June 16, 2014

Monday, June 16: Coconuts and Bananas

MASS READINGS  TODAY
Monday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time

•  All the readings together
•  1st Kings 21:1-16
•  Psalm 5
•  Matthew 5:38-42

IF YOU WERE HERE THIS SUMMER  FR. MARK'S HOMILY


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SUMMER 2014  DAY 22 AT IPF

Who is at IPF today:
•   169 seminarians in the 10-week Summer Program of Spiritual Formation
•   12 priests in the Seminar for Seminary Spiritual Directors

What are they doing today?

Today the seminarians continue two new classes. In the morning class, focused on celibacy and sexuality, they men will learn more about how anger and resentment impacts their spiritual life. In the afternoon class, focused on the spirituality of diocesan priesthood, the men will learn more about their identity as beloved sons of God, the Father.

Today the priests in the Seminar for Seminary Spiritual Directors will grow in their ability to listen closely to actual spiritual experience within the directee.

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IF YOU WERE THIS SUMMER  TODAY YOU WOULD PRAY WITH ...

John 11 ... ask the Lord to reveal to you anything you're "holding on to" from the past that prevent your freedom. Ask the Lord to show you what is "binding" you in unfreedom, just as Lazarus was bound by burial cloths in the tomb.