-
Starting today August 7th, 2024, in order to post in the Married Couples, Courting Couples, or Singles forums, you will not be allowed to post if you have your Marital status designated as private. Announcements will be made in the respective forums as well but please note that if yours is currently listed as Private, you will need to submit a ticket in the Support Area to have yours changed.
-
CF has always been a site that welcomes people from different backgrounds and beliefs to participate in discussion and even debate. That is the nature of its ministry. In view of recent events emotions are running very high. We need to remind people of some basic principles in debating on this site. We need to be civil when we express differences in opinion. No personal attacks. Avoid you, your statements. Don't characterize an entire political party with comparisons to Fascism or Communism or other extreme movements that committed atrocities. CF is not the place for broad brush or blanket statements about groups and political parties. Put the broad brushes and blankets away when you come to CF, better yet, put them in the incinerator. Debate had no place for them. We need to remember that people that commit acts of violence represent themselves or a small extreme faction.
Crying Out to God
- By Mark Dohle
- The Chapel - Catholic
- 0 Replies
Crying Out to God
Psalm 51 is a powerful prayer of repentance for this stage of the Path. In this prayer, we beg the Lord to have mercy upon
us and to cleanse us from all our sins. We cry out to God to create a clean heart in us, making it whiter than snow.
The Love Crucified Community. The Simple
Path to Union with God (p. 57). Kindle Edition.
++++++++++
True repentance is based on a deep truth. As I grow in self-knowledge, I become aware of my need for mercy. The need for repentance also becomes obvious. Humility makes me aware of my freedom, that I am not a victim but responsible for my choices. It is the understanding that ‘sin’ is a reality and not some form of neurotic guilt. To admit that one is a sinner is a form of psychic health. So, Psalm 51 when prayed slowly can bring the one praying to a place of being able to admit one’s need for mercy.
Growth in freedom is a slow process. It is in our choices to be truthful with ourselves that allows freedom to grow. Honesty before God is healing for nothing can be hidden from the gaze of our Eternal Father.
This is freeing, not something to be feared.
Mature faith has to be achieved by facing our false images of God which can lead to servile fear. We are not called to that, to fear. In the 1st letter of John, it is stated “Love Cast out fear”. ‘Trust’ is a choice, so fear has to be faced and stepped over. There is some discomfort in this, but it has to be faced if one wants a deep intimate relationship with Christ.Br.MD
My gaze is upon each of you. I see your struggles; I know your trials; I feel
and suffer your sorrows;I collect your tears; I suffer with each of you.
Have perfect faith in the God that loves you… Believe in the power of your hidden ordinary lives
lived through Me,with Me, and in Me, ONE with Me, no longer two. Believe in My crucified love,
in the power of My crucified gaze to penetrate all darkness. My gaze is upon you;
allow Me to heal your wounds and purify all darkness. My desire for you,
My thirst for each of you, is to make you My living icons.
The Love Crucified Community.
The Simple Path
and suffer your sorrows;I collect your tears; I suffer with each of you.
Have perfect faith in the God that loves you… Believe in the power of your hidden ordinary lives
lived through Me,with Me, and in Me, ONE with Me, no longer two. Believe in My crucified love,
in the power of My crucified gaze to penetrate all darkness. My gaze is upon you;
allow Me to heal your wounds and purify all darkness. My desire for you,
My thirst for each of you, is to make you My living icons.
The Love Crucified Community.
The Simple Path
Report Edit
Share:
Reddit Pinterest WhatsApp Email Link
'Flawed judgment': Australian court rules against women-only app, claims sex not merely a biological concept
- By RileyG
Ridiculous. These people will make up anything for attention.See, they said at first that there was a difference between "gender" and "biological ex." Now they're trying to erase even that difference.
Biological Sex is a social construct
I recently tweeted, as an aside, that biological sex is a social construct, and the backlash and attacks were swift, incredulous and heavily reliant upon very basic biology. There is a common perce…growinguptransgender.com
Gender is sex, and sex is gender.
Get over it.
Upvote
0
Upvote
0
Upvote
0
How do you Release anger ?
- By 2PhiloVoid
- Requests for Christian Advice
- 19 Replies
I'm not sure, sister Macchiato. When I find out how, I'll let you know. In the mean time, I'm mulling the Serenity Prayer over in my mind, hoping that I can soon figure out how to "accept" the seemingly immovable and frustrating parts of my reality.
In Christ
Upvote
0
