Weekend Edition - A Daily Spiritual Seed
Published: Thu, 08/23/12
A Daily Spiritual Seed
Weekend Edition:
August 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: Jos 24:1-2a, 15-17, 18; Ps 34:2-3, 16-21; Eph 5:21-32; Jn 6:60-69 R. (9a) Taste and see the goodness of the Lord.  I will bless the LORD at all times;his praise shall be ever in my mouth. Let my soul glory in the LORD; the lowly will hear me and be glad. The LORD has eyes for the just, and ears for their cry. The LORD confronts the evildoers, to destroy remembrance of them from the earth. When the just cry out, the LORD hears them, and from all their distress he rescues them. The LORD is close to the brokenhearted; and those who are crushed in spirit he saves. Many are the troubles of the just one, but out of them all the LORD delivers him; he watches over all his bones; not one of them shall be broken. - - - Amazon
Gift Cards - - - Spiritual Guidance - see http://shalomplace.org/eve/forums
for these and hundreds of other
discussions. Heartland
Center for Spirituality (sponsoring Internet
workshops year-round). Theology Note of the
Week Orthodoxy is the belief in the standards of accepted and true doctrines taught in the Bible. That which is orthodox agrees with biblical teaching and the interpretation of the Christian Church. False religions are not orthodox. They are heterodox. |
Featured Spiritual
Growth Resources
 SpiritLife* Spiritual Enrichment * Spiritual Director Formation (optional) Classes begin August 25, 2012 Heartland Center for Spirituality. Great Bend, KS See http://heartlandspirituality.org/spiritlife Online Option (whole course or individual classes) - - - Book (movie, CD) of the Week Just call me Lopez: Getting to the Heart of Ignatius Loyola, by Margaret Silf. Loyola Press 2012 - http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0829436685/ref=noism/christianspiritu/ - also available as a Kindle eBook 
The sixteenth century Ignatius Loyola is there to help a twenty-first
century lady called Rachel when she is struck by a hit and run driver.
A strange story evolves and a relationship develops when Ignatius
(called Lopez) makes himself known and both share their stories of
pain, happiness, and growth in the spiritual life. Lopez was not always
saintly and didn't always have his life in control; neither did Rachel.
But in the various unexpected visits he makes to her house, they both
experience spiritual growth and reawakenings.At the request of Paul Brian Campbell S.J. , Margaret Silf accepted the invitation to write an imaginative story of the life of the founder of the Jesuits. She does this through a series of meetings of the two characters, Lopez and Rachel. Silf shows the readers Ignatius as warm and compassionate as she travels through his life and his chief writing of the Spiritual Exercises and the life of Rachel after the accident she endured. Campbell didn't want just another biography but he wanted insight into Lopez's journey and his humanity, written by a person who was well versed in Jesuit spirituality. The two main characters have so much to learn from one another, and Silf paints a great picture for twenty-first century seekers of the spirituality of both characters. (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=1935 - St. Jeanne Jugan (1792-1879): August 30 When Jeanne was three and a half years old, her father, a fisherman, was lost at sea. Her widowed mother was hard pressed to raise her eight children (four died young) alone. At the age of 15 or 16, Jeanne became a kitchen maid for a family that not only cared for its own members, but also served poor, elderly people nearby. Ten years later, Jeanne became a nurse at the hospital in Le Rosais. Soon thereafter she joined a third order group founded by St. John Eudes (August 19). After six years she became a servant and friend of a woman she met through the third order. They prayed, visited the poor and taught catechism to children. After her friend's death, Jeanne and two other women continued a similar life in the city of Saint-Sevran. In 1839, they brought in their first permanent guest. They began an association, received more members and more guests. Mother Marie of the Cross, as Jeanne was now known, founded six more houses for the elderly by the end of 1849, all staffed by members of her association--the Little Sisters of the Poor. By 1853 the association numbered 500 and had houses as far away as England. Abbé Le Pailleur, a chaplain, had prevented Jeanne's reelection as superior in 1843; nine year later, he had her assigned to duties within the congregation, but would not allow her to be recognized as its founder. He was removed from office by the Holy See in 1890. By the time Pope Leo XIII gave her final approval to the community's constitutions in 1879, there were 2,400 Little Sisters of the Poor. Jeanne died later that same year, on August 30. Her cause was introduced in Rome in 1970, and she was beatified in 1982 and canonized in 2009. - - - Joke of the Week - Attitude toward whiskey... A Congressman was once asked about his attitude toward whiskey. "If you mean the demon drink that poisons the mind, pollutes the body, desecrates family life, and inflames sinners, then I'm against it. "But if you mean the elixir of Christmas cheer, the shield against winter chill, the taxable potion that puts needed funds into public coffers to comfort little crippled children, then I'm for it. This is my position, and I will not compromise." - - - Web
Resource of the Week
Gregorian Chant Music - http://www.last.fm/tag/gregorian%20chant This ancient form of meditative music helps foster a prayerful spirit. You can listen online or download mp3 files of the music for listening on a portable device. Enjoy! |
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