What can we say to someone who has lost a loved one and is in the depths of grief? So many of us flounder with this. “I’m sorry for your loss” seems to be a common go-to phrase which, although usually sincere, lacks the ability to provide any real comfort to the bereaved…and we know it.
God speaks to us day in and day out, within our everyday routine. The mundane is changed to the mystical and other worldly for those who live with mindfulness to the Divine voice.
The purpose of spirituality is to connect us to our true essence often referred to as the soul. The Mystics challenge us not to believe in second hand spiritual truth. but to open up and allow the wisdom of our own soul to spill into your consciousness.
The heart is a heretic because it seeks unity of spirit, not uniformity of thinking. To be open to it is an act of courage.
The Galilean disciples’ unfamiliarity with Judas would have aided and abetted him in his deception. Having already taken money to betray Christ, Judas came back, blended into the group and pretended nothing unusual had happened.
Little is known about these 3 apostles but their testimony to the Gospel was as powerful and as far reaching as that of the better known and more outspoken disciples.
He may have had his doubts about Jesus’ resurrection, as did the other 11, but St. Thomas, evangelist to India, had great redeeming qualities.
As a tax collector, Matthew had effectively cut himself off not only from his own people, but also from God.
Nathanael’s (Bartholomew) mind was tainted by a degree of prejudice against Nazareth, but his heart was guileless.
Philip embraced Jesus as the Messiah from the beginning, yet even after seeing miracles and hearing Christ’s teaching for months, he missed the point that Jesus and God were of the same essence.
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