and will often draw a parallel between prayer in the Name of Jesus and yoga or transcendental meditation and the like. I must stress the danger of such errors-the danger of looking upon prayer as ...

To stop and be still. The methods of meditation are paths to travel to arrive at the encounter with Jesus, but if you stop on the road, you will make a “god” out of the path. But we realize ...

"The repeated Hail Mary serves as a backdrop for our personal meditation on the various aspects of Jesus’s life, seeking the unique perspective of his mother," he continued. The "Fatima prayer ...

Instead of emptying our minds and turning into self-introspection, Christian meditation calls us to fill our minds with Scripture and to look outside ourselves to the all-sufficient Savior Jesus ...

A famous preacher was teaching a seminary class on the parables of Jesus and noticed that all of his students seemed to prefer the ones with the happy endings. The tiny seed growing into a ...

A lynch mob went after Jesus because of his first homily, which came straight from the sacred writings (Luke 4:16-30). Jesus, the man of the scriptures, who quoted the Bible at the drop of a hat.

During Holy Week, many in the church meditate upon the suffering Jesus endured on our behalf, knowing that this meditation will make the joy of Easter so much sweeter. Some churches set up “stat ...

But if meditating "is a human dimension", for the Christian "meditation enters through the door of Jesus Christ". "When a Christian prays, he does not aspire to full transparency of himself ...

To forgive others we can pray, use imaginative meditation (speaking to the person in the presence of Jesus) and/or pastoral counselling. Jesus suffered and his suffering was a part of God’s plan.

“The beatitudes are the self-portrait of Jesus. He teaches by what he does,” the cardinal said March 5 during his Lenten meditation. (Credit: CNS photo/Vatican Media.) Listen ROME — Jesus ...

Greeley's book, "Jesus: A Meditation on His Stories and His Relationships with Women," is sure to please some readers more than others. Though not nearly as controversial as some of his writings ...