Message of 11-14-07
Published: Sat, 11/10/07
ANNUAL APPEAL
Every week I list our premium group offerings (see below). These
are online retreats and workshops made available to the entire
world 24/7. You can see the variety already there, and more are
planned for the future.
If you've never been part of one of an Internet study group, you
can be my guest today and tomorrow. I have opened the "Wonderfully
Made" group to all visitors to give you an idea of how the material
is presented, and how people interact with it. You'll have to
register for the forum, but that's free and only takes a minute to
verify via email (see the Login/Join link on the top right of the
link below):
- http://shalomplace.org/eve
Providing high quality resources on Christian spirituality is the
goal of this online ministry. Your financial support to help
enable this is appreciated.
Phil St. Romain
Editor of Daily Spiritual Seed
shalomplace.com webmaster
To make a donation to Heartland Center for Spirituality, please
visit http://shalomplace.com/seed/donations.html where several
options are listed.
- be sure to read Friday's appeal note to learn more about the
gratitude gift for this year; it's a good one.
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SHALOM PLACE PREMIUM GROUPS
- 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
Today I will face my problems, unwrap them and seek to understand
their component parts, spread them out before the Lord, thank Him
in advance for what He's going to do, follow orders for what I am
to do, and stand by to watch His miracles.
- Anonymous
(A good affirmation. Repeat slowly . . prayerfully . . . listening
for specific direction from the Spirit.)
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SCRIPTURE READINGS
http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/
Wis 6:1-11; Ps 82:3-4, 6-7; Lk 17:11-19
R. (8a) Rise up, O God, bring judgment to the earth.
Defend the lowly and the fatherless;
render justice to the afflicted and the destitute.
Rescue the lowly and the poor;
from the hand of the wicked deliver them.
I said: "You are gods,
all of you sons of the Most High;
yet like men you shall die,
and fall like any prince."
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Praying the Daily Gospels
- by Philip St. Romain:
- http://www.liguori.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=6614
- Luke 17: 11-19 (The attitude of gratitude)
Life is such an incredible phenomenon! It is possible that our
planet alone out of billions of galaxies and stars is hospitable to
living organisms. How sad it is that we do not properly appreciate
the miracle that we are! Gratitude brought the Samaritan leper far
more than health; it brought him salvation.
- Do you believe it is a sin to take your life and creation
for granted?
- Spend time thanking God for the gift of your life, your
body and its functioning parts, your health, your energy.
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MYSTICISM
- by Evelyn Underhill -
Every person in whom the mystical instinct awakes soon discovers in
himself certain tastes or qualities which interrupt the development
of that instinct. Often these tastes and qualities are legitimate
enough upon their own plane; but they are a drain upon the energy
of the self, preventing her from attaining that intenser life for
which she was made and which demands her undivided zest. They
distract her attention, fill the field of perception, stimulate her
instinctive life: making of the surface-consciousness so active a
thing that it can hardly be put to sleep. "Where can he have that
pure and naked vision of unchangeable Truth whereby he see into all
things," says Petersen again, "who is so busied in other things,
not perhaps evil, which operate . . . upon his thoughts and
imagination and confuse and enchain his mind . . . that his sight
of that unique One in Whom all things are is overclouded?"
------ 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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