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Today it's your turn to have input.
My plan is to continue with the programs and resources we already have going, but I’m wondering what you would like to see happen?
What suggestions do you have for:
A. A Daily Spiritual Seed
B. Webinars
C. Podcast topics
D. Book studies
E. Online discussion topics
Simply reply to this email with your suggestions to let me know your ideas and suggestions. And thanks, once more, for supporting this ministry.
Until next year (God-willing) . . .
Peace,
Phil St. Romain
Internet Ministry Coordinator
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All donations are tax-deductible.
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- Heartland Center for Spirituality
Internet Ministry
3600 Broadway
Great Bend, KS 67530
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We must pray not first of all because it feels good or helps, but because God loves us and wants our attention.
- Henri J. M. Nouwen
(Attention is formative. What we give our attention to influences us. Take time in prayer to give God your full attention this day.)
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1 MC 4:36-37, 52-59; CHRONICLES 29:10-12
LK 19:45-48
Jesus entered the temple area and proceeded to drive out
those who were selling things, saying to them,
"It is written, My house shall be a house of prayer,
but you have made it a den of thieves."
And every day he was teaching in the temple area.
The chief priests, the scribes, and the leaders of the people, meanwhile,
were seeking to put him to death,
but they could find no way to accomplish their purpose
because all the people were hanging on his words.
USCCB lectionary
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Reflection on the Scripture
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"Now that our enemies have been crushed, let us go up to purify the sanctuary and rededicate it." —1 Maccabees 4:36
Don't you think you'd better clean house? There are some closets in your heart that haven't been cleaned out for years. The film of sin has given your life a dingy appearance. And there's the trash you've been thinking of taking out, but never got around to it.
I have good news for you. Jesus will handle your trash. He will cleanse the temple of your body and make it a house of prayer (Lk 19:45-46). Jesus will wash you in His blood. Accept Him as Lord and Healer. Confess your sins in the Sacrament of Reconciliation. Jesus will wash you in the bath of His Word (Eph 5:26) and purify the gold of your life in His fire (1 Pt 1:7). You don't even have to take out the trash.
He'll come in and carry it out Himself. How's that for service?
However, you do have to give Him the keys to your life — the whole key ring. When He takes out your trash, He won't leave, but stay. Jesus with the Father and the Spirit will dwell within you (Jn 14:23). You will not only be clean but pure as He is pure (1 Jn 3:3) and holy as He is holy (Mt 5:48). Come, Lord Jesus, come (Rv 22:20).
Prayer: Jesus, here are all my keys. Do anything You want, any time You want.
Promise: "It was reconsecrated with songs, harps, flutes, and cymbals. All the people prostrated themselves and adored and praised Heaven, who had given them success." —1 Mc 4:54-55
Presentation Ministries
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Abandonment to Divine Providence
- by Jean-Pierre de Caussade
BOOK II,
CHAPTER I. ON THE NATURE AND EXCELLENCE OF THE STATE OF ABANDONMENT
SECTION VIII. God reigns in a pure heart.
All the treasures of grace are the fruit of purity of heart and perfect abandonment.
He, therefore, who wishes to enjoy an abundance of all blessings had but one thing to do; to purify his heart by detaching it from creatures, and to abandon himself entirely to God. In this purity and abandonment he will find all that he desires. “May others, Lord, ask You for all sorts of gifts, may they multiply their words and prayers; as for me, my God, I only ask one single gift, I have only one prayer to
make: "give me a pure heart.” O pure heart! how happy you are; for by the liveliness of your faith you see God as He is in Himself. You see Him in all things and at every moment working within you and around you. In all things you are His subject and His instrument. He rules you and leads you. You have not to think because He thinks for you. Whatever happens to you, or may happen by His will, it is enough for Him that you will it also. He understands your readiness. In your salutary blindness
you try to discover in yourself this desire, but you cannot see it, nevertheless He sees it quite clearly. How foolish you are! a well-disposed heart is a heart in which God dwells. Seeing therefore the good inclinations in this heart God well knows that it will remain always submissive to His will; He knows also that you are ignorant of what would be useful to you and therefore He makes it His business to give you what is necessary.
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