Weekend Edition - Daily Spiritual Seed
Published: Thu, 10/18/07
- readings, teachings, references and reviews -
Contents:
- Weekend Readings
- Saint of the Week
- Book of the Week
- Christian Spirituality Series
- Shalom Place Premium Groups
- Personal Spiritual Guidance
- Shalom Place Discussion Board Highlights
- Affiliate Web Sites
- Web Site of the Week
- Joke of the Week
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WEEKEND READINGS
http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/
Saturday: Rom 4:13, 16-18; Ps 105:6-7, 8-9, 42-43; Lk 12:8-12
Sunday: Ex 17:8-13; Ps 121:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8; 2 Tm 3:14-4:2;
Lk 18:1-8
R. (cf. 2) Our help is from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.
I lift up my eyes toward the mountains;
whence shall help come to me?
My help is from the LORD,
who made heaven and earth.
May he not suffer your foot to slip;
may he slumber not who guards you:
indeed he neither slumbers nor sleeps,
the guardian of Israel.
The LORD is your guardian; the LORD is your shade;
he is beside you at your right hand.
The sun shall not harm you by day,
nor the moon by night.
The LORD will guard you from all evil;
he will guard your life.
The LORD will guard your coming and your going,
both now and forever.
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SAINT OF THE WEEK
- October 24th. St. Anthony Claret.
He was a Catalan, i.e. a native of the region of Spain whose
capital is Barcelona, and was born in 1807. He worked as a weaver
until he was drawn to the religious life; he always wanted to be a
foreign missionary but for many years his health prevented it. He
was, however, responsible for the founding of an Order of
missionary clergy which still exists today, and who are commonly
known as the Claretian Fathers. He was then nominated as Archbishop
of Santiago in Cuba, which was still a Spanish possession, and
worked heroically for the interests of the most oppressed,
especially workers in the sugar plantations who were to all intents
and purposes slaves. He returned to Spain in 1857, and devoted
himself to writing, but also to encouraging scientific, musical and
linguistic studies. He was a Christian humanist in a country not
always noted for its enlightenment. He also served as personal
Chaplain to the Queen (Isabel II) and when she was driven out of
the country in the Spanish revolution of 1868 he accompanied her
into exile in France, dying just over the border at Narbonne, in
1870. He was canonised in 1950.
- http://www.hullp.demon.co.uk/SacredHeart/saint/StAClaret.htm
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BOOK OF THE WEEK
"Preaching the Poetry of the Gospels, a lyric companion to the
lectionary," by Elizabeth Michael Boyle OP. Loyola Press, 2003.
- http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0814628915/christianspiritu/
In the five chapters of the book, Boyle offers her readers
reflections on the four main liturgical seasons of the Church year,
and a chapter on the use of poetry in Ordinary time.
Boyle notes that when Jesus spoke He appealed to his audience on
three different levels:
1. He enticed a response to language that was startling, rarely
academic, and never boring
2. He led them to read his significant actions as dramatic poetry
3. He desired his message to be communicated fully only in that
"primary zone," such as Mary did as she treasured in her heart what
she couldn't understand (Lk 2:51).
The author believes that reading poetry gives fresh insights and is
a better preparation for prayer. She provides several poems for
each suggested Gospel passage. She notes that for personal prayer
only one question is necessary:
"What do the words in the Gospel text do - or try to do - to my
relationship with God and with others?
"God's first language was a wordiess poetry. Reading and responding
to the Gospels with a poet's eyes and ears help us recover the
beauty and the power of God's first language."
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SHALOM PLACE DISCUSSION BOARDS
- Discussions this past week featured the following topics:
Praying for healing and deliverance - Christian Spirituality Issues
forum.
Rapture and its detractors - Christian Spirituality Issues forum.
Watching Turkey - Religion and Culture forum.
Exquisite mustic - Book and Movie Reviews forum.
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AFFILIATE WEB SITES (please give them a visit)
Heartland Center for Spirituality (sponsoring Internet workshops
year-round).
http://www.heartlandspirituality.org/index.html
Kyrie Places of Pilgrimmage and Renewal.
http://www.kyrie.com/places/index.htm
Emanuella House of Prayer: a place for prayer and silence in
British Columbia
http://members.axion.net/~massf/
SeeScapes. Picturing the deeper dimensions of our spirituality.
http://www.seescapes.com
Carry the Light CD: Piano Meditations for the Hopeful Heart
http://www.sharonkcooper.com/pages/1/index.htm
Stillpoint: programs in spiritual direction, contemplative prayer.
http://www.stillpointnashville.org/
Solitude and Streets: an emerging faith community.
http://www.solitudeandstreets.org
Family Life Training and Counseling Center: an online Bible
college/seminary
http://www.familylifetrainingcenter.com/
The Ark: Providing a variety of scripture and lectionary study
resources.
http://www.theark1.com
Contemplative Ministries of the Pacific Northwest: teaching and
support on contemplative practice
http://www.prayeroftheheart.com
Contemplative Outreach of St. Louis
http://www.centeringprayerstl.com/
Inner Explorations: a vast array of spirituality resources for the
mature Christian.
http://innerexplorations.com
Contemplative Rudder: "In the midst of Consecrated Silence'
atmospherics ... a Rudder!
http://www.contemplativerudder.com/
Holy Trinity: Old Catholic Orthodox Church. Corpus Christi, TX
http://www.holytrinityoldcatholic.org/
Temenos Catholic Worker: support for homeless youth in Polk Street
neighborhood, San Francisco
http://www.temenos.org/
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WEB SITE OF THE WEEK
- by Diana Murray
Journal Anywhere
- http://www.journalanywhere.com
JournalAnywhere provides us with the facility to journal just
about anywhere, anytime. All you need to do is send an email, which
may contain pictures and other attachments, from any device with
email capability. Record your thoughts, memories, and impressions
in a serious, secure (private) journaling tool for grown-ups; it
isn't another blog site or public message board.
Keeping a journal, above anything else, benefits the journal
keeper. Journaling provides a safe place to express ideas, dreams,
challenges, successes, failures and discoveries. Whenever you like,
you may get a printed and bound copy.
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JOKE OF THE WEEK
God's man . . .
Our parish priest was making a visit to my nephew's home. He
knocked on the door, and the little 4-year-old boy went to the door
and way the priest. He called to his dad, "Hey, Dad! That guy that
works for God is here!"
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Brains vs. Brawn
The strong young man at the construction site was bragging that he
could outdo anyone in a feat of strength. He made a special case of
making fun of one of the older workmen. After several minutes, the
older worker had had enough.
"Why don't you put your money where your mouth is," he said. "I
will bet a week's wages that I can haul something in a wheelbarrow
over to that outbuilding that you won't be able to wheel back."
"You're on, old man," the young man bragged replied. "Let's see
what you got."
The old man reached out and grabbed the wheelbarrow by the handles.
Then, nodding to the young man, he said, "All right. Get in."
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