Message of 10-3-07
Published: Sat, 09/29/07
- Life-long learning and formation in Christian spirituality.
Groups now open include the following:
A. Psychological Types and Spirituality
B. The Way of Christian Spirituality
C. Freedom from Codependency
D. Christian Spirituality Resources
E. Wonderfully Made (Christian Metaphysics)
F. Growing in Christ
G. Spiral Dynamics®
H. Discerning God's Will
I. Dark Night of the Soul
J. Silence, Solitude and Sabbath
K. Alpha Group -- includes all the above and all to come.
- see http://shalomplace.org/groups.html
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MESSAGE OF THE DAY
Spell this out in capital letters: THE Holy Spirit IS A PERSON. He
is not enthusiasm. He is not courage. He is not energy. He is not
the personification of all good qualities, like Jack Frost is the
personification of cold weather. Actually, the Holy Spirit is not
the personification of anything...... He has individuality. He is
one being and not another. He has will and intelligence. He has
hearing. He has knowledge and sympathy and ability to love and see
and think. He can hear, speak, desire, grieve and rejoice. He is a
Person.
- A. W. Tozer
(And, to think, this Spirit lives within us, to empower and guide
us all the days of our lives! Awaken to the Spirit in our life
this day.)
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SCRIPTURE READINGS
http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/
Neh 2:1-8; Ps 137:1-2, 3, 4-5, 6; Lk 9:57-62
R. (6ab) Let my tongue be silenced if I ever forget you!
By the streams of Babylon
we sat and wept
when we remembered Zion.
On the aspens of that land
we hung up our harps.
Though there our captors asked of us
the lyrics of our songs,
And our despoilers urged us to be joyous:
"Sing for us the songs of Zion!"
How could we sing a song of the LORD
in a foreign land?
If I forget you, Jerusalem,
may my right hand be forgotten!
May my tongue cleave to my palate
if I remember you not,
If I place not Jerusalem
ahead of my joy.
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Praying the Daily Gospels
- by Philip St. Romain:
- http://www.liguori.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=6614
- Luke 9: 57-62 (A time for decision)
Following Jesus means placing his principles before all others and
immediately aligning our lives with his. In today's reading we see
that hesitation and excessive prudence can sometimes prevent us
from making a full response to Jesus.
- Some have said that prudence should not be considered a Christian
virtue. Do you agree?
- Do you believe that you are living out a full response to Jesus'
invitation to follow him?
- Spend some time with the passage Now is the time of salvation.'
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MYSTICISM
- by Evelyn Underhill -
It is the business of Lady Poverty to confer on her lovers this
freedom of the Universe, to eradicate delusion, cut out the
spreading growth of claimfulness, purify the heart, and initiate
them into the "great life of the All." Well might St. Francis
desire marriage with that enchantress, who gives back ten-fold all
that she takes away. "Holy poverty," he said, "is a treasure so
high excelling and so divine that we be not worthy to lay it up in
our vile vessels; since this is that celestial virtue whereby all
earthly things and fleeting are trodden underfoot, and whereby all
hindrances are lifted from the soul, so that freely she may join
herself to God Eternal."
--- Part 2, Chapter 3
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MEDITATING ON SCRIPTURE (Method of St. Francis de Sales)
A. Settling in: call to mind God's presence; address oneself to God
in vocal prayer.
B. Reading the Scripture passage slowly, prayerfully.
C. Exercise of the will and intellect in considering the message:
what is this passage saying? what is it calling forth from me?
D. Conclusion: acts of thanksgiving, remorse and intercessions
awakened by the meditation.
E. Application: Immediate follow-through on resolutions made.
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