Understanding The Madonna Interfaith Community
Sacrament of Empowerment
The Sacrament of Empowerment is the Madonna Ministries gift to humanity given to our founder The Most Reverend Arnold Michael, D.D., L.H.D. This sacrament recognizes God/Goddess as the creative force within us and invites us to become aware of the purpose of our incarnation. The empowerment comes through us as us. Expressing our own creative Christ-like, or divine self is living sacramentally. Love is the impulsion, creativity is the compulsion and location is the form.
The Sacrament of Ordination is offered to individuals who already are ministering to others. It is a spiritual and legal acknowledgment of your authority to serve in this capacity.
Basic Precepts of Madonna Interfaith Community and Madonna Ministry
1. To have a loving relationship with the Divine Feminine in all forms. (Whatever your understanding of the Divine Feminine is.)
2. To love all humankind as ourselves
3. To express our Divine nature in benevolent service
We understand that what some call the Divine Feminine is love. It makes no differences what name we ascribe to the Divine Energy. To know the Divine Feminine is to know and express unconditional love. Some call that which is nameless, the Absolute, the Divine One., and many more labels.
To love all humankind is to move beyond the shadows of duality to a realization of unity. In order to do this we must remove the splinter from our own eye (sense of separation). We must be willing to give up our grievances against our brothers and sisters.
To express our Divine-likeness in beneficial service is the Life Force giving freely of Itself.
1.To love God/Goddess/Divinity (Whatever our understanding of this is)
2.To love all humankind as our self
3. To express our God/Divine-likeness in benevolent service
We understand that God/Divinity is love. It makes no differences what name we ascribe to this creative life force energy, What matters is that we realize it’s essential nature is love. To know God/Divinity is to know and express unconditional love. Some call that which is nameless, the Absolute, the Ineffable One.
To love all humankind is to move beyond the shadows of duality to a realization of unity. In order to do this we must remove the splinter from our own eye (sense of separation). We must be willing to give up our grievances against our brothers and sisters.
We formed the Madonna Interfaith Community to teach, counsel, inspire and heal through service, and in the process, strive to convey consciously and purposefully the creativity and nurturing of our Divine-selves.
Beliefs & Understandings
There are as many ways to connect to the divine as there are people in this world. Some say that Divine Will is masculine and Divine Grace is the feminine. Some believe that Christ is the manifestation of the Triune God–Spirit, Mind, and Body. God/Goddess, the divine life spark energy, is All in All as All. And some just believe in the goodness of humanity as being divine.
The Individual Soul awakened, recognizes and utilizes the Life Force in a creative and constructive way, is cooperating with the Divine impulsion through the synthesis of involution expressed as evolution.
Cosmic Grace as the Divine Feminine is often referred to as the Holy Spirit, the Holy Comforter exemplified by the Holy Madonna, who nurtures and stimulates the creative expression by impregnating the seed of the Father (will) in the fertile substance of the Mother (cosmic grace) resulting in the form, the formidable Christ. Some may refer to the divine life spark of creation.
Those with roots in Christianity may be familiar with the concept of a Christ-like self that emerges in each individual as a beneficial presence in the world. Divine Love is the impulsion, beneficial activity is Its compulsion, the compelling force is God, or that life spark energy, expressing Itself creatively through us. “Be still and know that I am God.” God, or the creative life force energy, is love and love is awakening humanity of its Christ-like, or most divine, self.
Life force is Love expressed as the will-to-good, always expanding from Its center which is everywhere to Its boundless circumference which is nowhere to be found.
Love is the synthesizing Life force that recognizes Unity in diversity, and awakens what some call the Christ consciousness, or that divine life force energy, to the Infinite Good in humanity. Love is the way and the threshold to Goodwill (God-will), right relationships, peace, creative fulfillment, infinite joy and boundless truth.
Love possesses nothing and provides everything.
Why do we call ourselves Madonna Interfaith Community?
We call ourselves Madonna Ministry Interfaith Community because we are interested in expressing and nurturing the qualities of the Divine Feminine in our lives and in the global community. Those qualities include, unconditional love, compassion, understanding, nurturing, and kindness. Inspiration, science, spirituality, and philosophy are paths to an understanding of the Source of these qualities.
Humanity is awakening to the Divine Feminine presence within each of us. The infinite Presence is called the Mother/Father Divinity within, the Source. The infinite Mother is called Cosmic Grace, the Creative Medium, and the Holy Comforter.
God is Love as presence. God is Law as principle. The Christ-like individual abides in Love and fulfills the Law of being. We as ministers and teachers look beyond appearance to the indwelling-Christ and affirm Truth.
