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6 giorni fa · The desert: dying to the world and living in Jesus Christ. When Anthony was 20 years old his parents died, and he decided to put into practice the command of Jesus that had marked his soul. He distributed his inheritance among the poor and went into the desert where he lived as a hermit, in complete solitude, dedicated to penance and ...
1 giu 2024 · The Deseret alphabet was a project of the Mormon pioneers, a group of early followers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) who, motivated by revelations of a unique premillennial eschatology, had set about building a unique theocracy in the Utah desert, which was then still part of Mexico, after the death ...
2 giorni fa · Alternately known as St. Anthony the Great, St. Anthony Abbot, St. Anthony of the Desert, St. Anthony the Anchorite and St. Anthony of Thebes, the saint’s most remarkable aspect of his feast day is not that it happened, but when it happened.
23 mag 2024 · Saint Anthony of the Desert (251 – 356), also known as Saint Anthony the Great and Saint Anthony the Abbot, was born to wealthy landowner parents in Egypt. By the age of 18, he had lost both parents. Saint Anthony then gave away all his wealth and retreated into the desert to lead a life of abstinence and prayer.
4 giorni fa · To flee from the gaze of a civilised centre that denies God and launches salvo after salvo daily against the human soul. To seek out a wild Christianity, which will see us praying for hours in the sea as the otters play around us. To understand—to remember—that the Earth and the world are not the same thing.
30 mag 2024 · How can ancient approaches to faith help my relationship with God today? In The Sacred Way, popular author and speaker Tony Jones mines the rich history of 16 spiritual disciplines that have flourished throughout the ages and offers practical tips for implementing them in your daily life.
30 mag 2024 · It covers the earliest desert saints who shaped ideas of Christian holiness, crusading-era ideas about the power of saintly intervention in worldly conflict, gendered and social structures of medieval life, and ideas about miracles, monasticism, and the power of the “very special dead”.
