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It's that time of the year again when I update you on what's happening with the Internet ministry of Heartland Center for Spirituality and ask for your
support to help keep us online. I'm working a few weeks ahead to compile these as I'm expecting to have triple bypass surgery on November 2nd and am not sure when I'll be up to computer work after that. Therefore, these appeals will be short, but hopefully to the point. As always, your support
is deeply appreciated. Phil St. Romain
Internet Ministry Coordinator
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Read and read again, and do not despair of help to understand the will and mind of God though you think they are fast locked up from you. Neither trouble
your heads though you have not commentaries and exposition. Pray and read, read and pray; for a little from God is better than a great deal from people. - John Bunyan (“Pray and read, read and pray . . .”
Today!)
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Rom 11:29-36; Ps 69:30-31, 33-34, 36
Lk 14:12-14 On a sabbath Jesus went to dine
at the home of one of the leading Pharisees.
He said to the host who invited him,
"When you hold a lunch or a dinner,
do not invite your friends or your brothers or sisters
or your relatives or your wealthy neighbors,
in case they may invite you back and you have repayment.
Rather, when you hold a banquet,
invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind;
blessed indeed will you be because of their inability to repay you.
For you will be repaid at the resurrection
of the righteous."
Praying the Daily Gospels: A Guide to Meditation, by Philip St. Romain, 2018 (3rd ed.) Luke 14: 12-14 (Agape love) To help the Pharisees work through their preoccupation over status and discover agape, the love which God shows for us, Jesus suggests they reach out to those who cannot possibly repay them. If we, too, were to heed Jesus’ advice, we would discover an opportunity to love as God loves. • Have you ever loved or given with no
expectation of return? If so, get in touch with the feelings you experienced. If not, think of a way to give today without expecting something in return. • Why do you believe God loves you? Pray for the grace to view other people likewise.
Treatise on the Love of God, by St. Francis de Sales (1567-1622) ____________ BOOK IV: OF THE DECAY AND RUIN OF CHARITY Chapter 4: That heavenly love is lost in a moment
Habits acquired by our human actions alone do not perish by one single contrary act: for a man is not said to be intemperate for one single act of intemperance, nor is a painter held an unskilful master for having once failed in his art; but, as all such habits are acquired by the influence of a series of acts, so we lose them by a long cessation from their acts or by many contrary acts. But charity, Theotimus, which in a moment the Holy Ghost pours into our hearts as
soon as the conditions requisite for this infusion are found in us, is also in an instant taken from us, as soon as, diverting our will from the obedience we owe to God, we complete our consent to the rebellion and disloyalty to which temptation excites us.
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