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Saint Francis Prayer

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Saint Francis Prayer
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
Where there is sadness, joy.
O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
To be consoled as to console,
To be understood as to understand,
To be loved as to love;
For it is in giving that we receive;
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
It is in dying to self that we are born to eternal life.

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John 16:13

(13) However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come.

Romans 8:14

(14) For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.
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Romans 8:14 refers to those who are "led," not dragged, forced, imposed upon or imputed to. This supplements what Jesus says in this verse. Some of the verbs in this sentence demonstrate that free moral agency is still involved. "Guide," "speak," and "tell" show that God has chosen to persuade rather than force us. In addition, they give the distinct impression that the followers and hearers will need to do something on their own.
They will have to make choices, pay attention to what is said or written, and set their wills and follow through on their choices in order to accompany and learn from the Guide. Without these, they will not produce fruit because they are doing insufficient or the wrong activities.
A teacher cannot impose knowledge, understanding, and wisdom upon a student. The student must cooperate in the process. Without this, little or no fruit is produced. The Bible shows the Spirit of God as influencing, suggesting, and, if we choose to permit it, dominating—perhaps even controlling—our lives. This is good because God is good, and if we will yield, the fruit of His Spirit will be produced in our lives.
Are we aware that a divine influence is drawing us away from the corrupting passions and vanities of this world? Are we conscious of a desire to yield to that influence and be conducted along the path of holiness and life? Do we resist, or do we follow cheerfully and energetically, mortifying pride, subduing passion, destroying lust, stifling talebearing, humbling ambition, and annihilating the love of the wealth and fashions of this world?
God will not lead us astray. Our real love, joy, and peace consist only in yielding ourselves entirely to Him and being willing to be guided and influenced by His unseen hand. To be led by the Spirit is to choose voluntarily and consciously to submit to the Word of God.

— John W. Ritenbaugh

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Holy Rosary with the Pope

2013-05-09T11:06:00.000-04:00

The Daily Examen

2013-05-08T13:52:00.003-04:00

The Daily Examen

The Daily Examen is a technique of prayerful reflection on the events of the day in order to detect God’s presence and discern his direction for us. The Examen is an ancient practice in the Church that can help us see God’s hand at work in our whole experience.
The method presented here is adapted from a technique described by Ignatius Loyola in his Spiritual Exercises. St. Ignatius thought that the Examen was a gift that came directly from God, and that God wanted it to be shared as widely as possible. One of the few rules of prayer that Ignatius made for the Jesuit order was the requirement that Jesuits practice the Examen twice daily—at noon and at the end of the day. It’s a habit that Jesuits, and many other Christians, practice to this day.

How to Make the Examen Part of Your Day
Variations on the Examen
Reflections on Praying the Examen
Handouts on the Examen

This is a version of the five-step Daily Examen that St. Ignatius practiced.
1. Become aware of God’s presence.
2. Review the day with gratitude.
3. Pay attention to your emotions.
4. Choose one feature of the day and pray from it.
5. Look toward tomorrow.
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CHRISTIANITY AND THE PRACTICE OF ZEN
May 17-19, 2013
Robert Kennedy, S.J.

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This silent retreat will involve practice in the discipline and philosophy of Zen highlighting its usefulness to one seeking to deepen his/her Christian life. There will be several intense prayer times throughout the weekend. The retreat is geared toward those who already know the basic concept of the practice of Zen. It may be helpful for participants to read Fr. Kennedy’s book entitled “Zen Spirit, Christian Spirit” before they arrive.Please bring a mat for sitting. (Straight backed chairs will also be available.)

Fr. Robert Kennedy, S.J., teaches theology and Japanese at St. Peter’s College, Jersey City, NJ, is a practicing psychotherapist, and the author. He studied Zen in Japan with the Japanese master Yamada Roshi; in 1991, he was made Sensei (teacher) in the White Plum lineage; in 1997, he received Inka, the complete seal of approval and was given the title Roshi or Master. He holds doctorates in theology from the University of Ottawa and from St. Paul in Ottawa, a Masters in Theology from Sophia University in Tokyo, a Doctor of Ministry in Psychology and Clinical Studies from Andover-Newton in Boston.

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Rummaging for God: Praying Backwards through Your Day

By Dennis Hamm, SJ

About 20 years ago, at breakfast and during the few hours that followed, I had a small revelation. This happened while I was living in a small community of five Jesuits, all graduate students in New Haven, Connecticut. I was alone in the kitchen, with my cereal and the New York Times, when another Jesuit came in and said: “I had the weirdest dream just before I woke up. It was a liturgical dream. The lector had just read the first reading and proceeded to announce, ‘The responsorial refrain today is, If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.’ Whereupon the entire congregation soberly repeated, ‘If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.’” We both thought this enormously funny. At first, I wasn’t sure just why this was so humorous. After all, almost everyone would assent to the courageous truth of the maxim, “If at first…” It has to be a cross-cultural truism (“Keep on truckin’!”). Why, then, would these words sound so incongruous in a liturgy?

A little later in the day, I stumbled onto a clue. Another, similar phrase popped into my mind: “If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts” (Psalm 95). It struck me that that sentence has exactly the same rhythm and the same syntax as: “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.” Both begin with an if clause and end in an imperative. Both have seven beats. Maybe that was one of the unconscious sources of the humor.

The try-try-again statement sounds like the harden-not-your-hearts refrain, yet what a contrast! The latter is clearly biblical, a paraphrase of a verse from a psalm, one frequently used as a responsorial refrain at the Eucharist. The former, you know instinctively, is probably not in the Bible, not even in Proverbs. It is true enough, as far as it goes, but it does not go far enough. There is nothing of faith in it, no sense of God. The sentiment of the line from Psalm 95, however, expresses a conviction central to Hebrew and Christian faith, that we live a life in dialogue with God. The contrast between those two seven-beat lines has, ever since, been for me a paradigm illustrating that truth.

Yet how do we hear the voice of God? Our Christian tradition has at least four answers to that question. First, along with the faithful of most religions, we perceive the divine in what God has made, creation itself (that insight sits at the heart of Christian moral thinking). Second, we hear God’s voice in the Scriptures, which we even call “the word of God.” Third, we hear God in the authoritative teaching of the church, the living tradition of our believing community. Finally, we hear God by attending to our experience, and interpreting it in the light of all those other ways of hearing the divine voice–the structures of creation, the Bible, the living tradition of the community.

The phrase, “If today you hear his voice,” implies that the divine voice must somehow be accessible in our daily experience, for we are creatures who live one day at a time. If God wants to communicate with us, it has to happen in the course of a 24-hour day, for we live in no other time. And how do we go about this kind of listening? Long tradition has provided a helpful tool, which we call the “examination of consciousness” today. “Rummaging for God” is an expression that suggests going through a drawer full of stuff, feeling around, looking for something that you are sure must be in there somewhere. I think that image catches some of the feel of what is classically known in church language as the prayer of “examen.”

The examen, or examination, of conscience is an ancient practice in the church. In fact, even before Christianity, the Pythagoreans and the Stoics promoted a version of the practice. It is what most of us Catholics were taught to do to prepare for confession. In that form, the examen was a matter of examining one’s life in terms of the Ten Commandments to see how daily behavior stacked up against those divine criteria. St. Ignatius includes it as one of the exercises in his manual The

Spiritual Exercises.

It is still a salutary thing to do but wears thin as a lifelong, daily practice. It is hard to motivate yourself to keep searching your experience for how you sinned. In recent decades, spiritual writers have worked with the implication that conscience in Romance languages like French (conscience) and Spanish (conciencia) means more than our English word conscience, in the sense of moral awareness and judgment; it also means “consciousness.”

Now prayer that deals with the full contents of your consciousness lets you cast your net much more broadly than prayer that limits itself to the contents of conscience, or moral awareness. A number of people–most famously, George Aschenbrenner, SJ, in an article in Review for Religious (1971)–have developed this idea in profoundly practical ways. Recently, the Institute of Jesuit Sources in St. Louis published a fascinating reflection by Joseph Tetlow, SJ, called The Most Postmodern Prayer:
American Jesuit Identity and the Examen of Conscience, 1920-1990.

What I am proposing here is a way of doing the examen that works for me. It puts a special emphasis on feelings, for reasons that I hope will become apparent. First, I describe the format. Second, I invite you to spend a few minutes actually doing it. Third, I describe some of the consequences that I have discovered to flow from this kind of prayer.

A Method: Five Steps

1. Pray for light. Since we are not simply daydreaming or reminiscing but rather looking for some sense of how the Spirit of God is leading us, it only makes sense to pray for some illumination. The goal is not simply memory but graced understanding. That’s a gift from God devoutly to be begged. “Lord, help me understand this blooming, buzzing confusion.”

2. Review the day in thanksgiving. Note how different this is from looking immediately for your sins. Nobody likes to poke around in the memory bank to uncover smallness, weakness, lack of generosity. But everybody likes beautiful gifts, and that is precisely what the past 24 hours contain–gifts of existence, work, relationships, food, challenges. Gratitude is the foundation of our whole relationship with God. So use whatever cues help you to walk through the day from the moment of awakening–even the dreams you recall upon awakening. Walk through the past 24 hours, from hour to hour, from place to place, task to task, person to person, thanking the Lord for every gift you encounter.

3. Review the feelings that surface in the replay of the day. Our feelings, positive and negative, the painful and the pleasing, are clear signals of where the action was during the day. Simply pay attention to any and all of those feelings as they surface, the whole range: delight, boredom, fear, anticipation, resentment, anger, peace, contentment, impatience, desire, hope, regret, shame, uncertainty, compassion, disgust, gratitude, pride, rage, doubt, confidence, admiration, shyness–whatever was there. Some of us may be hesitant to focus on feelings in this over-psychologized age, but I believe that these feelings are the liveliest index to what is happening in our lives. This leads us to the fourth moment:

4. Choose one of those feelings (positive or negative) and pray from it. That is, choose the remembered feeling that most caught your attention. The feeling is a sign that something important was going on. Now simply express spontaneously the prayer that surfaces as you attend to the source of the feeling–praise, petition, contrition, cry for help or healing, whatever.

5. Look toward tomorrow. Using your appointment calendar if that helps, face your immediate future. What feelings surface as you look at the tasks, meetings, and appointments that face you? Fear? Delighted anticipation? Self-doubt? Temptation to procrastinate? Zestful planning? Regret? Weakness? Whatever it is, turn it into prayer–for help, for healing, whatever comes spontaneously. To round off the examen, say the Lord’s Prayer.
A mnemonic for recalling the five points: LT3F (light, thanks, feelings, focus, future).

Do It

Take a few minutes to pray through the past 24 hours, and toward the next 24 hours, with that five-point format.

Consequences

Here are some of the consequences flowing from this kind of prayer:
1. There is always something to pray about. For a person who does this kind of prayer at least once a day, there is never the question: What should I talk to God about? Until you die, you always have a past 24 hours, and you always have some feelings about what’s next.
2. The gratitude moment is worthwhile in itself. “Dedicate yourselves to gratitude,” Paul tells the Colossians. Even if we drift off into slumber after reviewing the gifts of the day, we have praised the Lord.
3. We learn to face the Lord where we are, as we are. There is no other way to be present to God, of course, but we often fool ourselves into thinking that we have to “put on our best face” before we address our God.
4. We learn to respect our feelings. Feelings count. They are morally neutral until we make some choice about acting upon or dealing with them. But if we don’t attend to them, we miss what they have to tell us about the quality of our lives.
5. Praying from feelings, we are liberated from them. An unattended emotion can dominate and manipulate us. Attending to and praying from and about the persons and situations that give rise to the emotions helps us to cease being unwitting slaves of our emotions.
6. We actually find something to bring to confession. That is, we stumble across our sins without making them the primary focus.
7. We can experience an inner healing. People have found that praying about (as opposed to fretting about or denying) feelings leads to a healing of mental life. We probably get a head start on our dreamwork when we do this.
8. This kind of prayer helps us get over our Deism. Deism is belief in a sort of “clock-maker” God, a God who does indeed exist but does not have much, if anything, to do with his people’s ongoing life. The God we have come to know through our Jewish and Christian experience is more present than we usually think.
9. Praying this way is an antidote to the spiritual disease of Pelagianism. Pelagianism was the heresy that approached life with God as a do-it-yourself project (“If at first you don’t succeed…”), whereas a true theology of grace and freedom sees life as response to God’s love (“If today you hear God’s voice…”).
A final thought. How can anyone dare to say that paying attention to felt experience is a listening to the voice of God? On the face of it, it does sound like a dangerous presumption. But, notice, I am not equating memory with the voice of God. I am saying that, if we are to listen for the God who creates and sustains us, we need to take seriously and prayerfully the meeting between the creatures we are and all else that God holds lovingly in existence. That “interface” is the felt experience of my day. It deserves prayerful attention. It is a big part of how we know and respond to God.
Dennis Hamm, SJ, a Scripture scholar, teaches in the department of theology at Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska.

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Autobioraphy of St. Ignatius

2013-05-07T21:07:00.001-04:00

The Autobiography of St. Ignatius by Ignatius Loyola

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Christian History

2013-04-21T22:41:00.001-04:00

Pope Francis

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Constantine

History

2013-04-14T21:19:00.000-04:00

The Book that can't be read
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Happy Easter - Pope Francis

2013-03-31T19:45:00.004-04:00

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Pope Francis

2013-03-14T09:59:00.001-04:00

Pope Francis
Vatican City (CNN) -- A man of many firsts, Pope Francis will spend part of his first full day celebrating Mass with the cardinals who elected him.

When Jorge Bergoglio stepped onto the balcony at the Vatican on Wednesday evening to reveal himself as the new leader of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics, he made history as the first non-European pope of the modern era, the first from Latin America, the first Jesuit and the first to assume the name Francis.

Thursday will be low-key.

Francis began the day by praying at the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome, a place of special significance for the Jesuits. The Mass with the cardinals will take place at the Sistine Chapel.

(CNN) -- From the Vatican to Buenos Aires, Catholics worldwide rejoiced when Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio became the new pope.

He's the first Jesuit and the first Latin American in modern times to lead the world's 1.2 billion Catholics.

But in some ways, he's just a normal guy.

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Rosary

2013-02-22T22:25:00.000-05:00

USA

2012-11-06T14:00:00.000-05:00

Develop Healthy Body & Mind

2012-09-10T08:17:00.002-04:00

Life Principles Psalm

2012-08-12T00:30:00.000-04:00

Psalm 63
1 A psalm of David, when he was in the desert of Y’hudah:
2 O God, you are my God;
I will seek you eagerly.
My heart thirsts for you,
my body longs for you
in a land parched and exhausted,
where no water can be found.
3 I used to contemplate you in the sanctuary,
seeing your power and glory;
4 for your grace is better than life.
My lips will worship you.
5 Yes, I will bless you as long as I live;
in your name I will lift up my hands.
6 I am as satisfied as with rich food;
my mouth praises you with joy on my lips
7 when I remember you on my bed
and meditate on you in the night watches.
8 For you have been my help;
in the shadow of your wings I rejoice;
9 my heart clings to you;
your right hand supports me.

Life Principles
1. Our intimacy with God – His highest priority for our lives – determines the impact of our lives.
Our Intimacy with God
2. Obey God and leave all the consequences to Him.
A Life of Obedience
3. God’s Word is an immovable anchor in times of storm.
Our Anchor in Times of Storm
4. The awareness of God’s presence energizes us for our work.
Energized by His Presence
5. God does not require us to understand His will, just obey it, even if it seems unreasonable.
The Unreasonable Will of God
6. You reap what you sow, more than you sow, and later than you sow.
The Principle of Sowing and Reaping
7. The dark moments of our life will last only so long as is necessary for God to accomplish His purpose in us.
The Dark Moments in our Life
8. Fight all your battles on your knees and you win every time.
Fight Your Battles on Your Knees
9. Trusting God means looking beyond what we can see to what God sees.
The Thrill of Trusting God
10. If necessary, God will move heaven and earth to show us His will.
God Will Show You His Will
11. God assumes full responsibility for our needs when we obey Him.
His Promise to Provide
12. Peace with God is the fruit of oneness with God.
The Key to Continued Peace
13. Listening to God is essential to walking with God.
Listening to God – Walking with God
14. God acts on behalf of those who wait for Him.
God Acts on our Behalf
15. Brokenness is God’s requirement for maximum usefulness.
God’s Pathway of Brokenness
16. Whatever you acquire outside of God’s will eventually turns to ashes.
When Plans Turn to Ashes
17. We stand tallest and strongest on our knees.
Standing Tall and Strong Through Prayer
18. As children of a sovereign God, we are never victims of our circumstances.
Victim or Victor?
19. Anything you hold too tightly, you will lose.
Holding Too Tightly
20. Disappointments are inevitable, discouragement is a choice.
Overcoming Discouragement
21. Obedience always brings blessing.
Obedience Always Brings Blessings
22. To walk in the Spirit is to obey the initial promptings of the Spirit.
Walking In The Holy Spirit
23. You can never outgive God.
You Can Never Outgive God
24. To live the Christian life is to allow Jesus to live His life in and through us.
The Key to the Christian Life
25. God blesses us so that we might bless others.
Passing on God’s Blessing
26. Adversity is a bridge to a deeper relationship with God.
Burden or Bridge
27. Prayer is life’s greatest time saver.
Prayer: Our Time-Saver
28. No Christian has ever been called to “go it alone” in his or her walk of faith.
Together In the Christian Life
29. We learn more in our valley experiences than on our mountaintops.
The Valley Experiences In Our Life
30. An eager anticipation of the Lord’s return keeps us living productively.
Anticipating The Lord’s Return
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Thank God

2012-08-05T13:38:00.000-04:00

As I walk up stairs to the door of the church which I used to go when I was very young, I realized that I am in the presence of God as I awake to the glorious light and glitters from most beautiful and splendid beauty of surroundings made of all kinds of jewelries and gorgeous colored flowers and birds. It’s exactly like the Paradise described in the Revelations 21. I felt entirely awed by the most beautiful and magnificent presence of God as I almost fainted because of high vibration throughout my body, blood stream, and even to every single DNA string weaved by the finger prints of God. I wish I can write marvelously. Praise God

Praise God for His everlasting love and holy endurance saving us from our sinful nature as from the Genesis 3:1. We walk each day in His Presence as He dwells in us as in Romance 6:4.
Thank God for I am fearfully and wonderfully after the Image of God Psalm 139 and He formed me from the very beginning and to the end.
His glorious kingdom will come and in Holy Spirit, I enjoy His Presence in the splendid light of His Love. Amen

Healthy Living: Diet only SPIRITUAL FEAST

2012-08-02T01:39:00.000-04:00

Psalm 148
1. Praise ye the Lord. Praise ye the Lord from the heavens: praise him in the heights.

²Praise ye him, all his angels: praise ye him, all his hosts.
³Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars of light.
⁴Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that be above the heavens.
⁵Let them praise the name of the Lord: for he commanded, and they were created.
⁶He hath also stablished them for ever and ever: he hath made a decree which shall not pass.
⁷Praise the Lord from the earth, ye dragons, and all deeps:
⁸Fire, and hail; snow, and vapours; stormy wind fulfilling his word:
⁹Mountains, and all hills; fruitful trees, and all cedars:
¹⁰Beasts, and all cattle; creeping things, and flying fowl:
¹¹Kings of the earth, and all people; princes, and all judges of the earth:
¹²Both young men, and maidens; old men, and children:
¹³Let them praise the name of the Lord: for his name alone is excellent; his glory is above the earth and heaven.
¹⁴He also exalteth the horn of his people, the praise of all his saints; even of the children of Israel, a people near unto him. Praise ye the Lord.

The Lord is my Shepherd.

2012-08-01T08:24:00.001-04:00

Psalm 34

1 I will bless the Lord at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth.

2 My soul shall make her boast in the Lord: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad.

3 O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together.

4 I sought the Lord, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.

5 They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed.

6 This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

7 The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.

8 O taste and see that the Lord is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.

9 O fear the Lord, ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him.

10 The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing.

11 Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the Lord.

12 What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?

13 Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.

14 Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.

15 The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.

16 The face of the Lord is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

17 The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.

18 The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.

19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all.

20 He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.

21 Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.

22 The Lord redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate.

To God be the Glory: God Save the Queen ♔ USA

2012-07-30T09:54:00.000-04:00

Psalm 21
The king shall joy in thy strength, O Lord; and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice!

2 Thou hast given him his heart's desire, and hast not withholden the request of his lips. Selah.

3 For thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness: thou settest a crown of pure gold on his head.

4 He asked life of thee, and thou gavest it him, even length of days for ever and ever.

5 His glory is great in thy salvation: honour and majesty hast thou laid upon him.

6 For thou hast made him most blessed for ever: thou hast made him exceeding glad with thy countenance.

7 For the king trusteth in the Lord, and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved.

8 Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies: thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee.

9 Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the Lord shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.

10 Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.

11 For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.

12 Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.

13 Be thou exalted, Lord, in thine own strength: so will we sing and praise thy power.