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Preparing for Mass
This post is to help prepare you for your Sunday Mass experience by giving you a little food for thought before you go. Priming the pump so to speak. This post will appear every Saturday morning. So be watching for it. Pray about what you read and the Holy Spirit may inspire you along a completely different line of thought. That would be awesome as well.
Have you ever noticed that you shock people you’ve never met when you are kind to them? I asked the cashier at the grocery how his day was going? The look on his face was priceless. It took him a moment before he answered. It was more than a quick, “How’s it going?” I wanted him to stop and think and realize that perhaps – just perhaps – someone was being kind to him in a thankless job. Are you a kind person? To everyone, or just those you like? On this Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, the Book of Wisdom connects justice with kindness. He states that kindness is only fair. If I want to be a fair person then I have to be a kind one as well. What’s fair about being kind to anonymous people? I don’t see it as necessarily being fair to the person to whom I show kindness. I have been treated fairly by the Lord and I should do the same. It falls into the category of “Go and do likewise” that Jesus spoke about. The hard part just might be that I won’t see how kind the Lord is to me until I start being kind to others.
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The Lord’s Day
Sunday, the Lord’s day, is to be a day of rest and renewal. We all know that is easier said than done. This posting will focus on the renewal part more than the rest part given our hectic lifestyles. I directed a middle school camp for seventeen years. One of the basic elements of the camp was called “processing.” This was an effort to get the kids to “connect the dots” in their lives. Asking questions like “how does climbing this wall remind you of difficulties in school, or your relationships, or your home life?” we tried to get them to learn life lessons through connections. And we added the God-element as well. “How is our relationship with God like shooting a bow and arrow?” If they could find God in their camp experiences, they had a better chance of finding him in their lives back home. Think about it for a moment. As adults, if we do not process our daily experiences, how will we ever hope to find the hand of a loving God directing a beautiful plan for our lives? We have to connect the dots. When we do this, we will have more peace and therefore more rest and renewal. Why? Because there is a plan for our lives and it is unfolding. We can work with that plan or work against it – like swimming upstream. This posting will mainly be provoking questions. Processing questions if you will. I hope it helps.
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Have a song to start your day
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Weekly Meditation
Start your work week with a meditation from the Language of Letting Go
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Abusive Relationships
7 Signs That You’re in an Emotionally Abusive Relationship
The immediate problems with 50 Shades of Gray are obvious. As a Catholic Psychologist, I wholeheartedly agree with everything being said regarding pornography and BDSM and unhealthy relationships. There are also some interesting points I’ve read regarding why women are so drawn to the books and movie relating to their unsatisfying sex lives. There’s a lot there to comment on and draw out, especially about the true meaning of sexuality and how to find fulfillment in a marriage’s conjugal life.
But there is an insidious lie specific to 50 Shades that I’d like to speak about from a psychological perspective. This post is geared more towards the supporters of the books and movie. I haven’t read the books or plan to see the movie, but I have read a very frightening defense of the trilogy. Some have pointed to the change of heart in the main character by the end of the trilogy as a justification for the violence and abuse that occurred from the start. If you’ve ever known someone in an abusive relationship, this idea will sound all-too-familiar. “If I just love him enough, he’ll change.” It happens just as much with women as it does with men. “If I just let it go this time, she’ll figure it out and won’t do it again.” If this trilogy proposes that such thinking is logical, there is nothing more destructive to understanding healthy boundaries in relationships than reading or watching it.
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A Garbage Collector and the Pope
Pope phones trash man who lost legs in accident
.- Maximiliano Acuña is a garbage collector in Buenos Aires who earlier this year was injured in a serious accident that left him without legs.
On Tuesday, he was surprised to receive an unexpected phone call from Pope Francis.
The Pope offered words of encouragement, 33-year-old Acuña told the Argentine Morfi Television program.
On March 22, the father of five children had been collecting garbage in a Buenos Aires neighborhood when he was struck by a car going some 80 miles an hour.
As a result of the accident, both of his legs had to be amputated. (complete article)
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Thoughts on the Scriptures
July 30, 2017 by Deacon Candidate Michael Houtchen
Gospel Matthew 13:44-52
Jesus said to his disciples: “The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure buried in a field, which a person finds and hides again, and out of joy goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.
Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant searching for fine pearls. When he finds a pearl of great price, he goes and sells all that he has and buys it. Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net thrown into the sea, which collects fish of every kind. When it is full they haul it ashore
and sit down to put what is good into buckets. What is bad they throw away. Thus it will be at the end of the age. The angels will go out and separate the wicked from the righteous and throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be wailing and grinding of teeth.
“Do you understand all these things?” They answered, “Yes.” And he replied, “Then every scribe who has been instructed in the kingdom of heaven is like the head of a household who brings from his storeroom both the new and the old.”
Buried Treasure
Jesus is like buried treasure. He’s there to be found, but we have to search for him. And we won’t find him if we don’t have the desire to find him. We find Him in Scripture, Tradition, the Sacraments, Mass, the Eucharist, and prayer. And once found, we will do anything to possess Him. Right?
I went through a period in my life where I found Jesus, but I didn’t have the desire to “own” Him completely. I was so busy trying to better myself, and that of my family, that I put Jesus way down on my list of treasures. I wasn’t willing to give “all I had” to own Him, like the person in the parable. “All I had” simply means giving my life completely to God. And because of that, for a time I lost the treasure. I lost it among the desires for the treasures of this world.
So, what should we do with Jesus if we find him? Do we hide Him in our hearts like a treasure, keeping Him all to ourselves? If we do, then we truly don’t “own” Him spiritually. To fully own Jesus, we must give Him to others. We must witness so others can own Him, so they too can become rich in the spirit. To own the treasure that is Jesus, we must give our earthly treasures to those without ways and means. For if we give our earthly treasures then there’ll be more room in our hearts, minds, and souls for the greatest treasure to grow; the treasure being Jesus.
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Unplugging
by The Skit Guys
We’re living in a world where communication happens at the tap of a send button and the light of screens fill our bedrooms at night. But what happens when a husband and wife unplug from their technology and are actually present with each other?
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