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Monday, January 29, 2024

Seminar / Workshop on God - "Introduction to Prayer" - Marriage Preparation Course "From This Day Forward" - Saturday, February 3rd, 2024 at St. Ignatius of Loyola Parish - Marriage is a great adventure for LIFE!

In the "New Covenant" made by our Creator God with humanity, as reported in Jeremiah 31:31-34, every human being can know God from within - because the Holy Spirit is revealing our Creator to all who are willing to know the Lord and trust in Him. We can still help each other along the way; so may you be pleased to find here a variety of helps to the life of faith in God through Jesus Christ. G.S.

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“From This Day Forward”

Marriage Preparation Course 2024 

WORKSHOP ðŸ’˜ GOD ðŸ’˜
 LIFE ðŸ’˜ MARRIAGE ðŸ’˜ 
💘 FAMILY  
💘 PRAYER ðŸ’˜ TRINITY ðŸ’˜ SEMINAR 


👇 Link to Fr. Gilles' Power Point Presentation: 👇

👉  Workshop / Seminar "Introduction to Prayer" -
Saturday, February 3rd, 2024
 ðŸ‘ˆ



INTRO of Father Gilles Surprenant 
by Bridget Bagshaw, Coordinator 


Father Gilles Surprenant in Capernaum, Galilee, Palestine

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 ðŸ’˜ WORKSHOP ON PRAYER ðŸ’˜ 

"The Trinity" by Andrei Rublev - 1411 A.D.


Russian icon 56" x 45" 

Rosary prayer testimony by Tammy Peterson, renowned professor Jordan Peterson's wife, about her faith, the practice of praying the Rosary, and her apparently miraculous healing of a cancer from which she is the only person who has ever survived it. - LINK 

This is a 2-Hour WORKSHOP / SEMINAR 

We'll have actual prayer experiences...

... discussion, couple time, Q&A, & a break...

Last year, afte we prayed a little with couples, they wanted more. Well, this morning we will spend 2 hours exploring prayer. 

You will have opportunity to express any doubts and ask questions. Let this Workshop / Seminar be an adventure; I am your field guide.

OUR METHOD IS EXPERIENTIAL

OUR METHODOLOGY :

OUR MODEL IS ADULT LEARNING 

WITH GOD... WE ARE ALL BEGINNERS...

WE LEARN WELL FROM EACH OTHER...

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We’re inviting you this morning to “bite the bullet”, that is, to ask yourself the question: “Who is God for you?” 

If your experience, or that of your family, views God as a tyrant, a thief, or a liar; then no relationship is possible.

If, in your view of the universe, there is no god; again, no relationship is possible. 

Our position as a team is this. Not only is God real, but He is a loving God, and we know it from our own experience. 

Walk with us on the exciting adventure we call prayer.


IS GOD REAL? or NOT REAL?

Despite lots of evidence, there are different views, and many people are indifferent… 

“For those who believe in God, no explanation is necessary. For those who do not believe in God, no explanation is possible (or sufficient).”

Quotation at the beginning of the movie: “The Song of Bernadette” produced in 1943 about the 1858 apparitions of Mary in Lourdes, France.

What about you? Do you believe in God?

Are you doing anything about it?


GOD - REAL? or NOT REAL?

What difference does God make?

What is your / my answer?

Our choices are:

1. Ignore God & his Church as irrelevant

2. Hold God & his Church in contempt

3. 💘Examine our doubts critically, be unafraid to ask questions, accept God as real, respect God as worthy of trust,  and cultivate the relationship He offers everyone.


YOUR GOALS FOR THIS WORKSHOP SEMINAR 

If I don’t know God, where and how do I start? 

If I know God or have experience of prayer, how do I advance? 

We live much of our lives in between two poles or extremes:

FRANTIC ACTIVITY & WORRY  - - - - -  SERENITY & A RELAXED SPIRIT      Feeling insecure, we seek control - - - - - Letting go, we can breathe...

         The Spirit of the living God is close to the human spirit within us….              To help us migrate from anxiety towards peace through prayer….   

Every life situation is an opportunity for prayer.

Jesus said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.” Mt 18:3

It really is as simple as that.

Faith is not a feeling....

Faith is simply a decision to trust in God.

Am I willing to trust in God?

We need to just do it and find out for ourselves.

It is very human to find it difficult to trust in God....

Genesis, in the Bible, tells how humans stopped trusting in God. We inherit doubt and fear. God’s way to fix this broken trust is one person at a time. It’s up to us to do faith and trust in God.


GO NOW TO THE POWERPOINT SLIDES TO SEE TODAY'S ACTUAL WORKSHOP / SEMINAR

👇 Link to Fr. Gilles' Power Point Presentation: 👇



We have all lived on this planet long enough to be concerned for ourselves, for those we love, and for our common future. There are dangers and risks, but there are also people taking wonderful initiatives and putting themselves at the service of the common good. As you prepare for marriage and family life, you are already among those who are improving society and increasing our hope.

It is not necessary to believe in God to serve humanity. Famous and ordinary people contribute to the common good without faith in God. Still, since the beginning of humanity, God our Creator offers his solutions to our problems and dangers. God respects our free will; so we can be open to God and be guided by his design for our lives. That's that this Marriage Preparation Course is all about. 

Violence, troubles, dangers threaten humanity. Our human condition causes us to suffer insecurities, fears, doubts, and concerns for the future. We endure the faults of others and dislike admitting our own faults. 

The awesome truth is that our Creator God loves us without limits. God gives us freedom because He designed us for friendship love. It is only in learning to love our Maker back that we will be perfectly happy. We can please others but we cannot “make happy” anyone; it is unfair to even expect a human, other  than Jesus, to try to “make us happy”. 

We're off!


WORKSHOP 
💘
 GOD ðŸ’˜
 LIFE ðŸ’˜ MARRIAGE ðŸ’˜ 

💘 FAMILY  ðŸ’˜ PRAYER ðŸ’˜ TRINITY ðŸ’˜ SEMINAR 


Please join me as we begin with a PRAYER 

OPENING PRAYER 

LED BY FR. GILLES

💘 GOD ðŸ’˜ LIFE ðŸ’˜ PRAYER ðŸ’˜

“Lord, I can’t pray properly. 
I’m weak; I’m human; 
I’m fragile. I’m easily distracted,
taken into thoughts of myself and the world.
But you, Lord, lead me past that.
Help me to pray truly as I am. 

Help me to focus on the Father, the Son,
and You, Holy Spirit,
so that my soul may be opened,
and I can receive the grace that is there
for everyone in prayer. Amen.” 

Prayer published by C. Alan Ames inspired by St. Teresa of Avila

The Warning: Testimonies and Prophecies of the Illumination of Conscience.” By Christine Watkins, Queen of Peace Media, 2020. Sacramento CA

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Living Prayer 

By Anthony of Sourozh, Metropolitan. Living Prayer: The Pocket Library of Spiritual Wisdom. Foreword, p. 5. Darton, Longman & Todd LTD. Kindle Edition. 

Worship to me means a relationship. I used not to be a believer, then one day I discovered God and immediately he appeared to me to be the supreme value and the total meaning of life, but at the same time a person. I think that worship can mean nothing at all to someone for whom there is no object of worship. You cannot teach worship to someone who has not got a sense of the living God; you can teach him to act as if he believed, but it will not be the spontaneous attitude which is real worship. Therefore, as a foreword to this book on prayer, what I would like to convey is my certitude in the personal reality of a God with whom a relationship can be established. 

Then I would ask my reader to treat God as a neighbour, as someone, and value this knowledge in the same terms in which he values a relationship with a brother or a friend. This, I think, is essential. One of the reasons why communal worship or private prayer seem to be so dead or so conventional is that the act of worship, which takes place in the heart communing with God, is too often missing. Every expression, either verbal or in action, may help, but they are only expressions of what is essential, namely, a deep silence of communion. 

We all know in human relationships that love and friendship are deep when we can be silent with someone. As long as we need to talk in order to keep in touch, we can safely and sadly assume that the relationship is still superficial; and so, if we want to worship God, we must first of all learn to feel happy, being silent together with him. This is an easier thing to do than one might think at first; it needs a little time, some confidence and the courage to start. 

Once the Curé d’Ars, a French saint of the eighteenth century, asked an old peasant what he was doing sitting for hours in the church, seemingly not even praying; the peasant replied: ‘I look at him, he looks at me and we are happy together.’ That man had learned to speak to God without breaking the silence of intimacy by words. If we can do that we can use any form of worship. 

If we try to make worship itself out of the words we use, we will get desperately tired of those words, because unless they have the depth of silence, they are shallow and tiresome. But how inspiring words can be once they are backed by silence and are infused with the right spirit: ‘O Lord, open Thou my lips; and my mouth shall show forth thy praise’ (Ps 51:15). 

1* Adaptation of a talk given on the BBC in the ‘Ten to Eight’ programme first broadcast in 1965.

Anthony of Sourozh, Metropolitan. Living Prayer: The Pocket Library of Spiritual Wisdom (pp. 5-6). Darton, Longman & Todd LTD. Kindle Edition. 


Suggestions for approaching God with openness, honesty, & trust

From “Beginning to Pray” by Anthony Bloom

(1) Sit with myself and face my boredom, confusion, or poverty

(2) Facing my emptiness, helplessness, or anguish cry: “Lord, have mercy!”

(3) Realizing all my life was outside, and inside, I am nothing - knock at his door.

(4) In trouble, struggle, or despair, hope in Christ, cry out: “Save me!” 

(5) Instead of counting on my own efforts or other helps, rely on God alone.

(6) Realizing I am surrounded by dangers, all I need to do is cry for help.


Tips for approaching the new day with God in prayer 

(1) On waking, or RIGHT NOW, thank God for the day He has made.

(2) God has made the day and I am to rejoice in it; really mean it.

(3) Now I can continue / get out of bed, get up, and wash, etc. 

(4) Come to God again welcoming this day as absolutely new

(5) Ask God that everything in it should be blessed and ruled by Him.

(6) Enter into the day as God’s messenger of his love & Good News

(7) Be ready to endure resistance, humiliation, misunderstandings or persecution

(8) Decide to accept whatever may happen – prayer & life flowing together

(9) When prayer is too much, just tell God: “I need a rest from You.” Then do it.

(10)  Let God be the master of my prayer and life. 


PRAYER RESOURCES

👉 "Beginners' PAGE"

👉 Catholic Christian Tools  page

👉 ðŸ‘‰ HOME - https://gillessurprenant.blogspot.com/      


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A few additional texts... reflections.... 


Man & Woman both can spend themselves to exhaustion God has a plan …

Husband & Wife praying for each other = “ Spiritual Tag Team

You daily know where each other is, what’s happening, and are

praying for those situations = You’re constantly united...

MATRIMONY = mater + monium = burden of mothering

THE BRIDE the woman God designed to give & nurture life

THE BRIDEGROOM the man God designed to “groom” or “care for” the bride in her giving and nurturing life

Constantly praying for one another…

you constantly call on God to save each other’s life…

We are created in the IMAGE and LIKENESS of GOD...

God is an infinite "fire" of life-giving love...

Our "soul" / "spirit" in our "center" is a flame of

God within us... God is infinite... so there is in us

a living, dynamic flame of the infinite....


That is why we are never content with just a taste...

something in us wants to...

eat the whole buffet... drink the whole bottle...

completely consume what we love and desire...

A man wants to love every woman in the world...

A woman wants to love every man in the world...

which is why pornography is so dangerous...

not because sex is bad... no, God made us beautiful...

in us is a flame of the infinite, life-giving love-fire of God...


To touch high tension electricity wires is to "fry" and die...

electric power goes through transformers to make it safe...

Human sexuality must also go through a transformer to be safe...

To look at human beauty from a distance is a torturing fire leading to depression and death...

Marriage is the "transformer" that makes our intimate loving safe and life-giving and it takes place in the presence of God. 

For a detailed exploration of this theme, go to…

“LIVING IN THE IMAGE and LIKENESS of GOD”

by Father Ron Rolheiser 

https://vimeo.com/showcase/8489527?page=3   

Father Ron Rolheiser’s website: https://ronrolheiser.com/ 

or see his books - contact:  Samia at   https://theologia.ca/ 

For the remainder of the workshop / seminar, see the Power Point presentation :


👇 Link to Fr. Gilles' Power Point Presentation: 👇

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PERSPECTIVE - Victor Frankl's discovery about who survived and who didn't in the Nazi concentration camps - "Man's Search for Meaning" 

= the freedom we have to "choose" our interior attitude to life 

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In the "New Covenant" made by our Creator God with humanity, as reported in Jeremiah 31:31-34, every human being can know God from within - because the Holy Spirit is revealing our Creator to all who are willing to know the Lord and trust in Him. We can still help each other along the way; so may you be pleased to find here a variety of helps to the life of faith in God through Jesus Christ. G.S.

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© 2006-2024 All rights reserved Fr. Gilles Surprenant, Associate Priest of Madonna House Apostolate & Poustinik, Montreal  QC
© 2006-2024 Tous droits réservés Abbé Gilles Surprenant, Prêtre Associé de Madonna House Apostolate & Poustinik, Montréal QC
 

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Friday, January 12, 2024

Seminar / Workshop on God - "Introduction to Prayer" - Marriage Preparation Course "From This Day Forward" - Saturday, January 13th, 2024 at St. John Fisher Parish - Marriage is a great adventure for LIFE!

In the "New Covenant" made by our Creator God with humanity, as reported in Jeremiah 31:31-34, every human being can know God from within - because the Holy Spirit is revealing our Creator to all who are willing to know the Lord and trust in Him. We can still help each other along the way; so may you be pleased to find here a variety of helps to the life of faith in God through Jesus Christ. G.S.

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“From This Day Forward”

Marriage Preparation Course 2024 

WORKSHOP ðŸ’˜ GOD ðŸ’˜
 LIFE ðŸ’˜ MARRIAGE ðŸ’˜ 
💘 FAMILY  
💘 PRAYER ðŸ’˜ TRINITY ðŸ’˜ SEMINAR 


👇 Link to Fr. Gilles' Power Point Presentation: 👇

👉  Workshop / Seminar "Introduction to Prayer" -
Saturday, January 13th, 2024
 ðŸ‘ˆ


PDF Version of this Power Point Presentation 


INTRO of Father Gilles Surprenant 
by Bridget Bagshaw, Coordinator 


Father Gilles Surprenant in Capernaum, Galilee, Palestine

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 ðŸ’˜ WORKSHOP ON PRAYER ðŸ’˜ 

"The Trinity" by Andrei Rublev - 1411 A.D.


Russian icon 56" x 45" 

This is a 2-Hour WORKSHOP / SEMINAR 

We'll have actual prayer experiences...

... discussion, couple time, Q&A, & a break...

Last year, afte we prayed a little with couples, they wanted more. Well, this morning we will spend 2 hours exploring prayer. 

You will have opportunity to express any doubts and ask questions. Let this Workshop / Seminar be an adventure; I am your field guide.

OUR METHOD IS EXPERIENTIAL

OUR METHODOLOGY :

OUR MODEL IS ADULT LEARNING 

WITH GOD... WE ARE ALL BEGINNERS...

WE LEARN WELL FROM EACH OTHER...

----------------------------------------------------------------

We’re inviting you this morning to “bite the bullet”, that is, to ask yourself the question: “Who is God for you?” 

If your experience, or that of your family, views God as a tyrant, a thief, or a liar; then no relationship is possible.

If, in your view of the universe, there is no god; again, no relationship is possible. 

Our position as a team is this. Not only is God real, but He is a loving God, and we know it from our own experience. 

Walk with us on the exciting adventure we call prayer.


IS GOD REAL? or NOT REAL?

Despite lots of evidence, there are different views, and many people are indifferent… 

“For those who believe in God, no explanation is necessary. For those who do not believe in God, no explanation is possible (or sufficient).”

Quotation at the beginning of the movie: “The Song of Bernadette” produced in 1943 about the 1858 apparitions of Mary in Lourdes, France.

What about you? Do you believe in God?

Are you doing anything about it?


GOD - REAL? or NOT REAL?

What difference does God make?

What is your / my answer?

Our choices are:

1. Ignore God & his Church as irrelevant

2. Hold God & his Church in contempt

3. 💘Examine our doubts critically, be unafraid to ask questions, accept God as real, respect God as worthy of trust,  and cultivate the relationship He offers everyone.


YOUR GOALS FOR THIS WORKSHOP SEMINAR 

If I don’t know God, where and how do I start? 

If I know God or have experience of prayer, how do I advance? 

We live much of our lives in between two poles or extremes:

FRANTIC ACTIVITY & WORRY  - - - - -  SERENITY & A RELAXED SPIRIT      Feeling insecure, we seek control - - - - - Letting go, we can breathe...

         The Spirit of the living God is close to the human spirit within us….              To help us migrate from anxiety towards peace through prayer….   

Every life situation is an opportunity for prayer.

Jesus said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.” Mt 18:3

It really is as simple as that.

Faith is not a feeling....

Faith is simply a decision to trust in God.

Am I willing to trust in God?

We need to just do it and find out for ourselves.

It is very human to find it difficult to trust in God....

Genesis, in the Bible, tells how humans stopped trusting in God. We inherit doubt and fear. God’s way to fix this broken trust is one person at a time. It’s up to us to do faith and trust in God.


GO NOW TO THE POWERPOINT SLIDES TO SEE TODAY'S ACTUAL WORKSHOP / SEMINAR

👇 Link to Fr. Gilles' Power Point Presentation: 👇


SOME OTHER THOUGHTS....

We have all lived on this planet long enough to be concerned for ourselves, for those we love, and for our common future. There are dangers and risks, but there are also people taking wonderful initiatives and putting themselves at the service of the common good. As you prepare for marriage and family life, you are already among those who are improving society and increasing our hope.

It is not necessary to believe in God to serve humanity. Famous and ordinary people contribute to the common good without faith in God. Still, since the beginning of humanity, God our Creator offers his solutions to our problems and dangers. God respects our free will; so we can be open to God and be guided by his design for our lives. That's that this Marriage Preparation Course is all about. 

Violence, troubles, dangers threaten humanity. Our human condition causes us to suffer insecurities, fears, doubts, and concerns for the future. We endure the faults of others and dislike admitting our own faults. 

The awesome truth is that our Creator God loves us without limits. God gives us freedom because He designed us for friendship love. It is only in learning to love our Maker back that we will be perfectly happy. We can please others but we cannot “make happy” anyone; it is unfair to even expect a human, other  than Jesus, to try to “make us happy”. 

We're off!


WORKSHOP 
💘
 GOD ðŸ’˜
 LIFE ðŸ’˜ MARRIAGE ðŸ’˜ 

💘 FAMILY  ðŸ’˜ PRAYER ðŸ’˜ TRINITY ðŸ’˜ SEMINAR 


Please join me as we begin with a PRAYER 

OPENING PRAYER 

LED BY FR. GILLES

💘 GOD ðŸ’˜ LIFE ðŸ’˜ PRAYER ðŸ’˜

“Lord, I can’t pray properly. 
I’m weak; I’m human; 
I’m fragile. I’m easily distracted,
taken into thoughts of myself and the world.
But you, Lord, lead me past that.
Help me to pray truly as I am. 

Help me to focus on the Father, the Son,
and You, Holy Spirit,
so that my soul may be opened,
and I can receive the grace that is there
for everyone in prayer. Amen.” 

Prayer published by C. Alan Ames inspired by St. Teresa of Avila

The Warning: Testimonies and Prophecies of the Illumination of Conscience.” By Christine Watkins, Queen of Peace Media, 2020. Sacramento CA

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Living Prayer 

By Anthony of Sourozh, Metropolitan. Living Prayer: The Pocket Library of Spiritual Wisdom. Foreword, p. 5. Darton, Longman & Todd LTD. Kindle Edition. 

Worship to me means a relationship. I used not to be a believer, then one day I discovered God and immediately he appeared to me to be the supreme value and the total meaning of life, but at the same time a person. I think that worship can mean nothing at all to someone for whom there is no object of worship. You cannot teach worship to someone who has not got a sense of the living God; you can teach him to act as if he believed, but it will not be the spontaneous attitude which is real worship. Therefore, as a foreword to this book on prayer, what I would like to convey is my certitude in the personal reality of a God with whom a relationship can be established. 

Then I would ask my reader to treat God as a neighbour, as someone, and value this knowledge in the same terms in which he values a relationship with a brother or a friend. This, I think, is essential. One of the reasons why communal worship or private prayer seem to be so dead or so conventional is that the act of worship, which takes place in the heart communing with God, is too often missing. Every expression, either verbal or in action, may help, but they are only expressions of what is essential, namely, a deep silence of communion. 

We all know in human relationships that love and friendship are deep when we can be silent with someone. As long as we need to talk in order to keep in touch, we can safely and sadly assume that the relationship is still superficial; and so, if we want to worship God, we must first of all learn to feel happy, being silent together with him. This is an easier thing to do than one might think at first; it needs a little time, some confidence and the courage to start. 

Once the Curé d’Ars, a French saint of the eighteenth century, asked an old peasant what he was doing sitting for hours in the church, seemingly not even praying; the peasant replied: ‘I look at him, he looks at me and we are happy together.’ That man had learned to speak to God without breaking the silence of intimacy by words. If we can do that we can use any form of worship. 

If we try to make worship itself out of the words we use, we will get desperately tired of those words, because unless they have the depth of silence, they are shallow and tiresome. But how inspiring words can be once they are backed by silence and are infused with the right spirit: ‘O Lord, open Thou my lips; and my mouth shall show forth thy praise’ (Ps 51:15). 

1* Adaptation of a talk given on the BBC in the ‘Ten to Eight’ programme first broadcast in 1965.

Anthony of Sourozh, Metropolitan. Living Prayer: The Pocket Library of Spiritual Wisdom (pp. 5-6). Darton, Longman & Todd LTD. Kindle Edition. 


Suggestions for approaching God with openness, honesty, & trust

From “Beginning to Pray” by Anthony Bloom

(1) Sit with myself and face my boredom, confusion, or poverty

(2) Facing my emptiness, helplessness, or anguish cry: “Lord, have mercy!”

(3) Realizing all my life was outside, and inside, I am nothing - knock at his door.

(4) In trouble, struggle, or despair, hope in Christ, cry out: “Save me!” 

(5) Instead of counting on my own efforts or other helps, rely on God alone.

(6) Realizing I am surrounded by dangers, all I need to do is cry for help.


Tips for approaching the new day with God in prayer 

(1) On waking, or RIGHT NOW, thank God for the day He has made.

(2) God has made the day and I am to rejoice in it; really mean it.

(3) Now I can continue / get out of bed, get up, and wash, etc. 

(4) Come to God again welcoming this day as absolutely new

(5) Ask God that everything in it should be blessed and ruled by Him.

(6) Enter into the day as God’s messenger of his love & Good News

(7) Be ready to endure resistance, humiliation, misunderstandings or persecution

(8) Decide to accept whatever may happen – prayer & life flowing together

(9) When prayer is too much, just tell God: “I need a rest from You.” Then do it.

(10)  Let God be the master of my prayer and life. 


PRAYER RESOURCES

👉 "Beginners' PAGE"

👉 Catholic Christian Tools  page

👉 ðŸ‘‰ HOME - https://gillessurprenant.blogspot.com/      


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A few additional texts... reflections.... 


Man & Woman both can spend themselves to exhaustion God has a plan …

Husband & Wife praying for each other = “ Spiritual Tag Team

You daily know where each other is, what’s happening, and are

praying for those situations = You’re constantly united...

MATRIMONY = mater + monium = burden of mothering

THE BRIDE the woman God designed to give & nurture life

THE BRIDEGROOM the man God designed to “groom” or “care for” the bride in her giving and nurturing life

Constantly praying for one another…

you constantly call on God to save each other’s life…

We are created in the IMAGE and LIKENESS of GOD...

God is an infinite "fire" of life-giving love...

Our "soul" / "spirit" in our "center" is a flame of

God within us... God is infinite... so there is in us

a living, dynamic flame of the infinite....


That is why we are never content with just a taste...

something in us wants to...

eat the whole buffet... drink the whole bottle...

completely consume what we love and desire...

A man wants to love every woman in the world...

A woman wants to love every man in the world...

which is why pornography is so dangerous...

not because sex is bad... no, God made us beautiful...

in us is a flame of the infinite, life-giving love-fire of God...


To touch high tension electricity wires is to "fry" and die...

electric power goes through transformers to make it safe...

Human sexuality must also go through a transformer to be safe...

To look at human beauty from a distance is a torturing fire leading to depression and death...

Marriage is the "transformer" that makes our intimate loving safe and life-giving and it takes place in the presence of God. 

For a detailed exploration of this theme, go to…

“LIVING IN THE IMAGE and LIKENESS of GOD”

by Father Ron Rolheiser 

https://vimeo.com/showcase/8489527?page=3   

Father Ron Rolheiser’s website: https://ronrolheiser.com/ 

or see his books - contact:  Samia at   https://theologia.ca/ 

For the remainder of the workshop / seminar, see the Power Point presentation :


👇 Link to Fr. Gilles' Power Point Presentation: 👇



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PERSPECTIVE - Victor Frankl's discovery about who survived and who didn't in the Nazi concentration camps - "Man's Search for Meaning" 

= the freedom we have to "choose" our interior attitude to life 

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In the "New Covenant" made by our Creator God with humanity, as reported in Jeremiah 31:31-34, every human being can know God from within - because the Holy Spirit is revealing our Creator to all who are willing to know the Lord and trust in Him. We can still help each other along the way; so may you be pleased to find here a variety of helps to the life of faith in God through Jesus Christ. G.S.

----------------------------------------------------------------

© 2006-2024 All rights reserved Fr. Gilles Surprenant, Associate Priest of Madonna House Apostolate & Poustinik, Montreal  QC
© 2006-2024 Tous droits réservés Abbé Gilles Surprenant, Prêtre Associé de Madonna House Apostolate & Poustinik, Montréal QC
 

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Seminar / Workshop on God - "Introduction to Prayer" - Marriage Preparation Course "From This Day Forward" - Saturday, March 2nd, 2024 at St. Monica Parish - Marriage is a great adventure for LIFE! Workshop Seminar 07.6

In the "New Covenant" made by our Creator God with humanity, as reported in Jeremiah 31:31-34, every human being can know God from...