Category: Spirituality
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A Lenten Sacrifice
Over the past month or so I’ve been thinking about what I’m going to deny myself during Lent. In the past, I’ve given up chocolate, pizza, pop (soda), or other things I’ve enjoyed. This year it has been a difficult decision. I haven’t been eating that much chocolate. I stopped drinking soda (pop) over the…
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Practice Makes Perfect
Andres Segovia was one of the best classical guitarists of all times. One of his students wrote an interesting article about how Segovia practiced: This is what he taught me and told me was his method. Practice in setsof fifteen minutes, divided into two sets of seven to eight minutes with ashort break between. At…
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A Prayer of St. Francis
Here’s a prayer from St. Francis of Assisi. I hope one day to truly pray this from my heart: Almighty, eternal, just, and merciful God, grant us in our misery [the grace] to do for You alone what we know You want us to do, and always to desire what pleases You.
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Driving Out Vice
From St. Francis of Assisi How Virtue Drives Out Vice 1. Where there is charity (love) and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. 2. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor disturbance. 3. Where there is poverty with joy, there is neither covetousness nor avarice (greed). 4.…
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Rob Bell on IPhone, IPad, and Android
Not sure how I missed this, but Nooma, the video series by Rob Bell, is an app for both IPhone devices and Android devices. After downloading the app you can download the first video in the series, Rain, for free. The others will cost you $2.99, but the app itself is free. Now Rob can…