Weekend Edition - A Daily Spiritual Seed
Published: Thu, 03/19/09
- readings, teachings, references and reviews -
Contents:
- Weekend Readings
- Commerce Corner
- Theology Note of the Week
- Book of the Week
- Shalom Place Discussion Board
- Personal Spiritual Guidance
- Affiliate Web Sites
- Website of the Week
- Joke of the Week
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WEEKEND READINGS
http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/
Saturday: Hos 6:1-6; Ps 51:3-4, 18-19, 20-21ab; Lk 18:9-14
Sunday: 2 Chr 36:14-16, 19-23; Ps 137:1-6; Eph 2:4-10;
Jn 3:14-21
R. (6ab) Let my tongue be silenced, if I ever forget you!
By the streams of Babylon
we sat and wept
when we remembered Zion.
On the aspens of that land
we hung up our harps.
For there our captors asked of us
the lyrics of our songs,
And our despoilers urged us to be joyous:
"Sing for us the songs of Zion!"
How could we sing a song of the LORD
in a foreign land?
If I forget you, Jerusalem,
may my right hand be forgotten!
May my tongue cleave to my palate
if I remember you not,
If I place not Jerusalem
ahead of my joy.
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THEOLOGY NOTE OF THE WEEK
Channeling
A New Age practice where a person goes into an altered state of
consciousness and allows another spirit or entity to enter him/her
in order to communicate to us. According to New Age teaching, this
spirit or entity can be from another dimension, the spirit realm,
or from another part of the galaxy or universe.
- http://www.carm.org/dictionary.htm
- Very spiritually dangerous! See
http://www.spiritual-wholeness.org/churchte/newage/trance.htm
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BOOK OF THE WEEK
"To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings," by John
O'Donohue. Doubleday, 2005.
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0385522274/ref=noism/christianspiritu/
This book is a collection of blessings to help readers through the
everyday and extraordinary events of their lives. The book is
written in elegant poetic language and spiritual insight to afford
comfort and courage on life's journeys. The author leads his
readers through the main thresholds of life: marriage,
childbearing, new jobs, and other transitions.
The book is divided into seven areas, the rhythms of the human
journey: beginnings, desires, thresholds, homecomings, states of
the heart, callings, and beyond endings. The book ends with a
section called, "To Retrieve the Lost Art of blessing."
The author believes life would be lonely without blessings, for the
very word evokes warmth and protection, a sense of intimacy and
ecstasy, an invitation to satisfy the pleadings of the heart of
God, the discovery of a fresh will, a change in the atmosphere, and
light amid darkness. The author defines a blessing as a direct
address driven by immediacy and care, and usually including the
word MAY, as imaging and willing the fulfillment of desire, and
acting as the spring through which the Holy Spirit is involved to
surge into presence and effect. O' Donohue sees the Holy Spirit as
the subtle presence and secret energy behind every blessing
(Thanks to Sr. Irene Hartman OP for this review)
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SHALOM PLACE DISCUSSION BOARDS
Jimmy Carter's new book - Book and Movie Reviews forum.
Obama, abortion, and embryonic stem cells - Christian Morality and
Theology forum.
- see http://shalomplace.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php to read up on
what's being discussed these days.
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AFFILIATE WEB SITES (please give them a visit)
Contemplative Rudder: "In the midst of Consecrated Silence'
atmospherics ... a Rudder!
http://www.contemplativerudder.com/
Inner Explorations: a vast array of spirituality resources for the
mature Christian.
http://innerexplorations.com
The Sanctuary Foundation for Prayer: resources for spiritual growth.
http://fromholyground.org/index.htm
SeeScapes. Picturing the deeper dimensions of our spirituality.
http://www.seescapes.com
Temenos Catholic Worker: support for homeless youth in Polk Street
neighborhood, San Francisco
http://www.temenos.org/
Contemplative Ministries of the Pacific Northwest: teaching and
support on contemplative practice
http://www.prayeroftheheart.com
Heartland Center for Spirituality (sponsoring Internet workshops
year-round).
http://www.heartlandspirituality.org/index.html
Emanuella House of Prayer: a place for prayer and silence in
British Columbia
http://members.axion.net/~massf/
The Ark: Providing a variety of scripture and lectionary study
resources.
http://www.theark1.com
Kyrie Places of Pilgrimmage and Renewal.
http://www.kyrie.com/places/index.htm
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WEB SITE OF THE WEEK
Free Rice
- http://freerice.com/
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Somewhere in the world, a person is eating rice that you helped
provide.
(from the website)
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JOKE OF THE WEEK
An elderly woman had just returned to her home from an evening
church service when she was startled by an intruder. She caught the
burglar red-handed, and yelled, "Stop! Acts 2:38 (meaning, repent
and be baptized...)!"
The burglar stopped dead in his tracks. The woman then calmly
called the police and explained what she had done.
As the officer cuffed the burglar, he asked, "Why did you just
stand there? All the old lady did was yell a scripture to you."
"Scripture?" replied the burglar, "I thought she said she had an
axe and two 38's!"
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