The Word On Sunday: Happy birthday and thanks for your 7000 gifts

Thursday 19 September 2013

Happy birthday and thanks for your 7000 gifts

One year ago we launched The Word on Sunday as an online service with its sister page on Facebook. So now we celebrate our FIRST BIRTHDAY and thank God from here for His blessing over our work.... and for your 7000+ gifts (your total page hits to date) that have encouraged us to persevere..... I daren't call it a ministry, but perhaps God is making it one. May His Word continue to draw us to Him.

God bless - John

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SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT....

////// ////// ////// WHO CAN’T TEACH YOU? ///// ///// “As Peter entered, Cornelius went to meet him, dropped to his knees before him and bowed low.” —Acts 10:25 ///// The Holy Spirit wants to teach us all things (Jn 14:26). For example, He wants to teach us how to be parents, wives, husbands, lay single people, and members of religious communities. The Spirit wants to teach us how to spend our money, eat, talk, think, work, love, live, and die. Because the Holy Spirit wants to teach us so much, the proper relationship with Him is to be teachable, that is, docile. Most of the time the Spirit does not teach us directly but indirectly. He teaches us through people, such as parents, pastors, spouses, brothers, sisters, children, strangers, and even enemies. To be docile means to be able to learn from anyone through whom the Holy Spirit chooses to teach. For example, Cornelius, a powerful Roman centurion, was humbly submissive to the teaching of St. Peter, an uneducated Jewish fisherman (see Acts 10:25ff). The secretary of the treasury of the Ethiopian government asked the simple St. Philip to teach him from the Bible (Acts 8:27ff). Who do you consider to be the last person in the world to teach you anything? If the Spirit so chooses, are you willing to be taught by him or her? If so, you are docile and ready to receive the Holy Spirit. If not, you are in danger of rejecting the Holy Spirit. ///// PRAYER: Father, teach me about being teachable. ///// PROMISE: “Love, then, consists in this: not that we have loved God but that He has loved us and has sent His Son as an Offering for our sins.” —1 Jn 4:10 ///// PRAISE: King of all the ages, Your ways are perfect and true. Alleluia! ///// Reference: (For a related teaching on Arrogance, listen to, download or order our CD 52-1 or DVD 52 on our website.) /////// /////// (From a reflection by a member of the editorial team of the late Fr Al Lauer's Presentation Ministries) ///////

THIS MONTH'S POPE VIDEO... (click image below to see video)

IN UNION WITH THE POPE AND THE UNIVERSAL CHURCH - let us pray for the Pope's Intentions for this month of MAY ----- ------ ------- In his prayer intention this month, Pope Francis asks us to pray for men and women religious, and seminarians. “Every vocation,” he reminds us, “is like a ‘diamond in the rough’ that needs to be polished,” through a journey of ongoing growth. For “formation does not end at a certain moment, but continues throughout life.” The Pope Video, produced by the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network, helps us reflect on many aspects of his message – the importance of communitarian life, prayer, dedication to bearing witness to the Gospel, closeness to the lives of others. All these things are learned through an integral formation that begins “in the seminary and the novitiate, in direct contact with the lives of other people.” 🙏 Let us together pray “that men and women religious, and seminarians, grow in their own vocational journey through human, pastoral, spiritual and community formation.”