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Terminology and qualification. World Christianity by tradition in 2024 as per World Christian Database [ 7] Catholic (48.6%) Protestant (39.8%) Orthodox (11.1%) Other (0.5%) Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a center for Christian unity in Jerusalem. Christianity can be taxonomically divided into six main groups: the Church of the East, Oriental ...
To believe in Christ means to desire unity; to desire unity means to desire the Church; to desire the Church means to desire the communion of grace which corresponds to the Father's plan from all eternity. Such is the meaning of Christ's prayer: "Ut unum sint". In paragraph 54, the Pope wrote that "the Church must breathe with her two lungs!"
The Four Marks of the Church, also known as the Attributes of the Church, [ 1] describes four distinctive adjectives of traditional Christian ecclesiology as expressed in the Nicene Creed completed at the First Council of Constantinople in AD 381: " [We believe] in one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church." [ 2]
Christian mysticism is the tradition of mystical practices and mystical theology within Christianity which "concerns the preparation [of the person] for, the consciousness of, and the effect of [...] a direct and transformative presence of God " [1] or divine love. [2] Until the sixth century the practice of what is now called mysticism was ...
BALTIMORE (AP) — Catholic leaders called for peace in a war-torn world and unity amid strife within their own clerical ranks on Tuesday, as U.S. bishops gathered in Baltimore for their annual ...
The Liturgy of the Hours ( Latin: Liturgia Horarum ), Divine Office (Latin: Officium Divinum ), or Opus Dei ("Work of God") are a set of Catholic prayers comprising the canonical hours, [a] often also referred to as the breviary, [b] of the Latin Church. The Liturgy of the Hours forms the official set of prayers "marking the hours of each day ...
The sung Eucharist tends to be emphasized in High Church congregations, with Anglo-Catholic congregations and celebrants using sung services almost exclusively. Marian devotion is sometimes seen in the Anglo-Catholic and some High Church parishes. Low Church is simpler and may incorporate other elements such as informal praise and worship music ...
Unity is a historically Christian liberal spiritual organization founded by Charles and Myrtle Fillmore in 1889. It grew out of Transcendentalism and became part of the New Thought movement. [ 1 ] Unity may be best known for its Daily Word devotional publication begun in 1924.