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Shalom Place (http://shalomplace.com) continues to be the host site for our Internet ministry. The site was launched in 1998 and has since been a popular Internet touchpoint for Christian spirituality resources.
At this time, we make available:
- Opportunity to sign up for spiritual direction/consultation
- Numerous retreats/workshops, many of them free
- Links to numerous youtube teachings, all free
- Links to 37 podcasts on Christian spirituality
- 25 webinar presentations, with handouts — all free
- 25 books/eBooks, most in paperback and digital format
- Numerous booklets/worksheets, all free
- Discussion board with hundreds of open topics
- A Daily Spiritual Seed eNewsletter
During the past year, Shalom Place also featured a Covid-19 resource area with practical information, poetry, music, and helpful links. This information was downloaded thousands of times. It's no longer up as we seem to be in a different time regarding the pandemic, but here's the link to it if you'd like to see what was available:
https://shalomplace.com/covid-19.html
Your donation helps to keep these resources available for everyone, so thank you for considering this appeal request.
Phil St. Romain
Internet Ministry Coordinator
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Donations are eligible for tax-deduction.
Online donations (secure payment link):
Check payments:
- Heartland Center for Spirituality
Internet Ministry
3600 Broadway
Great Bend, KS 67530
Gratitude gift will be sent to donors.
"If anyone thinks that Christians regard unchastity as the great vice, that is quite wrong. The sins of the flesh are bad, but they are the least bad of all sins. All the worst pleasures are purely spiritual: the pleasure of putting other people in the wrong, of bossing and patronizing and spoiling sport, and back-biting; the pleasures of power, of hatred."
- C. S. Lewis -
(Where do you experience these sins in your life? Pray the grace to be free of these kinds of sins.)
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Wis 6:1-11; Psalm 82:3-4, 6-7
Lk 17:11-19
As Jesus continued his journey to Jerusalem,
he traveled through Samaria and Galilee.
As he was entering a village, ten lepers met him.
They stood at a distance from him and raised their voice, saying,
“Jesus, Master! Have pity on us!”
And when he saw them, he said,
“Go show yourselves to the priests.”
As they were going they were cleansed.
And one of them, realizing he had been healed,
returned, glorifying God in a loud voice;
and he fell at the feet of Jesus and thanked him.
He was a Samaritan.
Jesus said in reply,
“Ten were cleansed, were they not?
Where are the other nine?
Has none but this foreigner returned to give thanks to God?”
Then he said to him, “Stand up and go;
your faith has saved you.”
Praying the Daily Gospels: A Guide to Meditation, by Philip St. Romain, 2018 (3rd ed.)
Luke 17: 11-19 (The attitude of gratitude)
Life is such an incredible phenomenon! It is possible that our planet alone out of billions of galaxies and stars is hospitable to living organisms. How sad it is that we do not properly appreciate the miracle that we are! Gratitude brought the Samaritan leper far more than health; it brought him salvation.
• Do you believe it is a sin to take your life and creation for granted?
• Spend time thanking God for the gift of your life, your body and its functioning parts, your health, your energy.
Treatise on the Love of God, by St. Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
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BOOK II: THE HISTORY OF THE GENERATION AND HEAVENLY BIRTH OF DIVINE LOVE
Chapter 15: Of the great sentiment of love we receive by holy hope
Eliezer sought a wife for the son of his master Abraham; how could he tell whether he should find her beautiful and gracious as he desired? But when he had found her at the fountain, and saw her so excellent in beauty and so perfect in sweetness, and especially when he had obtained her, he adored God, and blessed him with thanksgiving, full of incomparable joy. Man's heart tends to God by its natural
inclination, without fully knowing what he is; but when it finds him at the fountain of faith, and sees him so good, so lovely, so sweet and gracious to all, and so ready to give himself, as the sovereign good, to all who desire him,--O God! what delight! and what sacred movements in the soul, to unite itself for ever to this goodness so sovereignty amiable! I have found, says the soul thus inspired, I have at last found that which my heart desired, and now I am at rest. And as Jacob, having
seen the fair Rachel, after he had holily kissed her, melted into tears of sweetness for the happiness he experienced in so desirable a meeting, so our poor heart, having found God, and received of him the first kiss, the kiss of holy faith, it dissolves forthwith in sweetness of love for the infinite good which it presently discovers in that sovereign beauty.
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