Weekend Edition - A Daily Spiritual Seed
Published: Fri, 01/27/12
A Daily Spiritual Seed
Weekend Edition:
January 27-29, 2012
| Contents: - Weekend Scripture Readings - Spiritual Guidance - Discussion Board highlights - Affiliate Web Sites - Theology Note of the Week - Spiritual Growth Resources. - Book of the Week - Saint of the Week - Joke of the Week - Web Resource of the Week - - - Sunday: Dt 18:15-20; Ps 95:1-2, 6-9; 1 Cor 7:32-35; Mk 1:21-28 R. (8) If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.  Come, let us sing joyfully to the LORD;let us acclaim the rock of our salvation. Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving; let us joyfully sing psalms to him. Come, let us bow down in worship; let us kneel before the LORD who made us. For he is our God, and we are the people he shepherds, the flock he guides. Oh, that today you would hear his voice: "Harden not your hearts as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the desert, Where your fathers tempted me; they tested me though they had seen my works." - - - Amazon
Gift Cards - - - Spiritual Guidance Heartland
Center for Spirituality (sponsoring Internet
workshops year-round). Theology Note of the
Week The belief that there is only one God in all places at all times. There were none before God and there will be none after. Monotheism is the teaching of the Bible (Isaiah 43:10; 44:6,8; 45:5,14,18,21,22; 46:9; 47:8; John 17:3; 1 Cor. 8:5-6; Gal. 4:8-9). |
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 - http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0385174462/ref=noism/christianspiritu/ The Genesee Diary: Report from a Trappist Monastery, by Henri J. M. Nouwen. Doubleday, 1976.  Even though this is a
book from the seventies, it has appeal to today's readers who are
interested in the spiritual life and especially in the life of a
religious community. Henri Nouwen had for many months a yearning to spend some time in a Trappist Monastery. He didn't want to come as a guest but he wanted to follow with the monks their way of life for seven months. After many years of restlessness and deep searching, he believed that there was more to life than teaching and writing about God; he really wanted to become better acquainted with this God. Being often praised and honored for his public appearances, he felt he was losing touch with the God about whom he wrote and spoke. "Maybe I was becoming a prisoner of people's expectations instead of a man liberated by divine promises." Leaving the life he had known and even loved for so long, Nouwen knew the separation would not be easy. His life had been smothered with classes to prepare, lectures to give, articles to finish, people to meet, phone calls to make, and letters to answer. And yet the call of God was "Come aside and rest a while." Nouwen went and discovered in Father Eudes a very helpful and honest monk who led him on a deep inner journey.At the end of a great journey, Nouwen called the time a precious memory. He glimpsed God's graciousness in the solitude even amid the various duties he had to perform at the monastery. He said the journey offered new perspectives on present events and guides in decisions for years to come. (Thanks to Sr. Irene Hartman OP for this review.) 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=1278 - St. Ansgar (801-865): February 3  The "apostle of the north"
(Scandinavia) had enough frustrations to become a saint--and he did. He
became a Benedictine at Corbie, France, where he had been educated.
Three years later, when the king of Denmark became a convert, Ansgar
went to that country for three years of missionary work, without
noticeable success. Sweden asked for Christian missionaries, and he
went there, suffering capture by pirates and other hardships on the
way. Fewer than two years later, he was recalled, to become abbot of
New Corbie (Corvey) and bishop of Hamburg. The pope made him legate for
the Scandinavian missions. Funds for the northern apostolate stopped
with Emperor Louis's death. After 13 years' work in Hamburg, Ansgar saw
it burned to the ground by invading Northmen; Sweden and Denmark
returned to paganism.He directed new apostolic activities in the North, traveling to Denmark and being instrumental in the conversion of another king. By the strange device of casting lots, the king of Sweden allowed the Christian missionaries to return. Ansgar's biographers remark that he was an extraordinary preacher, a humble and ascetical priest. He was devoted to the poor and the sick, imitating the Lord in washing their feet and waiting on them at table. He died peacefully at Bremen, Germany, without achieving his wish to be a martyr. Sweden became pagan again after his death, and remained so until the coming of missionaries two centuries later. - - - Joke of the Week - Puns for educated people 1. The fattest knight at King Arthur's Round Table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi. 2. I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island. It turned out to be an optical Aleutian. 3. She was only a whiskey maker, but he loved her still. 4. A rubber band pistol was confiscated from algebra class, because it was a weapon of math disruption. 5. No matter how much you push the envelope, it'll still be stationery. 6. A dog gave birth to puppies near the road .. . . and was cited for littering. 7. A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blownapart. 8. Two silk worms had a race. They ended up in a tie. 9. A hole has been found in the nudist camp wall. The police are looking into it. 10. Atheism is a non-prophet organization. (Thanks, Carol) - - - Web
Resource of the Week
None this week. Suggestions welcomed. |
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