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Religious experiences are not limited to extraordinary phenomena or ex�dinarily holy people. As Jesuit Father Thomas Gedeon says, religious experiences occur any time "the mystery of life touches us a little differently".

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Forty-eicht per cent of Catholic: youths in a 1976 SUl'W!Y reported that a particular event or experience had "changed their feelings about God and the

Church".

Sociologist Dean Hoge of The Catholic Universi l y of America in Washington conducted theswveyof 451 year ten, Baptist, Methodist and Catholic youths.

One third of 1000 Catholics interviewed by phone for a 1986 study of religious practices and beliefs in the Archdiocese of Miami, Florida, reported having had ''a deepening religious experience. one that has been a turning point".

A majority of 100 people surveyed in 1985, mostly Church professiona Is, reported having had religious experiences.

Those surveys, and others, indicate that a religious experience is a fairly common occurrence among ordinary lay Christians.

The question about religious experience \\'BS included on the Miami survey to find out if people could identify "any kind of conversion which experience" caused them to move in a new direction in their faith, said religious educator Marsha Whelan.

But religious experiences cannot be equaled simply with a conversion experience, Hoge said.

He sees religious experiences as "an intensification, a reaffirmation" of faith which leads lo some action In the Hoge survey, 77 per cent of Catholic youths testified that the experience "had made God and the Church

more important" in their lives.

Hoge also noted the difficulty of designing a survey lo get an accurate reading.

Often. "we don't know what people have in mind" when they say they have had a religious experience. hr said.

Therefore, researchers are careful how they phrase the question, Hoge said.

Often they ask somethmg like: Have you had a feeling of closen to God? Wben do you feel closest lo God? Has some experience strengthened your faith or changed your life?

Somehmes researchers ask where the religious event occurred. In the Hoge study of youth, 43 per cent said it occurred with loved ones; 25 per cent were alone; 21 per cent said it happened on retreat or al camp.

Hoge added that other surveys reinforce the importance of a retreat selling for religious experiences among youths.

He told of a survey of college students where a majority said that their "most spiritually enriching experience" occurred while on retreat or at a religious program.

But religious experiences occur any time "the mystery of life touches us a little differently", added Jesuit Father Thomas Gedeon.

They can happen in the middle of a bus trip, al the lake shore or on a mountaintop.

Father Gedeon is a director of retreats.

Researchers try to differenuate between the kinds of religious experiences people have.

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By Katharine

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A religious experience is something which lakes people "outside of themselves", said Ms Whelan. ln the 1976 Hoge study, most youths responded that their religious experience \\.1lS a .. salvation or inspiration" experience.

It involved "a sense of feeling saved in Christ", Hoge said.

The next most common response was a feeling of appreciation.

Hoge said this feeling usually occurred when a youth or someone close lo a youth had been spared from death or some other dire happening.

The event made youths feel closer to God and thankful.

Reflecting on his retreat Father experience, Gedeon said that he often finds people are shy about discussing their religious experiences.

"People know they have the experience and are looking for a way lo articulate it," he said.

In such situations, Father Gedeon asks people lo identify and describe the feelings th y had during the religious experience.

"Whal I look for is a sense of awareness of the presence of God" however it might be described, Father Gedeon said.

He emphasised, however, that people do not have to go on retreat lo experience God. All of life "is charged with the presence of Ood" But a retreat centre can help people become more a ware of how to look for God in the ordinariness of life, in their relationships with others, the retreat director said.

Many people equate religious experience with some "bolt out of the blue" which radically changes their lives. However, such experiences do not sum up what is meant by religious experience. Not everyone has a dramatic: conversion moment like that of Saul of Tarsus on the road to Damascus.

Think of an experience - as opposed. say. to an idea - which you might characterise as so out of the ordinary course of things that you can only reach for a word like "religious" to describe it.

Such moments - psychologists call them "peak" experiences -

may or ma) not be overwhelmingly happy or exalted ones.

Indeed. they may be moments that move from intense desolation lo quiet. '>C11'nc satisfaction.

I.Rt me cite a few of such examples moments

• The exhilarating moment of pain-ecstasy which many parents report at the moment of the birth of LhCLr child.

• The awful moment of clarity when an addicted person realises, simultaneously, that his or her life is a shambles and that there is a compelling need lo reach out for help.

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• Those moments when prayer is not an exercise in rote recitation but a genuine reaching out lo an Other.

• The moment of a deeply felt conviction that one is forgiven and loved that occurs when the act of reconciliation (in church or in the family) truly happens.

• The overwhelming sense when, for an instant. we genuinelv see the beauty of nature.

The unbeliever may simply call these - to borrow the language of Sigmund Freud - oceanic moments.

The believer, however, sees in such moments the

By Lawrence

CUNNINGHAI presence of God God, after all, not simply one amonmany other persons the world. God is solute mystery ldn<iin,bm1', before, hehmd annnder every human expuore.

The e\'CS of fai •see" God ..;ol only the privileged mol!IOI of prayer anrl wors , but in the daily as ol ordinary living.

Too often peopl.hink that religious � riences must be eitli dra-

matic events or reserved for the spiritual few. Both notions are wrong, Mother Teresa of Calcutta, for example, began her great ministry lo the poor after man} years in the convent.

The religious experience which changed the course of her life happened during a train trip when he looked out the window and for the first lime really "3W the poor.

The great Jewish my Heal writer, Martin Buber, stressed that one can look upon other people either as an "it" - an object or as a "thou", To speak to another

person not as an object but as a "thou" is to speak to God. for God is the eternal Thou standing behind every good human relationship.

We cannot force expenences of God; we only can be open lo them.

That is why the great spiritual masters and mistresses insist that we must learn virtue and avoid sin as the first step on the spiritual path. "ext, we have lo recognise that God stands behind all of life, not simply asa first cause but as the foundation of all that is.

That means every encounter which is truly

human also religious.

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To the degree that people live humanly they live for God .

Equally, we begin lo see that what we may have described as special moments are, in reality, encounters with the eternal Thou who is God. When we come to such a recognition about everyday life, the moments of formal prayer and Y.'Orship not only take on new depth. They teach us what it means to adore and be thankful.

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All of which is what it means lo have a religious experience.

Exoe iences 01 God

Religious

experiences

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describe. They are deeply personal and involve awareness of, and contact with, realities beyond normal experience.

St Paul described an experience he had, saying: "I know that this person , . . was caught up into Paradise and heard ineffable things .z which no one mav utter' ' (2 Corinthians 12:3-4).

Ezekiel. al the begin-

ning of his �ibetic mimstrv, had a� ri Gori which he � es lo relate. It takes I too chapters and his JSlralion shows. He sll that he saw "sometll1 lilce the appeerance d • ".

But whatever h w", the experience nnsformcd his life. tj)OW· ering him to prea to his people in the rying circumstances the Babylonian E1'ile The prophet lsal tells

By Father John CASTELOT

of seerng a figure he identifies as the Lord seated on a high and lofty throne with his robe's train filling the whole temple.

The Lord rs flanked bv two choirs of heavenJ� beings chanting, "Holy, holy, holy L, the Lord of hosts! All the earth is filled with his glory]"

(Isaiah 6:3).

Terrified, Isaiah cries out his unworthiness, sure that he is at death's door.

Then a seraphim flies over lo the altar of incense, lakes a burning ember in a pair of longs and touches it to Isaiah's lips, signifying his purification. thereafter Shortly Isaiah becomes acutelv

conscious of a commission to carry God's

message lo his people.

The whole experience left an indelible impression on the prophet.

More than ever conscious of God's holiness, he refers lo God repeatedly throughout his sermons as "the Holy One of Israel".

Isaiah i given the courage to carry through his potentially discouraging mission in dealing with the irreligious King Ahaz, Having asked for

Some experiences are so out of the ordinary course of things that one can only reach to,, a word like "religious"

to describe them, says theologian Lawrence Cunningham. The "exhilarating moment of pain-ecstasy which many parents report at the moment of the birth of their child" is one such experience. neither the experience nor the mission, Isaiah both and accepts to their responds implications.

In the area of religious

experiences, the socalled "inaugural visions" Ezekiel and Isaiah had al the start of their ministry stand out as quite spectacular. But

By Father Eugene La VERDI ERE

"Experience" is a word very much in vogue.

People talk about having a good experience or a bad experience. Or they say: "That was really an experience!"

Increasingly, people speak of a religious experience. Of course, "a religious experience" often refers to something that somebody else has.

From the ew Testament, St Paul's mystical

experiences come to

mind as well as the experience of the disciples al the transfiguration of J us.

People sometimes think that religious experiences are most likely lo happen lo priests or members of religious orders. However, reli-

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Plain days

of faith ...

Do you -ti s leel that dry periods are tile

dominant strain in your lite of taith?

Perhaps you ask why

there is so much talk of

"faith

experiences",

when the bland and seemingly unnoleworthy stretches along the road

gious experiences a re part of every Christian's life.

The difficulty does not lie in having such experiences but in recognising them. Because people lend lo view religious experiences as extraordinary phenomena, they do not think that religious experiences can occur in the course of

their ordinary li� It IS lime to take lo.er look al the o Y in life.

Some religioll!!XJleriences are quiteiraordinary, but .- are ordinary. .

We can learn tord.inary religious eiriences even from I Old hich Testament, abounds with !I! of

of faith might be much easier lo describe.

Even the greatest spiritual writers knew what the plain days of faith were like.

These saints spoke of their dark nights of faith - times when they wished a little light would be cast on the situation.

These dark nights are the times when one's faith seems immobile,

From the insidl0king out, you just di feel like you are You may indeed be WUig, but you pro will only know this I� You might nol �be yourself as ,.belie during these Uner, blander peno<b faith life. But for .YOur allachmenl to th"lh, it feels like little �?!Jenor ing for }OU or m you in tenn.< ailh.

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extraordinary experiences.

On one occasion, the prophet Elijah was standing on a mountain waiting for the Lord lo pass by. There came a mighty wind, followed by an earthquake, Then came a fire.

But the Lord was in none of those. Instead, the Lord came in a tiny

whispering sound (1 Kings 19:11-12).

Elijah had an ordinary religious experience.

Thal is the way the Lord enters people's lives most of the time. Every religious experience contains two components.

First, there is the presence of God or that of Christ lo us. Thal is the divine component.

Second, there is an awareness of this presence. That is the human component.

Religious experiences are faith experiences.

Everyone blessed with faith has wonderful religious experiences, but with varying degrees of awareness.

A nurse told me recently of an experience

she bad a few years ago while working in the hospital all through Holy Week and Easter.

She managed lo rush out lo a nearby church during a break for Easler Mass, but the crowd was so great that she could not gel to Communion. IL would have taken loo long.

So she prayed, standing

in a side aisle near the back: "Lord, I give you my whole day."

The Lord answered her right away.

"For 10 whole minutes," she says, "I just stood there, full of the realisation that God and our Lord loved me. What a difference that made as l returned to the hospital lo continue working."

Actually, such periods

Then as if for the first ti me in a long time you feel that you can see your faith much more clearly.

Perhaps this is an occasion when you a.re not only the participant in a community of faith, but a witness of the faith within a community as it gathers to love and support the grieving parents of a child who has died.

The community's love is witnessed by you as a completely credible and moving live-force.

Again, an experience of faith may be nothing more - or less - than an occasion when you are able lo say lo yourself, with genuine conviction, that you really do believe.

There is no predetermined model or definition of a "faith experience". Undoubtedly it occurs in thousands millions - of ways throughout the human family.

ln the life of an individual it may lake many forms over the course of years and at different periods in life.

In any event, when darkness gives way lo a little light in the life of faith, it is always a welcome development.

Interestingly enough, these days people in the Churcb are quite OtJCnlY telling how this happens for them.

are the occasions of a

faith experience in themselves. Christians don't live just for the special days when they can really feel alive With faith. 'onethel , the darker faith Limes do stand in fairly sharp contrast with the occasions when something like a bright light is suddenly cast inlo the midst of things.

Or perhaps, more simply, after a period of dryness within you the Sunday liturgy one weekend opens up for you; you are able lo see it and hear it and join in it with renewed spirit.

Its meaning and beauty

are clear for you.

there are a wide range of religious experiences.

On the first Easler, for example, two quite ordinary disciples had an encounter with the risen Lord. They listened to him explain the Scriptures, not knowing who he was, and had supper with him. It lifted them from despondency to jubilation.

Describing the experience, they remarked lo each other: "Were not our hearts burning while he spoke lo us on the way and opened the Scrip-

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us?"

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Luke's point in telling this story is that all Christians can enjoy similar experience, if their hearts are open lo the Word of God and if they are sensitive lo God's presence along the road of life.

Their experiences may not beas imposing as that of Isaiah or as spectacular as that of Ezekiel, but they will be as real, as transforming as that of the two disciples on the road lo Emmaus.

When people talk about the religious experiences they have had, the kinds of experiences they report are likely to vary greatly; they also occur in many different settings.

Can an ordinary person expect to have a religious experience?

Must this be an extraordinary experience in the sense of being dramatic or spectacular?

Where and when might such an experience occur?

Do you think such an experience occurs only for individuals in isolated ways? How might it occur for a family group?

F« a parish comm .. ity?

Why might people be shy about discussi their experiences of God? What is the point of the story Blessed Sacrament Father £..- La\lenliete tells about the prophet Elijah meetinc God in the whisperi wind?

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Disturbing trend ... from DORIS MARTYR, Attadale Sir, A disturbing trend has become very noticeable of late, even in the columns of the Record. I refer to a disinclination on the part of some Catholics to face and teach the Reality of the Blessed Eucharist as the very Body and Blood, soul and divinity of Jesus Christ, and the reality of the Mass as sacrifice as well as meal.

Pathways of The Spirit (The Record, June 23), covered teaching children to discover the riches of Mass. Amongst much that was pertinent and usef I, there was on y one mention of sacrifice, and this in a negative way, saying "Children don't bring an adult und rstandinq to th me of th Mas such as lov , cornrrutrn nt, suff ring or cnf1c ". Th f e ct th t th s th sacrif of C lvary rs no Just n "th me" of the

bread', the 'sacred bread of life' (no initial capitals even) - nothing more.

Then a recent Majellan Sunday bulletin which circulates widely through WA parishes (this one written by Father F Pidgeon C.ss.Rreferred several times to the Blessed Eucharist as "the spirit of Jesus" completely avoiding the doctrine of what the bless Eucharist really is.

The same weak-kneed equivocation occurs in some teaching texts available in this State.

Yet the doctrinal teaching of the Catholic Church is that the Blessed Sacrament, to preserve which Tarcsius and many others have died, is truly the Body and Blood, soul and divinity truly present of Our Lord and God Jesus Christ.

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Perhaps it is a weakness in this teaching that is partly responsible for the attitudes of many young Catholics to the sacrament of penance and the reception of holy communion. If one does not really know and reverence Him being received in holy communion, why worry about whether one is in a state of grace or not?

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