Weekend Edition - A Daily Spiritual Seed
Published: Fri, 01/13/12
A Daily Spiritual Seed
Weekend Edition:
January 13-15, 2012
| Contents: - Weekend Scripture Readings - Spiritual Guidance - Discussion Board highlights - Affiliate Web Sites - Spiritual Growth Resources. - Book of the Week - Saint of the Week - Joke of the Week - Web Resource of the Week - - Theology Note of the Week - - - Sunday: 1 Sm 3:3b-10, 19; Ps 40:2, 4, 7-10; 1 Cor 6:13c-15a, 17-20; Jn 1:35-42 R. (8a and 9a) Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will.  I have waited, waited for the LORD,and he stooped toward me and heard my cry. And he put a new song into my mouth, a hymn to our God. Sacrifice or offering you wished not, but ears open to obedience you gave me. Holocausts or sin-offerings you sought not; then said I, "Behold I come." "In the written scroll it is prescribed for me, to do your will, O my God, is my delight, and your law is within my heart!" I announced your justice in the vast assembly; I did not restrain my lips, as you, O LORD, know. - - - Amazon
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Featured Spiritual
Growth Resources
Shalom Place Worksheets and Booklets - http://shalomplace.com/res Here you will find a variety of short resources on spiritual living, including a number of one-page handouts that get to the point and stay with it. Almost all are free, though a donation to support our ministry is always welcomed. - Be sure to click the link to "short, miscellaneous reflections" to access the worksheets. - - - Book (movie, CD) of the Week Padre Pio's Spiritual Direction for Every Day, by Gianluigi Pasquale. St. Anthony Press, 2011. - http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1616360054/ref=noism/christianspiritu/  This book contains 365
reflections, one for every day of the year. Known to be very serious
about personally growing in the spiritual life, and desiring that many
others grow in their love of God, Padre Pio offers daily reflections
for his readers. These letters were written to his own spiritual
advisors and some were gleaned from the letters he wrote to those who
sought his advice. He urges his readers, "Take concern to have your
heart be more pleasing to our Master day by day."Padre Pio, blessed by the gift of the stigmata, is known to many who carry his picture in their billfold, or display his picture in shops along the superhighways in Italy, or read every scrap of information they can find about this holy man of God. The letters he left behind are a rich mine of Christian spirituality. Padre Pio was especially fond of the poor and for the working class. He speaks of ordinary things and simple events and shows how these all fit into the plan of God. Since the humble Capuchin friar was so fond of Jesus, the words he speaks can be seen as coming for the very mouth of Jesus. His letters include advice on how to believe in God, how to hope even in tribulation, how to love and forgive one's neighbor, and how to rejoice in all circumstances. He tries to help his readers build up their Christian life, which he sees as the authentic path to God. His pastoral experience is evident in every page he wrote. Make the Christian Spirituality Bookstore your starting point for online shopping at Amazon.com. You can buy books, cds, videotapes, software, appliances and many other products at discount prices. As Amazon.com affiliate, we are paid a small fee for purchases originating from our web site. Every little bit helps! http://shalomplace.com/books/index.html - - - Saint of the Week - http://www.americancatholic.org/features/saints/saint.aspx?id=1258 St. Berard and Companions (d. 1220): January 16 Preaching the gospel is often dangerous work. Leaving one's homeland and adjusting to new cultures, governments and languages is difficult enough; but martyrdom caps all the other sacrifices. In 1219 with the blessing of St. Francis, Berard left Italy with Peter, Adjute, Accurs, Odo and Vitalis to preach in Morocco. En route in Spain Vitalis became sick and commanded the other friars to continue their mission without him. They tried preaching in Seville, then in Muslim hands, but made no converts. They went on to Morocco where they preached in the marketplace. The friars were immediately apprehended and ordered to leave the country; they refused. When they began preaching again, an exasperated sultan ordered them executed. After enduring severe beatings and declining various bribes to renounce their faith in Jesus Christ, the friars were beheaded by the sultan himself on January 16, 1220. These were the first Franciscan martyrs. When Francis heard of their deaths, he exclaimed, "Now I can truly say that I have five Friars Minor!" Their relics were brought to Portugal where they prompted a young Augustinian canon to join the Franciscans and set off for Morocco the next year. That young man was Anthony of Padua. These five martyrs were canonized in 1481. - - - Joke of the Week - Good advice... A mother mouse and a baby mouse are walking along when, all of a sudden, a cat attacks them. The mother mouse goes, "BARK!!" and the cat runs away. "See?" says the mother mouse to her baby, "how important it is for you to learn a foreign language?" - - - Web
Resource of the Week
Sky and Telescope.com - http://www.skyandtelescope.com/ Web site for the magazine of the same name. All you night-sky lovers probably know about this one already. Lots of interesting material to help deepen your sense of wonder at the beauty and immensity of the universe. - - - Theology Note of the
Week The belief that there is more than one God, but only one is served and worshiped. Mormonism is an excellent example of monolatry. Mormonism teaches the existence of many Gods of many worlds, yet worships only the one of this planet. Therefore, monolatry is a division of polytheism, the belief in many gods. It is a false teaching contrary to Scripture. See Isaiah 43:10; 44:6,8; 45:5-6. |
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