Weekend Edition - A Daily Spiritual Seed
Published: Fri, 03/23/12
A Daily Spiritual Seed
Weekend Edition:
March 23-25, 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: Jer 31:31-34; Ps 51:3-4, 12-15; Heb 5:7-9; Jn 12:20-33 R. (12a) Create a clean heart in me, O God.  Have mercy on me, O God, in your
goodness;in the greatness of your compassion wipe out my offense. Thoroughly wash me from my guilt and of my sin cleanse me. A clean heart create for me, O God, and a steadfast spirit renew within me. Cast me not out from your presence, and your Holy Spirit take not from me. Give me back the joy of your salvation, and a willing spirit sustain in me. I will teach transgressors your ways, and sinners shall return to you. - - - Amazon
Gift Cards - - - Spiritual Guidance Theology Note of the
Week Negative atheism is the position held by some atheists who lack belief in God and/or gods. Normally, negative atheists neither affirm or deny the existence of God or gods. Negative atheism is sometimes known as weak atheism. |
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 Where Lovers Meet: Inside the Interior Castle, by Susan Muto. ICS Publications, 2008. - http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0935216448/ref=noism/christianspiritu/ - Kindle edition also available  The Interior Castle
offers readers a masterful description of divine-human intimacy.
Written by a relatively uneducated Spanish woman who had not attended a
theological school, who became a mystic, a religious reformer, a
renowned spiritual writer, a canonized saint, and a Doctor of the
Church, one who prayed as diligently as she worked, was not afraid to
express her feeling, presents readers a CASTLE to live in. The
masterpiece of St. Teresa of Avila lives on in hearts that want a
deeper experience of the God of life and love. Susan Muto offers a translation of the translation of Teresa's Interior Castle. Susan Muto in this work points out the difference between mental prayer and recollection, between consolation and spiritual delight, between wordless ecstacy and dwelling on the sacred humanity of Jesus Christ. Even in the midst of terrible physical and mental torments, Teresa taught lessons one needs to know in order to have the hope for heaven. The author introduces readers to what is at stake if one is to find success in the search for approaching God with sure steps. She points out the WHY and the HOW to progress on the path traced by the mystical Madre of Carmel. Readers are introduced to the Castle in chapter headings such as: Seeing the castle for the first time, Stepping across the threshold, Entering the doors, Inside the castle, Entering kingly chambers, Rooms almost too exquisite to describe, and At the center of the soul. - 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=1338 St. Peter Regalado (1390-1456): March 30 
Peter lived at a very busy time in history. The Great Western Schism
(1378-1417) was settled at the Council of Constance (1414-1418). France
and England were fighting the Hundred Years' War, and in 1453 the
Byzantine Empire was completely wiped out by the loss of Constantinople
to the Turks. At Peter's death the age of printing had just begun in
Germany, and Columbus's arrival in the New World was less than 40 years
away.Peter came from a wealthy and pious family in Valladolid, Spain. At the age of 13, he was allowed to enter the Conventual Franciscans. Shortly after his ordination, he was made superior of the friary in Aguilar. He became part of a group of friars who wanted to lead a life of greater poverty and penance. In 1442 he was appointed head of all the Spanish Franciscans in his reform group. Peter led the friars by his example. A special love of the poor and the sick characterized Peter. Miraculous stories are told about his charity to the poor. For example, the bread never seemed to run out as long as Peter had hungry people to feed. Throughout most of his life, Peter went hungry; he lived only on bread and water. Immediately after his death on March 31, 1456, his grave became a place of pilgrimage. Peter was canonized in 1746. - - - Joke of the Week - Wishing . . . After dying in a car crash, three friends go to Heaven for orientation. They are all asked the same question, "When you're lying in your casket, and friends and family are mourning over you, what would you like to hear them say about you?" The first guy immediately responds, "I would like to hear them say that I was one of the great doctors of my time, and a great family man." The second guy says, "I would like to hear that I was a wonderful husband and school teacher who made a huge difference in the children of tomorrow." The last guy thinks for a moment, and then replies, "I guess I'd like to hear them say, 'Look, he's moving!'" - - - Web
Resource of the Week
The Shroud of Turin: New Evidence - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YEivEc6KcI&feature=youtu.be - a Discovery Channel documentary The Shroud of Turin is one of the great enduring mysteries of all time, with its authenticity debated for years. Many believe it's the burial cloth of Jesus and the only physical link to Him, while others maintain that it is nothing more than an elaborate hoax. In 1988, a team of scientists forming the Shroud of Turin Research Project (STRP) radiocarbon dated the Shroud and concluded it was fake, dating back to the Middle Ages (1290-1360), long after Jesus was crucified. This one-hour special challenges that research and reopens the debate. Turin Shroud: New Evidence features the story of Ray Rogers, a respected chemist from the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and member of STRP. Rogers came across a paper written by a husband and wife from Columbus, Ohio that claimed the 1988 radiocarbon dating was inaccurate. According to the couple, the test sample that was used had been taken from a section of the Shroud that had been repaired in the 16th Century, skewing the results. Expecting to prove this couple wrong, Rogers went back to examine the sample of the Shroud he tested years earlier, and what he found astonished even himself. In his last days (he had been battling cancer), Rogers made a video -- which before now has never been seen -- detailing his conclusions. |
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