Weekend Edition - A Daily Spiritual Seed
Published: Fri, 02/24/12
A Daily Spiritual Seed
Weekend Edition:
February 24-26, 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: Gn 9:8-15; Ps 25:4-9; 1 Pt 3:18-22; Mk 1:12-15 R. Your ways, O Lord, are love and truth to those who keep your covenant.  Your ways, O LORD, make known to me;teach me your paths, Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my savior. Remember that your compassion, O LORD, and your love are from of old. In your kindness remember me, because of your goodness, O LORD. Good and upright is the LORD, thus he shows sinners the way. He guides the humble to justice, and he teaches the humble his way. - - - Amazon
Gift Cards - - - Spiritual Guidance The Ark: Providing
a variety of scripture and lectionary study resources. Theology Note of the
Week Natural Knowledge is a term used in describing a type of knowledge possessed by God. Often it is raised in discussions dealing with individuals' free will and God's infinite knowledge. God's natural knowledge would be His knowledge of all things of potential existence influenced by individuals though not necessarily in actual existence. God knows this set of knowledge from all eternity, before the creation of the universe. It is called natural because it is a natural attribute of God's existence. |
Featured Spiritual
Growth Resources
Co-operating with the Spirit to Grow in Grace - by Philip St. Romain, M.S., D. Min. The language of consent figures prominently in the lives of many biblical figures. God, it seems, breaks into their lives with an invitation, leaving them free to consent or to refuse. From Abraham to Moses to David and Mary, we find this dynamic of invitation and consent at work to bring forth new life and transformation. It is as though God so respects the freedom we were given as to ask our co-operation in bringing forth God's dream for the earth and its inhabitants. Nothing has changed in that regard since biblical times. God still invites, and we respond one way or another to these initiatives. Sometimes the call comes through loud and clear; other times it is subtle and delicate. Once we hear the call, however, we must reply; we cannot avoid doing so, for to ignore the call is itself a kind of reply. To find out more about The Five Consents and sign up for this free, online resource, see http://shalomplace.com/inetmin/fiveconsents/index.html - - - Book (movie, CD) of the Week Lent for Everyone: Mark, Year B, by N. T. Wright. Westminster John Knox Press, 2012. - http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0664238947/ref=noism/christianspiritu/ Lent for Everyone: Mark, Year B provides readers with a gentle guide through  the Lenten season, from Ash
Wednesday through the week after Easter. Popular biblical scholar and
author N. T. Wright provides his own Scripture translation, brief
reflection, and a prayer for each of the days of the season, helping
the reader ponder how the text is relevant to their own life today.Suitable for both personal and group reflection, Wright's guide through Lent will make the Bible--and the season--come alive in inspiring new ways. - Amazon.com book descriptor 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=1310 - St. Agnes of Bohemia (1205-1282): March 2 Agnes had no children of her own but was certainly life-giving for all who knew her.  Agnes was the
daughter of Queen Constance and King Ottokar I of Bohemia. At the age
of three, she was betrothed to the Duke of Silesia, who died three
years later. As she grew up, she decided she wanted to enter the
religious life.After declining marriages to King Henry VII of Germany and Henry III of England, Agnes was faced with a proposal from Frederick II, the Holy Roman Emperor. She appealed to Pope Gregory IX for help. The pope was persuasive; Frederick magnanimously said that he could not be offended if Agnes preferred the King of Heaven to him. After Agnes built a hospital for the poor and a residence for the friars, she financed the construction of a Poor Clare monastery in Prague. In 1236, she and seven other noblewomen entered this monastery. St. Clare sent five sisters from San Damiano to join them, and wrote Agnes four letters advising her on the beauty of her vocation and her duties as abbess. Agnes became known for prayer, obedience and mortification. Papal pressure forced her to accept her election as abbess; nevertheless, the title she preferred was "senior sister." Her position did not prevent her from cooking for the other sisters and mending the clothes of lepers. The sisters found her kind but very strict regarding the observance of poverty; she declined her royal brother's offer to set up an endowment for the monastery. Devotion to Agnes arose soon after her death on March 6, 1282. She was canonized in 1989. - - - Joke of the Week - The knitter A highway patrolman pulled alongside a speeding car on the freeway. Glancing at the driver, he was astounded to see that the woman behind the wheel was knitting! Realizing that she was oblivious to his flashing lights and siren, the trooper cranked down his window, turned on his bullhorn, and yelled, "Pullover!" "No," the woman yelled back, "It's a scarf!" - - - Web
Resource of the Week
Praying Lent - http://onlineministries.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/Lent/siteindex.html A collection of resources from Creighton University ministers, including prayers, readings, video teachings, audio retreats, devotionals, and group materials. Superb! |
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