Contents:
- Weekend Scripture Readings
- Spiritual Guidance
- Discussion Board highlights
- Affiliate Web Sites
- Theology Note of the Week
- Web Site of the Week
- Spiritual Growth Resources.
- Book of the Week
- Saint of the Week
- Joke of the Week
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Weekend Readings
http://new.usccb.org/calendar/index.cfm?showLit=1&action=month
Saturday:
Rom 16:3-9, 16, 22-27; Ps 145:2-3, 4-5,
10-11; Lk 16:9-15
Sunday:
Wis 6:12-16; Ps 63:2, 3-4, 5-6,
7-8; 1 Thes 4:13-18; Mt 25:1-13
R. (2b) My soul is thirsting
for you, O Lord my God.
 O God, you are my God whom I seek;
for you my flesh pines and my soul thirsts
like the earth, parched, lifeless and without water.
Thus have I gazed toward you in the sanctuary
to see your power and your glory,
For your kindness is a greater good than life;
my lips shall glorify you.
Thus will I bless you while I live;
lifting up my hands, I will call upon your name.
As with the riches of a banquet shall my soul be satisfied,
and with exultant lips my mouth shall praise you.
I will remember you upon my couch,
and through the night-watches I will meditate on you:
You are my help,
and in the shadow of your wings I shout for joy.
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Shalom Place Discussion
Board
A variety of topics are under discussion.
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Theology forum.
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and Culture forum.
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Affliliate Web Sites
- please give them a visit
Stillpoint: Programs in spiritual direction, contemplative prayer.
Solitude and Streets:
an emerging faith community.
Family Life
Training and Counseling Center: an online Bible
college/seminary
The Ark: Providing
a variety of scripture and lectionary study resources.
Contemplative
Ministries of the Pacific Northwest: Teaching and
support on contemplative practice
Inner Explorations: a vast array of spirituality resources for the mature
Christian.
SeeScapes. Picturing
the deeper dimensions of our spirituality.
Heartland
Center for Spirituality (sponsoring Internet
workshops year-round).
Emanuella House of
Prayer: a place for prayer and silence in British
Columbia.
Kyrie Places of
Pilgrimmage and Renewal.
Contemplative
Rudder: "In the midst of Consecrated Silence'
atmospherics ... a Rudder!
Temenos Catholic Worker: support for homeless youth in Polk Street neighborhood, San
Francisco.
Institute for
Women's Spiritual Dynamics: holistic, flexible, sensible
Christian spirituality for women.
The Sanctuary
Foundation for Prayer: resources for spiritual growth.
Serenity of
the Mind: supporting those who served and who suffer from
PTSD.
Hearts on Fire:
a blog to spark inspiration, thought, wonder, laughter and
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Theology Note of the
Week
- http://www.carm.org/m
- Middle Knowledge
That knowledge of God dealing with what individuals will
do in a given set of circumstances. God has an infinite set of
potential circumstances that could exist and knows all actual choices
that would be made by individuals in each set. (See also Free Knowledge
and Natural knowledge.)
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Web
Resource of the Week
Ignatian
Spirituality
- http://ignatianspirituality.com
Ignatian spirituality is a way to pray, an approach to
making decisions, a point of view about God, and a practical guide to
everyday life. Ignatian spirituality sees God as actively involved in
the world and intimately involved with us in every moment and place.
This web site provides a wealth of resources, including
the daily examen, guidelines for discernment, online prayer, and the
Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius.
The link at the bottom on "The Ignatian Way" will
take you to an online video series on Ignatian Spirituality. Very
well done.
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Featured Spiritual
Growth Resources
Summer 2012: Renewal of Mind
and Spirit
- http://heartlandspirituality.org/programs.html
Since you might need to plan ahead, check out the program offerings at
Heartland Center for Spirituality for the Summer of 2012.
A. Theology Institute with
Carla Mae Streeter, June 15-19, 2012.
B. Listening to God: A Contemplative
Retreat, with Philip St. Romain, June 21-25, 2012.
You can attend one or the other: special rate for both.
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 Twelve
Steps to Spiritual Wholeness: A Christian Pathway, by Philip St.
Romain. Lulu Press.
This book presents the Twelve Steps of recovery groups as
a way to grow, to move toward a spiritual awakening, an awareness of
our true self in God. Every page bears gentle reassurance that
fulfillment of the Twelve Steps inspires a cleansing sense of wholeness
-- a renewed spirit that helps readers break free from negative and
sinful influences in their lives.
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(pdf download)
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Book of the Week
The Other Side of Chaos:
Breaking Through When Life is Breaking Down, by
Margaret Silf. Loyola Press, 2009.
- http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0829433082/ref=noism/christianspiritu/
What possibly can chaos bring into the life
of a Christian that can be considered GOOD? Silf explores this through
Scripture, stories, verses, personal accounts, and stories in
abundance. She believes that chaos can help one develop an authentic
spirituality that will lead to a productive life, one that is creative
and even pleasant. She wants her book to give readers the courage to
trust God when life is breaking down and to see messes not as something
to be rescued from, but as something that will help break through to a
place where God makes all things new.
Some of her exciting chapter headings are: Crises:
Danger or Opportunity; God Bless This Mess; The Fly on the Face
of the Mona Lisa; Will You Save Your Life or Spend it?; Can Bad News Be
Good News?; Yesterday is already Yours; The Day the Rains Came; When
Bad Seeds Yield Good Fruit; When the Traveler is Ready, the Bridge
Appears.
Each chapter is loaded with reflective questions on
how this fits into one's life. For example: How would you
describe your own chaos? What practical wisdom would you offer in such
a case? How does your inner chaos feel right now? Have some small
incidents taken the wind out of your sails? Have you taken risks in
this area and what were the results?
"The journey through change to transformation is a journey
for the mature soul. And the mature soul knows that there is no way of
making this journey under his or her own steam. The staff is there to
remind us that we need something---Someone--- to lean on." "As
you go, you will meet with situations that take you closer to God who
dreams within you and to the heart of what it means to be human. Stay
with those situations and lend them your energy." "Walk on in
courage and in hope... and one day, when you least expect it, you will
wake to find yourself on the other side of chaos.'
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Saint of the Week
- http://www.americancatholic.org/features/saints/saint.aspx?id=1192
- St. Didacus: (1400-1463):
November 7
 Didacus is living
proof that God "chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise;
God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong" (1 Corinthians
1:27).
As a young man in Spain, Didacus joined the Secular
Franciscan Order and lived for some time as a hermit. After Didacus
became a Franciscan brother, he developed a reputation for great
insight into God's ways. His penances were heroic. He was so generous
with the poor that the friars sometimes grew uneasy about his charity.
Didacus volunteered for the missions in the Canary
Islands and labored there energetically and profitably. He was also the
superior of a friary there.
In 1450 he was sent to Rome to attend the canonization of
St. Bernardine of Siena. When many friars gathered for that celebration
fell sick, Didacus stayed in Rome for three months to nurse them. After
he returned to Spain, he pursued a life of contemplation full-time. He
showed the friars the wisdom of God's ways.
As he was dying, Didacus looked at a crucifix and said: "O
faithful wood, O precious nails! You have borne an exceedingly sweet
burden, for you have been judged worthy to bear the Lord and King of
heaven" (Marion A. Habig, O.F.M., The Franciscan Book of Saints, p.
834).
San Diego, California, is named for this Franciscan, who
was canonized in 1588.
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Joke of the Week
- All Puns
Intended
1. Two antennas met on a roof, fell in love and got married. The
ceremony
wasn't much, but the reception was excellent.
2. A jumper cable walks into a bar. The bartender says, 'I'll serve
you, but
don't start anything.'
3. Two peanuts walk into a bar, and one was a salted.
4. A dyslexic man walked into a bra.
5. A man walks into a bar with a slab of asphalt under his arm, and
says: 'A
beer please, and one for the road.'
6. Two cannibals are eating a clown. One says to the other: 'Does this
taste
funny to you?'
7. 'Doc, I can't stop singing The Green, Green Grass of Home.' 'That
sounds
like Tom Jones Syndrome.' 'Is it common?' 'Well, It's Not Unusual.'
8. Two cows are standing next to each other in a field. Daisy says to
Dolly,
'I was artificially inseminated this morning.' 'I don't believe you,'
says
Dolly. 'It's true; no bull!' exclaims Daisy.
9. An invisible man marries an invisible woman. The kids were nothing to
look at either.
10. Deja Moo: The feeling that you've heard this bull before.
Thanks, Carol
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