Weekend Edition - A Daily Spiritual Seed
Published: Fri, 03/02/12
A Daily Spiritual Seed
Weekend Edition:
March 2-4, 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 22:1-2, 9a, 10-13, 15-18; Ps 116:10, 15, 16-17, 18-19; Rom 8:31b-34; Rom 8:31b-34 R. (116:9) I will walk before the Lord, in the land of the living.  I believed, even when I said,"I am greatly afflicted." Precious in the eyes of the LORD is the death of his faithful ones. O LORD, I am your servant; I am your servant, the son of your handmaid; you have loosed my bonds. To you will I offer sacrifice of thanksgiving, and I will call upon the name of the LORD. My vows to the LORD I will pay in the presence of all his people, In the courts of the house of the LORD, in your midst, O Jerusalem. - - - Amazon
Gift Cards - - - Spiritual Guidance Theology Note of the
Week Naturalism is the position that nature is all there is, and there is no supernatural realm. It says that all of human experience can be described and understood through natural laws, science, and human reason. |
Featured Spiritual
Growth Resources
Psychological
Types and Spirituality, by Philip St. Romain, D. Min.
 Fourteen online presentations on
Jung's psychological types, with implications for spiritual
growth. Initially, these conferences were presented via email,
but now they are available in a discussion forum with no registration
fee and open participation. This material would be a good study
and growth resource for Lent.- - - Book (movie, CD) of the Week Fragments of Your Ancient Name: 365 Glimpses of the Divine for Daily Meditation, by Joyce Rupp. Sorin Books, 2011 - http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1933495286/ref=noism/christianspiritu/ - Kindle edition also available -  With over one million books sold
in her career, Joyce Rupp presents her newest undertaking: a unique
collection of daily meditations that draw from Christian, Jewish,
Muslim, Hindu, and other sources, offering wisdom and insight about the
God who is beyond all names.Bestselling author Joyce Rupp once again proves herself a wise and gentle spiritual midwife, drawing forth 365 names of God from the world's spiritual treasury. Fragments of Your Ancient Name--whose title comes from a poem by German mystic Rainer Maria Rilke--assembles a remarkable collection of reflections for each day of the year. This unique and profound devotional will heighten awareness of the many names by which God is known around the world. Whether drawing from the Psalms, Sufi saints, Hindu poets, Native American rituals, contemporary writers, or the Christian gospels, Rupp stirs the imagination and the heart to discover a new dimension of God. Each name is explored in a ten-line poetic meditation and is complemented by a simple sentence that serves as a reminder of the name of God throughout the day. - 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=1316 - St. John of God (1495-1550): March 8  Having given up active Christian belief while a soldier, John was 40 before the depth of his sinfulness began to dawn on him. He decided to give the rest of his life to God's service, and headed at once for Africa, where he hoped to free captive Christians and, possibly, be martyred. He was soon advised that his desire for martyrdom was not spiritually well based, and returned to Spain and the relatively prosaic activity of a religious goods store. Yet he was still not settled. Moved initially by a sermon of Blessed John of Avila, he one day engaged in a public beating of himself, begging mercy and wildly repenting for his past life. Committed to a mental hospital for these actions, John was visited by Blessed John, who advised him to be more actively involved in tending to the needs of others rather than in enduring personal hardships. John gained peace of heart, and shortly after left the hospital to begin work among the poor. He established a house where he wisely tended to the needs of the sick poor, at first doing his own begging. But excited by the saint's great work and inspired by his devotion, many people began to back him up with money and provisions. Among them were the archbishop and marquis of Tarifa. Behind John's outward acts of total concern and love for Christ's sick poor was a deep interior prayer life which was reflected in his spirit of humility. These qualities attracted helpers who, 20 years after John's death, formed the Brothers Hospitallers, now a worldwide religious order. John became ill after 10 years of service but tried to disguise his ill health. He began to put the hospital's administrative work into order and appointed a leader for his helpers. He died under the care of a spiritual friend and admirer, Lady Ana Ossorio. - - - Joke of the Week - Where are we? Two tourists were driving through Louisiana. As they were approaching Natchitoches, they started arguing about the pronunciation of the town. They argued back and forth until they stopped for lunch. As they stood at the counter, one tourist asked the employee, "Before we order, could you please settle an argument for us? Would you please pronounce where we are...very slowly?" The employee leaned over the counter and said, "Burrrrrrrr, gerrrrrrr, Kiiiiing." - - - Web
Resource of the Week
Christian Post http://www.christianpost.com/ This is a portal of news on a wide range of issues of relevance to Christian values. Lots of interesting links on the home page, including a number of blogs. One could read around on this site for a long while and come out better informed. |
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