Welcome to Sanctuary Spirit and Truth
What is Sanctuary Spirit and Truth?
Sanctuary Spirit and Truth is a young adult Eucharistic Adoration Community at the Sanctuary of The Divine Mercy.Is it not one of the "signs of the times" that in today's world, despite widespread secularization, there is a widespread demand for spirituality, a demand which expresses itself in large part as a renewed need for prayer? Other religions, which are now widely present in ancient Christian lands, offer their own responses to this need, and sometimes they do so in appealing ways. But we who have received the grace of believing in Christ, the revealer of the Father and the Saviour of the world, have a duty to show to what depths the relationship with Christ can lead.
The great mystical tradition of the Church of both East and West has much to say in this regard. It shows how prayer can progress, as a genuine dialogue of love, to the point of rendering the person wholly possessed by the divine Beloved, vibrating at the Spirit's touch, resting filially within the Father's heart. This is the lived experience of Christ's promise: "He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him" (Jn 14:21). It is a journey totally sustained by grace, which nonetheless demands an intense spiritual commitment and is no stranger to painful purifications (the "dark night"). But it leads, in various possible ways, to the ineffable joy experienced by the mystics as "nuptial union". (Novo Millenio Inuente)
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Adoration & the Spirituality of Communion by Fr. Ramil Fajardo at the Sanctaury Spirit & Truth
Many thanks to Fr. Fajardo associate pastor at St. Clement's Church in Lincoln Park, for coming at such short notice to the Sanctuary Spirit and Truth on Oct 23rd. His talk can be heard on this link. The feedback was extremely positive. Fr. Fajardo speaks about the spirituality of adoration and the spirituality of communion in the church.
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