What is it? How is it found? Why does it matter? And what does it have to do with the spiritual journey? This book likens True Self to a diamond, buried deep within us, formed under the intense pressure of our lives, that must be searched for, uncovered, separated from all the debris of ego that surrounds it. In a sense True Self must, like Jesus, be resurrected, and that process is not resuscitation but transformation.
Shows how to navigate spiritually difficult terrain with clear vision and tools to uncover our True Selves Written by Father Richard Rohr, the bestselling author of Falling Upward Examines the fundamental issues of who we are and helps us on our path of spiritual maturity Immortal Diamond whose title is taken from a line in a Gerard Manley Hopkins poem explores the deepest questions of identity, spirituality, and meaning in Richard Rohr's inimitable style.
In this volume, Br. John Mark Falkenhain, OSB, a Benedictine monk and clinical psychologist, provides a well-researched and thorough program for celibacy formation for men and women, adaptable to both religious and seminary settings. Attending to the theological and the psycho-sexual dimensions of what it means to pursue a life of chaste celibacy, Br. John Mark identifies and expands on four major content areas, including motives for chaste celibacy, theological aspects of celibate chastity, sexual identity, and skills for celibate living.
Formation goals and benchmarks for discernment are discussed for each content area, and implications and suggestions for ongoing formation are offered. This book brings together God's call, the cries of the world and of the earth today, and charisms in consecrated life in a way that dynamically engages the vows, prayer, community, and ministry for the particular time and contexts in which we live.
Here is a valuable theological and pastoral resource for the conversion, transformation, and revitalization needed in consecrated life today. Shedding new light on lived religion in America, Carroll moves an entire academic field in new, exciting directions and challenges his fellow scholars to open their minds and eyes to develop fresh interpretations of American religious history.
Skip to content. A wedding celebration isn't the time for denying oneself; it's a time for celebrating. Jesus promises that the time for mourning was coming, but this wasn't it. And then Jesus offers one of the parables that He'll come to be known for:.
Neither do people pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst; the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved" Matthew — Because we're unfamiliar with ancient practices, sometimes it's difficult for modern readers to understand Jesus's parables.
In Jesus's day, people used animal skins—like goatskin—for storing liquids. Fermented drinks like wine expanded, and since an old wineskin would already be stretched to its limit, the new wine would tear the seams. This is why new wine needed to be preserved in new wineskins. As the wine expanded, the new skins would stretch to accommodate it. Jesus was making a very specific point to John the Baptist.
He was here to do something completely new. A Category: Religion Page: View: DOWNLOAD NOW » Throughout the centuries Christians have sought to understand better the nature of the earliest features of the gospel message, for in that understanding lies the opportunity to make relevant the gospel's power to effect change" in other words, to put new wine into fresh wineskins.
Veteran New Testament scholar Richard Longenecker explains how early Christians "contextualized" the gospel message for their hearers just as Christians do today. Specifically, "New Wine into Fresh Wineskins" focuses on the relationships among the early Christian confessions in the letters of Paul and the Gospels and looks at how the New Testament writers contextualized these confessions for their own hearers.
The volume also reflects on how Christian confessions are adapted for later cultures and contexts. For example, the same gospel message both tells of the past and promises a future, it both encourages and admonishes, and it both reveals and conceals the mysteries of God.
With careful analysis and appreciation for how early Christians understood Jesus in a variety of situations, Longenecker challenges readers with the always relevant truth of the gospel.
Author : William C. Young Catholic moral theologians experience a sharply different professional formation and a changed location of ongoing professional life than prior generations of moral theologians. Otherwise the wine would burst the skins, and both wine and skins would be lost.
New wine needs fresh skins! Matthew Neither do men pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst, the wine will spill, and the wineskins will be ruined. Instead, they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved. If he does, the new piece will pull away from the old, and a worse tear will result.
Mark One Sabbath Jesus was passing through the grainfields, and His disciples began to pick the heads of grain as they walked along. Pulpit Commentary. We've got to throw away all the limited perceptions that we have about God and what He can do. We've got to trust and follow His word by faith. Home Life We better prepare ourselves for God's new wine.
Pexels "No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for the patch pulls away from the garment, and the tear is made worse. Do you want to be a new wineskin? If you do, here's something that you should do: Stop enjoying old wine. That's it? The Lord Jesus Himself said that old wineskins stay that way because they can't embrace the new wine: "And no one, having drunk old wine, immediately desires new; for he says, 'The old is better.
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