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Contents:
- Weekend Scripture Readings
- Spiritual Guidance Resources
- Shalom Place Premium Groups
- Affiliate Web Sites
- Book of the Week
- Saint of the Week
- Web Site of the Week
- Joke of the Week
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Weekend Readings
http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/
Saturday: 2
Cor 12:1-10; Ps 34:8-9, 10-11, 12-13; Mt 6:24-34
Sunday:
Is 49:1-6; Ps 139:1b-3, 13-15; Acts
13:22-26; Lk 1:57-66, 80
R.
(14) I praise you, for I am wonderfully made.
O LORD, you have probed me, you know me:
you know when I sit and when I stand;
you understand my thoughts from afar.
My journeys and my rest you scrutinize,
with all my ways you are familiar.
Truly you have formed my inmost being;
you knit me in my mother’s womb.
I give you thanks that I am fearfully, wonderfully made;
wonderful are your works.
My soul also you knew full well;
nor was my frame unknown to you
When I was made in secret,
when I was fashioned in the depths of the earth.
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Affliliate Web Sites
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The Ark: Providing a variety of scripture and lectionary
study resources.
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Inner Explorations:
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Picturing the deeper dimensions of
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House of Prayer: a place for
prayer and silence in British Columbia
Kyrie
Places of Pilgrimmage and Renewal.
Contemplative
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Holy
Trinity: Old Catholic Orthodox Church. Corpus Christi, TX
Temenos Catholic
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Book of the Week
Break through
Pain: A Step-by-Step Mindfulness Meditation Program for Transforming
Chronic and Acute Pain, by Shinzen Young. Sounds True,
Inc. 2004
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here
This book offers a step by step mindfulness mediation program for
transforming chronic and acute pain. A CD accompanies the text, and
provides a step by step guide for meditation and reduction of pain. The
author presents learning to greatly reduce and even eliminate the
suffering that normally results from physical and psychological pain.
This is a way of focusing awareness while at the same time opening to
it and dropping resistance. As the skill develops, the pain causes less
suffering and may break up into a flow of pure energy, that is
refreshing and satisfying.
The practice takes time, effort, and determination and can be used to
relieve not only pain but emotions such as anger, fear, sadness,
impatience, guilt, confusion, and jealousy. The practice may even
reduce the need for drugs and surgery. The author wants you to begin
"living your life again."
- Thanks
to Sr. Irene Hartman, O.P. for this review.
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Saint
of the Week
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June 26th. John & Paul
They are named in
the Roman Canon of the Mass (Canon 1) but little is known of them. They
were martyrs of the 4th. century; their church on the Caelian Hill in
Rome was originally that of another saint, until their relics were
brought there. Their ‘Acts’ (i.e. biography) are of
late date and consist mainly of borrowings from stories of other
martyrs. According to these, they were brother soldiers under the
Emperor Constantine, and assured their commander on campaign in Thrace
that he would be victorious if he became a Christian. Later, under
Julian (‘the Apostate’), they were summoned to the
imperial court, refused to obey, and after ten days were executed in
the grounds of their own house on the Caelian Hill (i.e. where their
church is today); there are indeed house foundations under their church
in Rome, but further identification is impossible. Their celebration
was removed from the Universal Calendar of the Church in 1969 along
with various others where historical data were impossible to obtain.
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Web Site of the Week
The
Healing Spectrum
This web site provides references to a wide variety of alternative
healing resources: acupuncture, aromatherapy, bio-feedback,
chiropractic, herbology, homeopathy, kinesiology, reflexology, and so
forth. Sure to broaden your perspective, but use with
discretion.
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Joke of the Week
Two guys were sitting outside a medical clinic. One of them was crying,
tears were pouring down his face.
The other guy asked, "Why are you crying?"
The first one replied, "I came here for blood test."
The second one asked, "So? Why are you crying? Are you afraid?"
The first guy replied, "No. Not that. During the blood test they cut my
finger."
Hearing this, the second one started crying.
The first one was astonished and asked the other, "Why are you crying?"
Then the second guy replied, "I have come for a urine test."
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