369 Ways to Pray Page 22 Men ought always to pray.......................................JESUS......................LUKE 18:1.
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369 names and addresses for the one true God.I will that men pray everywhere..............................PAUL...........1TIMOTHY 2:8 |
Contemplative Meditation on MemoriesThese meditations encourage prayerful reflection on how God has acted and is now acting in your life.. We see His hand where we had not seen it before.
Jesus said " Have I been with you so long and still you do not know me ?" |
Minister of the SanctuaryWe have such a high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens; A minister of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle.
Hebrews 8:2 |
To grow in appreciation of God's loving ,forgiving, compassionate presence in all our life ---through our gift of memory is to let God embrace us--- now.
Memory is a God given gift. Hearing someone else's "remembrance" or reading someone else's remembrance may draw out our own memories You may realise where God has been active in. |
Miqweh Yisrael Hope of IsraelO Israel, put your hope in the Lord
for with the Lord is unfailing love and with him is full redemption. PSALM 130:7 |
your own life. The memory of the community of God's people through time strengthens our spirituality. This type of prayer is about active purposeful openness to God and relating to His presence and action in our own memories.
Being called to respond to His presence of which we have become personaly aware is a grace filled situation. |
A blessing on the man who puts his trust in the LORD
with the LORD for his hope He is like a tree by the waterside. JEREMIAH 17:7 JB Hope of Israel, LORD, Those who turn from you will be uprooted from the land since they have abandoned the fountain of living water, JEREMIAH 17:13 JERUSALEM BIBLE |
Mirror meditationMirror meditation is a form of Theological Reflection.
Sacred scriptures of both testaments and sacred tradition are like a mirror in which the Church, during its pilgrim journey on earth, contemplates God from |
MORNING STAR"This is My beloved Son in whom I am well pleased",
And we heard this voice which came from heaven when we were with Him on the holy mountain. |
whom she receives everything. (from VATICAN 2 constitution on Revelation)
We can let God speak to us through spiritual reading of the writings of St Ignatius of Loyola, Fr. Jean Pierre De Caussade S.J Karl Rahner ,,Elizabeth of the Trinity, Catherine Mowry LaCugna Jules J Toner, Fr. Gerald O'Mahony S.J.. and the documents of the Catechism of the Catholic Church and Vatican II. |
And so we have the prophetic word confirmed, which you do well to head as a light that shines in a dark place,until the day dawns
and the morning star arises in your hearts; 2nd PETER Ch 1 v 17-19 NKJV |
To what does this image open our spiritual eyes ?
Does this image remind us of something in Jesus life ? Is my own vision of this enhanced ? Do we recall this image being used in the Old Testament ? We can let God speak to us through the images in these documents. |
.....And did the morning star then first see his appointed place
to lay hold of the extremities of the earth, to cast the ungodly out of it ? JOB 38 : 12/13 SEPTUAGINT |
Secret MeditationGreek and Russian Holy Fathers use any short prayer or spiritual thought ,which they have acquired as a habit, and which they have endeavoured to assimilate with their minds and memory, in place of other thoughts.
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Most HighClap your hands, all peoples acclaim God with shouts of Joy
For YAHWEH, the Most High , is glorious the great king over all the earth. PSALM 47:2-3 NJB |
Thus the phrase "secret meditation" can refer to the practice of the Jesus prayer or to meditation upon a verse from the Psalms or other text from scripture.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever. PSALM 23:6 A.V. |
Most MightyGird thy sword upon thy thigh
O Most mighty, with thy glory and majesty. PSALM 45:3 AV |
SECRET MEDITATION kindles a fire--our God is a consuming fire Heb 12:29
Fire melts wax and dries up mud. Secret Meditation melts our evil thoughts and withers passions of the soul; it enlightens our mind, makes the understanding radiant, and fills the heart with joy. |
My Exceeding Joy El Simchath GiliO send out Your light and Your truth !
Let them lead me: Let them bring me to your holy hill |
SECRET MEDITATION wounds devils and drives away thoughts of wickedness.
He who arms himself with secret meditation, making the inner man resplendent, strengthened by God and fortified by angels. Secret Meditation makes the soul a peaceful haven and helps to preserve it undisturbed and unshaken. |
And to your tabernacle.
Then I will go to the altar of God, To God my exceeding joy And on the harp I will praise You, O God , my God. PSALM 43:3-4 |
SECRET MEDITATION illuminates the mind and expells laziness..............
From Secret Meditation arises tenderness that warms and melts the soul. Secret Meditation is an aid to humility of mind, untroubled prayer and a vigil blessed by tenderness and warmth. |
My Salvation, My Strength, My SongBehold, God is my Salvation,
I will trust and not be afraid; For YAH , the LORD, |
SECRET MEDITATION is an aid to humility of mind untroubled prayer and a
vigil blessed by tenderness and warmth. Secret Meditation disperses evil thoughts, sanctifies the body, teaches us long suffering and restraint, and keeps us mindful of Gehenna. |
is my Strength and Song;
He also has become my Salvation. My |
Meditation and the three powers of the soul
The powers of the soul are WILL, MEMORY and UNDERSTANDING.
Meditation using the three powers is not a method of discursive prayer. For a person of the medieval worldview, imagination was considered very much |
My God Psalm 5:2
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part of a persons memory and enmeshed with one,s reasoning powers leading to a felt understanding. When exercising oneself in this meditative practice,
a person decides (WILL) to attend and to fucus on an image or truth that arises from some scriptural or personal story ( Memory with Imagination presumed) in order to come to a felt understanding ( Understanding). |
My Strength Isaiah12:2
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