Shalom Place (http://shalomplace.com)
continues to be the host site for our Internet ministry. If you haven't visited the site lately, check it out. No matter if you are using a computer, tablet or smart phone, you will find that the fluid coding displays well on all these devices -- an improvement made two years ago.
At this time, we make
available:
- Opportunity to sign up for spiritual direction/consultation
- 25 retreats/workshops, many of them free
- Links to several youtube teachings, all free
- 10 webinars/series, all free
- 24 books/eBooks, most in paperback and digital format
- 39 booklets/worksheets, all free
- Discussion board
- A Daily Spiritual Seed eNewsletter
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Phil St. Romain
Internet Ministry Coordinator
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I am learning to see, I do not know why it is, but everything penetrates more deeply within me, and no longer stops at the place, where until now, it always
used to finish.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
(Transformation: an ongoing process. What kind of growth have you noticed in yourself lately?)
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TI 2:1-8, 11-14; PS 37:3-4, 18 AND 23, 27 AND 29
LK 17:7-10
Jesus said to the Apostles:
"Who among you would say to your servant
who has just come in from plowing or tending sheep in the field,
'Come here immediately and take your place at table'?
Would he not rather say to him,
'Prepare something for me to eat.
Put on your apron and wait on me while I eat and drink.
You may eat and drink when I am
finished'?
Is he grateful to that servant because he did what was commanded?
So should it be with you.
When you have done all you have been commanded, say,
'We are unprofitable servants;
we have done what we were obliged to do.'"
UCCB Lectionary
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Reflection on the Scriptures |
How can we love others selflessly and unconditionally? Scripture tells us that God himself is love (1 John 4:16) - he is the author of life and the source of all true relationships of love
and friendship. He created us in love for love, and he fills our hearts with the boundless love that gives whatever is good for the sake of another (Romans 5:5). If we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us (1 John 4:12).
God honors the faithful servant who loves and serves others generously. He is ever ready to work in and through us for his glory. We must
remember, however, that God can never be indebted to us. We have no claim on him. His love compels us to give him our best! And when we have done our best, we have simply done our duty. We can never outmatch God in doing good and showing love. God loves us without measure. Does the love of God compel you to give your best?
"Lord Jesus, fill my heart with love, gratitude and generosity. Make me a faithful and zealous servant for you. May I generously pour out my life in loving service for you and for others, just as you have so generously poured yourself out in love for me."
DailyScripture.net
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The Ascent of Mount Carmel, by St. John of the Cross E. Allison Peers Translation. Paperback, Kindle, Audio Book.
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BOOK THE SECOND Wherein is described the nature of dark night and how necessary it is to pass through it to Divine union; and in particular this book describes the dark night of sense, and
desire, and the evils which these work in the soul.
Of the Ascent of Mount Carmel Wherein is treated the proximate means of ascending to union with God, which is faith; and wherein therefore is described the second part of this night, which, as we
said, belongs to the spirit, and is contained in the second stanza, which is as follows. __________________________________________________________________
Second Stanza
Chapter 6
Wherein is described how
it is the three theological virtues that perfect the three faculties of the soul, and how the said virtues produce emptiness and darkness within them.
2. These three virtues, as we have said, all cause emptiness in the faculties: faith, in the understanding, causes an emptiness and darkness with respect to understanding; hope, in the memory, causes emptiness of all possessions; and charity causes
emptiness in the will and detachment from all affection and from rejoicing in all that is not God. For, as we see, faith tells us what cannot be understood with the understanding. Wherefore Saint Paul spoke of it ad Hebraeos after this manner: Fides est sperandarum substantia rerum, argumentum non apparentium. This we interpret as meaning that faith is the substance of things hoped for; and, although the understanding may be firmly and certainly consenting to them, they are not
things that are revealed to the understanding, since, if they were revealed to it, there would be no faith. So faith, although it brings certainty to the understanding, brings it not clearness, but obscurity. |
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