June

List of articles

Resurrection: Beyond suffering to a new acceptance and embrace of the challenges of life by Rev. Michaël Merle

This talk considers an aspect of Resurrection: suffering. Suffering is a focus of Passiontide. Suffering is a reality of life.
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​The very next sentence is the sentence of Resurrection, it is the idea not of reaching the end of suffering, but of going beyond suffering. “And a voice is heard that says: ‘Behold, I make all things new’”.

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... going to the Father – a contemplation for Ascension by Rev. Reingard Knausenberger

The source of my, and all fellow human beings’, existence is the Father God. When I am one with Christ, I can speak the Lord’s Prayer as a truth, by addressing the Divine Ground of the World as ‘our Father’.

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Establishing the Foundation for Our Future Becoming: The Descent of the Holy Spirit and the Descent of the New Jerusalem by Rev. Michaël Merle

We enter into the place that we have co-created as an inner reality. Without the descent of the Holy Spirit there cannot be the descent of the New Jerusalem. It is only through the descent of the Holy Spirit that we have become co-creators in the new creation. The New Jerusalem cannot descend without something first having ascended.

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​The Study of the Gospel of John

During May chapters 19 to 21 formed the study of John’s Gospel.

John wrote his Gospel with the purpose of telling humanity that that which was written has been fulfilled. The wait is over.

Chapter 20 end as if this is the end of the Gospel and then there is chapter 21.

​In Greek the word sheep means the ones who move forward. The shepherd walks behind the sheep and has the task of ensuring that they are nourished.

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