Seminar / Workshop on God - Introduction to Prayer - Marriage Preparation Live Meeting at 2000 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal - Saturday, April 1st, 2023 - This is no April Fools' Joke! 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 2023

WORKSHOP 💘 GOD 💘 LIFE 💘 MARRIAGE 💘 
💘 FAMILY  💘 PRAYER 💘 TRINITY 💘 SEMINAR 

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

👉  Workshop / Seminar "Introduction to Prayer" -
Saturday, April 1st, 2023 👈

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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 💘 WORKSHOP ON PRAYER 💘 

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

Russian icon 56" x 45" 

This is a 3-Hour WORKSHOP / SEMINAR 

We'll have actual prayer experiences...

... discussion, couple time, Q&A, & breaks...

Last year, afte we prayed a little with couples, they wanted more. Well, this morning we will spend 3 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.

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”. 

GOD - REAL? or NOT REAL?

Despite mounds of evidence,

many people are indifferent …

Our choices are:

1. Ignore God

2. Hold God in contempt

3. 💘Respect God as real and cultivate the relationship.

We're off!

WORKSHOP 💘 GOD 💘 LIFE 💘 MARRIAGE 💘 

💘 FAMILY  💘 PRAYER 💘 TRINITY 💘 SEMINAR 

Please join me as we begin with a PRAYER 

OPENING PRAYER 

LED BY FR. GILLES

💘 GOD 💘 LIFE 💘 PRAYER 💘

“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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METHOD: LIKE WINE TASTING 

or LIKE BEER TASTING

OUR METHODOLOGY :

ADULT LEARNING MODEL

OUR OUTLINE - in 4 segments 

 (1) The human prayer impulse (2) Praying in common 
(3) Praying alone (4) Praying as a couple

WITH GOD... WE ARE ALL BEGINNERS...
WE LEARN BEST TOGETHER...

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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. 

PRAYER RESOURCES

👉 "Beginners' PAGE"

👉 Catholic Christian Tools  page

👉 👉 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: 👇

👉  Workshop / Seminar "Introduction to Prayer" -
Saturday, April 1st, 2023 👈

PDF Version of this 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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GO TO CATHOLIC CHRISTIAN TOOLS PAGE

Link to MORE INSPIRATIONAL TEXTS 

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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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© 2006-2023 All rights reserved Fr. Gilles Surprenant, Associate Priest of Madonna House Apostolate & Poustinik, Montreal  QC
© 2006-2023 Tous droits réservés Abbé Gilles Surprenant, Prêtre Associé de Madonna House Apostolate & Poustinik, Montréal QC 

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BEGINNERS' PAGE - Brief or quick version - "Your prison cell door is open... all you have to do is walk out...."

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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WHY CALL THIS A "BEGINNERS' PAGE"?

When it comes to God, we human beings are all beginners - no matter our ethnicity, culture, language, gender, age, religious or not... 

God is the only "eternal" being and we are all mortals... our life is brief... 

We are very limited in what we can know and do and how long we can remain in this life. But, this is not a curse; on the contrary.

BRIEF PARABLE: Our common human condition is comparable to a man or woman sitting in a prison cell with the door unlocked and open. All they have to do to be free from their prison is get up and walk out the door. Will they do it, or will they remain in the familiarity of their prison cell? That is the question.

NATURE OF THE QUESTION OR OUR DILEMMA: For millennia, human beings have wondered if there is a god or many gods or none. A multitude of religions and sects exist on the Earth and new ones crop up constantly. How can any of them be true? If God is real, why is he not obvious to everyone?

ORIGINS OF THE PARABLE: The Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible explains that the original human beings knew their Creator God personally and enjoyed his friendship. They were deceived by rebel angels, pure spirits, into withdrawing their trust in God and trust rather in their own selves. 

EXPLANATION OF THE PARABLE: That decision to withdraw trust from God isolated them inside themselves, no longer able to relate to their Creator God, isolating them even from each other and from the natural world around them. They were in prison. They passed on this isolation and trouble to their offspring and we have all inherited it. Whether we admit it or not, we are all in prison.

THE CONSEQUENCES, THE RESULT: As a result, to this day, we all suffer in varying degrees of isolation from God, from others, from nature, and even from our own self. By ourselves the best we can do is try to imagine a better life and strive for it, and wonder whether there is a god and what this god may be like. That is why there are so many religions and sects. We can't get out of our cell because we can't see the open door or are afraid to walk through it.

    APPLICATION OF THE PARABLE: WHAT IF OUR CREATOR GOD IS ALREADY REACHING OUT TO US?

This is precisely what The Bible - the Jewish Scriptures (Old Testament) and the Christian Scriptures (New Testament) - says throughout its pages. God reached out to humanity in the person of Abraham and his descendants, making them a people willing to believe in God, to know and walk in his ways, and learn to make a return of love to the Lord in return for his love. God's Chosen People - Israel and Juda - remained a very small nation and they always had trouble remaining faithful to the relationship God was constantly offering them.

GOD'S OFFER VS OUR DECISION: In time, God came to Earth among us as a man in Jesus of Nazareth, and He revealed more completely who God is and what his intentions are towards us. Jesus while on Earth, and since his resurrection from the dead, now from Heaven, continues to offer us freedom from our prison of isolation, from fear of God, from our unwillingness to trust, and restore our incapacity to care for one another and for Creation. 

JESUS BRINGS GOOD NEWS, HE IS THE GOOD NEWS: Jesus' offer is summed up in his declaration: "The kingdom of God is near at hand. Believe the good news." The moment we decide to trust God in Jesus, He frees us to get up and walk out of our prison and break through our isolation. We open ourselves to all that Jesus has to teach us and do for us, and He gives to us a "new heart", enabling us to see everything in life from God's point of view. 

WALKING OUT OF JAIL: The obstacles we experience in life are not on God's part but on our part. Once we begin to trust in God, we are like the blind man whose sight Jesus restored. We can relate to God from within ourselves, through others, through nature, with the words of the Bible, by experiencing the Sacraments, and in many other ways. We no longer rely on our own little, narrow opinions, but open ourselves to infinite horizons in God's presence.... 

I'D LIKE TO REFLECT A LITTLE MORE 

OR

👇 I'M GOOD TO GO. WHAT'S NEXT? 👇

SOME WAYS WE CAN EXPLORE OPENING OURSELVES TO GOD

👇👇👇

1.  Contemplating nature can lift my spirit to enter gratefully into God's presence. I can prolong this "visit with God" by using a variety of prayer "techniques":

👉 Praying "Alone" 

👉 Praying "in silence" 

2.  Reading prayerfully the living Word of God in Sacred Scripture - the Bible - can bring me to realize that God is actually "speaking to me here and now in my life" and there are ways of prolonging such a "visit with God":

👉 Praying with Sacred Scripture - the "Living Word of God" 

3.  Looking at a "visual aid" such as a statue, icon, or other work of religious art, it can "open my imagination and memory" to "lift me up into God's presence" where I can prolong this "visitation with God" in a variety of ways: 

👉 Praying "in the company of the saints" - with ICONS & STATUES 

👉 Praying "in the company of the saints" - with STATUES & IMAGES 

4.  Using something in my life as a point of departure, I can ponder this experience or event or state of being or emotion and navigate it "towards God's presence and loving disposition" like an athlete engaging in "white water rafting" in the midst of which I can find myself relating to God in a more personal way, expressing myself and also listening to God: 

👉 Emotions connect us but at times they are troubling 

👉 Praying? What the heck is that anyway? 

👉 Like Indiana Jones in "The Last Crusade"? 

👉 Ending the Day Well & Starting the Day Well 

👉 Doubts, troubles, & struggles 

5.  There are as many ways of relating to God as there are unique human individuals and as there are different conditions, circumstances, and settings of time and place.... In all of these approaches to God, we learn to remember that God is always "going ahead of us" because God is always "there" and "here" at the same time. Every attempt to pray is an effort to "tune in" to God who is already relating to us with love and speaking to us tenderly at times and, at other times in accord with our need, more robustly or authoritatively.... One can develop a habit or skill for "lifting up one's spirit to God" at various times during the day in the normal course of life's every day activity.... Here are examples:

👉 Spirituality "Moments" in the busy lives of couples & parents 

👉 Spirituality "Ideas" for daily Catholic Christian devotions 

MORE IDEAS... CATHOLIC CHRISTIAN TOOLS.... 

FR. GILLES' HOME PAGE 

CONTACT FATHER GILLES 

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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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© 2006-2023 All rights reserved Fr. Gilles Surprenant, Associate Priest of Madonna House Apostolate & Poustinik, Montreal  QC
© 2006-2023 Tous droits réservés Abbé Gilles Surprenant, Prêtre Associé de Madonna House Apostolate & Poustinik, Montréal QC 

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Seminar / Workshop on God and Prayer - Marriage Prep Live Meeting at St. Thomas à Becket - March 18th, 2023 - Lent is an opportunity to slow down, let Jesus share with us his Passion, and lift us up with Him in his Resurrection throughout the Easter Season!!

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 2023

WORKSHOP 💘 GOD 💘 LIFE 💘 MARRIAGE 💘 
💘 FAMILY  💘 PRAYER 💘 TRINITY 💘 SEMINAR 

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

👉  Workshop / Seminar on Prayer - March 18th, 2023 👈

PDF Version of this Power Point Presentation 

2 Links for the middle of this Workshop Seminar.... 

LINK - How to Pray the Rosary 

LINK - Psalm 139 

INTRO of Father Gilles Surprenant 
by Bridget Bagshaw, Coordinator 

Father Gilles Surprenant in Capernaum, Galilee, Palestine

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 💘 WORKSHOP ON PRAYER 💘 

"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, & breaks...

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.

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”. 

GOD - REAL? or NOT REAL?

Despite mounds of evidence,

many people are indifferent …

Our choices are:

1. Ignore God

2. Hold God in contempt

3. 💘Respect God as real and cultivate the relationship.

We're off!

WORKSHOP 💘 GOD 💘 LIFE 💘 MARRIAGE 💘 

💘 FAMILY  💘 PRAYER 💘 TRINITY 💘 SEMINAR 

Please join me as we begin with a PRAYER  

OPENING PRAYER 

LED BY FR. GILLES

💘 GOD 💘 LIFE 💘 PRAYER 💘

“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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METHOD: LIKE WINE TASTING 

or LIKE BEER TASTING

OUR METHODOLOGY :

ADULT LEARNING MODEL

OUR OUTLINE - in 4 segments 

 (1) The human prayer impulse (2) Praying in common 
(3) Praying alone (4) Praying as a couple

WITH GOD... WE ARE ALL BEGINNERS...
WE LEARN BEST TOGETHER...

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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. 

PRAYER RESOURCES

👉 "Beginners' PAGE"

👉 Catholic Christian Tools page 

👉 👉 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: 👇

👉  Workshop / Seminar on Prayer - March 18th, 2023 👈

PDF Version of this Power Point Presentation 

2 Links for the middle of this Workshop Seminar.... 

LINK - How to Pray the Rosary 

LINK - Psalm 139 

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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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GO TO CATHOLIC CHRISTIAN TOOLS PAGE

Link to MORE INSPIRATIONAL TEXTS 

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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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© 2006-2023 All rights reserved Fr. Gilles Surprenant, Associate Priest of Madonna House Apostolate & Poustinik, Montreal  QC
© 2006-2023 Tous droits réservés Abbé Gilles Surprenant, Prêtre Associé de Madonna House Apostolate & Poustinik, Montréal QC 

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