Weekend Edition: Daily Spiritual Seed
Published: Fri, 12/28/07
- readings, teachings, references and reviews -
Contents:
- Weekend Readings
- Saint of the Week
- Christian Spirituality Series
- Shalom Place Premium Groups
- Personal Spiritual Guidance
- Affiliate Web Sites
- Web Site of the Week
- Joke of the Week
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WEEKEND READINGS
http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/
Saturday: 1 Jn 2:3-11; Ps 96:1-2a, 2b-3, 5b-6; Lk 2:22-35
Sunday: Sir 3:2-6, 12-14; Ps 128:1-2, 3, 4-5; Col 3:12-21;
Mt 2:13-15, 19-23
R. (cf. 1) Blessed are those who fear the Lord and walk in his ways.
Blessed is everyone who fears the LORD,
who walks in his ways!
For you shall eat the fruit of your handiwork;
blessed shall you be, and favored.
Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine
in the recesses of your home;
your children like olive plants
around your table.
Behold, thus is the man blessed
who fears the LORD.
The LORD bless you from Zion:
may you see the prosperity of Jerusalem
all the days of your life.
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SAINT OF THE WEEK
- December 29th St. Thomas Becket, Patron of Portsmouth.
Born in London of a family of Norman origin in 1118, he studied at
Merton Abbey south of London, and at Paris, before studying law at
Bologna and working under Theobald, Archbishop of Canterbury. After
his ordination he became Archdeacon of Canterbury and after the
accession of King Henry II in 1154, Chancellor of England. He
seemed set for a brilliant career as a emissary for the king until
after his election as Archbishop of Canterbury in 1162 when he
adopted a strictly disciplined lifestyle and proceeded to pursue
his new duties with rigour. These often brought him into conflict
with the King, over taxation, over appeals to Rome, and over the
practice of the courts of the land punishing churchmen already
punished by church courts. Henry II maintained that he was
continuing the customs of his grandfather, Henry I; Thomas rejected
these claims in council at Northampton and then fled to France,
first to the abbey of Pontigny (where Edmund of Abingdon was later
to die) and then to the town of Sens, where his life is still
represented in the stained-glass windows of the cathedral. An
uneasy truce allowed his return to Canterbury in 1170, but after an
immediate further dispute with the King (over the coronation of the
Crown Prince) and after Henry's allegedly stated wish to be rid of
the 'turbulent priest' he was murdered in Canterbury Cathedral on
December 29th., 1170. He was canonised almost immediately (1173)
and his shrine established at Canterbury in 1220, to become the
goal of the famous Pilgrim's Way. The shrine was demolished at the
Reformation, when it was ordered that Thomas' name be removed from
the liturgical books of the church, but as more than 80 churches in
England alone are dedicated to him it was obviously impossible to
eliminate his memory.
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AFFILIATE WEB SITES (please give them a visit)
Inner Explorations: a vast array of spirituality resources for the
mature Christian.
http://innerexplorations.com
Carry the Light CD: Piano Meditations for the Hopeful Heart
http://www.sharonkcooper.com/pages/1/index.htm
The Ark: Providing a variety of scripture and lectionary study
resources.
http://www.theark1.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/
SeeScapes. Picturing the deeper dimensions of our spirituality.
http://www.seescapes.com
Contemplative Ministries of the Pacific Northwest: teaching and
support on contemplative practice
http://www.prayeroftheheart.com
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
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/
Contemplative Outreach of St. Louis
http://www.centeringprayerstl.com/
Emanuella House of Prayer: a place for prayer and silence in
British Columbia
http://members.axion.net/~massf/
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WEB SITE OF THE WEEK
New Years Day: History, Traditions and Customs
- http://wilstar.com/holidays/newyear.htm
There's a lot there that I didn't know about. A fun site to explore!
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JOKE OF THE WEEK
A preacher, who shall we say was "humor impaired," attended a
conference to help encourage and better equip pastors for their
ministry.
Among the speakers were many well known and dynamic speakers. One
such boldly approached the pulpit and, gathering the entire crowd's
attention, said, "The best years of my life were spent in the arms
of a woman that wasn't my wife!" The crowd was shocked! He followed
up by saying, "And that woman was my mother!" - The crowd burst
into laughter and delivered the rest of his talk, which went over
quite well.
The next week, the pastor decided he'd give this humor thing a try,
and use that joke in his sermon. As he surely approached the pulpit
that sunny Sunday, he tried to rehearse the joke in his head. It
suddenly seemed a bit foggy to him.
Getting to the microphone he said loudly, "The greatest years of my
life were spent in the arms of another woman that was not my wife!"
The congregation inhaled half the air in the room. After standing
there for almost 10 seconds in the stunned silence, trying to
recall the second half of the joke, the pastor finally blurted out,
"...and I can't remember who she was!"
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