Weekend Edition - A Daily Spiritual Seed
Published: Fri, 12/26/08
- readings, teachings, references and reviews -
Contents:
- Weekend Readings
- Commerce Corner
- Saint of the Week
- Book of the Week
- Email Spirituality Series
- Shalom Place Premium Groups
- Spiritual Enrichment Resource
- Email Spirituality Series
- Shalom Place Discussion Board
- Affiliate Web Sites
- Website of the Week
- Joke of the Week
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WEEKEND READINGS
http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/
Saturday: 1 Jn 1:1-4; Ps 97:1-2, 5-6, 11-12; Jn 20:1a and 2-8
Sunday: Sir 3:2-6, 12-14; Ps 128:1-2, 3, 4-5; Col 3:12-21
or 3:12-17; Lk 2:22-40 or 2:22, 39-40
R. (cf. 1) Blessed are those who fear the Lord and walk in his ways.
Blessed is everyone who fears the LORD,
who walks in his ways!
For you shall eat the fruit of your handiwork;
blessed shall you be, and favored.
Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine
in the recesses of your home;
your children like olive plants
around your table.
Behold, thus is the man blessed
who fears the LORD.
The LORD bless you from Zion:
may you see the prosperity of Jerusalem
all the days of your life.
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SAINT OF THE WEEK
- December 29th St. Thomas Becket, Patron of Portsmouth.
Born in London of a family of Norman origin in 1118, he studied at
Merton Abbey south of London, and at Paris, before studying law at
Bologna and working under Theobald, Archbishop of Canterbury. After
his ordination he became Archdeacon of Canterbury and after the
accession of King Henry II in 1154, Chancellor of England. He
seemed set for a brilliant career as a emissary for the king until
after his election as Archbishop of Canterbury in 1162 when he
adopted a strictly disciplined lifestyle and proceeded to pursue
his new duties with rigour. These often brought him into conflict
with the King, over taxation, over appeals to Rome, and over the
practice of the courts of the land punishing churchmen already
punished by church courts. Henry II maintained that he was
continuing the customs of his grandfather, Henry I; Thomas rejected
these claims in council at Northampton and then fled to France,
first to the abbey of Pontigny (where Edmund of Abingdon was later
to die) and then to the town of Sens, where his life is still
represented in the stained-glass windows of the cathedral. An
uneasy truce allowed his return to Canterbury in 1170, but after an
immediate further dispute with the King (over the coronation of the
Crown Prince) and after Henry's allegedly stated wish to be rid of
the 'turbulent priest' he was murdered in Canterbury Cathedral on
December 29th., 1170. He was canonised almost immediately (1173)
and his shrine established at Canterbury in 1220, to become the
goal of the famous Pilgrim's Way. The shrine was demolished at the
Reformation, when it was ordered that Thomas' name be removed from
the liturgical books of the church, but as more than 80 churches in
England alone are dedicated to him it was obviously impossible to
eliminate his memory.
- http://www.hullp.demon.co.uk/SacredHeart/saint/StThomasBecket.htm
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BOOK OF THE WEEK
"Farmer to Father, finding God in people, places and events," by
Fr. Louis Studer OMI. Bang Printing, 2007.
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0979556104/ref=noism/christianspiritu/
A farm boy from Iowa who hated every kind of menial work on his
family's farm, looked to the priesthood as a way of escape from the
toil. As priest he found a different kind of labor suited to his
temperament; he joined a religious community which specialized in
difficult missions. Not without the usual struggles within his
heart as he left home, began his studies, and moved toward
ordination, he stayed faithful to the call he believed God had given.
In his book, Father Louis shares his joys, his fears, his longings,
his questionings, and his many ups and downs. And he does it all in
a very easy prose, filled with laughter and simple stories.
Recently Father Louis completed ten years as director of the
National Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows plus a tour of many of his
community's foreign missions, and is located at Christ the King
Retreat Center in Buffalo, Minnesota where he directs retreats.
"Periodically he returns to his brother's and sister's farms in
Wesley, Iowa, for a refresher course in rural theology."
(Thanks to Sr. Irene Hartman OP for this review.)
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AFFILIATE WEB SITES (please give them a visit)
The Sanctuary Foundation for Prayer: resources for spiritual growth.
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SeeScapes. Picturing the deeper dimensions of our spirituality.
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Kyrie Places of Pilgrimmage and Renewal.
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JOKE OF THE WEEK
- When you need a break, you need a break . . .
Two factory workers, a man and a woman are talking. The man says,
"I can make the boss give me a day off." "And how would you do
that?" the woman asked. Just wait and see the man says. Than he
hangs upside down from the ceiling.
The boss comes in and says, "What are you doing?"
"I am a light bulb," the man says.
"You have been working so much you have gone crazy," the boss says.
"I think you need to take the day off."
The woman starts to follow him out, but than the boss stops her.
"Where are you going?'
"I am going home too," the woman says. "I can't work in the dark."
(Thanks to Deb for this joke.)
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