now
it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than
when we believed.
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