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Qiyama in the Nizari Ismaili tradition symbolizes spiritual transformation. According to the Ismaili interpretation of sharīʿa (Islamic law) as possessing a distinct duality, the rational shari’a refers to civil legal mechanisms, including property laws, marriage laws, and laws against murder or theft; [3] the imposed shari’a, meanwhile, concerns matters of religious law and ritual ...
These Easter prayers are just what you and your family need to hear during Holy week. Read and recite the blessings to commemorate Resurrection Sunday.
A passage in the New Testament which is seen by some to be a prayer for the dead is found in 2 Timothy 1:16–18, which reads as follows: . May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain, but when he was in Rome, he sought me diligently, and found me (the Lord grant to him to find the Lord's mercy on that day); and in how many ...
"from the holy day of the Resurrection of Christ our God until New Sunday (i.e. Thomas Sunday) for a whole week the faithful in the holy churches should continually be repeating psalms, hymns and spiritual songs, rejoicing and celebrating Christ, and attending to the reading of the Divine Scriptures and delighting in the Holy Mysteries. For in ...
After intense prayer and much thought, it was established that the theme of the retreat would be based on the Scripture passage found in the Gospel of Luke 24:13-35, the Emmaus Reading. [ 2 ] In early 1985, Fr. Fetscher of St. Louis asked Jim Loretta from St. Louis Catholic Church, to look at starting a men's version of the Emmaus Retreat ...
This eternal life is provided to believers, generally assumed to be at the resurrection of the dead. [7] In New Testament theology, in addition to "life" (zoe, i.e. ζωὴ in Greek), there is also a promised spiritual life sometimes described by the adjective eternal (aionios i.e. αἰώνιος in Greek) but other times simply referred to as ...
Anamnesis (from the Attic Greek word ἀνάμνησις, lit. ' reminiscence ' or ' memorial sacrifice ') [1] is a liturgical statement in Christianity in which the Church refers to the memorial character of the Eucharist or to the Passion, Resurrection and Ascension of Jesus.
Ignatius offers his sword to an image of Our Lady of Montserrat.. Suscipe (pronounced "SOOS-chee-peh") is the Latin word for 'receive'. While the term was popularized by St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus, who incorporated it into his Spiritual Exercises in the early sixteenth century, it goes back to monastic profession, in reciting Psalm 119.