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Personal religion
Dec. 5th, 2014 01:37 pmAs a member of the Church Universal, I tend to think of my personal faith as being linked to the community. Thus I love hymns like Faith of Our Fathers, which I have mostly sung while celebrating Mass in abbeys ruined during the dissolution of the monastery and I love the knowledge that I can go into any church in the world and join in and by in a real as well as technical sense a part of the community. The feeling of Communion, of continual unity with other Catholics, is wonderful.
Anyway, this means that although it might not be the first thing some people think of when they hear 'personal religion', I will be answering this in the form of the Nicene creed* (what we say on a Sunday, in the translation currently used in the English speaking Catholic church) with annotations.
( I believe in one God )
Lastly, I often talk about the joy of being Christian, I have the LJ interest 'being an Easter people', focus on the light from the Paschal fire warming the church both physical and metaphorical. So I leave you with this thought from the prophet Joel:
Be glad, people of Zion,
rejoice in the Lord your God,
for he has given you the autumn rains
because he is faithful.
(Joel 2:23)
*yes, that's the one which was written at the first ecumenical council, popularly known as the council of Nicaea, where St Nicholas punched a heretic in the face.
Anyway, this means that although it might not be the first thing some people think of when they hear 'personal religion', I will be answering this in the form of the Nicene creed* (what we say on a Sunday, in the translation currently used in the English speaking Catholic church) with annotations.
( I believe in one God )
Lastly, I often talk about the joy of being Christian, I have the LJ interest 'being an Easter people', focus on the light from the Paschal fire warming the church both physical and metaphorical. So I leave you with this thought from the prophet Joel:
Be glad, people of Zion,
rejoice in the Lord your God,
for he has given you the autumn rains
because he is faithful.
(Joel 2:23)
*yes, that's the one which was written at the first ecumenical council, popularly known as the council of Nicaea, where St Nicholas punched a heretic in the face.
