- coming soon
Webinar: Discerning God’s Will (A webinar is a live, interactive online presentation.) - by Philip St. Romain, M.S., D. Min.
- September 8, 2016, 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. CDT
- Free-will donation
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? This and other topics will be address in this webinar.
Participants will also receive a free copy of Philip’s eBook on Discerning God’s Will.
Here’s what supreme Peace said about this: “I want you to be a lover of all things because everything I made — everything! — is good and perfect and worthy
of love. I supreme Goodness, made them all — all but sin.”
So, let us run, run, run along the way of truth!
- St. Catherine of
Siena, Letters
(To be a "lover of all things" . . . Open your heart this day.)
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1 Cor 6:1-11; Ps 149:1b-2, 3-4, 5-6a and 9b
Lk 6:12-19
Jesus departed to the mountain to pray,
and he spent the night in prayer to God.
When day came, he called his disciples to himself,
and from them he chose Twelve, whom he also named Apostles:
Simon, whom he named Peter, and his brother Andrew,
James, John, Philip, Bartholomew,
Matthew, Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus,
Simon who was called a Zealot,
and Judas the son of James,
and Judas Iscariot, who became a
traitor.
And he came down with them and stood on a stretch of level ground.
A great crowd of his disciples and a large number of the people
from all Judea and Jerusalem
and the coastal region of Tyre and Sidon
came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases;
and even those who were
tormented by unclean spirits were cured.
Everyone in the crowd sought to touch him
because power came forth from him and healed them all. UCCB Lectionary
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Reflection on the Scriptures |
Wherever Jesus went the people came to him because they had heard all the things he did. They were hungry for God and desired healing from their afflictions. In faith they pressed upon Jesus to touch him. As they did so power came from Jesus and they were healed. Even demons trembled in the
presence of Jesus and left at his rebuke. Jesus offers freedom from the power of sin and oppression to all who seek him with expectant faith. When you hear God’s word and consider all that Jesus did, how do you respond? With doubt or with expectant faith? With skepticism or with confident trust? Ask the Lord to increase your faith in his saving power and grace.
“Lord Jesus Christ, you are the Son of God and the Savior of the world. Inflame my heart with a burning love for you and with an expectant faith in your saving power. Take my life and all that I have as an offering of love for you, who are my All.”
DailyScripture.net
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Precautions, by St. John of the Cross
Instruction and precautions necessary for anyone desiring to be a true religious and reach
perfection.
*Against Oneself and the Shrewdness of Sensuality*
14. The other three precautions to be
practiced in the wish to conquer one’s own self and sensuality, the third enemy.
*The third precaution*
17. The third precaution is that the interior person should never set eyes on the pleasant feelings found in spiritual exercises, becoming attached to them and carrying out these practices only for the sake of this satisfaction. Nor should such a person run from the bitterness that may be found in them, but rather
seek the arduous and distasteful and embrace it. By this practice, sensuality is held in check; without this practice you will never lose self-love or gain the love of God.
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