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Webinars, webinars!
These have become an important way to minister online, and we have made use of this technology as part of our Internet outreach. People seem to like them as they can participate from their homes and enjoy live, real-time interact with a presenter.
This past year, we were privileged to have Sr. Carla Mae Streeter, OP present a 5-part webinar series on “Consciousness, Conversion and Grace.” This was an excellent series on Christian spirituality, and I highly recommend it to anyone looking for a good continuing ed resource. It was well attended, with good questions and interactions, but if you missed it and/or would like to review it again, it’s in our webinar archives, along with several others
we’ve offered through the years. It’s also free, thanks to donations to help under-write this ministry.
- see http://shalomplace.com/inetmin/index.html for a link to our webinar archives and other online programs.
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All donations are tax-deductible.
- A special gratitude gift will be sent to all donors.
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Message of the Day
Francis of Assisi and his
community established a hospital for lepers. Compassion was the root of this ministry. Francis wrote of his call to this service:
“This is how God inspired me to embark upon a life of penance. When I was in sin, the sight of lepers nauseated me beyond measure; but then God himself led me into their company, and I had pity on them. When I had once become
acquainted with them, what had previously nauseated me became a source of spiritual and physical consolation for me.”
(from, “Praying with Francis of Asissi”)
Breathprayer: Keep me open (breathing in) To your presence (breathing out).
Journaling Question: What person or task repels you and yet transforms you?
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WIS 7:22B–8:1; PS 119:89, 90, 91, 130, 135,
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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."
USCCB Lectionary
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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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God and I: Exploring the Connections between God, Self and Ego, by Philip St. Romain, 2016 (2nd ed.) ____________ Chapter 5: The Journey to Egoic Authenticity - Being Responsible In a sense, everything we have discussed
in this chapter thus far is about becoming responsible, first for where we place our attention, then for the kinds of beliefs and thoughts that shape how we understand ourselves and our lives. What this section is concerned with now is how we exercise our will in the decision-making process. Being more attentive, intelligent and responsible will enable us to experience more inner freedom, but there is still work to be done at the level of the will.
Our first concern in this section will be addictions, and how they undermine our freedom. False self conditioning leads to inner frustrations that we inevitably “medicate” with a variety of mood-altering fixes. It’s easy enough to see how alcoholism, for example, is an addiction, but much more difficult to spot the subtle addictions that keep us numb to our inner life. For myself, it was not one, but a variety of
things that did so, none of which had become major problems, but all of which in combination sufficed to keep me numbed out. Coffee, beer, cigarettes, junk novels and TV sports, for example, served as fixes for me for many years. Whenever I would begin to get close to repressed, negative emotions, I could run to one or more of these and it would take the edge off for awhile. I am certain that if I had kept up this pattern much longer, one or another of these activities would have become a major
problem in and of itself. I would have added others as well.
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