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

School of the Word Sept 4 Discipleship

Readings for Sunday are here. 

Highlights:

• To get the most out of the School of the Word four steps: Listen, Assimilate, Live, Share
• Point is how we translate into action
• Think as human .
•  Conditions of discipleship . 
• What does it mean to be a disciple . 
• We are not following a crowd. Gospel provocation.

Perplexing quote from the Gospel: 

“If anyone comes to me without hating his father and mother,
wife and children, brothers and sisters,and even his own life,
he cannot be my disciple" .   - listen to an example from Father Gerson's life

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologian wrote: 

Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves.  Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession, absolution without personal confession. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.

Read the rest. 

Ed

Mediafire of the podcast for this week is here 

http://www.mediafire.com/?x9ndb1w24i83p0s

All Verbum Dei Audio in Dropbox here. 

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

page 580 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

Those Who HUMBLE Themselves Will Be Exalted

Hello. Sorry this is late. Today after a some weeks away Fr. Gerson returns to the School of the Word in PhilAm Life to give a great talk on humility. I will let his talk speak for itself in the audio portion but let me say that he gives a great example that we can not judge other people at their lowest because it can happen to us if we are proud. In a future blog entry I will include a similar talk he gave yesterday in Assumption San Lorenzo.


Ed

Link to mediafire download file is here.   http://www.mediafire.com/?04et6ixkmucs297

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

April 30 2013 Podcast Pentecost

Taken in Pansol April 28, 2013 with the President of Verbum Dei

Thank you for your interest in this Pentecost episode of Verbum Dei School of the Word.

The major theme in the hour long podcast is the Holy Spirit. Discussed are:

• evidence in the Gospels of Jesus in partnership with the Holy Spirit
• reference to the Holy Trinity.
• historical context of the Gentiles and interaction with the disciples. 
• facing new realities

Podcast Instructions here.


This week's podcast is here 

The readings are here.

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