The document provides a daily and weekly Lenten program with the focus of this session being on finding God in other people, particularly one's spouse. It discusses how a woman is the milieu of life through which God works, as seen in Christ's relationship with Mary and how Mary helped convert Elisabeth Leseur's atheist husband. It encourages discovering God in one's spouse through listening to the Holy Spirit speak through them, as the female brain is wired for emotional understanding and communication. The goal is to immerse one's life in God by allowing the Holy Spirit to guide you through your spouse.
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Today's business climate is challenging companies to innovate and respond to the market, and forcing them to do so with much greater pressure than ever before. DevOps provides organizations with the ability to respond to this challenge, helping them to innovate and create at velocity and bring value to their business through software, because there really aren't any major companies that aren't software companies.
But the *real* message here is that DevOps is more than just technology. We have been beating our drum for years that DevOps is revolutionary because it goes so far beyond just the technology (tools) -- it is also the practices and the culture. All three of these are required for DevOps to truly effect transformational change. Technology professionals also realized they had to reach out to peers in other silos and collaborate with them in all three areas in order to truly succeed -- and that if the changes were done courageously, with empathy, embracing the new diversity of thought and methodology, things would be amazing. And they ARE.
Academia is facing similar challenges to innovate in the face of new challenges. As a fellow academic (or very recent academic! I still feel like a member of the tribe), I felt these pressures. Perhaps we can look to DevOps methodologies for inspiration and ideas to innovate at velocity. It will take more than just tools, it will take novel practices and collaboration with peers we haven't traditionally worked with.
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"For God so loved the world, that He gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life." John 3:16
"Car Dieu a tant aimé le monde qu'il a donné son Fils unique, afin que quiconque croit en lui ne périsse point, mais qu'il ait la vie éternelle." Jean 3:16
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"Fiindca atat de mult a iubit Dumnezeu lumea, ca a dat pe singurul Lui Fiu, pentru ca oricine crede in El sa nu piara, ci sa aiba viata vesnica." (Ioan 3:16)
The Good News, newsletter for June 2024 is hereNoHo FUMC
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Homily: The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity Sunday 2024.docxJames Knipper
Countless volumes have been written trying to explain the mystery of three persons in one true God, leaving us to resort to metaphors such as the three-leaf clover to try to comprehend the Divinity. Many of us grew up with the quintessential pyramidal Trinity structure of God at the top and Son and Spirit in opposite corners. But what if we looked at this ‘mystery’ from a different perspective? What if we shifted our language of God as a being towards the concept of God as love? What if we focused more on the relationship within the Trinity versus the persons of the Trinity? What if stopped looking at God as a noun…and instead considered God as a verb? Check it out…
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A PowerPoint Presentation based on the Dhamma Reflections for the PBHP DYC for the years 1993 – 2012. To motivate and inspire DYC members to keep on practicing the Dhamma and to do the meritorious deed of Dhammaduta work.
The texts are in English.
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In Jude 17-23 Jude shifts from piling up examples of false teachers from the Old Testament to a series of practical exhortations that flow from apostolic instruction. He preserves for us what may well have been part of the apostolic catechism for the first generation of Christ-followers. In these instructions Jude exhorts the believer to deal with 3 different groups of people: scoffers who are "devoid of the Spirit", believers who have come under the influence of scoffers and believers who are so entrenched in false teaching that they need rescue and pose some real spiritual risk for the rescuer. In all of this Jude emphasizes Jesus' call to rescue straying sheep, leaving the 99 safely behind and pursuing the 1.
What Should be the Christian View of Anime?Joe Muraguri
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3. Next week is Holy Week! There is still time to
make a novena. We need to reach our goal of
entering more profoundly into union with Christ.
4. The Daily Lenten Program
1. Begin the day with a consecration of the
day and ourselves to Our Lady.
2. Practice Lectio Divina using the
Scriptural passages and starter
meditations provided.
3. Recite the Divine Mercy Chaplet at
some point during the day.
4. Brief examination of conscience at the
end of the day.
5. The Weekly Lenten Program
1. Step: Find God in Other People
2. Pathway to Excellence
Discover the spiritual dimension of
woman.
Discover in woman the love of the
Holy Spirit that envelops you.
Allow God to guide you through your
spouse.
3. Sacrifice: Praise God 7 times a day.
4. Plan of Life: Select TMiY to be practiced
daily.
6. Today, we are going to concentrate on finding God
in your spouse. Nonetheless, these principles
apply to finding God in other people as well.
7. Woman as the Milieu of Life
• “In him we live and move and have our being”
(Acts 17:28).
• A child exists of the mother during pregnancy.
• After birth, a mother retains cells from each child
she carried for the rest of her life
(microchimerism).
• The emotional state of the mother is critical to the
development of the child: Attachment Theory.
• “A girl actually incorporates her mother‟s nervous
system into her own” (Dr. Louann Brizendine).Source: Gammill, H.S., “Naturally acquired microchimerism” The International Journal of Developmental Biology,
2010.
Brizendine, L., “The Female Brain,” Broadway Books, pp. 19, 110.
8. 5
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Spiritual Milieu: Attendance
9. Spiritual Milieu: Prayer
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10. The love of woman is the milieu of life. It is
precisely this love that is “stronger than death.”
Let us consider Christ and Our Lady.
11. Love Stronger than Death
“Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal
upon your arm; for love is strong as death,
jealousy as cruel as the grave … Many
waters cannot quench love, neither can
floods drown it. If a man offered for love all
that wealth of his house, it would be utterly
scorned.”
Song of Solomon 8:6-7
12. The Mother of Sorrows
“When Jesus saw his mother, and the
disciple whom he loved standing near, he
said to his mother, „Woman, behold your
son!‟ Then he said to the disciple, „Behold,
your mother!‟ And from that hour the
disciple took her to his own home.”
John 19:26-27
13. The Mystery of Holy Saturday
“All the disciples of Christ with the exception of his
mother had lost the faith, including St. John and
Mary Magdalene (this at least is what the Fourth
Gospel suggests), at this moment the Mother of
Jesus, who was experiencing so much suffering in
giving birth to the new people of God, turned out to
be at the same time, in the strict sense, the sole
representative of the Church.”
Fr. Andre Feuillet
Jesus and his Mother, p. 27.
14. Mary as Witness to the Resurrection
“Take courage, mother, for you shall be the
first to see me (risen) from the tomb; and I
shall come to show you from what suffering I
liberated Adam and how much I sweated for
his sake.”
Romanos the Melodist
Mary at the Cross
Source: Gambero, L, “Mary and the Fathers of the
Church,” Ignatius Press, 1999, p. 336.
15. This is incredibly beautiful theology as it relates to
Christ and Our Lady. Let me give you an example
from more recent history.
16. Elisabeth Leseur
• 1866: Birth of Elisabeth Arrighi.
• 1879: First Communion and Confirmation.
• 1889: Marries Felix Leseur, an atheist.
• 1897: Discontinues practice of faith under
pressure from Felix.
• 1898: Returns to the faith.
• 1901: Begins experiencing liver problems.
• 1903: Consecrates herself to God in Rome.
• 1912: Makes pilgrimage to Lourdes.
• 1914: Dies in the arms of Felix.Source: “The Secret Diary of Elisabeth Leseur,”
Sophia Institute Press, 2002, pp. ix-xi.
17. A Gift for the Beloved
“My God, I must have it. Thou must have it, this
straight, true soul; he must know Thee and love
Thee, become the humble instrument of Thy glory,
and do the work of an apostle … Is there anything
that belongs to me alone that I would not be ready
to offer Thee to obtain this conversion … My sweet
Savior, between Thy heart and mine there must be
this compact of love, which will give Thee a soul
and will give me for eternity him whom I cherish,
whom I want to be with me in Thy heaven.”Source: “The Secret Diary of Elisabeth Leseur,”
Sophia Institute Press, 2002, p. 122.
18. Felix Leseur
• 1914: Finds Elisabeth‟s “secret diary” and
experiences radical conversion.
• 1915: Reconciles with the Church.
• 1917: Publishes Elisabeth‟s diary.
• 1919: Enters the Dominican order.
• 1923: Makes final monastic vows.
• 1923: Ordained to the priesthood.
• 1924-1942: Travels Europe discussing
Elisabeth‟s writings and holiness.
• 1950: Dies.
• 1990: Elisabeth‟s cause for canonization is
opened.Source: “The Secret Diary of Elisabeth Leseur,”
Sophia Institute Press, 2002, pp. ix-xi.
19. We must go one more step. There is another time
that Christ called Mary “woman.” It is the only
time that Christ “appears” to take advice.
20. The Wedding Feast of Cana
• “On the third day there was a marriage at Cana in
Galilee … When the wine failed, the mother of
Jesus said to him, „They have no wine.‟ And Jesus
said to her, „Woman, what have you to do with me?
My hour has not yet come.‟ His mother said to the
servants, „Do whatever he tells you.‟ … Jesus said,
„Fill the [six] jars with water.‟ They filled them up to
the brim … The chief steward said, „You have kept
the good wine until now.‟ … First of his signs ...
Jesus manifested his glory; and his disciples
believed in him” (John 2:1-11)
• “Behold, the days are coming … [when] the
mountains shall drip sweet wine, and all the hills
shall flow with it” (Amos 9:13).
21. Mary and the Holy Spirit
• And I will ask the Father; and he will give you
another Counselor [Paraclete], to be with you for
ever” (John 14:16).
• “We can say … that the Holy Spirit and Mary are
two persons who live in such intimate union that
they have but one sole life” (St. Maximilian Kolbe,
July 27, 1936).
• “And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from
the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit for forty days
in the wilderness, tempted by the devil” (Luke 4:1-
2).
Source: Manteau-Bonamy, H.M., “Immaculate Conception
and the Holy Spirit – The Marian Teachings of St.
Maximilian Kolbe,” Marytown Press, 2001, p. 43.
22. Your Spouse as a Spiritual Guide
• The Holy Spirit will work through your wife in a
special way.
• She has been biologically wired to understand you.
• The female brain has larger centers for
communication, observation and processing of
emotions and a larger mirror neuron system.
• Ask God to guide you through your spouse: “Speak
Lord, for your servant is listening” (1 Samuel 3:10).
• Enter into a spiritual conversation and ask God to
be present in your midst: “Where two or three are
gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of
them” (Matthew 18:20).
Source: Brizendine, L., “The Female Brain,”
Broadway Books, 2006, pp. 15.
Brizendine, L., “The Male Brain,” Broadway Books,
2010, p. xvi.
23. We have discovered a pathway for finding in other
people. As such, our life can be immersed in God.
24. Discover the spiritual dimension of
woman.
Discover in your spouse the love of the
Holy Spirit that is enveloping you.
Allow the Holy Spirit to guide you
through your spouse as your spiritual
guide.
Step 6: Find God in other People
25. Small Group Discussion
Next Week
Make it Easy to be Good and Hard
to be Bad
Starter Questions
1. When has God most profoundly guided you
through another person?
2. When has another person helped you to
experience a type of resurrection?