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Journaling toward God: Three journal structures – Weekly Summary, Morning Pages, Letters to God In Part 5 of her Journaling toward God series, Nancy Ward presents three options: Weekly Summary, Morning Pages and Letters to God to help her readers structure their journaling. https://joyalive.net/weekly-summary-morning-pages-letters-to-god/ Be That...
Isaiah 35:4-7a; Psalms 146:7-10; James 2:1-5; Mark 7:31-37 We shift gears again this week. Last week for me was difficult. Our brain is wired at conception as male or female. Yet there are influences that also come from our parental ancestral lines. The brain has not developed yet from that first cell. It continues to...
Journaling toward God: Beginning your journal In Part 4 of Journaling for God, Nancy Ward describes how she chose spiral notebooks as journals and what happened when she shuffled the notebooks. I value the content of my journals with little thought to the covers and make use of whatever is at hand. http://ow.ly/FoKg30lHaLf NewEvangelizer.com: Unbound:...
Deuteronomy 4:1-2, 6-8; Psalms 15:2-5; James 1:17-18, 21b-22, 27; Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23 This weekend we shift gears as it were. Nationally, we celebrate Labor Day. Have a good and safe celebration. We also celebrate the life of a great American Patriot, Senator John McCain. With our Sunday Eucharistic Liturgy, we shift gears from our...
First Call by Nancy Shuman Sometimes I would sneak into the empty church during recess. I’d slip away from the other kids and run along the alley between my school and church, and I’d tug open the gigantic wooden door and tiptoe into quiet. It was perfect. https://joyalive.net/joy-stories-the-first-call-by-nancy-shuman-2/ Stirring Slumbering Souls by Michael Seagriff How many...
Job 7:1-4, 6-7; Ps 147:1-6; 1 Corinthians 9:16-19, 22-23; Mark 1:29-39 This is the next to the last Sunday before Lent begins with Ash Wednesday on February 14th. We are still looking at the early public life of Jesus. In cycle B this year we are walking through St. Mark’s gospel. It starts with the...
Deuteronomy 18:15-20; Psalms 95:1-2, 6-9; 1 Corinthians 7:32-35; Mark 1:21-28 Today is usually the memorial of St. Thomas Aquinas, O.P., Dominican Priest and Doctor of the Church, 1225-1274. He is not celebrated this year because Sunday takes precedence. Here is a short bio of him. He was born into the noble family of Count Aquino....