tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7539170285175119272024-02-19T09:54:46.444-06:00Catholic Spirituality Blogs NetworkThe web's best blog posts on prayer, virtue, and inspiration for your walk with Christ.Connie Rossinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16167873116105163091noreply@blogger.comBlogger364125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-753917028517511927.post-7420760651116138462017-09-15T11:55:00.001-05:002017-09-15T11:55:52.187-05:00Nancy Shuman, Rest in Peace<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Dear friends of Catholic Spirituality Blogs Network, if you haven't already heard the news, I wanted to let you know that blogger Nancy Shuman passed away a couple of weeks ago. She had cancer, discovered last spring when it was too late to operate. Nancy blogged at The Breadbox Letters and The Cloistered Heart. Her posts were beautiful and moving. She kept posting at The Cloistered Heart until just a few days before her death.<br />
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We will all miss Nancy and the inspiration she gave to so many people. Please join me, her children, and grandchildren, in praying for the repose of her soul.<br />
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Well done, good and faithful servant!<br />
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Connie RossiniConnie Rossinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16167873116105163091noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-753917028517511927.post-32961162676499771462014-12-16T15:22:00.002-06:002014-12-16T15:34:44.468-06:00Changes at Catholic Spirituality Blogs Network<br />
Dear Readers,<br />
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I'm sure you have noticed how few new posts we have had on our blog at CSBN in the past few months. I have been busy publishing and promoting my new book,<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LTATI6C/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LTATI6C&linkCode=as2&tag=contemplhomes-20&linkId=ENOWS5TND7QOEWQX"> Trusting God with St. Therese</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=contemplhomes-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B00LTATI6C" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />. I have also become very active in working with other Catholic writers at my new <a href="https://plus.google.com/communities/109531253353194867595">Google+ Community </a>and website, <a href="http://iecatholicauthors.wordpress.com/">Indie Catholic Authors</a>. I am no longer able to post other bloggers' work here as I have done in the past, because there are only so many hours in a day. I also have parenting, household, and homeschool duties.<br />
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Beginning today, I am changing the blog over to links with excerpts from our members' blogs. The old posts will remain here. You can still find them through searches, the Popular Posts link, or the Labels at the bottom of this page.<br />
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Our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/CatholicSpiritualityBlogsNetwork">facebook page </a>will continue just as it has in the past, pulling in posts from a few members' blogs.<br />
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I hope you will continue to visit and comment on the blogs of our members.<br />
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Blessings to you and your loved ones.<br />
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<i>Connie Rossini</i>Connie Rossinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16167873116105163091noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-753917028517511927.post-22567194406487128372014-11-20T09:23:00.000-06:002014-11-20T09:23:12.013-06:00Fathers, Daughters and St. Thérèse<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>By Nancy Ward</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">An interview with Connie Rossini, author of </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_0_21/176-7643599-3764415?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=trusting%20god%20with%20st%20therese&sprefix=Trusting+God+with+St.%2Caps%2C549"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Trusting God with St. Thérèse</span></i></a><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">.</span></i>
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fears and frustrations that hamper our relationship with God. I asked her about
her father-daughter relationship as compared to that of Louis Martin and his
daughter St. Thérèse of Lisieux.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nancy:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> Thérèse was blessed
with parents who were “more worthy of heaven than of earth.” Thérèse had a
special relationship with her father, who called her, “my Queen.” She formed
her image of God from her father who never denied her love, affection and care.
How did your father-daughter relationship compare to this?</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Connie:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> In some ways, my
relationship with my father when I was growing up was miles apart from the
relationship between Thérèse and Louis. I am very quiet and reserved. As a
child, I was also timid. My dad, in contrast, was outgoing and frank. He was
also the primary disciplinarian. My mom often said, "Wait till your dad
gets home!" I grew nervous around him. I avoided talking to him about any
serious subjects.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">In my book, I tell how my dad left me home
alone when I was about five. When he returned about an hour later, he didn't
show any sympathy for my fears. So that didn't help my relationship with him or
God.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Read the entire interview at </span><a href="http://bit.ly/1wsmLx7"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">JOYAlive.net</span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></div>
Connie Rossinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16167873116105163091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-753917028517511927.post-84306657426171120542014-11-15T10:32:00.002-06:002014-11-15T10:32:54.207-06:00Into the Dark Night<i>By David Torkington</i><br />
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For many of us the first brief glimpses of God came through His creation. It
might have been through a beautiful sunset, a breathtaking stretch of
countryside. It might have come through gazing upon a single blade of
grass, an insect crawling through the undergrowth, or a caterpillar
climbing up a rose bush. When your contemplation of creation enabled you
to experience the Creator, you found yourself drawn inward. It was as
if some soothing sedative stilled your mind and heart and made you mourn
for your Maker, as for a lost friend. And yet this strange melancholy
was as sweet as it was sad and you wanted it to go on and on to envelop
you more and more completely. Once this had happened, you no longer
needed to gaze at the scene before you, you could close your eyes and
still savour the mysterious presence. The physical senses and the
feelings and emotions that depend upon them have no part in what now
becomes a predominantly spiritual experience.<br />
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When the experience vanishes, as it always will, the heart mourns for
what has been lost. The restless heart that yearns for love unlimited
is a commonplace experience for the young, who have been ‘touched’ in
this way. When, like St Augustine they eventually begin to realise, or
are taught, that the fullness of God’s love on earth is ultimately to be
found in His Masterwork Jesus Christ, it is the beginning of a new
departure in their spiritual journey.<br />
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St Jerome said that, <em>“to be ignorant of the scriptures is to be ignorant of Christ,”</em>
so it is now the time to turn to the sacred scriptures, and follow the
practice of the Desert Fathers and the most ancient and hallowed
traditions of our faith, reading and re-reading everything that Jesus
said and did in the Gospels. This is the only way to come to know and
love the Father, made flesh and blood, in the Son, for as William of
Thierry said, <em>“You cannot love someone unless you know them”,</em> but he adds, <em>“You will never really know them unless you love them.”</em><br />
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<a href="http://blog.davidtorkington.com/into-the-dark-night/"><em>Continue reading at </em>David Torkington.</a><em><a href="http://blog.davidtorkington.com/into-the-dark-night/"> </a></em>Connie Rossinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16167873116105163091noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-753917028517511927.post-40884234379034913572014-11-06T08:03:00.001-06:002014-11-06T08:03:41.783-06:00Retreats: a small cell to meet with God<div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
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prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane on the eve of His crucifixion is
poignant because of its devastating description of the agony of the Lord
as He was about to make His ultimate sacrifice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His fleeting fancy, “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: red;">If it is possible, let this cup pass</span></i>” and subsequent, solemn affirmation, “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: red;">If this cup cannot pass by me, but I must drink it, your will be done</span></i>” (St. Matthew 26:42), is a powerful testament to Christ’s love for humanity and obedience to the will of God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is also an important illustration of the value of the spiritual retreat as a source of fortitude in Christian life.</span></div>
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of El Salvador is said to have had his moment in the Garden during a
spiritual retreat just weeks before his March 1980 assassination.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I want this retreat to join me more closely to His will</i>,” <a href="http://www.spiritualitytoday.org/spir2day/904242brock.html"><span style="color: blue;">Romero wrote</span></a> in his notes for that retreat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Romero was an enthusiastic advocate of spiritual retreats.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">In everyone’s heart there is, as it were, a small intimate cell where God is able to speak with everyone individually</i>,” <a href="http://romerotrust.org.uk/homilies/31/31_pdf.pdf"><span style="color: blue;">he had preached</span></a> to his flock upon taking up his ministry three years before.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">If
every one of us who are so concerned about so many different problems
and situations were to enter this ‘small cell’ and from there listen to
the voice of the Lord who speaks to us in our conscience, how much more
would we be able to do to better our situation and the situation of our
society and family</i>,” he said.</span></div>
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Connie Rossinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16167873116105163091noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-753917028517511927.post-26075114489956296862014-10-28T10:45:00.000-05:002014-10-28T10:45:20.181-05:00How to behave in these end times<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Another friend on Facebook this weekend was bemoaning all the
struggles in the world right now. I say another, because this happens
often. Something is wrong with the world and many of us sense it.<br />
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The
other night I watched an interview with the journalist who introduced
Edward Snowdon to the world. When she spoke of how the government was
watching her every move, trying to force her to reveal her sources, I
was eerily reminded of the fight for religious liberty. Priests are
being subpoenaed to break the seal of Confession. Pastors in Houston
have had their sermons subpoenaed. The Bill of Rights is crumbling.<br />
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Isis
is beheading Christians in the Middle East. The last week saw terrorist
attacks in the US and Canada. There’s an Ebola epidemic, great moral
decay, and the scandal over the <em>relatio</em> from the Synod on the Family.<br />
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Are we living in the end times?<br />
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Are these the end times?</h2>
This answer is unequivocally <em>yes. </em><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Since
the Ascension God’s plan has entered into its fulfillment. We are
already at ‘the last hour.’ ‘Already the final age of the world is with
us, and the renewal of the world is irrevocably under way; it is even
now anticipated in a certain real way, for the Church on earth is
endowed already with a sanctity that is real but imperfect.'” (CCC 670)<br /> </span></blockquote>
The end times began 2000 years ago.<br />
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<a href="http://contemplativehomeschool.com/2014/10/28/behave-end-times"><i>Continue reading at </i>Contemplative Homeschool. </a>Connie Rossinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16167873116105163091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-753917028517511927.post-22955671522833592082014-10-24T10:01:00.002-05:002014-10-24T10:01:54.460-05:00The gift of suffering<div style="text-align: left;">
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<span style="color: teal;"><em><strong>“God loves us, so He makes us the gift of suffering.</strong></em></span></div>
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<span style="color: teal;"><em style="font-size: 12.800000190735px;"><strong>Through suffering, we release our hold on the toys of this world, </strong></em><em style="font-size: 12.800000190735px;"><strong>and know our true good lies in another world.</strong></em></span></div>
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<span style="color: teal;"><em><strong>We’re like blocks of stone, out of which the sculptor carves the forms of men.</strong></em></span></div>
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<span style="color: teal;"><em><strong>The blows of his chisel, which hurt us so much, are what make us perfect.</strong></em></span></div>
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<span style="color: teal;"><em><strong>The suffering in this world is not the failure of God’s love for us;</strong></em><em><strong>it is that love in action.</strong></em></span></div>
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<span style="color: teal;"><em><strong>For believe me, this world that seems to us so substantial is no more than the shadlowlands.</strong></em></span><br />
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<span style="color: teal;"><em><strong>Real life has not begun yet.” (“Shadowlands,” p. 1)</strong></em></span><br />
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I once asked a priest what my life would have been like if I had not
suffered, if I had married a well-off dentist, had 1.25 kids and lived
in an efficient, modern house. He put on a phony, pious face, put his
hands together in prayer, and said in a high, mocking voice, ”Oh, you
would be a nice Christian lady, praising the Lord.”<br />
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Continue reading at Melanie's blog,<a href="http://melaniejeanjuneau.wordpress.com/2014/09/17/the-gift-of-suffering/"> joyofnine9</a>. Connie Rossinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16167873116105163091noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-753917028517511927.post-85102601232087710502014-10-16T09:29:00.001-05:002014-10-16T09:29:59.599-05:00Swept up by the Spirit, Journey of Transformation by Gary Garner<i>By Nancy Ward</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; line-height: 240%;"><i>Art: The Ideal</i> by Louis Janmot<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a></span></div>
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“I
have lived two vastly different lives—one spent exalting materialism and filled
with spiritual darkness, the other spent exalting Jesus the Lord and filled with
light and hope.” Because Gary’s conversion was so “life and death,” he sees it
that way for everyone.<br />
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He
recounts how the Spirit plainly revealed some of the traps he and his family
narrowly avoided. He credits angels, signposts and appointed helpers,
“pinpoints of light in the darkness, placed there for us to discover and to
show us the way—without them we couldn’t possibly have made it to where we are
now. There is hardly an hour that I don’t feel an urgency toward others of the
impending dangers and perils that await them, much like someone who barely
avoided a collapsing bridge.”<br />
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His
journey of transformation eventually brought him from his agnostic-pro-Catholic
religious view into the Catholic Church by way of the charismatic renewal. His
conversion began with a voice telling him to buckle his seatbelt, saving his
life. Then Fr. Walt, a young, motorcycle-riding priest invited him and his wife
Nancy to a parish prayer meeting. The people shared their
Spirit-led encounters with unbelievable praise reports. They spoke as if
the Holy Spirit was telling them what to do and enabling them to do it.<br />
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In
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Swept-Up-Spirit-Journey-Transformation/dp/0985670525/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=&qid=">Swept
Up by the Spirit</a>, Gary tells story after story of how he opened
everything in this life to the Holy Spirit who indeed did tell him what to do
and enabled him to do it. Much of his leadings from “the Voice” involved
ministries with groups of Protestant and Catholic men praying and evangelizing
together in street ministry in rough neighborhoods or at abortion clinics.
Often this involved marches with a handful or hundreds of people singing and
carrying large crosses, or praying behind bars or gambling houses. He prayed
with strangers for physical healings, deliverance and conversion.“It
was only after I stopped worrying about what other people thought of me out
there that I could begin to be effective at all,” he says of his sidewalk
ministry at Planned Parenthood.<br />
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when one of the audience asked “Are we talking about something that is a
particularly Christian experience, or does everyone experience God’s
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“It’s for everyone,” I replied emphatically. “God loves everyone, not
just Christians, but Christians do respond in a unique way.” Let me
explain what I mean. Long before he became a saint, when he was still a
pagan, St Augustine experienced those <i>‘touches of God’</i>. In writing about the way he reacted to them in his <i>Confessions</i> he gives us a perfect example of how we should react too, in order to deepen our spiritual life.<br />
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From his <i>Confessions: -</i><br />
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<i>“When first I knew you, you lifted me up so that I might see that
there was something to see, but that I was not yet the man to see it.
And you beat back the weakness of my gaze, blazing upon me too strongly,
and I was shaken with love and with dread. You called and cried to me
and broke open my deafness and you sent forth your beams and shone upon
me and chased away my blindness. You breathed fragrance upon me, and I
drew in my breath, and do now pant for you. I tasted you, and now hunger
and thirst for you. You touched me, and I have burned for your peace.
So I set about finding a way to gain the strength that was necessary for
enjoying you. And I could not find it until I embraced the mediator
between God and man, the man Christ Jesus, who was calling unto me and
saying, ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life’.”</i><br />
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<i style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">Continue reading at </i><a href="http://blog.davidtorkington.com/from-mystical-premonition-to-contemplation/">David Torkington.</a>Connie Rossinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16167873116105163091noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-753917028517511927.post-29453474884766372542014-10-13T09:06:00.000-05:002014-10-13T09:06:39.340-05:007 Advantageous reasons to wait upon the Lord<i>By Elizabeth Reardon</i>
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First,
let’s admit that very few of us, including myself, ever truly want to
wait for anything. We search desperately for the shortest line at the
store, GPS the quickest route to our destination, and watch with noses
pressed against the oven for the cupcakes to be ready. Oh, who am I
kidding , we drive by the nearest bakery or donut shop and wha-la it’s
ready! While our patience for waiting has various limits, there is
usually a point to where we cry out, (paraphrasing here), “You have <i>got</i>
to be kidding me!” Yet, God has given us so many numerous, and
advantageous reasons why we should do just that…wait…and trust upon the
Lord.
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<b>Here are my top 7 that highlighted the week! </b><br />
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1. “The LORD is good to those who trust in him, to the one that seeks him” <b>Lamentations 3:25</b></blockquote>
<b> </b>While my mornings begin in seeking God through prayer, and reflection..there are ample detours and the need to trust God throughout
the day. Not the least of which are in actuality, real roadblocks, that
this summer lead me away from the way home through a busy touristy
area. This adds an unpredictability to the completion of my errands and,
as I was discovering, a heaping tablespoon of frustration. Prompting me
to ask myself, what could I be doing instead? TRUST. Be aware that God
is there too, in my impatience, in this busy world around me. Now, as I
close my eyes I can see the smile given by the young couple in beaconing
them across the street, and feel the breeze off the ocean. I can hear
the questioning voices of the kids on summer vacation with their
parents..and God telling me that this too is a part of the day He has
for me.<br />
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<i>Read the other six at Elizabeth's blog</i> <a href="http://theologyisaverb.com/2014/08/08/7-advantageous-reasons-to-wait-upon-the-lord/">Theologyisaverb. </a>Connie Rossinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16167873116105163091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-753917028517511927.post-51726031370746449952014-09-29T20:42:00.001-05:002014-09-29T20:42:55.990-05:00The blood machine<i>By Caroline</i><br />
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I don’t remember the official medical name of the blood machine, but
it was softly ticking like a clock keeping time for an event no one
wants to be a part of.<br />
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This was the fourth time I’d seen Mr J on my pastoral care visits to
the hospital this year and he is a very special person; always willing
to share a smile despite the cancer that is eating away at his body and
blood. He never fails to invite me to sit down and I always do because
he teaches me about suffering with joy, he teaches me to take my eyes
off myself, he teaches me to trust Jesus more and I never fail to tear
up as soon as my feet touch the threshold of the doorway on my way to
the next patient.<br />
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I’m so happy to see you Mr J, only….not here. We both smiled as I took his hand.<br />
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Yes, he said, here I am again. They blew out my veins on my last visit which started this whole latest trauma…water in my blood.<br />
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Pull up that darn chair, he quipped.</blockquote>
As I did, he defied the pain I’m sure he felt as he lifted his right
arm black and blue from many attempts to access his veins bound by
embedded tubes so impeccably taped in place, it’s hard to imagine they
could ever come out; he took from his bed-table…a beautiful boxed cross.
It had a ruby red jewel at the top.<br />
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<i>Continue reading at Caroline's blog</i> <a href="http://www.bellofthewanderer.com/the-blood-machine/">Bell of the Wanderer. </a>Connie Rossinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16167873116105163091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-753917028517511927.post-74797407203551639172014-09-26T09:11:00.000-05:002014-09-26T09:11:21.875-05:00Honest prayer<i>By Melanie Jean Juneau</i><br />
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<span style="color: black;">Real prayer</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Is not a mental exercise, a game.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Honest prayer</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Opens our core, our heart to the Almighty,</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">The Creator of the universe.</span></div>
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Such prayer is necessarily humble because</div>
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<span style="color: black;">He is God and we are not.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">No room for pride;</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">He knows us better than we know ourselves.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><i>Continue reading at Melanie's blog</i> <a href="http://melaniejeanjuneau.wordpress.com/2014/08/25/honest-prayer/">joyofnine9.</a> </span></div>
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Connie Rossinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16167873116105163091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-753917028517511927.post-70912054567763243222014-09-23T10:50:00.000-05:002014-09-23T10:50:17.462-05:00God's reset button<i>By Elizabeth Reardon</i><br />
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A few years ago, a good friend of mine made a comment about how
thankful he was that God had given him a reset button that morning after
a very trying day. Well, that image and my appreciation of it hasn’t
left me since. We all have those days, <i>mine was just yesterday</i>,
where very little is going as planned, no one is on our timeline, and
our patience is slim to none. Honestly, I could not even get out of my
own way! So, that Jesuit training came into play once again last night
as I sat down to <i>Examen</i> where it all went wrong, as well as, how to get back on track.
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<b>First</b>, I had started my day by placing my own priorities ahead of my time with God. I know,<i> “say it ain’t so”</i>, but <b>yes that was me</b>.
Seemingly too busy for mass, prayer or reflection- I plunged into the
day’s events headfirst. In doing so, I realize that I had let the
events of the day control me, allowing them to dictate where and what I
was to do next. Moreover, this was creating within me a growing
exasperation,at my ineptitude at getting anything done much less doing it correctly.<br />
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Instead
of giving God the space to meet these frustrations, as only God can, I
was multiplying my mistakes and laying the path of destruction far and
wide. Perhaps, this is a tad harsh but if you need a visual… just
picture a funnel cloud.<br />
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<i>Continue reading at Elizabeth's blog</i> <a href="http://theologyisaverb.com/2014/08/29/examen-ing-my-day-gods-reset-button/">Theologyisaverb. </a>Connie Rossinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16167873116105163091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-753917028517511927.post-77380672836912297932014-09-19T10:01:00.001-05:002014-09-19T10:02:05.012-05:00Slaves (Esclavos)<i>By Lora Goulet</i>
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<i>Cuando somos esclavos de las preocupaciones, </i><br />
<i>Nuestra Santísima Virgen Madre</i><br />
<i>Nos lleva a la Presencia de Jesús,</i><br />
<i>El Unico que nos puede liberar.</i><br />
<i>Y cuando nuestros seres queridos están esclavizados por el miedo </i><br />
<i>El aliento orante de Nuestra Señora</i><br />
<i>Nos ayuda s</i>er el <i><a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_Claver"><b>San Pedro Claver</b></a></i> para ellos.</div>
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Hail Mary, full of grace<br />
The Lord is with thee<br />
Blessed art thou among women<br />
And blessed is the fruit of thy womb,Jesus.<br />
Holy Mary, mother of God<br />
Pray for us sinners, now,<br />
And at the hour of our death. Amen.</div>
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<i>Dios te salve María, llena eres de gracia, </i><br />
<i>el Señor es contigo. </i><br />
<i>Bendita tú eres entre todas las mujeres </i><br />
<i>y bendito es el fruto de tu vientre, Jesús. </i><br />
<i>Santa María Madre de Dios, </i><br />
<i>ruega por nosotros los pecadores, </i><br />
<i>ahora y en la hora de nuestra muerte. Amen.</i></div>
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<i>Lora originally wrote this for her blog</i> <a href="http://mommynovenasdelora.blogspot.com/">mommynovenas</a><i>. </i></div>
Connie Rossinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16167873116105163091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-753917028517511927.post-1571792310190176232014-09-15T10:53:00.002-05:002014-09-15T10:53:54.341-05:00How significant are you?<i>By Nancy Ward</i><br />
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Disappointment
crept into my heart when I failed to land a plum writing assignment.
This came after I visualized my writing glorifying God and my work
becoming significant. I thought that would help me become significant.
It got me thinking about how we become significant and how we judge the
significance of others in our life.<i>
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I
remember hearing someone say, “The more you love, the more significant
you become.” God is Love, and he is huge compared to me. Not because he
is bigger, stronger and more powerful, but because he gave his Son for
love of me.<br />
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<i><b>How significant is God in your life?</b></i>
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Measure
that by how much he loves you. Can you measure God’s infinite love for
humanity and specifically for you? The cross points out how much.
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Don’t
wait until you grow into that charming, loveable person that you
visualize everyone can love. God created you the person you are right
now, his beloved child. You are already that loveable person because he
already loves you unconditionally. You can’t earn God’s love by trying
to acquire more holiness. You can only allow his holiness to come forth
through all the clutter of your fears and self-expectations by
embracing his love for you.
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<i>Continue reading at Nancy's blog</i> <a href="http://bit.ly/1kY4uVl">JOY Alive</a>.<i> </i>Connie Rossinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16167873116105163091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-753917028517511927.post-79795898332527520292014-09-09T08:41:00.001-05:002014-09-09T08:44:35.121-05:00Happy birthday, Mary, teach me to be lowly<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i>By Heidi</i></span><br />
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am re-posting a reflection I wrote a couple years ago, May the Mother
of God bless us all today with her motherly love and guidance into the
heart of her Son Jesus!</span>
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Today is the birthday of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Mary, whose
immaculate conception was celebrated 9 months ago, was born on this
September day. And as is the way of the Lord, this monumental day, this
wondrous birth went quietly by in time, and still goes quietly by in
our lives, we could easily miss it. In fact, we often do miss it. Yet,
this feast day invites us to ponder the woman whose life modeled most
fully how to allow the word of the Lord to be conceived in us and born
through us, in our own words and deeds. Insignificance and lowliness
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Which is good, because I do not have much to offer. I am a Catholic who
fails a lot in living my faith. I am a wife who fails a lot at being a
wife. I am a mother, who fails a lot with her children (I have two
crying, fighting and whining in my presence right now - thankfully they
are only mildly annoying me, so I am ignoring them...). And, in a
culture that is pragmatic, cliquey and materialistic, I am a
stay-at-home mother of 8 who writes for an insignificant blog because I
perceived a call to do it from Him, no money in it, no huge following,
no "career" to validate me - nothing. I am nothing. And oh, how I have
caused myself and others around me much pain in fighting that truth for
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<i>Continue reading at </i><a href="http://journeytowisdom-ocbs.blogspot.com/2014/09/happy-birthday-mary-teach-me-to-be-lowly.html">Journey to Wisdom. </a></div>
<br />Connie Rossinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16167873116105163091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-753917028517511927.post-65102907401846044192014-09-05T09:02:00.000-05:002014-09-05T09:08:36.551-05:00Should we sit quietly during prayer? (Part 1 of 3)<i>By Connie Rossini </i>
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Last week I wrote about<a href="http://contemplativehomeschool.com/2014/08/29/teresa-avila-teach-centering-prayer/" title="Did Teresa teach Centering Prayer?"> St. Teresa’s of Avila’s method of mental prayer.</a>
Today I want to discuss misunderstandings about prayer from a different
angle. Since we desire contemplation, should we sit still in prayer and
wait for it? Should we try to make it happen by quieting our minds?
Like last Friday’s post, this series speaks to the differences between
Carmelite teaching and Centering Prayer, yoga, and other types of
meditation influenced by eastern religions.<br />
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Some people falsely
equate silence with supernatural (infused) contemplation. They read
about the need for interior silence in prayer, and they mistakenly think
that if they sit quietly, God will necessarily bestow contemplation
upon them. They equate the peace they find in silence to communion with
God.<br />
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The Vatican has cautioned us about certain methods of prayer</h2>
In 1989, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict XVI), as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, wrote <a href="http://www.ewtn.com/library/curia/cdfmed.htm" target="_blank" title="Letter at EWTN"><i>Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on Some Aspects of Christian Meditation</i>.</a> Here is what the document says about silence:<br />
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Similar
methods of meditation, on the other hand, including those which have
their starting-point in the words and deeds of Jesus, try as far as
possible to put aside everything that is worldly, sense perceptible or
conceptually limited. It is thus an attempt to ascend to or immerse
oneself in the sphere of the divine, which, as such, is neither
terrestrial, sense-perceptible nor capable of conceptualization.” (11)</blockquote>
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<i>Continue reading at </i><a href="http://contemplativehomeschool.com/2014/09/05/sit-quietly-prayer/">Contemplative Homeschool. </a>Connie Rossinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16167873116105163091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-753917028517511927.post-63744844946547091282014-09-02T09:00:00.001-05:002014-09-02T09:00:48.378-05:00Jesus, I trust in You<i>By Nancy Shuman</i><br />
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The rays of His Light have broken
through. Pierced aridity, shattered a hardening heart, put darkness to
flight... and all with a single aspiration uttered again and again. <br />
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"Jesus, I trust in You." <br />
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It is, perhaps, my favorite aspiration; its every word is filled with
power. I said I would let you know how my distracted attempts at prayer
were going, and I'm happy to report that I have, in some ways, been
praying unaware. This morning I realized how automatically my heart
turns to Our Lord in the midst of everyday life, often without a
conscious decision on my part. I don't think it's a coincidence that
this awareness broke through on Mercy Sunday.<br />
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<i>Continue reading at Nancy' Blog</i> <a href="http://www.thecloisteredheart.org/2012/04/jesus-i-trust-in-you.html">The Cloistered Heart.</a>Connie Rossinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16167873116105163091noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-753917028517511927.post-31280790955066848722014-08-29T08:55:00.000-05:002014-08-29T08:55:01.854-05:00Did Teresa of Avila teach Centering Payer?<i>By Connie Rossini</i><br />
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Last winter on social media, I came across another Catholic author
who was promoting yoga. Not as an exercise program, but for spiritual
growth. I was shocked. I asked her why she wasn’t promoting prayer
instead. She answered, “Meditation is prayer!”<br />
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Nope.<br />
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Two
months ago, my brother forwarded an email from a colleague, asking about
Centering Prayer. A friend was pushing it relentlessly. I looked at the
website of the Catholic group that promotes Centering Prayer and found
this in the FAQs:<br />
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This form of prayer was first
practiced and taught by the Desert Fathers of Egypt … the Carmelites St.
Teresa of Avila, St. John of the Cross and St. Therese of Lisieux…</blockquote>
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Nonsense.<br />
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The
other day a new reader asked in the comments about meditating on Sacred
Scripture. “Is this the same as the method of Fr. John Main, who has
adapted an Eastern mantra method for Christian meditation?”<br />
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Uh-uh.<br />
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<a href="http://contemplativehomeschool.com/2013/03/08/christian-prayer-is-much-more-than-eastern-meditation/" title="Prayer is more than eastern meditation">I have written a little on this topic before</a>, but I think it’s time to revisit it. Let’s start with Teresa of Avila.<br />
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<i>Continue reading at Connie's blog </i><a href="http://contemplativehomeschool.com/2014/08/29/teresa-avila-teach-centering-prayer/">Contemplative Homeschool. </a><br />
Connie Rossinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16167873116105163091noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-753917028517511927.post-6235487974888232392014-08-27T09:00:00.000-05:002014-08-27T09:00:32.878-05:00My own "Crown of Thorns"<i>By Theresa</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">As I was reflecting on my Profession
into the Secular Order of the Discalced Carmelites, I was thinking
particularly about the name I took when I received the scapular many
years ago. I felt inspired to take the name "Theresa of Jesus Crowned
with Thorns" since I have a great devotion to this image of Jesus. This
image, most of all, pierces my very soul.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I also reflected on how Christ has
allowed me to share in this particular suffering during the last 14
years. Through my own depression, anxiety and the chronic insomnia that
resulted...Jesus has blessed me with my very own "crown of thorns".
This was compounded by the erratic sleep patterns of my youngest
daughter and in the last several years, different hours at work that
require me to be "on call" through several nights (so I can stay home
during the day). Many, many times, it has felt like anything but a
"blessing". But it is through this very suffering that God has taught
me to rely completely on Him to help me make it through the day...to
take care of my family, my home, to work part-time, in other words, to
remain faithful to my vocation as wife, mother, and Carmelite.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Please do not get the impression
that I did not fail in accepting this suffering. I failed many
times...miserably failed...to the point of despair. In the depths of
severe sleep deprivation, it is not hard for one to lose all hope and
feel as though something will snap inside. There must of been a
thread...a thin thread...that kept my soul clinging to God with whatever
strength was left. And each time, He pulled me out of the depths of
despair. I have lost count...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Continue reading at Theresa's blog</i> my <a href="http://desertofmyheart.blogspot.com/2009/05/my-own-crown-of-thorns.html">desert heart</a>. </span><br />
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Connie Rossinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16167873116105163091noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-753917028517511927.post-76867111535448983132014-08-25T09:51:00.000-05:002014-08-25T09:51:11.901-05:00Jesus was waiting for us<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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With tachycardic angst we found ourselves in a traffic jam. Meanwhile,
a midsummer thunderstorm had left it's most beautiful remnant, a
glorious rainbow. Then, a labyrinth of one way streets delivered us to
the front steps of an old yet elegant Catholic Church. Three doors were
locked. The Holy Spirit directed us to the fourth door, hidden behind a
little porch's colorful flowers. There a kind Carmelite brother escorted
us into the marvelous sanctuary of the Church...<br />
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where Jesus was waiting for us to visit Him.<br />
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<i>Lora blogs at </i><a href="http://mommynovenas./">mommynovenas.</a>
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Connie Rossinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16167873116105163091noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-753917028517511927.post-77939025603996274172014-08-22T08:54:00.001-05:002014-08-22T08:54:59.225-05:00A weary mama's morning offering<i>By Jaime Cheaney</i> <br />
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Dear Jesus, I offer you my sufferings today. The lack of sleep,
messy house, never-ending laundry, marathon nursing sessions, and
squabbling children. I especially offer up the feeling that I am
failing as a parent. I entrust myself and my entire family to your
care, knowing You are in control.<br />
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Please unite my sufferings with Yours on the cross, using them to
bring others to know You. Please comfort those who pray for a baby,
those who mourn the loss of a child, and the neglected children unloved
by anyone but You.<br />
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Jesus, I thank you for every late night teenage heart-to-heart, every
sloppy kiss and snuggle, and even the constant busyness. Every day
with my family is a gift. Please give me Your heart and Mother Mary’s
simple <em>yes</em> to Your will. Guide me as I teach this to my children.<br />
In Jesus’ name, I pray. Amen.<br />
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**The picture above is one of my favorites. I took it standing at the foot of the crucifix statue at the <a href="http://fruitfulmommablog.wordpress.com/2014/04/24/the-black-madonna-shrine/" target="_blank" title="The Black Madonna Shrine">Black Madonna Shrine </a>in Eureka, Missouri.<br />
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<i>Jaime blog at</i><a href="http://fruitfulmommablog.wordpress.com/"> Fruitful Mama. </a>Connie Rossinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16167873116105163091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-753917028517511927.post-66595081763634661422014-08-20T09:56:00.000-05:002014-08-20T09:56:03.825-05:00Who is the center of my universe?<i>By Melanie Jean Juneau</i><br />
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<strong style="font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">An
interesting question to ask ourselves, “Am I Christ centric or ego centric?”</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Droid Sans","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">I was shocked when I discovered that I
functioned as if I was the center of the universe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Droid Sans","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Shocked because I really did not grasp
that my whole paradigm was skewed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Droid Sans","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Shocked because I thought I had given my life
to God.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Droid Sans","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Shocked to understand just how much inner
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<span style="font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;"> Galatians 2:20</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">I have been crucified
with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live
in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself
for me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Droid Sans","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"> Until we allow our false selves, our egos to
die, we view the world through our eyes with events and other people
revolving around ourselves as the centre.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 17.25pt; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-family: "Droid Sans","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Only surrendering that false self to Christ
on the cross can free us from this prison of selfish isolation and plug us into
the Mystical Body of Christ.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Droid Sans","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Then we are free to simply be children of God
as we gather with others to worship Christ at the center of all life.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 17.25pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">
<b style="font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">I
do not make Christ the center of my life because Christ isn’t merely the center according to St. Paul, He IS my life!</span></b><span style="font-family: "Droid Sans","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "inherit","serif";">Colossians
3:4 “When Christ, who is our life, is revealed, then you also will be revealed
with Him in glory.”</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Droid Sans","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;"> <i>Melanie originally posted this at:</i></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Droid Sans","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;"><a href="http://melaniejeanjuneau.wordpress.com/2014/07/14/me-my-mine/">http://melaniejeanjuneau.wordpress.com/2014/07/14/me-my-mine/</a></span></b></div>
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</i>Connie Rossinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16167873116105163091noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-753917028517511927.post-15115995657589974072014-08-18T09:32:00.000-05:002014-08-18T09:32:39.872-05:00The Splendor of the Ocean<i>By Nancy Ward</i><br />
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<i>More powerful
than the roar of many waters, more powerful than
the breakers of the sea, powerful in the heavens is the LORD. </i>(Psalm 93:4)<br />
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My first
glimpse of the ocean was at crowded Mission Beach in San Diego as a young
bride. Once I saw the breathtaking splendor and power of God’s creation where
waves meet sky, I was hooked. Now I look for every possible opportunity to relax
on any beach, anywhere. In Maui, the most gorgeous native natural habitat
surrounds the almost endless beaches. I have even seen this panorama from a
parasail 500 feet above Kauai, Maui and Molokai.<br />
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In Hawaii
or Texas, I enjoy the waves pounding the sand and the circling gulls awaiting
my every crumb. Walking on the beaches from Coronado Island to Cape Cod thrills
me. Even January in Oregon, the foggy skies overhead, gusty wind on my face and
freezing water lapping on my timid toes, bring me incredible joy.<br />
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A
recent day on familiar Vanderbilt Beach on the Florida Gulf Coast recalled many
exciting experiences in our sunshine times playing with our children and young
grandchildren. I can’t forget those winter times of consolation and comfort when
we came here to soften our heartbreak and find acceptance of our tragedies.</div>
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<a href="http://joyalive.net/the-splendor-of-the-ocean/"><i>Read how God beckons us at JoyAlive.net </i></a>Connie Rossinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16167873116105163091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-753917028517511927.post-75664202627115733242014-08-08T09:17:00.000-05:002014-08-08T09:17:08.157-05:00The meaning of the Immaculate Conception<i>By David Torkington</i><br />
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Of course I can’t remember being conceived nor growing into a baby in
my mother’s womb. Nor for that matter do I remember being baptised a
week later. I was totally dependent on my mother for everything, not
just in those first weeks of my life, but for many months to come. I,
not only depended on my mother, for my physical growth and development,
but for my spiritual development too.<br />
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I received my first experience of
God’s love from her love of me. Exactly the same happened to Jesus. St
Paul said that he was <i>‘like us in every way but sin’</i>, that’s
how God had planned things from the beginning. That’s why at the very
moment that he decided that his Son would be made flesh, that decision
included having a human mother. As Blessed John Duns Scouts put it: -<i> ‘if God willed the end he must have willed the means’</i>.
If he chose to enter into this world as a human being he must have a
human mother, for without a human mother he could not be a true human
being, the incarnation simply could not happen.<br />
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The hermit, Sister Wendy Beckett, said that she had a profound and
vivid experience of God, which determined the rest of her life, when she
was only four years of age. Before that her experience of God came
primarily through her mother. She was unusual, because it usually takes
much longer before an inner spiritual capacity develops sufficiently to
enable a person to have a direct and independent experience of the love
of God.<br />
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In my case it took years. I have no doubt that Jesus had such an
experience at an even earlier age than Sister Wendy, but nor do I doubt
that before that he was dependent on his mother for the experience of
God’s love. That’s why from the very beginning, Blessed John Duns Scotus
insisted there must be no barrier in her that could possibly prevent
the love of God from being transmitted through her to her son, Jesus.
That’s why he was so emphatic in demanding that she must therefore have
been immaculately conceived, so that neither nature nor nurture would
prevent God’s love ensuring that her son would be born and grow up as a
perfect human being, and the perfect person to draw another human being
into the perfect communion that he had with his Father.<br />
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<i>Contineu reading at </i><a href="http://davidtorkington.wordpress.com/immaculate-conception/">David Torkington </a>Connie Rossinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16167873116105163091noreply@blogger.com0