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My People's Prayer Book: Shabbat morning: Shacharit and Musaf
on page 90 talks of an acrostic of the first letters of each opening word (of prayers) in hebrew. . . . . . . .alef, mem, nun, which spells amen. . . . ____precisely the response that blessings evoke..in Jewish practice. JUST ONE WORD ----- AMEN by ESTHER STERN The Gemara says that " AMEN " is an acronym for "God, the faithful King" ( in hebrew ) As such, while answering AMEN one should reflect on the fact that our God is in fact a faithful King. |
AFTER OUR LIKENESS MIROSLAV WOLF
in the eucharistic gathering, the laity's task, indeed, its exclusive perogative, as Zizioulas maintains, is to say the "amen" as a response to the grace they have received. The " Amen " is the liturgical expression of the fact that they, as the new people of |
A PASTORAL DOCTRINE OF THE TRINITY PAUL S FIDDES
Participating in God. The New Testament portrays prayer as being "to" the Father, "through" the Son and "in" the Spirit. This means that when we pray to God as Father, we find our address fitting into |
God , like the people if Israel , must follow Moses
and give him their approbation through their responses !!! A RESPONSE TO GRACE RECEIVED |
a movement like that of speech between a son and a father, our response of
"Yes" ( Amen ) leaning upon a child like "yes" of humble obedience that is already there, glorifying the Father. When we say AMEN to the Father as we meet God in all creation, we ate leaning on the particular human response of Jesus, |
A participative model of the church'
In a communion where the saying of Amen by every member becomes a sharing in the Amen of the Son to the Father; the Amen of the congregation to the liturgy of the Eucharist is not simply a passive reception, but an entering into a divine activity which will be expressed as the exercising of a charismatic gift, |
the Jesus of the wilderness beyond Jordan
the Jesus of Gathsemane the Jesus of Galgotha, interwoven inseparably with the extatic response of eternal Sonship THE AMEN OF JESUS OF NAZARETH |
TRANSFORMED BY THE TRINITY CAROL FRANCES JEGEN, BVM
Philip asks Jesus to show the Father to his disciples, and Jesus proclaims, "Whoever has seen me has seen the Father" (John 14:9). Then Jesus raises a crucial question: "Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me ?.(John 14:10) |
INTERIOR PRAYER A CARTHUSIAN
When it is God's will that we should desire something, and we, on our side, abandon ourselves to his will,we are in fact asking him for that which will come from the help we await from him. |
"The words I speak to you I do not speak on my own. The Father who dwells in me is doing his works.Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me,
or else believe because of the works themselves. " JOHN 14: 10-11 |
When the soul prays for the world, she knows better without newspapers
how the whole earth is afflicted and what people's needs are. Prayer clenses the mind and gives it a better vision of all things. Prayer is unceasing upon the earth. |
Jesus promises a real sharing of life with those who respond to him in faith:
"Amen, Amen, I say to you, whoever believes in me will do the works that I do, and will do greater ones than these, because I am going to the Father" John14:12 AMEN, AMEN, I SAY TO YOU . |
O LORD, give to us this love throughout thy whole universe !
O Holy Spirit, live in our souls that with one accord we may all glorify the Creator, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen ! Amen ! Amen ! Alleluia ! |
PRAYER KARL BARTH
It is enough to recall what Luther and the Heidelberg Catechism tell us about "Amen". Luther affirms that it is a good thing to say "Amen" ! In other words, it is a good thing to learn not to doubt when we pray, but to believe, because "Amen" means "So be it ". |
The Use of Praying J. Neville Ward
Christianity is a religion of happiness. It wants all men to be happy, to be able to live thankfully instead of resentfully. Resentful living is the alternative to thankful living, and is the condition of being against God and against life, unable to love either. |
Prayer is not an undertaking left to chance, a trip into the blue.
It must end as it has begun, with conviction, Yes, may it be so ! On its side the Heidelberg Catechism declares that "Amen" means that "Amen" means that the certainty of the divine response is greater than the certainty we feel within ourselves of our needs and our desires. |
We cannot of course always live thankfully, though this is the Christian Ideal.
We need help with the dark side of life which always provokes resentment. When life is interpreted in terms of the whole event of Christ, life so interpreted becomes all thankfulness. |
The most certain element of our prayer is not our requests,
but what comes from God : his response. . . . . . All this we pray in the name of Jesus Christ, in whom you have loved, chosen, and called humanity from all eternity. AMEN. AMEN SO BE IT YES MAY IT BE SO. |
"And I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in
the sea and all therein saying "To him who sits upon the throne and to the Lamb be blessing and honour and glory and might for ever and ever ! " And the four living creatures said "Amen ! ". Rev 5 : 13 THANKFUL, UNRESENTFUL, AMEN ! |