Contents:
- Weekend Scripture Readings
- Spiritual Guidance Resources
- Shalom Place Premium Groups
- Discussion Board highlights
- Affiliate Web Sites
- Book of the Week
- Saint of the Week
- Web Site of the Week
- Joke of the Week


Weekend Readings
     http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/

Saturday:   2 Cor 5:14-21;   Ps 103:1-2, 3-4, 9-10, 11-12;   Luke    2:41-51
Sunday:   2 Sm 12:7-10, 13;   Ps 32:1-2, 5, 7, 11;   Gal 2:16, 19-21;   Lk 7:36--8:3 or 7:36-50

R. (cf. 5c) Lord, forgive the wrong I have done.

Blessed is the one whose fault is taken away,
whose sin is covered.
Blessed the man to whom the LORD imputes not guilt,
in whose spirit there is no guile.

I acknowledged my sin to you,
my guilt I covered not.
I said, "I confess my faults to the LORD,"
and you took away the guilt of my sin.

You are my shelter; from distress you will preserve me;
with glad cries of freedom you will ring me round.

Be glad in the LORD and rejoice, you just;
exult, all you upright of heart.

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Shalom Place Discussion Board
- Discussions this past week featured the following topics:

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Contemplative Outreach of St. Louis
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Emanuella House of Prayer: a place for prayer and silence in British Columbia
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Saint of the Week

- June 20th. St. Alban.
The first recorded English martyr. Traditionally he died during the persecution of Diocletian (304), but in fact it may have been up to a century earlier. He is believed to have been a pagan soldier of the Roman Empire who gave shelter to a priest; when troops came searching for the priest Alban changed clothes with him and so allowed him to escape. Buried nearby in the Roman town of Verulamium, his resting place soon became a shrine, the centre of the modern town of St. Alban's (Herts.) with its imposing Abbey, whose medieval prosperity greatly aided spread of devotion to the Saint.
- Saint of the Day Index

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Web Site of the Week

Universalis: Liturgy of the Hours
- This site does all the calendar calculations for you, and presents you with the psalms and readings for each hour of today, every day.   For instructions, please see the links at the top of this page.  As well as the Web, Universalis content is also available for WAP phones, by email, and by web feed for syndication.
- from the web site

One of my spiritual directees pointed me here, noting that you could also download the readings to your PDA (Palm, Pocket PC, etc.).  An excellent resource for those who want to pray the Liturgy of the Hours!

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Joke of the Week

A pious man, who had reached the age of 105, suddenly stopped going to synagogue. Alarmed by the old fellow's absence after so many years of faithful attendance, the Rabbi went to see him. He found him in excellent health, so the Rabbi asked, "How come after all these years we don't see you at services anymore?"

The old man lowered his voice. "I'll tell you, Rabbi," he whispered. "When I got to be 90, I expected God to take me any day. But then I got to be 95, then 100, then 105. So, I figured that God is very busy and must've forgotten about me, and I don't want to remind Him!"

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