Weekend Edition - A Daily Spiritual Seed
Published: Fri, 11/11/11
A Daily Spiritual Seed
Weekend Edition:
November 11-13, 2011
| 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 - - - Sunday: Prv 31:10-13, 19-20, 30-31; Ps 128:1-2, 3, 4-5; 1 Thes 5:1-6; Mt 25:14-30 R. Blessed are those who fear the Lord.  Blessed are you who fear the LORD,who walk in his ways! For you shall eat the fruit of your handiwork; blessed shall you be, and favored. Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine in the recesses of your home; Your children like olive plants around your table. Behold, thus is the one blessed who fears the LORD. The LORD bless you from Zion: may you see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life. - - - Amazon
Gift Cards - - - Spiritual Guidance Hearts on Fire:
a blog to spark inspiration, thought, wonder, laughter and
prayer. - - - Theology Note of the
Week Literally, this word means 1000 years. In the study of end time doctrines (eschatology) the millennium is the period of time of Christ's rulership. The debate has been over when the millennium will take place and what what form will it actually be. The terms that have arisen out of this debate are premillennialism, amillennialism, and postmillennialism. Premillennialism teaches that the millennium is yet future and that upon Christ's return He will set up His earthly kingdom. Amillennialism teaches that the millennium is a figurative period and that Christ's rule began when He first became man. Postmillennialism teaches that through the preaching of the Word of God, the world will be converted and will then usher in Christ and the kingdom of God. There are good arguments for each position. - - - Web Resource of the Week Christianity Today - http://www.christianitytoday.com/ This popular magazine has an online presence, including news, blogs (the one on politics and religion is good), opinion pieces and more. A number of free eZines are also available for those who are interested. The general focus seems to be evangelical and ecumenical. |
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. - - -  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. - http://tinyurl.com/3m4m2bv (paperback) - http://tinyurl.com/3mv2pcw (pdf download) Also available for Kindle, Nook, and Apple iBookstore. - - - Book of the Week
A Jesuit Off-Broadway:
Behind the Scenes with Faith, Doubt, Forgiveness, and More, by
James Martin S.J. Loyola Press, 2007.  Albert the Great was a 13th-century
German Dominican who
influenced decisively the Church's stance toward Aristotelian
philosophy brought to Europe by the spread of Islam.Students of philosophy know him as the master of Thomas Aquinas. Albert's attempt to understand Aristotle's writings established the climate in which Thomas Aquinas developed his synthesis of Greek wisdom and Christian theology. But Albert deserves recognition on his own merits as a curious, honest and diligent scholar. He was the eldest son of a powerful and wealthy German lord of military rank. He was educated in the liberal arts. Despite fierce family opposition, he entered the Dominican novitiate. His boundless interests prompted him to write a compendium of all knowledge: natural science, logic, rhetoric, mathematics, astronomy, ethics, economics, politics and metaphysics. His explanation of learning took 20 years to complete. "Our intention," he said, "is to make all the aforesaid parts of knowledge intelligible to the Latins." He achieved his goal while serving as an educator at Paris and Cologne, as Dominican provincial and even as bishop of Regensburg for a short time. He defended the mendicant orders and preached the Crusade in Germany and Bohemia. Albert, a Doctor of the Church, is the patron of scientists and philosophers. - - - Joke of the Week - Church Bulletin Bloopers (these were actually published) The Fasting & Prayer Conference includes meals. The sermon this morning: 'Jesus Walks on the Water.' The sermon tonight: 'Searching for Jesus.' Ladies, don't forget the rummage sale. It's a chance to get rid of those things not worth keeping around the house. Bring your husbands. Remember in prayer the many who are sick of our community. Smile at someone who is hard to love. Say 'Hell' to someone who doesn't care much about you. Don't let worry kill you off - let the Church help. Miss Charlene Mason sang 'I will not pass this way again,' giving obvious pleasure to the congregation. For those of you who have children and don't know it, we have a nursery downstairs. Next Thursday there will be tryouts for the choir. They need all the help they can get. Irving Benson and Jessie Carter were married on October 24 in the church. So ends a friendship that began in their school days. A bean supper will be held on Tuesday evening in the church hall. Music will follow. - and more to come next week . . . Thanks, Carol |
When Father Martin
agreed to mentor the cast for a Broadway play called "The Last
Days of Judas Iscariot," he had no clues where his path might
lead. Neither did the cast have any idea what they might learn
from a Jesuit priest. Father Martin searched the Bible, and
dusted off his old theological and Scripture notes from his college
days and gave the actors a short course on the Christ and the Judas of
Bible times.
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