This has been my first year of part-time employment with Heartland Center for Spirituality. While scaling back on various responsibilities, I have continued to meet with spiritual directees as before, and have kept up with maintaining and developing of our Internet Ministry. A big part of that is preparing Daily Spiritual Seed each week, but I’ve also managed to create two new resources:
- Advent and Christmas Meditations: Praying the Seasonal Gospels is a booklet, ready for individuals and groups to use for the coming seasons, which is just around the corner.
- see http://shalomplace.com/view/advent.html for more
info and ordering.
- Come Holy Spirit: An Invitation to Renewal, is a 15-part video series (5 - 12 min. each) for individuals and groups to use as a resource to better understand the role of the Spirit in salvation history, and to become more open to living in the Spirit. Access with a 50% off coupon: https://www.udemy.com/come-holy-spirit/?couponCode=50-OFF
More relevant
offerings will be coming next year!
Phil St. Romain
Internet Ministry Coordinator
- -
-
All donations are tax-deductible.
- A special gratitude gift will be sent to all
donors.
Check payments:
- Heartland Center for Spirituality
Internet Ministry
3600 Broadway
Great Bend, KS
67530
We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. God will be constantly crossing our
paths and cancelling our plans by sending us people with claims and petitions. We may pass them by, preoccupied with our more important tasks, as the priest passed by the man who had fallen among thieves, perhaps - reading the Bible….. it is part of the discipline of humility that we must not spare our hand where it can perform a service and we do not assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
(" . . . interrupted by God". . . be open to these opportunities for service.)
|
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."
Reflection on the Scriptures |
“When will the Kingdom of God come”? Jesus tells us today that 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.” The Kingdom of God is, indeed, among us. God is the vine, and we are the branches. God is with us and in us. We are his instruments, and the living Kingdom, especially when we carry out his greatest commandment -- love
one another. Provide food for the hungry; set captives free; protect strangers. These acts desperately need to be done. The Kingdom of God is among us. We should make it as evident as a flash of lightning, but possibly, more lasting.
- by Tom Quinn
Revelations of Divine
Love - by Julian of Norwich
Fourteenth Revelation, Chapter 53
“In every soul that shall be saved is a
Godly Will that never assented to sin, nor ever shall.” “Ere that He made us He loved us, and when we were made we loved Him”
AND I saw that He willeth that we understand He taketh not harder the falling of any creature that shall be saved than He took the falling of Adam, which, we know,
was endlessly loved and securely kept in the time of all his need, and now is blissfully restored in high overpassing joy. For our Lord is so good, so gentle, and so courteous, that He may never assign default [in those] in whom He shall ever be blessed and praised.
|
|
|
