Showing posts with label faith. Show all posts
Showing posts with label faith. Show all posts

3/25/2008

Popular Saints

To weigh that the word "saint" remits us to an imaginary Christian, this physique it is characteristic of many other religious beliefs. The identification of the sanctity in each society, you are determined by your history. This way, inside the communities in those that live, people share a communio" "memory on your past and your beliefs. The interpersonal loops, built of that religious shared identity inside the community, they are lived and interpreted through the filter that represent the vision of the world with which each one understands the reality that surround it. This only is not good to understand each other, but rather you also constitute an offered new of faith, through the one which, you are possible to consent and to communicate with god.

This process in which a person intends to participate of the divine grace through the faith and of the devotion, you are characterized by the appearance of a necessity of confirmation. In this sense, the effectiveness of a saint is measured in two aspects. On one hand, in terms of the expectation that the devote one apparent for him; that is to say, the more faith one has in the saint, more effectiveness you are presupposed. For other, a mythical character transforms into saint when you carry out miracles, that is to say, when you solve seemingly impossible problems by means of supernatural powers.

But... How to identify them? Well, leaving of the base that a saint is a mythical character that act for the devote one, as an intermediary between the earthly (material and human) world and the celestial (immaterial and divine) one, thanks to the miracles that it carry out. The reports and the religious practices that describe the saint's revelations in issue (half human hero and at the same time, half divine), are evidence of your power. In the case of the Catholic or orthodox saints, the faithful ones interpret those myths and rituals as exemplary models to continue. This way, the believer is identified with the saint being about incorporating your behavior model, represented by the one on the way to the revelation trafficked by this. On the other hand, the playback of these reports and rituals have a superimposed feature: you refresh the faith of the devote one, at the same time that you popularize the custom of adoring the saint. However, this identification depends on the legal capacity or image that the saint transmits. Such you are the case of the religious physiques of European medieval tradition, as San Jorge or San Cristóbal, two very different fellows. While the first were a warring saint, with a tragic outcome, but with a joyful life of being able to and ascending line among your pairs, of the second is related that you were a giant rejected by your town that he/she lived isolated in the mountains being earned a living helping people to cross a river. The one expressed is one of the reasons for those that, at the present time, this type of saints has taken away from the popular preference to be changed by other nearer ones to people's history and more concerned for your concrete problems.

Those are today's popular saints, a novel and different phenomenon that, of course, you continue cohabiting with the most orthodox devotion for the Catholic saints, some of those which, they continue capturing people's majority interest, like you are the famous case of San Cayetano in Argentina, among many others.

12/09/2007

How to strengthen the trust in oneself

The trust is since a main element of the life it is the energy that allows us to make things, to take a risk, you ourselves. Without trust a boy would not take a risk to take his first steps, we would not love neither we would leave that they love each other, we would not study neither we would make the sense of progressing.

The trust is among other an alcoholatura attitude of which depend, thing, the health, the affection, the earnings and the happiness. To check it, he/she reaches with thinking of the bare things that every day passes. How would a discharged employee be able to arm of value and to mount his own company? What would it happen if a sick person was given for past due? If such it passed all, we would live full with doubts, of negative pansies and of fears.
People get plain and very big successes, which have in common as element to the trust in I continue same. That faith is the fuel that allows them to achieve goals. And the energy of this faith, transforms the life of people in completely positive. Logically it is not the only thing that one needs; depending on what is, will also be necessary: money, work, plans, test, among other. But the trust is the main tool of which you/they depend all the other ones. We portion of the base that a mind that he/she believes in itself is very powerful, since of for yes the mind is such a perfect structure that it is designed to be influenced itself. The mind is divided in two big areas: it makes aware and subconscious. The self-management is a method that consists on influencing in the unconscious through the conscience to obtain of him diverse things, in this case, to undelete the energy of the faith in ourselves.

The mechanism of the suggestion is very bare, since it consists on inducing, by means of different methods, commands or contents in the unconscious, being the objective to cause positive changes in the life of a person. This for example, is used to stop to smoke, to lose weight, etc.

A financial year so that you practice in your house and the following one:
He/she chooses a calm place where they don't bother you. Sit down or lean back. He/she closes a moment the eyes and relax you, breathing deep and slowly. When you are relaxed, he/she repeats: "today I will begin to undelete the trust in myself and starting from today my life will change in positive." He/she opens the eyes and he/she memorizes or he/she reads (you can have them written previously) these statements: I believe that the power of the mind will transform my life in a positive way. I believe in myself and in that can make reality what wants. I trust me, I believe in that have the mental power and physique to procure what I want. I have the hope of continuing fighting for (here he/she says your objective). I have the absolute surety that the faith in myself will make that I achieve my goal. Starting from today, me full with positive spirit to achieve it. I sit down the positive energy inside me. I have faith in my power to take it I end up. I will forget my negative pansies and I will stop to doubt. I promise nevermore to doubt of myself. I will have own faith to procure (and he/she mentions your objective again). I am a valuable person and I have the power of achieving it. I promise everything of me to obtain (he/she mentions your goal again).

He/she repeats each one of the statements aloud and it is about memorizing them. He/she dedicates up-to-date half hour, 15 minutes in the morning and other 15 before going to bed to repeat it. In little time, you will undelete the trust in yourself.

12/04/2007

That it is the Faith an Existential Explained Doubt

A possible explanation of an existential doubt....
Many philosophers and enough well-known theologians have hugged the idea that the faith is the base of all knowledge. An example is San Agustín. One of their key contributions to the philosophy was the idea of using the faith to be able to understand, settled down by Agustín in their statement "Crede, ut intelligas" (he/she "Believes, so that you can understand." This statement overflows the realm of the religion, to embrace the entirety of the knowledge. In essence, the faith should be present, to end up knowing anyone thing. In other words, it should be assumed, to believe or to have faith in the credibility of a person, place, thing or he/she devises, with the purpose of having a base for the knowledge.

I develop of the knowledge in the children.
An illustration of this concept is in the development of the knowledge in the children. A boy, in their first years the input source of information is controlled by the parents, not having opportunity neither test to be able to contrast other fonts. In those years the parents teach him/her their method of contrast of the reality, inheriting the bases of what their progenitors understand as good and bad. If in the family environment a wild constant violation exists of what is good and bad, the boy it won't be able to work appropriately outside of its family environment. The discipline establishes the bad securities, while it reinforces the good ones. An unconscionable discipline, based on emotions, alone attentive against the boy's emotional integrity, and in occasions until it could attempt against the physical integrity.

The objective of the teaching of the parents, is to endow the boy of the capacity of establishing its own faith based on its own test, bony, to endow him/her of approach and contrast capacity or in other words, to teach him/her to believe with approach.

When the boy matures, the quality of the teaching is demonstrated by the capacity to go manufacturing and/or modifying the old ones, demonstrating capacities of adaptation and survival. Therefore, the boy begins with the default values 'installed' for the parents, this it will serve as filter through which another teaching will be processed and/or it will evaluate. Following this reasoning line, and assuming that a boy has an empiric petty or limited knowledge, the knowledge that ends up having has a fundamental base in the faith.

Credulity and faith:
The adults believe in that the authorities are appropriately enabled to run with quality their work, although in the news they occur formless that they violate or they should violate that belief in a constant way. Since there is not a better alternative, it is trusted in that in some future moment, the authorities realize the social serious damage that bears to administer the power based on interior approaches and partidístas (in the best in the cases), leaving to a side the true interests of the citizens.

The vehement insistence, beyond the demonstration of the facts, in behaving in certain way, hoping the repetition causes effect some under the current conditions, propitiating a change without knowing like it will happen; he/she is named credulismo. You could name faith, if in some last moment, effectiveness has been demonstrated in the use of the authority. Lacking time and/or of petitions to evaluate the whole knowledge that one has exhaustive and empirically, favorable the credulity for desperation, demonstrating to certain grade that there is not difference practice between religion and politics.

The religious knowledge
In origin, as much the scientific knowledge as the religious leave of the same thing: Last facts that establish truths observables for the human relative understanding to a time. The difference settles down with the step of the time. The religion tries of 'to freeze' those truths, reason to be about conserving what was patent in a past and it doesn't stop to be about incorporating new standards of adapted reasonings to the mean. When they find the logic that justifies to conserve the same knowledge, their desire it is reinforced to grant to a power higher to the man that revelation and, to want that that power considers that eternally good knowledge.

When the mean changes it subjects the individuals to new wears, so much physical as emotional. In those instants it is when the religion of the science is distanced. The religion searches as making perpetual a demonstrated knowledge certain in a time without keeping in mind the change of the mean.

The complexity of some philosophical set forth vericuetos to conserve the consistent integrity of the dogmatic system, convinces the devote religious that its faith is true and eternal. On the other hand, every time they are more people that observe that those vericuetos doesn't contribute practical solutions to their quotidian lives; it is in that point where two types of different behaviors appear: The consistent (tendente to the change) behavior and the credulous (tendente to the fanaticism) behavior.

Factors that can intervene
The rational force
If the faith is born of an assumption, he/she unites it with evidences of the past and a reasonable support for which a prospective result settles down, he/she will wake up in the person a yearning touch that will induce it to act to procure that waited. Therefore, he/she will give an interior cautious force that will try to make sure that the conditions are the ideals, as a result and mainly and the most important thing, possesses domain of the reason on their acts. To this respect it is not an interior raw force that he/she is born and it is not known as.

The will is the expression of works for the satisfactory explanation to our convincing. In our trust he/she leaves in the premises, assumptions and/or suppositions that will allow us falsar the knowledge. Although, our will will be null before a non satisfactory position from the rational point of view.
The hope is the yearning that one has to see resolute and concluded a work. This work is subject to a method that in turn you subject to a theory.
The belief is the part of good will that we put when working. If this condition one doesn't give, the person would deny her cooperation.
This section is homologated with remote consulted Fuentes

The moral force
It is what a person sustains in the social mean of the quotidian life.
If the faith is not born like interior force, but rather simply one accepts the authority of a person directly for some type of morbid fear to be punished or to win the engaged remuneration. In this case the force is born of the person's own will. This submission type, has long term, and of being violated the initial (well the rules for which it is punished or the rules for which it is rewarded) promise, to the attrition and lost of the faith and/or the absolute forfeiture of the submission. Case that the person persists in even sustaining that faith more hallá of the pulsión that allows him/her to undergo, one runs the risk of making sick. If these bases are not violated, the person will continue healthy and satisfied of observing that her effort serves as something (well for not being punished and/or well to be rewarded, the same bases that they are used in the training of any other animal). Of this submission he/she is born the faith like religious tenet.

Moral will is the expression of our acts for the trust in that that applied will be of benefit for others. This attitude leaves of a healthy, satisfied person I get same and relatively happy.
Esperanza morals is the expression of our acts for the trust that we will obtain a morally in agreement environment to what we settle down as good, adjusting our behavior, since you/he/she is the morally correct thing.
Moral belief is the firm conviction, beyond any argument that seeks to persuade us of satisfying us otherwise, expressing our acts for the trust that we will be pleasing somebody powerful and that this he/she will make what promises for that he/she has the power to make it.
This section is homologated with remote consulted Fuentes

The emotional force
If the faith is born of a desire, which has found a belief that supports him and adding him/her the force that contributes the approval grupal from a community to the self-esteem and the person's dignity, as well as of the absolute trust that the own individual confers to his own desires, he will give an interior raw force as a result without rational guideline.

The faith

* He/she is an immense don of God. We should be requested it
* It is worth more than the life
* The fair one lives off the faith (Rom 1, 17)
* To put in her all that we are, all that we wait, all that we love
* It maintains us in foot in the moments of obscurity
* Not it is a mere feeling of the appearance of God or of the will of God in our lives.
* It should penetrate and to wrap the whole person: Their trust, their fidelity, their emotional adhesion, their intellectual consent.
* The Christian vocation is absurd and incomprehensible without the faith
* Not to request to God tests
* Not to have him/her fear to the future because the Mr. it won't fail us
* Without her the life is sad and the impossible fidelity

In what to believe as members of the Church, and therefore to live consequently:

* To intensify the faith in the Church, as locus in quo God has put on to give fruits
* In that God speaks to us through Pope, the bishops and priests
* In the Christian spirit that springs from the Gospel, as the locus in quo is expressed for us the will of God, and to make it life of our life, accepting it with humility and meekness.
* That Christ has united mystically to each one of the Christian
* In ourselves and let us don't doubt of our capacity, dons and talents to carry out our commission
* In the fecundity of our heady lives to Christ's furrow
* In the transcendency and value of our handover to the souls

The faith is:

* To give us unconditionally
* To surrender blindly to God
* To allow us to conquer for their love for their lawsuit without making repairs
* To walk, to suffer, to fight, to fall and to get up being about you faithful to a God that he/she calls us and that we don't see
* "To rush in the darkness of the night, a star that one day saw continuing, although he/she doesn't know to where it will take me"
* Sobrellevar with happiness the confusions, the surprises, the fatigues and the frights of my fidelity
* To trust of God and to trust The
* Total adhesion, full with love to the sacred will of God
* Who gives value to the life, to the sufferings, to the difficulties, to everything
* That ember that illuminates and it heats in the most terrible fights in the life

Reason to believe:

Because we have of warranter of our lives, of our vocation and of our commission to God that is faithful.
Consequences of a faith languid mortecina, turned-off, weak, before the plans of God:

* Many problems
* Difficulties
* Crisis
* Temptations
* Remote mental before the Christian vocation
* Contempt of court before the cross
* Apathy before the commission
* Interior division, planning to believe in God but searching in the practice to only carry out our whims

Enemies of the faith:

* Formation ullage
* Abundance of rationalism
* Scientific formation full with prejudgments against all that is not verifiable and verifiable.
* To request to God tests and guarantees

The faith should be:

* Deep
* Lucid
* compromising
* Demanding
* Alive

Consequences of an alive and generous faith:

* Apostolic fruits
* Generosity, docility and maturity before the compromises and requirements of the Christian life
* To opt to leave to a side the selfishness and the attachment to the things of the world
* To be helpful, general purpose, delicate and kind with all
* Happiness when living for the faith with the on trust in God
* Humility and meekness for the will of God
* Carriers of happiness, peace and it thrills

Pair to raise the faith:

* A lot of sentence
* To cut with the rationalism
* To imitate María's example