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Your imagination is key to saintliness


Your imagination is key to saintliness (or sinfulness)

Sin is fun and easy. Virtue is grim and tedious. Or so we imagine, even though we know that's not true. Both come with strings. Sin chains us to pain and ...

The power within: Imagination in Catholic prayer - Aleteia

Saint of the Day: St. ... This is where the often-overlooked faculty of imagination becomes a vital force, opening unexpected depths within our ...

Does Sin Gain Entry Through the Imagination? | The Fatima Center

It plays a crucial role in retaining and recalling sensory experiences. Memory is closely linked to the imagination, which is one of the ...

St. Ignatius and the transformative power of imagination

So often, the meditations that the saint asks us to make begin with the words, “Imagine that… ... the key to a productive response. So ...

Pray with Your Imagination - IgnatianSpirituality.com

His key insights about God came through his imagination. The notes he took as he read about the life of Christ filled a 300-page notebook that he treasured for ...

Imagination in prayer : r/Catholicism - Reddit

-- and many Orthodox even cite Saint John of the Cross to attempt to justify their position but they're ignorant of his works because, if they ...

Praying with the imagination - Ministry Matters

In the 16th century, Saint Ignatius of Loyola, a knight turned priest and theologian, recognized in himself and others the imagination's power ...

Fill Your Imagination With God - National Catholic Register

Today's readings show us what distinguish the saints: imagination and habit. “We are God's children now; what we shall be has not yet been ...

Imagination and the Will: What You Gaze On Is What You Become

Ignatius of Loyola understood the power of the imagination. Stuck in bed after an injury, he read the lives of the saints, and their incredible ...

Prayer of Imagination - Saint Martin Of Tours Catholic Community

Saint Ignatius believed that God intended His gift of human imagination to be used as a means of contemplation -- to draw us closer to Him and see, with new ...

Meeting God Through Your Imagination | Unleash the Gospel

The practice of imaginative prayer comes from two important theological concepts: ... Saint Augustine on the Art of Love. Prayer. August 20 ...

The Case for Spiritual Imagination - Public Square Magazine

(An omnipotent God! A Virgin Birth! A Resurrection!) And the Latter-day Saint tradition arguably requires it, and then some. (A Vision! Angels!

Imagination as a Way of Knowing - Eighth Day Institute

This sounds scandalous, if not outright blasphemous. But the Orthodox Church has deemed Porphyrios worthy of being called a saint. What, then, is St. Porphyrios ...

The Use of the Imagination in Prayer - YouTube

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The Saint of the Imagination: Ignatius of Loyola - Part One

Ignatius has taught me, the gift of imagination is an integral component to our life of faith and prayer. Like consciences, imaginations, too, ...

A Place for Imagination - the post calvin

That is how the messages of God come to us. (George Bernard Shaw, Saint Joan). I encountered the above quote from Shaw's 1923 play in a book I ...

29 Inspiring Quotes on the Power of Imagination - Creativity at Work

The mere formulation of a problem is far more often essential than ... Saint-Exupéry. Quote Collection. Creativity Quotes: New Beginnings.

Access the Graced Imagination to Love and Serve the Lord

Thomas More Stepnowski, O.P., on the workings of the imagination and its important ... of Saint Thomas Aquinas: Essays in Thomistic ...

Flourishing Imagination, Sound Theology - thoughtfully catholic

I think, though, that this conflation is an historical accident produced by contingent events and not a necessary consequence of the essential ...

Imagine Your Way to Joy | Desiring God

All hope of killing sin and growing in holiness rests in a God-given, Christ-purchased, Spirit-empowered redemption of the imagination.