TOPICS from A to Z

Saturday, November 17, 2018

CHURCH - Jesus is Lord, Son of God, the One Saviour of the World - He calls all who hear Him to be his Disciples and sends them out as his Missionaries

On these Blogger pages we explore TOPICS in our desire to respond to Jesus' call to walk with Him in our world as his missionary disciples empowered by the Holy Spirit to bring to humanity the Good News of the Father's love manifested and given in Jesus, the Divine Mercy. G.S.

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Rethinking the parish concept – The Catholic Register – 130519

Be Reconciled to God – Fr. Cantalamessa – 160325

Called to Make Missionary Disciples – 181116-17
(notes at talk by Fr. James Mallon)

I’m Never Coming Back to This Church – 170507
(A Church Staff’s Guide to Visitors)

10 Ways to Revitalize the CatholicChurch – 130910

Andragogy VS Pedagogy for Church Mission – 120221

Reluctant Catholics Be Bold – in America – 180424

Christians Urged to Spread the Gospel – 171128

You Can’t Spread God’s Love from an Armchair – 171014

Courageous Discipleship for True Freedom – in Columbia – 170909

Tragedies – “There’s no low-cost Christianity” – 170910

The Missionary Shift of Christian Communities – Summary – 2016

The Missionary Shift of Christian Communities – AEQ – February 2016

Measuring the Unmeasurable – by PillarsTrust – 180201
(About the Member Engagement Survey by Gallup)

5 ways to become the best evangelist ever – Uevangelize – 170701

St. Paul Street Evangelization – 170613

Fire through Growth in Charisms – ICCRS – 161028

La Paroisse – Marche de la Miséricorde – Montréal QC – 161013

Hierarchical & Charismatic Gifts in Church Mission – 160614

Collaboration of Men and Women in the Church – CDF – 040531

INTO THE BREACH – Exhortation to Catholic Men – 150929
(By Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted, Phoenix AZ)

Letter to Catholics re. Pope Francis by Deal W Hudson – 130923

UNLEACH THE GOSPEL – Detroit Pastoral Letter – 170603

Volunteers: How to Get Them and Keep Them – Today’s Parish 1983

Volunteers: How to Get Them and Keep Them – causely.com/reach
(The Resource Guide for Churches)

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© 2006-2021 All rights reserved Fr. Gilles Surprenant, Associate Priest of Madonna House Apostolate & Poustinik, Montreal QC
© 2006-2021 Tous droits réservés Abbé Gilles Surprenant, Prêtre Associé de Madonna House Apostolate & Poustinik, Montréal QC

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Monday, June 18, 2018

PARENTING - Bullying, Christian Family Good News, Elderly Adolescents, Elders a Blessing, Miracle Mile Run, Shape Your Child, Teach Your Child, What's Wrong with Video Games?

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Bullying: A plague to combat together - Sept 18, 2013

Christian Family Good News - Dec 13, 2014

Elderly Adolescents - Mar 6, 2010

Elders a Blessing - Oct 19, 2016

Miracle Mile Run for Children's Health - Jun 8, 2018

Shape Your Child's Spiritual Life - Aug 21, 2015

Teach Your Child to Love God - Dec 22, 2015

What's Wrong with Video Games? - Jun 21, 2016

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On these Blogger pages we explore TOPICS in our desire to respond to Jesus' call to walk with Him in our world as his missionary disciples empowered by the Holy Spirit to bring to humanity the Good News of the Father's love manifested and given in Jesus, the Divine Mercy. G.S.
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© 2006-2021 All rights reserved Fr. Gilles Surprenant, Associate Priest of Madonna House Apostolate & Poustinik, Montreal QC
© 2006-2021 Tous droits réservés Abbé Gilles Surprenant, Prêtre Associé de Madonna House Apostolate & Poustinik, Montréal QC
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Saturday, February 25, 2017

The Sanctity of Work - 7 Ways to Find God in Your Ordinary Life

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👇 FURTHER READING 👇

👉 Work as fulfillment taught Saint John Paul II - PDF file - 1992

👉 How to View Your Work Day as a Catholic - May 23, 2018 &

8 Things Catholics Should Know re. Work - PDF file - Nov 29, 2018

👉 Santifying Ordinary Work - On Opus Dei - PDF file May 30, 1975

👉 Christian in the World and Work - PDF file - April 3, 1991

👉 7 Work - Life Attitudes - PDF file - April 28, 2017

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Thursday, September 15, 2016

Divine Renovation - What the Holy Spirit Is Doing to Renovate the Roman Catholic Church from the Inside Out

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God & I: Fr. James Mallon. A vibrant Canadian parish priest talks about his vision of a renewed Church... from The Messenger of St. Anthony magazine, June 2016, pages 6-8

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Making Disciples

Resource Summaries

by Revd Dr Gareth Leyshon,

Chair of the Evangelisation Group of the Archdiocese of Cardiff

Summary 4

from the book Divine Renovation by Fr. James Mallon

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Saturday, July 2, 2016

Sadness - 5 remedies any human being can implement

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Five Remedies against Sadness – conference given by Carlo de Marchi, vicar of Opus Dei for Central-South Italy.

http://opusdei.ca/en-ca/article/5-remedies-against-sadness/

"Saint Thomas Aquinas suggests five remedies against sadness that have proven surprisingly effective." On certain days we have all been sad, days when we have been unable to overcome an inner torpor or depression that weighs down on us and makes it difficult to interact with others. Is there a trick for overcoming sorrow and recovering our smile? Saint Thomas Aquinas suggests five remedies against sadness that have proven surprisingly effective (Summa Theologiae, I-II, q. 38).

1. The first remedy is granting ourselves something we like. It’s as though the famous theologian had already intuited seven centuries ago that “chocolate is an antidepressant.” This might seem a bit materialistic, but no one would deny that a tough day can end well with a good beer. It’s hard to refute this by citing the Gospel, since our Lord took part joyfully in banquets and feasts, and both before and after his Resurrection enjoyed the noble and good things in life. One of the Psalms even says that wine gladdens the human heart (although the Bible also clearly condemns getting drunk).

2. The second remedy is weeping. Saint Thomas says that a hurtful thing hurts yet more if we keep it shut up, because the soul is more intent on it: whereas if it be allowed to escape, the soul’s intention is dispersed as it were on outward things, so that the inward sorrow is lessened. (I-II q. 38 a. 2). Our melancholy gets worse if we have no way to give vent to our sorrow. Weeping is the soul’s way to release a sorrow that can become paralyzing. Jesus too wept. And Pope Francis said that “certain truths in life can only be seen with eyes cleansed by tears. I invite each of you to ask yourself: Have I learned how to cry?”

3. The third remedy is sharing our sorrow with a friend. I recall here the friend of Renzo in Manzoni’s great novel “The Betrothed.” Finding himself alone in his deserted home ravaged by the plague and mourning his family’s horrible fate, he tells Renzo: “What has happened is horrible, something that I never thought I would live to see; it’s enough to take away a person’s joy for the rest of his life. But speaking about these things with a friend is a great help.” This is something we have to experience in order to understand it. When we are sad, we tend to see everything in tints of grey. A very effective antidote is opening our heart to a friend. Sometimes a brief message or phone call is enough for our outlook to once again be filled with light.

4. The fourth remedy against sadness is contemplating the truth. Contemplating the “fulgor veritatis” Saint Augustine speaks of, the splendor of truth in nature or a work of art or music, can be an effective balm against sadness. A literary critic, a few days after the death of a dear friend, was scheduled to speak at a conference about the topic of adventure in the works of Tolkien. He began by saying: “Speaking about beautiful things to people interested in them is for me a real consolation….”

5. The fifth remedy suggested by Saint Thomas is perhaps something we wouldn’t expect from a medieval thinker. The theologian says that a wonderful remedy against sadness is bathing and sleeping. It’s a deeply Christian viewpoint that in order to alleviate a spiritual malady one will sometimes have to resort to a bodily remedy. Ever since God became Man, and therefore took on a body, the separation between matter and spirit has been overcome in this world of ours.

A widespread error is that Christianity is based on the opposition between soul and body, with the latter being seen as a burden or obstacle for the spiritual life. But the right view of Christian humanism is that the human person (both body and soul) is completely “spiritualized” by seeking union with God.

“No one thinks it strange to seek out a physician who cares for the body as a guide for a spiritual illness,” says Saint Thomas More. “The body and soul are so closely united that together they form a single person, and hence a malady of one can sometimes be are malady of both. Therefore, I would advise everyone, when confronted with a physical illness, to first go to confession, and seek out a good spiritual doctor for the health of their soul. Likewise for some sicknesses of the soul, besides going to the spiritual physician, one should also go to a physician who cares for the body.”

AUTHOR Carlo de Marchi, vicar of Opus Dei for Central-South Italy, at the National Ecclesial Congress in Florence

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Thursday, December 17, 2015

Health Tips - Sleep Revolution - Hearing or Deaf? - Fruit Nut Bread - Aging Physical Activity - Skunk Stink Solution - Insects & Animal Pests

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HEALTH TIPS - MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES

A Sleep Revolution Will Allow Us to Better Solve the World's Problems - Dec 17, 2015

Hear today, gone tomorrow (are you at risk to become deaf?) - March 17, 2014

Fr. Gilles' Multigrain Fruit Nut Bread - Oct 29, 2010

Physical Activity and Aging - July 5, 2016 (May 2014)

A Solution to Skunk Pollution - Oct 22, 2016 (Jun 12, 2013)

Insect Bites - Piqures d'insectes - Jun 23, 2015

Insects & Animal Pests Jun 3, 2016

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Thursday, July 31, 2014

Pope Francis' 10 Tips for a Happier Life

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http://thehigherlearning.com/2014/07/31/the-pope-just-released-a-list-of-10-tips-for-becoming-a-happier-person-and-they-are-spot-on/

The Pope’s 10 Tips for a Happier Life

1. “Live and let live.” Everyone should be guided by this principle, he said, which has a similar expression in Rome with the saying, “Move forward and let others do the same.”

2. “Be giving of yourself to others.” People need to be open and generous toward others, he said, because “if you withdraw into yourself, you run the risk of becoming egocentric. And stagnant water becomes putrid.”

3. “Proceed calmly” in life. The pope, who used to teach high school literature, used an image from an Argentine novel by Ricardo Guiraldes, in which the protagonist — gaucho Don Segundo Sombra — looks back on how he lived his life.

4. A healthy sense of leisure. The Pope said “consumerism has brought us anxiety”, and told parents to set aside time to play with their children and turn of the TV when they sit down to eat.

5. Sundays should be holidays. Workers should have Sundays off because “Sunday is for family,” he said.

6. Find innovative ways to create dignified jobs for young people. “We need to be creative with young people. If they have no opportunities they will get into drugs” and be more vulnerable to suicide, he said.

7. Respect and take care of nature. Environmental degradation “is one of the biggest challenges we have,” he said. “I think a question that we’re not asking ourselves is: ‘Isn’t humanity committing suicide with this indiscriminate and tyrannical use of nature?’”

8. Stop being negative. “Needing to talk badly about others indicates low self-esteem. That means, ‘I feel so low that instead of picking myself up I have to cut others down,’” the Pope said. “Letting go of negative things quickly is healthy.”

9. Don’t proselytise; respect others’ beliefs. “We can inspire others through witness so that one grows together in communicating. But the worst thing of all is religious proselytism, which paralyses: ‘I am talking with you in order to persuade you,’ No. Each person dialogues, starting with his and her own identity. The church grows by attraction, not proselytising,” the Pope said.

10. Work for peace. “We are living in a time of many wars,” he said, and “the call for peace must be shouted. Peace sometimes gives the impression of being quiet, but it is never quiet, peace is always proactive” and dynamic.

Courtesy of the Catholic News Service.

http://thehigherlearning.com/2014/07/31/the-pope-just-released-a-list-of-10-tips-for-becoming-a-happier-person-and-they-are-spot-on/

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TOPICS from A to Z

Saturday, November 17, 2018

CHURCH - Jesus is Lord, Son of God, the One Saviour of the World - He calls all who hear Him to be his Disciples and sends them out as his Missionaries

Monday, June 18, 2018

PARENTING - Bullying, Christian Family Good News, Elderly Adolescents, Elders a Blessing, Miracle Mile Run, Shape Your Child, Teach Your Child, What's Wrong with Video Games?

Saturday, February 25, 2017

The Sanctity of Work - 7 Ways to Find God in Your Ordinary Life

Thursday, September 15, 2016

Divine Renovation - What the Holy Spirit Is Doing to Renovate the Roman Catholic Church from the Inside Out

Saturday, July 2, 2016

Sadness - 5 remedies any human being can implement

Thursday, December 17, 2015

Health Tips - Sleep Revolution - Hearing or Deaf? - Fruit Nut Bread - Aging Physical Activity - Skunk Stink Solution - Insects & Animal Pests

Thursday, July 31, 2014

Pope Francis' 10 Tips for a Happier Life

Humanity at the beginning of the Third Millennium is in crisis. The R.C. Church is in crisis, but so are the other Christian churches and other religions. What are we to do about it in 2024?

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