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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
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Weekend
Readings
http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/
Saturday:
Gn 8:1-15; Luke 1:46-50; 53-55; Mt
8:5-17
Sunday:
1 Kgs 19:16b, 19-21; Ps 16:1-2, 5, 7-8, 9-10, 11;
Gal 5:1, 13-18; Lk 9:51-62
R.
(cf. 5a) You are my inheritance, O Lord.
Keep me, O God, for in you I take refuge;
I say to the LORD, “My Lord are you.
O LORD, my allotted portion and my cup,
you it is who hold fast my lot.”
I bless the LORD who counsels me;
even in the night my heart exhorts me.
I set the LORD ever before me;
with him at my right hand I shall not be disturbed.
Therefore my heart is glad and my soul rejoices,
my body, too, abides in confidence
because you will not abandon my soul to the netherworld,
nor will you suffer your faithful one to undergo corruption.
You will show me the path to life,
fullness of joys in your presence,
the delights at your right hand forever.
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Spiritual
Guidance Resources
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Shalom
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Discussions
this past week featured
the following topics:
Liberal influence
in media and universities - Religion and culture forum.
The bodily
resurrection of Jesus - Christian morality and theology
forum.
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to read these topics -
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Affliliate
Web Sites
- please give them a visit
Inner
Explorations: a vast array of
spirituality resources for the mature Christian.
SeeScapes.
Picturing the deeper dimensions of
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Carry the Light CD: Piano
Meditations for the Hopeful Heart
Stillpoint:
Programs in spiritual direction,
contemplative prayer.
Solitude
and Streets: an emerging faith community.
Family
Life Training and Counseling Center: an
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The Ark: Providing a variety of scripture and lectionary
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Contemplative
Ministries of the Pacific Northwest: Teaching
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Contemplative
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Heartland
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Internet workshops year-round).
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Kyrie
Places of Pilgrimmage and Renewal.
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Book of the Week
Science as Sacred
Metaphor: An Evolving Revelation, by Elizabeth Michael
Boyle. Liturgical Press, 2006.
Click
here for more info
For Sr. Elizabeth Michael Boyle, there’s
nothing quite like the
world of science—with its "aha!" moments, quandaries, and
inscrutable
mysteries—to usher the modern seeker into the divine presence
of God.
In this book, she creates a sacred space at the intersection where
science and faith meet.
Sr.
Boyle says that Jesus, who used the lives of birds and wildflowers as
signs of the divine would probably be saying today, "Consider the
implications of lilies and stars, of quarks and quantas. Learn from the
drama of life-out-of-death in everything from seeds to tsunamis."
In
Science as Sacred Metaphor, Sr. Boyle leads the reader to unravel
the fascinating threads of science and follow them to the marvelous
skein of spiritual insight and contemplative wonder. With a blend of
scientific fact, powerful poetry, and spiritual exploration, she helps
the reader discover anew and more deeply the ever-gracious Mystery in
whom all that exists "lives and moves and has its being."
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Saint
of the Week
- July 4th. St Elizabeth of
Portugal.
Of Spanish birth,
the daughter of a king of Aragon (born 1271), she was married at the
age of twelve unto the Portuguese royal house and endured rather than
enjoyed an unfaithful and violent husband. She devoted her attentions
to works of practical piety. orphanages, hospitals, and such like. She
was an assiduous worker for peace: she managed to end a long standing
feud between her husband and her son and managed to bring about a
change in her husband's disposition before his death in 1324. On a
wider Front, she also averted war between Portugal and Castile. She
then became a Franciscan tertiary and adopted an extremely simple life,
still dedicating herself to initiatives for peace She died in the town
of Estremoz, near the Spanish border, in 1336.
- Reference
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Web Site of the Week
- The Five Love
Languages
http://www.fivelovelanguages.com/
You've probably heard of the book by this name, in which Dr. Gary
Chapman helps individuals and couples recognize their "style" of
loving. Very practical and helpful!
What communicates love to you?
- physical touch?
- quality time?
- acts of service?
- gifts?
- words of affirmation and care?
Take the quiz online to learn more about your favorite love language.
Explore the other resources as well, and invite your spouse
or another loved one to join you.
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Joke of the Week
The good
fishing spot!
Two fishermen, Paul and Jim, decided to rent a boat on a lake for their
favorite sport. After fishing for 4 hours at various places around the
lake with no luck at all they decided to try one more spot before
calling it quits. Suddenly things started to happen and they caught
their limit inside of twenty minutes.
Paul said, Hey we should mark this spot, so next time we will know
where to come,
Jim says good idea, and he took out a can of spray paint and made a
large X on the floor of the boat to mark the spot.
With that Paul says, why did you do that, now anyone who rents this
boat will know where to fish.
(This one was
making the rounds in south Louisiana with much more elaboration decades ago, the dummies being
Etienne and Boudreaux. PSR)
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