⛔ Essay on faith can move mountains.
Mary, Virgin of the Spirit, image of the Church, pray that we may have your faith in the Word your hope in the Kingdom, and your love for God and humanity which is stronger than death.
Holy Mother, virgin of silence and peaceful mystery, sorrowful, strong, faithful, you stand at the tomb where the Word is silent and the Holy One of God lies. Almighty God, the resurrection of your Son has given us new life and renewed hope. Help us to live as a new people and give us the wisdom to know what you want us to do, the desire to do it, the courage that we need to do it, and the perseverance and strength to get it done. May we continue to be grateful for your love and sacrifice and salvation. Help us to walk in the Spirit of love, strengthen our hope and increase our faith in you, for you God, live and reign forever and ever. Finally, on the devotional front, I benefited greatly from reading Khaled Anatolios’s lively collection of homilies, Feasts for the Kingdom: Sermons for the Liturgical Year. Of course, as a Protestant, I do not agree with everything he says, but these brief chapters both demonstrate how a rich Nicene theology connects to everyday life in the twenty-first century and how a common commitment to the Trinitarian God offers ecumenical edification for those who care to reflect upon it. Definitely a book to give to that special Nicene Trinitarian in your life this Christmas. I had the wonderful opportunity to spend Holy Week this year in Seville, Spain. While there, I made a day trip to Granada, specifically, the Alhambra – the last Muslim fortress taken by Queen Isabella in 1492. It was here that she met with Christopher Columbus and agreed to fund his voyage to the Indies – and we all know how that ended. I discovered that an American author, Washington Irving, had spent a good deal of time there and wrote a book called Tales of the Alhambra, which I purchased and read. It is a wonderful mix of history and the mysterious legends and myths that surround the old fortress. On the topic of Spain, I read Warren Carroll’s Our Lady of Guadalupe and the Conquest of Darkness, a historical account of Hernan Cortes and his journeys in Central America. He paints Cortes in a rather positive light. He doesn’t shy away from pointing out Cortes’ mistakes and imperfections. He does, however, note his primary goal: to bring the Catholic Faith to the new world and end both human sacrificing and cannibalism – both of which were practiced by the Aztecs, and both of which go against the natural law. He attributes Cortes’ success to the intercession of Our Lady of Guadalupe, who appeared not too long after his mission. 246. At the conclusion of this lengthy reflection which has been both joyful and troubling, I propose that we offer two prayers. The first we can share with all who believe in a God who is the all-powerful Creator, while in the other we Christians ask for inspiration to take up the commitment to creation set before us by the Gospel of Jesus. Ask our loving Lord to fill me with the grace to accept whatever may lie ahead for me and my loved ones, and to strengthen my faith in God’s healing powers.
Faith in God is not without its challenges and questions.
The Church, though dispersed throughout the whole world, even to the ends of the earth, has received from the apostles and their disciples this faith: ...one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are in them; and in one Christ Jesus, the Son of God, who became incarnate for our salvation; and in the Holy Spirit, who proclaimed through the prophets the dispensations of God, and the advents, and the birth from a virgin, and the passion, and the resurrection from the dead, and the ascension into heaven in the flesh of the beloved Christ Jesus, our Lord, and His manifestation from heaven in the glory of the Father 'to gather all things in one,' and to raise up anew all flesh of the whole human race, in order that to Christ Jesus, our Lord, and God, and Savior, and King, according to the will of the invisible Father, 'every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth, and that every tongue should confess; to him, and that He should execute just judgment towards all...
For faith in God to be genuine, it must be based on the genuine God.
Our qualitative study of 113 highly religious women of diverse faiths and races found that women’s perceived relationship or connection with God reportedly impacted conflict resolution and coping with marital hardship.
Short Essay and Article on: Faith without Action is Delusion
More specifically, this study will explore how religion, specifically a perceived relationship with or connection to God, reportedly influences how women of faith cope with marital conflict and hardship, deepening our understanding of the nexus of religion and family life [,] The present study is valuable because it is one of the few large qualitative studies to collect and analyze interview data from women of several different religious, racial backgrounds, and nations of origin.
Faith in God always results in good actions.
53. These situations have caused sister earth, along with all the abandoned of our world, to cry out, pleading that we take another course. Never have we so hurt and mistreated our common home as we have in the last two hundred years. Yet we are called to be instruments of God our Father, so that our planet might be what he desired when he created it and correspond with his plan for peace, beauty and fullness. The problem is that we still lack the culture needed to confront this crisis. We lack leadership capable of striking out on new paths and meeting the needs of the present with concern for all and without prejudice towards coming generations. The establishment of a legal framework which can set clear boundaries and ensure the protection of ecosystems has become indispensable; otherwise, the new power structures based on the techno-economic paradigm may overwhelm not only our politics but also freedom and justice.