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Webinar by Philip St. Romain, D. Min.
September 10, 2020. 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. CDT
An election is coming up in the U.S. and in other countries, and many evaluate the candidates in terms of which one is more "pro-life." But what do we really mean by this term? Drawing from biblical and scientific resources, this webinar will broaden the usual focus by reflecting on the critical role of human influence in creation. We will identify specific actions that each of us can take to promote and defend
life.
Register: https://tinyurl.com/yxn5qauz
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Be the door-keeper of your heart and do not let any thought come in without questioning it. Question each thought individually: 'Are you on our side or the side of our foes?' And if it is one of ours, it will fill you with tranquility.
- Evagrius of Pontus, "Letter 11"
(This capacity to discern which thoughts one consents to allowing entrance to the heart is an important discipline to develop. Be more attentive to your thinking processes this day.)
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MI 5:1-4A; PS 13:6AB, 6C
LK 6:12-19
In these days he went out to the mountain to pray; and all night he continued in prayer to God. And when it was day, he called his disciples, and chose from them twelve, whom he named apostles; Simon, whom he named Peter, and Andrew his brother, and James and John, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon who was called the Zealot, and Judas the son of James, and
Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor. And he came down with them and stood on a level place, with a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases; and those who were troubled with unclean spirits were cured. And all the crowd sought to touch him, for power came forth from him and healed them all.
USCCB Lectionary
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Praying the Daily Gospels: A Guide to Meditation, by Philip St. Romain,
2018 (3rd ed.)
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Luke 6: 12-19 (Jesus chooses the Twelve)
Jesus knew that he would one day die, and he knew that he would not even begin to scratch the surface of a populated earth without the continuous ministry of his followers through the ages. That is why he called the Twelve to be his followers; that is why he still calls us to minister.
• If someone were to ask you who you are and what is important in this worldl, how wouldI you answer?
• Spend some time being present to God’s healing Spirit.
Paperback, Kindle and eBook
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Treatise on the Love of God, by St. Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
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BOOK I: CONTAINING A PREPARATION FOR THE WHOLE TREATISE
Chapter 18: That the natural inclination which we have to love God is not useless
But this infinite clemency could never be so rigorous to the work of his hands; he saw that we were clothed with flesh a wind which goeth and returneth not, and therefore according to the bowels of his mercy he would not utterly ruin us, nor deprive us of the sign of his lost grace, in order that seeing this, and feeling in ourselves this alliance,
and this inclination to love him, we should strive to do so, that no one might justly say: Who showeth us good things? For though by this sole natural inclination we cannot be so happy as to love God as we ought, yet if we employed it faithfully, the sweetness of the divine piety would afford us some assistance, by means of which we might make progress, and if we second this first assistance the paternal goodness of God would bestow upon us another greater, and conduct us from good to
better in all sweetness, till he brought us to the sovereign love, to which our natural inclination impels us: since it is certain that to him who is faithful in a little, and who does what is in his power, the divine benignity never denies its assistance to advance him more and more.
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