369 Ways to pray Page 36 |
369 names, titles and epithets of our LORD |
Listening to GOD in ScriptureVatican 2 Page 755 Ch 2
The Transmission of Divine Revelation item 9 SACRED SCRIPTURE IS THE SPEECH OF GOD AS PUT DOWN IN WRITING |
Teacher didaskalosOne is your Teacher, The Christ and you are all brethren MATTHEW 23:8
And do not be called teachers, for one is your Teacher, The Christ MATTHEW 23 : 10 |
UNDER THE BREATH OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.
Page 756 Item 11 VATICAN 2 THE DIVINELY REVEALED REALITIES, WHICH ARE CONTAINED AND PRESENTED IN THE TEXT OF SACRED SCRIPTURE, HAVE BEEN WRITTEN DOWN UNDER THE INSPIRATION OF THE HOLY SPIRIT..................................... |
You call me teacher and Lord,
and you say well, for so I am. John 13 : 13 The Holy Ghost shall teach you LUKE 12 : 12 The Holy Ghost shall teach you all JOHN 14 : 26 I am thy God which teacheth thee . ISAIAH 48 : 17 |
THUS ALL SCRIPTURE IS INSPIRED BY GOD
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It is written in the Prophets, " And they shall all be taught by God"
Therefore everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to Me john 6: 43 |
Praying with ScriptureThe transformation which takes place within us as we pray with Scripture has a purifying effect upon us. As we ponder what God is saying to us, we soon perceive whether or not our mind is the same as Christ's mind..
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Testator Hebrews 9 : 16-17For where there is a testament there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. For a testament is in force after men are dead, since it has no power at all while the testator lives.
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We discover whether or not we are seeing things through Jesus' eyes.
As we expose our thinking to His Word, a real cleaning process takes place within us. We see how much of our thinking might be rationalizing. If our attitudes are foreign to the dispositions of Christ, we become aware of this division. As we become transformed by His Word, our self-centredness begins to fade and our vision takes on the cosmic vision of CHRIST. |
TRINITYGod reveals himself to us as Father, Son and Holy Spirit
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JEREMIAH Ch23 v29
Is not my word like fire, says the Lord, and like a hammer which breaks the rock in pieces ? The Sela which often occurs in the middle of a Psalm is meant to signal a meditative interlude. |
The distinctly Christian understanding of God
is that. . . . . . . .God is Love and. . . . . . . . . . God is Trinity |
The Sela calls for a quiet and restful soul which can grasp and hold on to that which the Holy Spirit there presents and offers.
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True human fellowship is a fellowship of love.
True Christian fellowship corresponds to the triune God and is His image on earth ! True Christian fellowship on earth, in practice, in action cannot do otherwise than participate in the life of the Triune God |
SectThe hour of divine office called Sect is to be observed in choir.
Outside of choir since Vatican 2 it is now lawful to select any one of the three; Terce, Sect, and None, whichever is most suited to the time of day. |
being animated in action, and atitude by
the three persons of the Trinity in Love. |
Sext ( Sect ) may have been said to mid-day.
Sext ; fourth of the seven canonical hours |
The God in whom we believe is no lonely solitary power, but contains within himself the plurality of the Three Persons of the Trinity, one in wondrous harmony.
The Most Holy Trinity is love's eternal home. To that home we are called. To that home we belong as Christians that we may share its inmost life and gladness, the fullness of which is reserved for the next life but here below |
Set PrayersFavourite hymns and popular songs of praise let us express our worship musically, just as set prayers can provide the words to express the prayer of the heart.
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we are invited to begin our intimacy with the Three in One in the love that reigns in God himself and in His Family
ANSELM MOYNIHAN O.P. The Presence of God. |
Set prayers of conversion or commitment can be helpful insuggesting a form of words which people can "make their own"
Most sung prayer is set prayer Grace before meals, said or sung is frequently a set prayer to permit vocal participation.. |
For those who have experienced a personal conversion,
who have come into a personal relationship with Jesus as Lord and Saviour, who are reconciled to God the Father through Jesus Christ, who are baptized in the Holy Spirit, and now live in the context of the revealed presence of the Trinity, |
Set corporate prayerThe familiarity of the words and music permits vocal participation; and when a participant recognises some familiar topic or phrase which he wholeheartedly concurs, then in spirit and truth the corporate prayer is enhanced by his greater
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Rejoicing in the Spirit, with gratitude to our Father Lord of Heaven,
in such full assurance that His loving will and purpose for us is most wholesome and wonderful that we put no obstacles in His way and He is completely free to include us meaningfully in the daily unfolding of His Divine Purposes in righteous love. |
participation.
The set corporate prayer is also enhanced by "His" greater participation if the Spirit within , at one with the subject of the prayer, " bearing witness with our spirit" prays within each of the participants. Thus the corporate use of good set prayer could engender a charismatic flow of the Spirit in the worship/prayer and in the participants. |
You will be a person of continual prayer if you know how to accept the present moment as a gift of God Your life becomes a spiritual sacrifice to the Glory of the Trinity. |
A good "Set" prayer contains that truth which the Spirit discerns, with which the Spirit concurs, and to which the Spirit responds, enabling the participants to pray in Spirit and in Truth. |
The present moment is the only point in your life, where, discerning God's will
you can unite yourself to Him in his very being. The present moment is a window open to eternity. If you want to make your life an unceasing prayer, a constant union with God in everything, you will discover, in the present moment of everyday life, the living presence of the Triune God . |