De La Mennais Brothers: Making Jesus Christ better known and loved by young people

This one's from the Life Application Study Bible (NIV) which I just purchased for my Olive Tree Bible Study app. "The transfiguration was a foretaste of heaven; the participants were doing something worth noting—talking together. In God’s world, interactions count highly. People are individuals, with minds, hearts, and opinions. People are also part of a wider whole, connected by relationships built on sharing between whole persons. Friendship is the key. Make time and opportunities to talk with others. Good conversations act as training for eternity. " I love the idea here that a healthy conversation, one founded on mutual respect and friendship, can give us a taste of heaven. Again, I have been experiencing this recently in the discussion groups at the Life In The Spirit Seminar course that I have been helping with. This is being hosted by the wonderful Fr. Peter Morgan and the prayer group of his parish of St. Anne's, Overbury St., Liverpool, under the lea...

Found this on the Facebook page of Keith and Kristyn Getty . It helps explain why it is that praising God feels so right. We do it a great deal in the charismatic prayer group I belong to. It's not just superficial "happy-clappy-ness". It leaves me with a sense of wholeness, of inner peace and joy that nothing else gives me to the same extent, even when going through a very rough time. It completes my being. ********************* "Just as men spontaneously praise whatever they value, so they spontaneously urge us to join them in praising it: “Isn’t she lovely? Wasn’t it glorious? Don’t you think that magnificent?” The Psalmists in telling everyone to praise God are doing what all men do when they speak of what they care about. I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment ; it is its appointed consummation. It is not out of compliment that lovers keep on telling one another how beautiful they are;...