Religion Belief

Incorporating your faith into daily life

No matter what religion you follow, you may be lamenting the slow decline of faith in everyday life. More and more people seem to live their lives Monday to Saturday, remembering their faith only on Sunday. If you’d like to reclaim religion in your life and your family’s, there are a number of easy ways to incorporate the lessons and values of your faith on a daily basis:

• Make time for your religion. Gather for bedtime blessings and story time as a family. When preparing a meal, ensure that everything is well organized so that your family can say grace together beforehand. Set your morning alarm early to make time for quiet meditation and prayer before heading off to work each day. Incorporating these small rituals in to your life, especially with your children, will bring faith into the home.

• Communicate with your children. Discuss with your children why you attend religious service and why Sundays are important to you. In your answers to their questions, incorporate religious readings and lessons that they can understand. You can also leave them special messages based on religious passages to encourage them to listen and look with faith in everyday life.
• Choose your music. There are many faith-based musical groups who will fit your taste for modern music and whose lessons and morals are likely to be in line with your own. A quick Internet search brings up many lists of such artists - have a look and bring some musical faith into your home.
• Care for each other. When you take the time to repair, build and strengthen the relationships you have in the home, such as your marriage, you make the time for more fruitful discussions and better time together. You teach your children how to get along with others and how to successfully face their own problems.

Following these suggestions is likely to lead to a calmer and happier home life, where everyone in the family can practice the values and beliefs you celebrate in church, every day.

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I am glad we live in a society that allows us to practice free religion. Yes, Wicca IS a religion. We pray just as do other religions. We don't pray to the horned god or devil or whatever you want to call him. I don't degrade or bash other's religious preferences and it is just a shame that some people feel the need to call Wiccans "Devil Worshippers" just because they don't understand the religion. They call us that out of fear. I will pray for the under-educated. May the Goddess and God bless them with understanding.

Posted on 11/30/2008 12:10:00 PM by Anonymous

Say what you mean and mean what you say.

Posted on 11/9/2008 1:58:00 PM by Anonymous

Christianity isen't a religon, its a Reality.

Posted on 11/7/2008 7:20:00 PM by Anonymous

Prayer is the best way to bring God into your everyday life. Keeping a journal of all you are thankful for will help you see what you want to pray for. Teach your children to pray when you see an ambulance, fire truck or police car in response. Attending Mass, or any service on Sunday is the best form of prayer of all. God givew you 24/7, give it back to him in your actions and prayer.

Posted on 10/31/2008 11:02:00 AM by Anonymous

i beleive that god is the best. I mean he created the earth. I am in grade six and i love god i go to incarnation school in ewing New Jersey and love God.

Posted on 10/30/2008 5:26:00 PM by Anonymous

who should I vote foe

Posted on 10/29/2008 8:35:00 PM by Anonymous

while looking for something to teach my kids team kid class on wednesday nite services i read some of the comments below how uneducated people are about how God gave his only begotten son so that we can live, eat ,play, talk and breathe! Had it not been for all of our precious savior Jesus Christ hanging up on that rugged cross so many years ago we would not have the one thing that gets me through everyday that is the fact that when i close my eyes in death i will be in the prescence of the Lord! For all these people who throw around there opinions which have no fact to them at all, the only way to educate yourself about our precious Savior is to get out your Bible and read the truth it there in black and white and red.

Posted on 10/29/2008 5:15:00 PM by Anonymous

The influential jewish speakers should think about making some kind of National statement alerting people to the fact that Barack Obama has definitely had some very disturbing associations with Jew Haters! The LA Times won't release the tapes of a dinner that Obama attended honoring the "service" of a PLO member who speaks out against Jews and Israel! There has been money exchanges between the groups. This Obama is DANGEROUS and that is NOT the kind of change America wants or needs!

Posted on 10/29/2008 11:25:00 AM by Anonymous

Walter Sanders, The Glenn Beck show just signed a deal with Fox News, and the show will be moving to that network. CNN has now pulled it from the air since, if they were to continue to run it, they would be spending their time and money advertising for a competitor. Upon moving to Fox, the show will be taking place of the timeslot that Fox News now has blocked off in the early evening for election coverage; therefore, you can expect that it will take until at least after the election before you see the show on the air again. It may not be immediate since they will probably have quite a bit of postelection coverage. As you know, this is no ordinary presidential election. I doubt that we will ever have an "ordinary" presidential election ever again the way the United States has been recently. Also, they may wait a bit to restructure/reformat the show. I hope that they do not because I like the show as it is. I'm sure that Glenn Beck would not sign a contract with the network without keeping much of the creative license for the layout of the show itself...we'll see. I hope this has been informative. God Bless!

Posted on 10/25/2008 11:38:00 AM by Anonymous

I am searching for a copy of the Litany of All Saints. Will you please hel me Thank you.

Posted on 10/24/2008 6:07:00 PM by Anonymous

Anonymous from 10/20/08 at 12:29pm, do yourself a favor and do some research before spouting about your "one true path". What we do doesn't matter so long as its in the good of everyone and it gets you where you want to go. Look up a man by the name of Sadartha Guatama, educate yourself you self righteous ignorant moron.

Posted on 10/21/2008 11:45:00 AM by Anonymous

Religion is not the path to truth in God, it is mans path to his concept of god, Jesus is the path, he is the ONLY one provably that walked the earth and chose to die for your sins, and you choose religion over him.? Being born again as per the bible is the ONLY course for your time on earth, it will return eternal life and peace with God forever. There is only one way to salvation NOT MANY ! MAY God bless you, turn to Him and Him alone, man, the Christ, Jesus alone !

Posted on 10/20/2008 12:29:00 PM by Anonymous

Mr. Anonymous, why do you go to mass every Sunday, this is only ritual, the Living and real God of the universe is not there ! He resides in your new and regenerated heart. He would not be Jehova God if he were confined to a box, building or a priests ritual, he is above all and you can know him too if you want, confess your sins, repent and ask Jesus into your life and he will fill you with love and the peace that surpasses ALL understanding and NOT as the world gives its peace, be set free of your bondage now brother ! !

Posted on 10/20/2008 12:20:00 PM by Anonymous

Why won't people listen, you can't there , HEAVEN, the real one ,through religion and or denomination, I love my morman and catholic and 7th day and buddist and methodist and orthodox BUT, why can't we ALL see that "unless one is born again of the spirit through Jesus" you will not inheret the kingdom of God, the real God ! It is so simple! What are we all doing works, salvation is of God, not you ! ! ! Time is very short now, turn, confess and repent while it is still the day of grace ! ! ! MAY God bless you ! ! !

Posted on 10/20/2008 12:09:00 PM by Anonymous

I don't strictly believe that, to be a good catholic or any other religion, you have to listen to christian music all of the time. There is a line to be drawn against satanic music of course and even some heavy metal and rap is quite inappropriate. But I listen to every kind of music; Pop, Rock, Heavy Metal, Rap, Hip Hop, Country and Alternative. Plus many more. I still consider myself to be a good catholic. As long as it's not satanic and it doesn't affect your faith for the worse, there is no problem. I'm a musician. i sing about normal things and still make it to mass every sunday. :D

Posted on 10/8/2008 9:32:00 AM by Anonymous

who was/is ERZULIE FREDA?

Posted on 9/8/2008 3:17:00 PM by Anonymous

thank you!

Posted on 8/20/2008 11:26:00 AM by Anonymous