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Mark Storer's avatar

"I believe, Lord. Help my unbelief..." has been my mantra for many years. I wrote it down once and stuck it to my mirror. The clarity of faithlessness must be so rewarding (it must be, otherwise who would be faithless?). But the reward for faith, at least in this life, are dreams and visions, and sacred cures. A beautiful thing....

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Joe's avatar

I believe you are right as usual, gentlemen. Sacramental rites & other religious practices serve the purpose of training your thinking toward the divine. One can live a spiritual life and yet not have spiritual experiences everyday. The mechanism is that perhaps, the spiritual disciplining of the mind through sacraments and other practices open the mind to the spiritual so that we can experience those God events more deeply than our iPhone apps would otherwise indicate.

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