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Spirituality
What is Spirituality?
Spirituality is connecting ourselves with God, not only through prayer and meditation but finding God in all things nature, sunsets, and by giving our unconditional help to others. Thoughts, words and actions that come from our hearts can be spiritual.
Various Ways to Spirituality
As Catholics, we strive to live our life through spiritual practice. These are a few of the many different ways one can express ones spirituality through the Catholic faith:
- Benedictine Spirituality community life, order and obedience to superiors
- Franciscan Spirituality life of poverty, love of nature and charity
- Dominican Spirituality life of poverty and love of preaching and devotion to truth
- Carmelite Spirituality interior detachment, silence, solitude, desire for spiritual progress
- Redemptorist Spirituality follow Christ in his incarnation, death and resurrection
- Ignatian Spirituality examining ones life, discerning will of God, living the resurrection
Each way offers very different approaches to living your spiritual life. Please click on the links and explore the one that appeals to you. In doing so, we hope you find the one that best suits you and your spirituality.
Schools of Spirituality:
www.spiritualorientations.com This link provides a wealth of information about many aspects of spirituality, including "spiritual tools" to help deepen spiritual lives.
Various Forms of Spirituality: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_spirituality
Further Information on Spirituality: www.salvationhistory.com/library/liturgy/prayer/spirituality_traditions.cfm
Additional Links for Spirituality
At the end of this Section are listed additional links for Spirituality and Prayers


