... and bring the people to God. Communication Spirituality as openness and it start with our experience and fire of the Holy Spirit and from there to express and share this fullness to others. Pastoral Communication is the sharing our deepening of this Spirit to the lives of people. The requires to myself the pastor is the openness to God, openness to self and ... experience of God in prayer, in reflecting on the Word of God, in the experiencing Spirit in the common celebration of the Liturgy and parishioners. This total openness to the Spirit is the first condition for any communication s...

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... of Vatican II. Prior to Vatican II, the Catholic Church was run as a strict hierarchical religious organisation. The Pope was regarded as the most holy person alive, followed by the Cardinals, Archbishops, Bishops, Priests, Deacons, and finally the Laity. This structure was somewhat outdated in the modern world which ... was experiencing a social revolution. Vatican II established that all people were equal in the eyes of God and the Holy Spirit, helping overcome the problem of exclusivity that was seen in the Church, helping it to become more inclusive. The people of the Church ... of...

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... on the Sacred Liturgy or Sacrosanctum Concilium it says that "The liturgy daily builds up those who are in the church making of them a holy temple of the Lord, a dwelling-place for God in the Spirit to the mature measure of the fullness of Christ." Prior to the Second Vatican Council, this was not being fulfilled. Many argued that before ... . The Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy passed which concluded a greater involvement of the congregation, the use of vernacular as opposed to Latin as well as a lowering of the age for Holy Communion. Having a greater involvement of the people can b...

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... of the world's major religions like Christianity, Islam, and Judaism promise an afterlife in different ways, and their holy books write about the idea. In Islamic religion, the idea of death is engrained in both the Holy Quran and Prophet Mohammed teachings. For example; the Holy Quran explained death and afterlife clearly; Al-Emran verse (185) which say:" every soul shall taste of ... fate for all living creatures. However; immortality exists in another way in Islamic culture for what is waiting for believers after death in heaven, as what is mentioned in the Holy Quran. The principle ...

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... , the cloth of the dead should be re-wrapped again (Graeber, 1997). They believe that if they do not do the famadihana, their ancestors punish them. This acts as the spirit of the dead coming to life in the present, this hints towards the past interlinking ith the present and reshaping the future in the sense that people will continue to ... authority is the ancestors. Rituals either involve different forms of action from everyday life, or at least different purposes. For example, in Christian ritual, the act of ingesting bread during Holy Communion is different from eating bread at any ...

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