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With Covid-19 affecting so many aspects of societies around the world, we have tried to do our part by offering online resources that can help and support people during these times. One of these has been the Covid-19 resource center at Shalom Place, which continues to provide links to updated information about the virus, and guidance on how we can best do our part to protect ourselves and others. There are also links to songs, prayers, and reflections that can
foster an attitude of healing and growth. I have been updating it lately, so check it out soon to update your understanding and deepen your spiritual resolve.
See https://shalomplace.com/covid-19.html
Your financial support helps make outreaches like this possible.
Thanks for your consideration.
Phil St. Romain
Internet Ministry Coordinator
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- Heartland Center for Spirituality
Internet Ministry
3600 Broadway
Great Bend, KS 67530
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- corresponding with a skeptic
"What we perceive through faith you attempt to establish by arguments, and often you cannot even express that which we see, so it is clear that insight through faith is better and more secure than your sophistic conclusions."
- Anthony of Egypt -
(Faith knows what cannot be proved or disproved by reason. Its security rests on God's ability to make good what God has promised. Cast away your doubts and live in faith this day.)
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RV 3:1-6, 14-22; PS 15:2-3A, 3BC-4AB, 5
LK 19:1-10
At that time Jesus came to Jericho and intended to pass through the town.
Now a man there named Zacchaeus,
who was a chief tax collector and also a wealthy man,
was seeking to see who Jesus was;
but he could not see him because of the crowd,
for he was short in stature.
So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore tree in order to see Jesus,
who was about to pass that way.
When he reached the place, Jesus looked up and said,
“Zacchaeus, come down quickly,
for today I must stay at your house.”
And he came down quickly and received him with joy.
When they saw this, they began to grumble, saying,
“He has gone to stay at the house of a sinner.”
But Zacchaeus stood there and said to the Lord,
“Behold, half of my possessions, Lord, I shall give to the poor,
and if I have extorted anything from anyone
I shall repay it four times over.”
And Jesus said to him,
“Today salvation has come to this house
because this man too is a descendant of Abraham.
For the Son of Man has come to seek
and to save what was lost.”
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 19: 1-10 (Jesus and Zaccbaeus)
Tax collectors were men designated by Rome to extract from the Jews money owed Rome for services rendered by the government. They were despised by the Jews; many Jews resented being governed by Rome, and tax collectors often extorted money for their own enrichment. Zacchaeus, the chief tax collector, must have been the focal point of much hatred, but this does not stop him from seeking out Jesus and
subsequently reforming his life.
• Would you be willing to climb a tree to see Jesus? Do you empathize with Zacchaeus’ desire to be with Jesus?
• Resolve to invite to dinner someone with whom you have had little contact recently.
• Pray to desire a deeper relationship with Jesus.
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Treatise on the Love of God, by St. Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
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BOOK II: THE HISTORY OF THE GENERATION AND HEAVENLY BIRTH OF DIVINE LOVE
Chapter 2: That in God there is but one act, which is his own divinity
To sum up, the sovereign divine unity diversifies all, and his permanent eternity gives change to all things, because the perfection of this unity being above all difference and variety, it has wherewith to furnish all the diversities of created perfections with their beings, and contains a virtue to produce them; in sign of which the Scripture having
told us that God in the beginning said: Let there be lights made in the firmament of heaven, to divide the day and the night, and let them be for signs, and for seasons and for days and years, [60] --we see even to this day a perpetual revolution and succession of times and seasons which shall continue till the end of the world. So we learn that as he spoke and they were made, so the single eternal will of his divine Majesty extends its force from age to age, yea to ages of ages, to all that has
been, is, or shall be eternally; and nothing at all has existence save by this sole most singular, most simple, and most eternal divine act, to which be honour and glory. Amen.
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