A great wind goes through the trees, and the Christ child speaks, telling the Cherry trees to bow down so that his mother may eat.
A great wind goes through the trees, and the Christ child speaks, telling the Cherry trees to bow down so that his mother may eat.. View Article By Kathryn Schulz By Adam Davidson By Robin Wright By John Cassidy.
As a result of the influence of Augustine, in the Catholic West it is in and through the one Christ, the union of Head and body that is the church, that humans come to experience God.
What ties the diverse forms of Trinitarian mysticism together is the insistence that through Christ the Christian comes to partake of the inner life of the Trinity.
The statue shows the saint wading through fish-filled water carrying the Christ-child on his shoulder.
The other attitude proceeds from the opposite idea that the goal of the salvation inaugurated through Jesus Christ is the redemption of all humanity.
"Just as they can pray and fast, we want to pray and fast that they will find the true way to heaven, and this is through Jesus Christ," the Rev. James G. Merritt, leader of the nation's second-largest Christian denomination, said in a statement yesterday.
Traditionally, Mr. Whitehead says, just as the only way to heaven is through Jesus Christ, the only way into office in southeast Queens has been with the blessing of the Brewer club and the man who has run it for 39 years, the former councilman Archie Spigner.
Each of us was hurtling toward Hell or Heaven, and there was only one way to enter the latter: through the belief in Jesus Christ as our personal lord and savior.
The Old Covenant of the Children of Israel through Moses and the New Covenant through Christ had already been represented around the walls of the chapel.
This means that Christians strive, in the midst of change, to have some "inner sameness and continuity" through the focus on Jesus Christ and the way of salvation.
