Living A Joyful Life With Scriptures Part 1 Assumption Makati Sept 19 2013

Thanks for coming. For those of you here for the first time, we have audio of the talk here available for download. Follow the instructions below. Some of the points found in the audio include:

• Beauty word of God. Activate our faith. Living in a more conscious way.
• Story of  8 year old girl. Why Jesus talkative but not talking anymore ??
• Pope Paul 6 Vatican 2 divine revaluation Dei Verbum
• Frequent reading of divine scriptures. Excellent knowledge of Jesus Christ.
• Ignorance of scripture is ignorance of Christ St Jerome.
• St Ambrose . We speak to him when we pray . We hear him when we read the divine sayings.
• 1. Listen
• 2. Assimilate we need to understand, grasp. What is the Lord asking us?
• 3. We need to live it out. Third way
• Everything  we pray , prepare to be confronted / challenged. Contrary of notion you go to a retreat to find peace.  Allow ourselves to be challenged by the word of God.
• Castro in Ohio. Went to mass on Sundays. But did he listen?? 
• 4 . Not keep It to ourselves . Evangelize.
• Second Verbum domini post synodal apostolic exhortation. Benedict pope life and mission of the church.
• Number 10. Be realistic. All things hold together in the scripture before all things. The key is Jesus Christ. Center is Christ. Build in a truly sound and lasting way.
• This realism is particularly needed in our own time. Tempted to put our hopes , prove ephemeral,In building our loves we need solid foundations . Whoever builds on this word builds the house of his life on rock. Trying to build life solid ground.
• The main reading is always the Gospel. First reading always old testament. To match theme of the gospel.  Second reading. Following a sequence" we are the prophets . To proclaim the Word , prophet must listen first.
• Amos . Ordinary shepherd . Farmer in Judea . God wants all men to be saved.
• Amos, I was not a prophet , dresser of sycamores. Lord took me from my flock. Amos  , God is not indifferent to the realty of his people.

Ed

This week's Gospel readings are here.

http://www.catholic.org/bible/daily_reading/?select_date=2013-09-22

Mediafire of the podcast for this week is here 

http://www.mediafire.com/?zccy35h10p33pat

 

All Verbum Dei Audio in Dropbox here.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/bhkkb3qsi4o8n33/wJUOiVP68V

page 587 in Sharper Than A Sword  by Father James McTavish

Mediafire for all the School of the Word audio is here:

 http://www.mediafire.com/?2ydbw8552x5fe

Assumption August 31 2013 Father Gerson Living A Joyful Life Part 2

Father's main talk was on living a joyful life. You may listen to the whole thing minus most of the technical difficulties. Highlights include:

• Cemeteries wealthiest places on earth.
• Christian joy. Don't keep it bottled up. Man and woman of joy. Christian.
• Three reasons why the Catholic Church loses members to other versions of Christianity.
• The symbolism of the Dragon in Revelations.
• Do you lose authority if you apologize?

Father also showed a very touching video of how good can come from extreme bad. I edited it out but luckily Youtube has the same woman saying the same story and I share the video with you here.


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Father also said the mass that day and I must apologize that I did not catch it all on audio for the homily.



My notes from the missing first part:

• Invitations . Healthy spirituality eyes open.  
• Speak of somebody who was sensitive . 
• Observation: Fight in order to get places of honor.
•  Invitation to imitate God. Take my yoke. I am meek . Come to me tired and overwhelmed. 
• Christ is our model our point of reference.  

The rest of the homily is here.


It was my third time in Assumption accompanying a Verbum Dei priest and I always enjoy the experience. I hope you listen to the audio.




The audio for the main talk is here.

http://www.mediafire.com/?k7peh7gv9dxwgl3

The audio for the homily is here.

http://www.mediafire.com/?gtmhsok15jw64lo


Readings for Sunday are here.    http://www.catholic.org/bible/daily_reading/?select_date=2013-09-01

All Verbum Dei Audio in Dropbox here. 

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/bhkkb3qsi4o8n33/wJUOiVP68V

page 577 in Sharper Than A Sword  by Father James McTavish

Mediafire for all the School of the Word audio is here:

 http://www.mediafire.com/?2ydbw8552x5fe