Webinar
Discerning God's Will
September 8, 2016 7:00 - 8:30 p.m.
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A webinar is a live, interactive online presentation.
Presented by: Philip St. Romain, M.S., D. Min. Free-will
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Does God have a plan for our lives? What does Scripture teach about this? How can we know if we are doing God’s will? These and other topics will be addressed in this webinar. Participants will also receive a free copy
of Philip’s eBook on Discerning God’s Will.
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Gracious Goodness: Living Each Day in the Gifts of the Spirit, by Sr. Melanie
Svoboda, SND. Loyola Press, 2008. A delightful introduction to the gifts of the Holy Spirit, the usual ones and the not so usual ones, are treated in this little book. Sr. Melanie offers a list of fifty-two gifts that will bring surprise and encouragement to the Christian in his/her daily life. Some of these gifts, such as anger, failure, and guilt will cause the reader to raise eyebrows. But the reader will find that all these two page reflections are based on the scripture and can evoke approval and
wonder. Sr. Melanie wants her readers to fully trust the complete and unconditional love of God and to embrace the abundance and
variety of the gifts that the same God offers to humanity. Some of the topics, arranged alphabetically, include common sense,
pleasure, relaxation, gentleness, faith, forgiveness, desire, surrender, and even sickness. She concludes a topic which has been a close friend of hers frequently in the past few years, a chapter on death. She relates how she dealt with the deaths of over sixty Sisters while she was major superior of her community, the deaths of her father and mother, and brother. Each chapter ends with a reflective question and a short prayer. Her last prayer is “Risen Jesus, strengthen my belief in death as the doorway into eternal life with you and with all of my loved
ones.”
Thanks to Sr. Irene Hartman, OP for this review.
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St. Jeanne Jugan: (1792-1879): August 30.
Born in northern France during the French Revolution—a time when congregations of women and men religious were being suppressed by the national government, Jeanne would eventually be highly praised in the French academy for her community's compassionate care of elderly poor people.
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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.
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