Message of 11-10-2022

Published: Thu, 11/10/22

A Daily Spiritual Seed
Thursday. November 10, 2022

ANNUAL APPEAL

Shalom Place (https://shalomplace.com) continues to be the primary domain for our Internet ministry. The site was launched in 1998 and is still under development It has become 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 dozens of podcasts on Christian spirituality

- Numerous presentations, with handouts — all free

- 25 books/eBooks, most in paperback and digital format

- Numerous booklets/worksheets/handouts, all free

- Discussion board with hundreds of open topics (averages over 400,000 views per month)

- A Daily Spiritual Seed eNewsletter

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Phil St. Romain

Internet Ministry Coordinator

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Today's Message

A talkative soul lacks both the essential virtues and intimacy with God. A deeper interior life, one of gentle peace and of that silence where the Lord dwells, is quite out of the question. A soul that has never tasted the sweetness of inner silence is a restless spirit which disturbs the silence of others.

- St. Faustina Kowalska

(How can you tell when you need more time for silence in your life? What do you notice when it is lacking? When you have more?)

Scripture Readings

PHMN 7-20; PS 146:7, 8-9A, 9BC-10

LK 17:20-25

Asked by the Pharisees when the Kingdom of God would come,
Jesus said in reply,
“The coming of the Kingdom of God cannot be observed,
and no one will announce, ‘Look, here it is,’ or, ‘There it is.’
For behold, the Kingdom of God is among you.”

Then he said to his disciples,
“The days will come when you will long to see
one of the days of the Son of Man, but you will not see it.
There will be those who will say to you,
‘Look, there he is,’ or ‘Look, here he is.’
Do not go off, do not run in pursuit.
For just as lightning flashes
and lights up the sky from one side to the other,
so will the Son of Man be in his day.
But first he must suffer greatly and be rejected by this generation.”

Scripture Reflection

Praying the Daily Gospels: A Guide to Meditation, by Philip St. Romain, 2018 (3rd ed.)

- See http://shalomplace.com/view/praying.html

Luke 17: 20-25 (The kingdom among us)

An erroneous translation in the past said that ‘The kingdom of God is within you.” The more correct translation is “The kingdom of God is among you.” The implication of the new translation is that God’s Spirit is most active in our relationships with one another.

• Where do you look for God? How can you tell when you are experiencing God?

• Spend some time with the passage “The reign of God is already in your midst.” Pray for the grace to recognize God’s presence throughout the day.

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Spiritual Reading

Treatise on the Love of God, by St. Francis de Sales (1567-1622)

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BOOK III: OF THE PROGRESS AND PERFECTION OF LOVE

Chapter 4: Of holy perseverance in sacred love

But in any case, perseverance is the most desirable gift we can hope for in this life, and the one which, as the Council of Trent says, we cannot have but from the hand of God, who alone can assure him that stands, and help him up that falls: wherefore we must incessantly demand it, making use of the means which Our Saviour has taught us to the obtaining of it; prayer, fasting, alms-deeds, frequenting the sacraments, intercourse with the good, the hearing and reading of holy words.

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