Category: Spirituality

  • Uriel Archangel gives freedom and happiness

    Uriel the Archangel radiates his splendid golden yellow light of wisdom. This wonderful light is able to dissolve the lower frequencies and give freedom and happiness. When you feel that you are in complex, difficult, and tense situations, evoke it. Wherever possible, Uriel intercedes and works to bring peace.

    The archangel Uriel is in fact at the head of a multitude of angels of peace. You can ask him to send these angels to all the places that you think need more peace. When you feel you need it, you can pray to Uriel to send yourself an angel of peace.

    The angels of peace are very large and have the ability to envelop not only people but entire cities in peace. Their aura is a magnificent cream color. You can be of great help to humanity by sending them out loud or mentally, to the people or places that you think need them.

    One of the symbols of the angels of peace is the dove. You can view it wherever there is a need for peace and light. When you suddenly see a dove approaching you, it means that it was sent by an angel of peace. Stop for a moment and fill your heart with peace and love. The Archangel will be with you.

    When inside you feel the need to live in balance and harmony, invoke the archangel, Uriel. Uriel will help you understand what is the obstacle to your inner peace and he will help you to dissolve it. Then, your inner wisdom will naturally emerge and guide you towards a balanced and peaceful existence.

    Uriel Prayer

    My beloved archangel Uriel,
    I ask you to wrap me in yours
    splendid golden yellow light,
    so that he can live now and forever
    in peace. Thank you.

    Peace spreads throughout the world when all people are in tune with the path of their souls. Summon Uriel and the angels of peace, be bearers of peace.

  • Holy GuardianAngel Protection Prayer

    Holy Guardian Angel, with you I too give thanks to God, who in his goodness has entrusted me to your protection. O Lord, I thank you for the gift of the Guardian Angel, a gift you gave to me personally. I thank you for the power you have given to my Angel so that he may transmit your love and protection to me.

    God be praised for choosing my Guardian Angel as his collaborator to transmit his protection to me. I thank you, my Guardian Angel, for the patience you have towards me and for your constant presence at my side. Thank you because you are faithful in love and never tire of serving me.

    You who do not look away from the Father who created me, from the Son who saved me, and from the Holy Spirit who blows love, offer my prayers to the Trinity every day. I trust you and believe my prayers will be answered. Now, Holy Guardian Angel, I invite you to precede me on my path

    • present to the Holy Guardian Angel the commitments of the day, the trips to be made, the meetings, etc.

    Protect me from evil, inspire me with the words of consolation that I must say, let me discern God’s will and what God wants to do through me. Help me always keep a child’s heart before God (Psalm 130). Help me to fight against temptations and to overcome temptations against faith.

    Teach me to abandon myself to God and to believe in love. Holy Guardian Angel, wash my memory and my imagination, wounded and stained by everything I see and hear.

    Free me from disordered desires, from slips into my exaggerated sensitivity, from discouragement, from the evil that the Devil presents to me as good, and from the error presented as truth.

    Give me peace and serenity, so that no event disturbs me, no physical or moral evil makes me doubt God. Guide me with eyes and kindness. Fight with me. Help me serve the Lord with humility.

  • Prayer of Healing to the Holy Virgin Mary and the Angels

    Prayer of healing is a Christian’s best medicine. Here is a very effective one, to heal from evil influences through the intercession of the Holy Virgin Mary and the Angels. With the Prayer of Healing, freeing our lives from the influences of the devil is fundamental, to reach the true peace, which Jesus Christ our Savior promises us.

    Healing prayer for physical and spiritual well-being

    Holy Father, Almighty, and Merciful God, in the Name of Jesus Christ, through the intercession of the Virgin Mary, send your Holy Spirit upon me. Spirit of the Lord, come upon me, melt me, mold me, fill me with you, hear me, use me, heal me, drive away from me all the forces of evil, annihilate, destroy them so that I can be well and do good.

    Drive away from my evil, witchcraft, black magic, black masses, hexes, bindings, curses, demonic infestation, demonic possession, demonic obsession. All that is evil, sin, envy, jealousy, perfidy, discord, impurity, infatuation. Physical, psychic, moral, diabolical illness.

    Burn all these evils in Hell, so that they never touch me and any other creature in the world.

    In the Name of Jesus Christ the Savior, through the intercession of the Immaculate Virgin. I order and command all unclean spirits, all presences that harass me, to leave me immediately, to leave me permanently, and to go to eternal Hell.

    Chained by St. Michael the Archangel, St. Gabriel, St. Raphael, my Guardian Angel, crushed under the heel of the Most Holy Immaculate Virgin. Give me, Father, so much faith, joy, health, peace, and all the graces I need. Your Most Precious Blood, Jesus, our Lord, be upon me.

    Amen.

  • Extrasensory perception extends the limit of normality

    Extrasensory perception has always fascinated the imagination, and according to the era or culture it was seen as a sign of divinity, demonic possession, or disease. Only in recent decades has science recognized that some abilities, albeit latent, are inherent in man.

    Those who follow an evolutionary path await the manifestation of qualities considered superior, wishing to experience the expanded reality that derives from it. Sometimes, however, the tender gem of their presence is not recognized precisely because of what is expected, as the fullness of some capacities is so standardized – in the imagination – as to prevent the recognition of its intermediate expressions.

    It is like seeing a tree only with fruit or flowers, and not in winter when it is stripped of all ornaments. Lacking this recognition, you lack the ability to develop more quickly what is most desired.

    Anyone who notices its initial sprout has the happy opportunity to nourish it by observing its growth in full awareness. The awareness that allows this recognition is directly proportional to the awareness that one has towards all the manifestations of life. Within this process, on the other hand, there are involuntary attitudes that boycott what is sought with commitment and passion.

    Extrasensory perception extends the boundaries

    The fear that man has of the unknown and the uncontrollable is connected to his instinct for self-preservation. Normality is a rather arbitrary dividing line that delimits and separates the rational from the irrational, the acceptable from the unacceptable, the known from the unknown.

    Normality is like a field plowed and sown year after year, well guarded and fenced so that wild animals and weeds do not jeopardize the expected yield. The paranormal is everything that can be seen beyond the fence, as far as the eye can see, beyond the horizon.

    In reality, normality is Existence with its infinite myriad of transformations and differences, unpredictable developments, changes, and genetic modifications. What is usually defined as normal is a trivial and limited subset in the larger whole of the Whole.

    Extending the limit of the concept of normality becomes inevitable, at some point along the way, wanting to expand awareness and perception. The extrasensory perception can develop only if it is not considered extraneous and different from supposed normality.

    To do this, it is necessary to review those individual preconceptions about what is normal or abnormal, acceptable or unacceptable, true or false within one’s own experience. It cannot be simply an intellectual understanding, but rather a behavior in everyday life if we want to broaden the perception in reality and not in fantasy.

    Extrasensory perception accepting the differences in life

    Not accepting the differences of life and its manifestations as a normal and legitimate reality inhibits the expression of that diversity that you want to promote within yourself. Since man is one in himself and with the Whole, the projected fear returns as a reflex – in a game of interior and exterior mirrors – on every aspect of individual reality.

    Those who want to express their potential must deal with the atavistic fear of the unknown – unpredictable and with its consistency parameter, then continuously and constantly expanding the limits of acceptance. Limits masked by habit and personal beliefs, often supported by an irrefutable and perfectly consistent logic.

    Everything must be evaluated as an apparent, temporary, insubstantial, and susceptible to change aspect, in order not to lose the opportunity for greater experimentation and wisdom that Life always offers to those who rely on trust.

    Extend the boundary of perception

    The term perception indicates both the act and the effect of perceiving and is related to both the physical and mental aspects. It is an ambivalent word with multiple meanings, even if its use is particularly used in philosophy and physiology.

    Perception is given by stimuli mediated both by the five physical senses and by their corresponding subtle senses. Therefore it is the elaborated perception that defines the reality conceived by each.

  • Spiritual purification brings the faithful back to divine

    Spiritual purification in the religious sphere is the act by which a man cleanses himself, from what corrupts his soul, from what is considered sinful or harmful within the relationship of faith. In every religion, the concept of purification is of primary importance, as it brings the faithful back to divine grace.

    There are people who want to cleanse themselves through purification rituals, and not infrequently identical people are looking for new rituals. Almost as if the quantity of what is learned can improve the quality of what one is.

    It would be legitimate to ask ourselves whether this instance of purification derives from an authentic desire to become sacred and holy. Or else we only seek atonement for what conscience or morality deems harmful.

    Understanding why we approach purification, and in general, a ritual is useful to understand if we are within a devotional sphere, or a real desire to prepare for subsequent theurgical commitments.

    The spiritual purification we are talking about is not attributable to the religious sphere, it does not respond to the need to make amends by virtue of broken commandments. It is not spurred on by feelings of guilt, or even by moral precepts. But rather by a preparatory and indispensable act to be able to operate correctly and profitably.

    However, it is useful to deal briefly with purification in the religious sphere, since through the sign it left, we can go back to the substance of this rite. My experience leads me to identify at least six types of purification.

    The admissible purification

    Through which the one who wants to enter the new community undergoes spiritual purification. Aimed at freeing him of the legacy of the previous life, in such a way as to be acceptable in the new brotherhood, and to prevent it from being corrupted by something external.

    Luke 2:22 – When the time came for their purification according to the Law of Moses, they took the child to Jerusalem to offer him to the Lord.

    Then follows the purification of the things that are to be used for the fulfillment of a ritual, or of the places of the ritual. In order to free them from what has been collected in their handling from parts of impure, or to exorcise their material part, and thus make them useful and welcome in the rite.

    1Chronicles 23:28 – They depended on the sons of Aaron for temple service, presided over the courtyards, the rooms, the purification of all sacred things, and the temple service activity,

    2Maccabees 1:18 – Being we to celebrate the purification of the temple on the twenty-fifth of Casleu, we thought it necessary to give you some explanation, so that you too celebrate the feast of Booths and fire, which appeared when Nehemiah offered the sacrifices after the reconstruction of the ‘altar.

    Expiatory purification

    Then we have an expiatory purification through which the faithful offer a sacrifice or behave in order to balance what has been done previously and contrary to the dictates of the religious community to which he belongs.

    Ezekiel 43:22 – On the second day you will offer a flawless goat for sin and cleanse the altar as you did the bull.

    Ezekiel 43:23 After the rite of purification, you shall offer a bull without defects and a ram from the flock without defects.

    Numbers 19:13 – Anyone who has touched a corpse, that is, the body of a dead human person, and not purified, will have profaned the Lord’s Abode and will be exterminated by Israel. Since the purification water has not been sprinkled on him, he is in a state of garbage, he still has the garbage on him.

    Numbers 19:20 But he who becomes unclean will not purify himself, he will be eliminated from the community because he has defiled the sanctuary of the Lord and the water of purification has not been sprinkled on him; he is unclean.

    Preventive spiritual purification

    Another form is the preventive one – to which the crusaders underwent – of the one who knows that in order to pursue an aim of glory, he must still operate a relative evil.

    There is also the consecrative purification, addressed to the one who is included in the priestly hierarchy by the body of the faithful.

    The last example is the priestly purification, which is proper to the priest who must prepare to perform a rite.

    Obviously, there are then purification rituals strictly connected to the succession of the seasons, as they coincide with religious recurrences, or lunations, equinoxes, and solstices. There is the need to realign oneself to the astral change, or to prepare for other rituals of which purification is a previous and necessary act.

    If it is therefore intuitively clear that purification can be seen as the liberation of what is extraneous to the nature of what is purified. Making it therefore different from what it is in nature, one should not think that grasping the question in such a simple way would lead to underestimating its essentiality.

    Spiritual Purification does not tend, and cannot tend to make good and righteous, but rather to make pure and clear, what is not pure and clear. To make the concept even clearer is like digging in the sand in search of what is hidden there. Only when this is completed will we know what was hidden by the sand, and what we would have found may not even please.

  • Mysteries and initiations prior to Christianity

    Mysteries and initiations were present in every ancient religion which passed down the content as sacred Knowledge. Each cult was the repository of doctrines and mysteries, myths and sacred ceremonies, of which only brief formulas and inscriptions, signs, simulacra, statues, and remains of shrines have come down to us. Nothing remains of the papyri containing the secrets of their mysteries, and of the doctrines, we find only fragments or allusions reported by the works of other writers.

    The essence of the Pythagorean mysteries, the pure conceptions of Plato, the thought of the Aristotelian school. The religious Mysteries and Wisdom Initiations of other peoples made it possible to outline the genesis of Gnosis prior to Christianity. What has come to us of knowledge about the cults that dominated in the East, especially in India and Egypt, rests mainly on what Greek and Latin writers have handed down.

    Something of what was the Egyptian religion and the Babylonian and Persian mysteries can be drawn from Herodotus. The teachings handed down by Pythagoras have a remote Tradition, in which it is impossible to distinguish the origins of the primitive layers.

    With Alexander the Great, the sense of religious conscience intensified for the Greek cultural classes, vast horizons of knowledge opened up in them and they were enlightened on the Mysteries of Zoroaster and on the science of the Magi. They learned the wisdom of the One, the art of predicting the future.

    The library of Alexandria was enriched with ancient and precious documents, the manuscripts of Homer, Hesiod, Plato, Aristotle, and many other treasures flowed there. The Orientals, custodians of very ancient doctrines and myths, in turn, portrayed for the Greeks, in a language accessible to them, copies of their sacred books, scrolls, and papyri.

    Berossus composed for their works on Babylonian doctrines, mysteries, and myths. Manetus composed another work on religion and the Egyptian mysteries of Gold, Isis, and Osiris. This Eastern wisdom greatly influenced the development of the sacred cult of Greek mysteries.

    It is difficult to trace the various lines of the Traditions of the Mysteries, as these were kept with the greatest secrecy.
    The idea was innate that religion should contain something so highly virtual as to confer power and knowledge.

    They considered it a duty to know secrets and mysteries, into which it was possible to penetrate to be initiated. That there was a gradual process of development both in the Mysteries and in the Knowledge and that finally there was a science of the soul and a knowledge of higher and invisible things.

    This Idea expanded and expanded considerably, developed even more highly with the fusion of what the Greeks learned about the cult of the Eastern Mysteries. Slowly and gradually the wisdom of the Egyptians, the Babylonians, and the Chaldeans reacted on the center of Greek thought. And Religion, with all its high and profound problems of the soul, prevailed.

    He, therefore, began to expel mere scholasticism from schools to apply and devote himself exclusively to the inner nature of the Mysteries. Various and different schools arose, born from this search for the Mystery and from the aspiration and thirst for knowledge.

    It is therefore evident that the origin of Gnosis, as Divine Wisdom, has very ancient foundations, and has always existed as an aspiration in the depth of being.

    Religion with its Mysteries has always exerted its influence on people.

    It has always been a fundamental and essential part of it, a rule of life. Whether the cult was conceived as a unique, exclusive Deity, with unlimited and infinite power. Whether worship, power, divine attributes are assigned to a plurality of Divine powers.

    It should also be noted that for the Babylonians and Chaldeans, in addition to Divine worship, the Elements of Nature, Air, Water, Fire, Earth were considered sacred and honored with worship practices. As the Celestial Vault and the cult of the Stars had a prominent place, indeed, the power and influence of these were intimately connected to all human events.

    This belief in the influences of astral powers, held in Babylon and Chaldea, greatly influenced other religions. It should also be noted that the wise interpretation of this science considered sacred was the task of the Priestly Caste. We owe to them the first subdivision of time, based on the study done on the movements of the Planets. Thus was born the Astronomy, Astrology, Calendar, the first fruit of the Babylonian Chaldean Wisdom.

    Every Religion and every Tradition has possessed the Initiation into the Mysteries, it has therefore been the custodian of Gnosis as Divine Wisdom, the search for this and reaching it are natural and innate tendencies to the soul. And the Name attributed to the Divinity, in the different Religions, has an identical Principle of comparison. Fatherhood as the Supreme Being.

  • Mindfulness is the importance of being aware

    Mindfulness refers to the ability to stop and focus on one’s feelings. There are many points in common with Buddhist practices and emotional education. Meditation is one of the most used practices to achieve this state of awareness. Mindfulness means conscious attention, it is, therefore, a way of being, a way of intentionally paying attention to the present moment without judging.

    Mindfulness and rational education

    The Buddhist teachings that are the basis of mindfulness have some points in common with rational education such as the link between harmful thoughts and destructive emotions. According to emotional rational education, there are unconscious thoughts called absolute claims that are completely illogical and capable of causing suffering or depression.

    These dysfunctional emotions must be overcome by turning them into preferences, that is, something attractive, but not essential. The way to overcome these problems is the questioning of these feelings, the fundamental preliminary step is the acquisition of awareness of one’s own irrational beliefs. Mindfulness accompanies this emotional awareness also the awareness of one’s own body.

    Mindfulness and meditation

    Practicing meditation is the way to mindfulness. This is not a passive practice, but it takes time and energy. Kabat-Zinn advises beginning observing one’s own breath which becomes the hinge from which to observe the sensations and changes around the body. The aim is to train the mind to be more stable and less likely to be distracted by the slightest changes, enriching and strengthening one’s concentration. There are several types of meditation.

    • Sitting meditation
    • Body exploration – is a method that consists in the systematic rotation of attention on the various parts of the body, focusing on each.
    • Walking meditation – technique suitable for those who cannot stay still, so while walking you try to concentrate between internal observation.
    • Mindful Yoga – a technique that unites mind and body through specific exercises.

    Mindfulness for children

    Mindfulness reduces stress, increases attention and concentration allowing you to get in touch with the deep emotional experience and the self. Even for the little ones, it is important to ensure serenity, efficiency, and awareness.

    Mindfulness is a technique that allows you to achieve full self-awareness by bringing attention to the present moment, in a non-judgmental and intentional way. It is commonly included in the meditation techniques that allow you to live the here and now with awareness and fullness, without being overwhelmed by daily commitments and by the countless stimuli of reality.

    Meditation is hardly considered suitable and possible with children, however, countless researches show the effectiveness of mindfulness even with the little ones.

    From an early age, people are bombarded with information, stimuli, and requests that subject them to high levels of activation and stress. This reduces the ability to live and pay attention to the present moment and personal experience. Everything escapes quickly, there is no time to enjoy the moment. You have to undergo the strict and precise program of mom and dad, the speed of the lesson at school, the rush to get to training, homework, and much more.

    Mindfulness allows children to focus on self, on their emotional experience, on their thoughts, and to live everyday life in a profound and conscious way. It guarantees the detachment from the frenzy and the rediscovery of simplicity, creativity and the essence of things typical of children and they’re due carefree. The benefits are many and affect different emotional, cognitive, and relational areas.

  • The family as a resource in teaching religious values

    In the family, religious values ​​should be proposed from childhood, to be cultivated in childhood, to be rethought in adolescence, so that the subject integrates them into his culture. The family should have the duty to offer young people an understanding of the religious problems arising in their conscience and implicit in their culture.

    While young people should have the right to know the various religious answers to the great questions of existence. To discuss it, to be helped to protect themselves from the stereotypes of the world of young people and from common conceptions in vogue.

    Educating in religious values ​​in the family

    Family education in religious values ​​also passes through affection, the warmth of hospitality, exclusive feelings of the F. This is the main group that is most capable of offering an intimately human and positive environment in which to experience. In the family, religious values ​​are shared and captured effectively in an atmosphere of closeness, trust, and love.

    And it is precisely through this positive experience that religious sensitivity and appropriate behavior are rooted in the members of the family. Communication is therefore fundamental in the f that wants to transmit a certain type of religious values ​​and that aspires to live their reality in accordance with the needs of their faith.

    What is important is sharing in the family, communicating with others, passing from a more individualistic faith to a shared faith. More and more frequent is the fact that in the family someone declares himself a non-believer, and then it can be a stimulus to confront oneself without adopting defeatist or pessimistic attitudes. Educating in religious values ​​in the family means sharing, understanding, experience, awareness.

    Family Prayer

    Lord, You are Love.
    We thank You for the happiness
    and the love of our common life,
    we want to live them as your gift.

    Teach us to progress the one
    through the other under your gaze,
    to do your will every day of our life,

    to submit our projects to you,
    to offer you our joys and our sorrows,
    to abandon ourselves to your divine providence.

    Help us overcome all difficulties
    and misunderstandings:
    so the union and the love between us will grow
    every day more and in them we will find You.

    Our love, our joy,
    our availability bring to our brothers and sisters
    encouragement and stimulus
    and are for the mission accomplished together
    an effective contribution, to your glory as a Father.

    Amen.

  • Faith and young people, do-it-yourself religion

    Faith is affected by historical conditioning, situations, and experiences that are lived. Finding and living one’s faith authentically today is certainly very difficult. To arrive at a conscious faith it is necessary to take a path that convinces. Young people today are very interested in the themes of faith, but this is less and less associated with a specific religious affiliation.

    They seek an open dialogue, but too often they do not find it, they seek concrete answers, but too often they have simplistic ones. Young people are not satisfied, they are skeptical, they want credible explanations, they want to know. Faith very often fails to enter young people, despite the fact that young people are predisposed to accept it.

    The strong responsibility of religious institutions is evident, believers who do not identify with a church are clearly increasing and an individual relationship with the divine dimension is increasingly gaining ground. For young people, family educational contexts are also important, but they seem to be less and less disposed towards religion. The latest surveys show how the importance of faith is weakening in the passage from one generation to the next.

    Young people and faith today

    The crisis of faith in recent years has doubled the percentage of young people who say they do not have faith in ecclesiastical institutions and also the majority of religious figures have little consensus. The difficult relationship with the faith is also manifested through the widespread intolerance of young people in the face of the political role played by the ecclesiastical hierarchies.

    This explains on the one hand the growing process of creating opposing groups whose positions for or against are consolidating. On the other hand, the obvious trend for which occasional participation in events and initiatives promoted by religious bodies is increasing, a sign of the emergence of a more individualistic search for the sacred.

    What is faith for young people?

    Many young people respond to this question by emphasizing the value of the faith’s psychological and relational support, as well as its fundamental function of guiding and offering hope. Religion, on the other hand, seems less and less a point of reference for moral doctrine, and in particular, precisely for those aspects on which it insists most in the public debate.

    This confirms how the lack of effective and credible guides in the perception of young people undermines the desire for faith. As already mentioned, a widespread sense of religiosity emerges among young people, but it does not conform to traditional styles. Religion is perceived as an institutionalized system of beliefs, practices, rites, and traditions and young people tend to shy away from anything that appears to be an institution or discipline.

    Young people need a more open and flexible relationship with faith to access it. The individualistic approach also often takes the form of independent reading of the Bible. Perhaps to better understand something that has not been clearly explained, to seek direct answers to their doubts. The fact is that we cannot speak to today’s young people about love, strength, hope, faith if we do not discuss with them the substance hidden behind these great words. In fact, many do not lack the goal, they lack the tools to achieve it.

  • Popular religiosity between religion and superstition

    Popular religiosity has at times been seen as a pure expression of faith and devotion on the part of the people, and at times as a deviation from the orthodox principles and rites of the Catholic religion. But what are the expressions and manifestations of popular religiosity? And how deeply rooted are they in our culture and our religious tradition?

    Pope Pius VI expressed himself about popular piety – Particular expressions of the search for God and faith are found among the people. For a long time considered less pure, sometimes despised. – Popular piety – popular religiosity – popular religion – are different expressions that often have ended up designating all the same thing. Demonstrations of faith that originate from the lower strata of the population and that often did not find space and recognition on the part of Catholic orthodoxy.

    Popular religiosity has its own rites, symbols, and languages ​​that express purity and spontaneity, but which are far from randomness or improvisation. They are rites deeply rooted in popular culture and also for this reason they allow a less formal and less intellectual approach to religion. They embody the profound spirituality of the humblest people and having popular roots, they are often linked to nature, the earth, and the passing of the seasons.

    Rites and language of popular religiosity

    The rites of popular religiosity have not always been opposed by the official Church. Often certain customs have become part of the actual religious rites. Think of the use of kissing and touching sacred statues, images, relics, or other sacred objects. To the habit of accompanying the saints in procession or to go on pilgrimage to sacred places. Even presenting offerings and votive gifts or kneeling in an act of prayer are symbols and expressions that come from afar and that have been handed down from generation to generation.