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| Hope is to
hear the music of the future; faith is to dance to it today |
Ways of Seeing
LICC |
12 March 2007 |
| In many points of our lives
today, in achievements, in relationships, in everyday beauties and
pleasures, the song of joy will break through, if we let it. |
Ways of Seeing LICC
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12 March 2007 |
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| Trust God to take care of
things in the long run even when things aren't going to work out in
this life. |
Creighton Daily Reading |
4 May 2007 |
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| Dear Lord, help me to
remember that you gave me life. Teach me to slow down to be
still and enjoy the pleasures created for me. To be aware of the
beauty that surrounds me. The marvel of mountains, the calmness of
the lakes. The fragility of a petal of flower. I need to remember
all these things come from you. |
Sacred Space |
17 April 2007 |
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| The nature of the universe -
ultimately true purpose and meaning are found not in the quantity of
material returns but in the quality of relationships |
A righteousness with purpose -
LICC |
24 Nov 2006 |
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| Whether we are asleep or
awake, travelling or at home, the Holy Spirit brings the comfort of
the abiding presence of God. |
Daily Retreat |
30 April 2007 |
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| A truth that arises out of a
close relationship with God, letting God's wisdom, God's law, God's
character inform understanding. It is truth mulled over in
prayer with close advisors. And it is truth delivered in different
modes. |
Truth-telling - LICC |
30 April 2007 |
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| At what point do we dig in our
heels, challenged by regulations and practices that
we cannot in all conscience obey, or facing discrimination for
our ethnic origin, our ethical
stand, or our Christian commitment? God can change circumstances and
mind and deliver us, but if not? |
Daniel and Jealously LICC |
8 May 2007 |
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| Our language is so
limiting, but the depths of our experiences allow us to know in
very different, unique and intimate ways things that we just cannot
know intellectually. I know in my gut
that I am loved, but there are times I forget it. I experience what it is to be full of fear, or full of hope. My experience is valid. |
Creighton Daily Reading |
21 May 2007 |
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| Give from the deepest part
of our very selves, the depths of our being, instead of just our
surplus. What is the 'widows mite ' in our lives? |
Creighton Daily Prayer
Guide for June 3-9 2007 |
8 June 2007 |
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| Something goes
badly wrong in religious life..... When that happens, mere
apologetics is not enough. When the debate is over, something inside
the believer's soul refuses to stay silent. "You answered him. What
will you answer us"......... |
Credo - Jonathan Sacks |
The Times 9 June 2007 page 83 |
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| The real battle... is: can
we love, not hate, the people not like us? We are tribal animals. We
are hardwired for conflict. Sociobiologists
call this genetic
coding, Christians, original sin, Jews, the evil inclination. The
belief that unites us is that instinct is not the final word.
Selfish genes can produce selfless people. Is that miracle or
chance?........ |
Credo - Jonathan Sacks |
The Times 9 June 2007 page 83 |
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| Faith
is the disposition out of which arises both activitiesof
studying and contemplating. In order to see this more
clearly and to grasp the relation between these two
activities of faith we need to understand faith itself a bit
more clearly. Faith is that gift whereby God raises our
capacity for knowing so that it is
capable of knowing God who is in himself outside the
reach of our intellect. We are given a new light which
enables us to see and assent to what
God has revealed about himself.
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The Nature of
Faith |
Monastery of Our
Lady of Grace - Dominican Nuns.
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If in thirst you drink water
from a cup, you see God in it.
Those who are not in love with God will see only their own
faces in it. --Rumi |
Rumi |
Unceasing Prayer 23
June 2007 |
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