#The Meditative Christian

[themeditativechristian]

(The Meditative Christian)

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[ritadcsc]

A verdade é que nunca sabemos o que o futuro nos reserva, mas servimos a um Deus que é soberano: ele é onisciente e está no controle.

Abide Christian Meditation em 40 salmos para inspirar sua vida, p. 117

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[lovilaa]

I find peace in the lord 💗✝️ Jesus loves you, come back to him 💓

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[fathernick]

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[thousand-few]

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[listen-letter-lose]

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[hygenia]

The feminine urge to just>>>

Lord please grant me:

A Heart to Forgive

Knowledge to seek you

Energy to help others

A Voice to speak words of Praise

A sense of Justice

And A soul who always yearns for you

Amen ♡

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[themeditativechristian]

(The Meditative Christian)

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[thurifer-at-heart]

Thomas Merton on "knowing God"

God is invisibly present to the ground of our being: our belief and love attain to him, but he remains hidden from the arrogant gaze of our investigating mind which seeks to capture him and secure permanent possession of him in an act of knowledge that gives power over him.

We know [God] in so far as we become aware of ourselves as known through and through by him. We "possess" him in proportion as we realize ourselves to be possessed by him in the inmost depths of our being. ... Hence the aim of meditation, in the context of the Christian faith, is not to arrive at an objective and apparently "scientific" knowledge about God, but to come to know him through the realization that our very being is penetrated with his knowledge and love for us.

Our knowledge of God is paradoxically a knowledge not of him as the object of our scrutiny, but of ourselves as utterly dependent on his saving and merciful knowledge of us.

—Thomas Merton, Contemplative Prayer, p.61

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[momentsbeforemass]

Intrusive thoughts

“What do you do about intrusive thoughts during prayer?”

This is the heart of a beautiful question I received from someone who’s thinking about becoming Christan. Specifically, a Catholic Christian. And they’re starting to pray the Rosary.

They’ve already figured out that the Rosary is meant to help you be present with God. It’s Christian meditation. To make a quiet place inside us to just be with God.

Something a lot of cradle Catholics don’t know.

They’re having problems with intrusive thoughts. It’s frustrating. It feels like the opposite of a quiet place to just be with God.

Something everyone of us who prays the Rosary knows all too well.

So what do you do about intrusive thoughts during prayer?

I don’t pretend to have all the answers. But I can tell you what I do. And it depends on the thought.

If it’s small potatoes. Something I just remembered. Or something I need to do. Or an email I need to return.

I just jot it down on my phone. Then I can let go of it. Because I know it won’t get lost.

What if it’s not small potatoes? What if it keeps coming back? What if it’s something I’m really wrestling with?

Maybe it’s a relationship that’s struggling or a health issue that’s getting worse. Maybe it’s a job search that’s gone cold or financial problems that keep growing. Or anything else that’s weighing on your heart.

Whatever it is, that’s what you need to be talking with God about.

If this time when you pray the Rosary, it creates a place for you to be with God – about what’s weighing on your heart?

Then that is how you need to pray.

Be with God, about what’s weighing on your heart.

If this time when you pray the Rosary, you never even finish the first decade – and the Lord’s Prayer trails off into pouring your heart out to God about the stone on your soul?

Then that is how you need to pray.

Pour your heart out to God about the stone on your soul.

If that is the Rosary that you need to pray in this moment, then that is how you should pray.

Whatever it is, share it with God. Let God be there for you.

Don’t waste your time trying to sort things out so you can have quiet time with God. Do it with God.

Pray as you are, not how you think you should be.

“We must lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.” - C.S. Lewis

Today’s Readings

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[luminouslily]

-mood for the new year-

• gratitude.

• manifesting my reality.

• journaling.

• daily walks.

• improved water intake.

• skincare + haircare.

• habit tracking.

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[ritadcsc]

Peça força e coragem a Deus para obedecê-las (as Escrituras). Então, confie em Deus. Se fizer isso, não precisará se agarrar a nada e não terá nada a temer.

Abide Christian Meditation em 40 salmos para inspirar sua vida, p. 52

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[chicagognosis]

Spiritual discipline is what awakens us to divine reality, not belief.

Gnosis signifies knowledge from experience. Gnosticism, as a field of study, pertains to all the ancient schools of mysteries from both East and West, whose scriptures encompass the practical science of awakening consciousness. Gnosis is not isolated to the first Christians, but permeates all times, cultures, and spaces, for while consciousness is universal, the means of expressing such experiential wisdom of the divine is temporal and idiosyncratic to the language, mentality, and needs of a particular society.

Gnosis is what we have verified through experience and experimentation, predicated upon practical methods and personal effort. It is never the product of a belief system, of adopting a religious or mystical attitude, demeanor, or behavior. It is never achieved through attendance, adherence to, or acceptance from a group, by believing in doctrine or creed. It is the flowering and natural unfolding of the soul, which is created and developed when the proper causes and conditions have been met.

Just as there are laws that govern the physical universe, so too are there spiritual laws, causes, and methods to originate the soul: the awakening of the consciousness.

Therefore, the Greek term γνῶσις gnosis is synonymous with genuine faith. Faith has nothing to do with belief, with accepting or rejecting a concept in the mind or upholding a sentiment in the heart. Faith is what we know from facts, from witnessing and understanding reality. Belief takes no effort to foster or develop, whereas the awakening of consciousness and divine experience requires tremendous discipline and the application of spiritual works.

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[fathernick]

Life is a dream.

God is the dreamer.

God is dreaming about us, what it is like to be us and what we do.

Our ego/personality is just a character god is dreaming.

When our lives end, our true self, God, merely wakes up and returns to being Himself.

So we never really die, we Iive on with, through and in God.

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[apenitentialprayer]

The Apparition of Our Lord to Blessed Margaret Mary Alacoque

Through this life of contemplation you [nuns] are the voice of the Church as She ceaselessly praises, thanks, implores, and intercedes for all mankind. Through your prayer, you are co-workers of God, helping the fallen members of His glorious Body rise again […] In this way, you have become an image of Christ who seeks to encounter the Father on the heights.

Pope Francis (Vultum Dei quaerere, §9)

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[angeltreasure]

“I can’t hear God.” Every time you hear scripture at church, on the radio, in your car, reading your Bible study, touching braille Bible verses, listening from your Bible in a year podcast, etc—— God is speaking to you. The Bible is the living Word: and the living Word is God.

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