Thank you all so much for everything. I've learned so much from many of you members. I feel that this is my cue to leave RF for good. I need to spend more time volunteering, reading, and bathing in sunshine and rain!
I will be making a random password from a generator so I can not come back...
I began covering my head with a mantilla while attending Anglican High Mass for the first time, and I loved it. Given though that the practice died out in the 60's, and that the Anglican tradition used hats instead of mantillas, I do stick out (but it's Anglo-Catholic, so I do not feel as bad!)...
In my study of Christianity, I am absolutely appalled by the amount of ignorant bigots, fundamentalists, and one-true-churchers out there, claiming the name 'Christian' and 'Jesus Christ' as their own.
It slightly sickens me. How can one be so vehemently homophobic, gynophobic, xenophobic...
So... what things help you discern a belief system? The rituals? Prayers? Beliefs themselves?
what do you find most important that you seek in a religion or spiritual tradition?
BBC Radio 3 - Choral Evensong
Come and listen to Choral Evensong (Evening Prayer), with the BBC!
Okay, so it's less about prayer and worship than its about the choir. Still, it's so nice to listen to!
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This thread is for the Orthodox, Catholic, Anglican and Lutheran adherents mainly, but anyone who loves Saint Mary is welcome to post something!
I thought it would be nice to say some nice things about the Blessed Virgin Mary. Express it through a Bible verse, or a picture, or a hymn, or a...
"You gave Your people Food of Angels,
and without their toil
You supplied them from heaven
with Bread ready to eat,
providing every pleasure
and suited to every taste.
For Your sustenance manifested
Your sweetness towards your children;
and the Bread, ministering to the desire
of the one...
Do you all have any favourite Collects or Kontakion that you've memorised or prayed?
Maybe you've written your own?
I thought it would be nice to post some of our favourite Collects, or the Collect of the Day at your church or denomination, or one of your own prayerful works! I find Collects a...
I am trying to learn more about Christian culture and history, and I would like to attend a local church group. However... there are so many of them!
How did you find which denomination or church worked for you? Were you just born in that particular denomination and decided to stick with it, or...
I think I am going to begin studying about Christianity.
Since Easter, I have been journeying into Christianity. For some more private reasons, I can no longer go into the areas of worship of my old religion, and I need to have a fresh start.
(Certainly, trigger-moments of sadness is just not...
Assalam'u'Alaykum!
I have a Muslimah friend who just got diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, and I will be visiting her some time tomorrow. I am planning to print out a prayer from the Qur'an in English and French, decorate it with scrapbooking stickers (lol... I'm not very artsy), and framing it...
Okay, so I'll bite the dust.
As you all have known, I have been a Vaishnava for some years now. Although I have wavered from time to time, I have been mainly active. I left my entire family's value system (aunts, uncles, grandparents, parents, siblings, cousins, etc.) and religious culture...
Well, have you?
:D
If you have, then what is one good thing you've learned from it?
If you haven't, I strongly recommend everyone to read it! There are many translations as there are points of view about it.
To me, the Gita is the crest-jewel of knowledge, and the distilled milk of the Vedic...
Do you read Scripture every day as part of your daily sadhana? What areyou reading right now?
I try to commit myself to about a half an hour of reading. I am working on Sri Chaitanya-charitamrta (Pastimes of Sri Chaitanya), which is a Gaudiya-Vaishnava Scripture, as well as Srimad...
What do you UUs' do to keep yourself grounded?
I do daily chanting (japa) of the Hare Krishna Mahamantra. This prayer keeps me grounded and centred, and reminds me of the immanence of divine presence.
How about you all?
Hare Krishna!
Well, it looks like my boyfriend is going to volunteer at our local congregation come Sunday!
Just a simple question: what brings you back to Unitarian Universalism? Why not just be 'spiritual' or in one of the other spiritual centres out there?
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20299
This e-book is called, the Unwritten Literature of Hawai'i: The Sacred Song of the Hula. I am not practicing the Hawai'ian indigenous religion, but I do find it fascinating.
Many books written by foreigners of other cultures have tended to be biased...
I found my old rosary that I have kept in a dusty box among my things, as well as some of the Christian paraphernalia given to me by my family. Lots of memories! :)
Do you pray the rosary? When I prayed it in my childhood and youth, I found strength and comfort in its repetitions, and simple...
When I was younger, I had a great fascination with the Austronesian peoples, which make the present-day Filipinos, Indonesians, Taiwanese Aborigines, Maori, Tongans, Samoans, Hawai'ians, etc.
But it is so sad that most of these countries, save Indonesia and Malaysia with Islam, have converted...