Weekend Edition - A Daily Spiritual Seed
Published: Fri, 08/31/12
A Daily Spiritual Seed
Weekend Edition:
August 31 - September 2, 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 4:1-2, 6-8; Ps 15:2-5; Jas 1:17-18, 21b-22, 27; Mk 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23 R. (1a) One who does justice will live in the presence of the Lord.  Whoever walks blamelessly and does justice;who thinks the truth in his heart and slanders not with his tongue. Who harms not his fellow man, nor takes up a reproach against his neighbor; by whom the reprobate is despised, while he honors those who fear the LORD. Who lends not his money at usury and accepts no bribe against the innocent. Whoever does these things shall never be disturbed. - - - Amazon
Gift Cards - - - Spiritual Guidance - see http://shalomplace.org/eve/forums
for these and hundreds of other
discussions. SeeScapes. Picturing
the deeper dimensions of our spirituality. Theology Note of the
Week The term "wholly other" is used in Christain theology to describe the difference between God and everything else. God, the Christian God, is completely different than all other things that exist. God can be described by essential properties such as holiness, immutability, etc. But we have to ask how we, as finite creatures, can relate to the infinite God. It is difficult when he is "wholly other" than we are. It means that we must relate to him by his self-revelation in the person of Christ Jesus. |
Featured Spiritual
Growth Resources
 The "Logic" of Happiness: Proverbs and Practical Wisdom for
Spiritual Living. Philip St. Romain .A treasury of versatile, uplifting, and intuitive meditations, proverbs, exhortations, reflections, and exploratory questions that direct and enlighten the mind and warm the heart. Liguori Publications, 1995 edition reprinted in paperback and available in several ebook formats. Paperback - Kindle - ePub - PDF - - - Book (movie, CD) of the Week Rediscovering Catholicism, by Matthew Kelly. Beacon Press, 2002. - http://www.amazon.com/dp/1929266081/?tag=christianspiritu  Matthew Kelly is concerned about
what many people call holiness. He believes that along the way many
Catholics dropped the word holiness from their vocabulary. Was it
unattainable or irrelevant? Did the idea of holiness make people
feel guilty? Did some want life to be simply easier? In this
book, Kelly aims to explain what it means to be holy and how holiness
is attained. He holds that Catholicism is not a lifeless set of rules
and regulations but is a way of life which God designed that humans may
attain holiness and become all God wants each person to become. Kelly
presents many myths that prevent humans from attaining this goal. He
also provides practical means which will help Catholics maintain a
vital way of life in today's Church.God wants each person to become all he/she can become; Francis of Assisi spent his whole life trying to become the best version of himself God designed for him. This too became the goal of Mother Teresa of Calcutta. "The great confusion that is torturing the Church and weakening the faith surrounds one question. What is holiness? The falling attendance at church, the marginalization of the Church by secular culture, and our failure to reach youth are all caused by our inability to communicate clearly the answer to this question: What is holiness?" Here are a few of the questions that Kelly tries to answer in this book: How would you like your life to change? Why so much depression in the world today? Can you find happiness in the way you are presently searching for it? Is Jesus still relevant? Why is the perception of Catholicism so negative? Do the saints have anything to offer? Is it time for the Church to change? What does God want of you? Does your life have meaning? Can ancient Church traditions assist you to deal with today's challenges? (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=1127 - St. Gregory the Great (540?-604): September 3 
Coming events cast their shadows before: Gregory was the prefect of
Rome before he was 30. After five years in office he resigned, founded
six monasteries on his Sicilian estate and became a Benedictine monk in
his own home at Rome.Ordained a priest, he became one of the pope's seven deacons, and also served six years in the East as papal representative in Constantinople. He was recalled to become abbot, and at the age of 50 was elected pope by the clergy and people of Rome. He was direct and firm. He removed unworthy priests from office, forbade taking money for many services, emptied the papal treasury to ransom prisoners of the Lombards and to care for persecuted Jews and the victims of plague and famine. He was very concerned about the conversion of England, sending 40 monks from his own monastery. He is known for his reform of the liturgy, for strengthening respect for doctrine. Whether he was largely responsible for the revision of "Gregorian" chant is disputed. Gregory lived in a time of perpetual strife with invading Lombards and difficult relations with the East. When Rome itself was under attack, he interviewed the Lombard king. An Anglican historian has written: "It is impossible to conceive what would have been the confusion, the lawlessness, the chaotic state of the Middle Ages without the medieval papacy; and of the medieval papacy, the real father is Gregory the Great." - - - Joke of the Week - Olive oil.... Trying to control her frizzy and dry hair, Kay treated her scalp with olive oil before washing it. Worried that the oil might leave an odor than that her hair obviously needed it, she washed her hair several times with strong soap. That night when Kay went to bed, she leaned over to her husband and asked, "Do I smell like olive oil?" "Why ?" he asked, pulling back. "Do I smell like Popeye?" (If you young people don't get that one, google Popeye.) - - - Web
Resource of the Week
Stumble Upon - http://stumbleupon.com Maybe you're already aware of this one. I wasn't until recently, but have joined (it's free) and have found it a useful means of discovering interesting pages and sites. After you sign in, you can pick a topic (or type one in) and click the Stumble button, which will take you to a web page that represents your search. So far, this is like any Internet search engine, but click the Stumble button again, and you'll find a similar site -- probably one that would not have ranked high in the search results. So this is a good way to discover resources on topics that interest you, and even to provide feedback on the pages you visit. |
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