Today's Fresh Blogs...

• Signs of a Call

  Published: July 23, 2007, 8:05 am

  Tags: Spiritual Formation, Quotes

  One sign that God may be calling is a certain restlessness, a certain dissatisfaction with things as they are. Other signs of God's call may be a sense of longing, yearning, or wondering; a feeling of being at a crossroads; a sense that something is happening in one's life, that one is wrestling with an issue or decision; a sense of being in a

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• Self-Love

  Published: July 20, 2007, 11:47 pm

  Tags: Theology, Spiritual Formation

  Miroslav Volf writes in Free of Charge that when the Spirit of Christ indwells us, God occupies the space, of "I," so that Christ lives in and through us; the cooperation and intimacy between our spirit and God's spirit becomes so intimate that there is in some ways no distinction.When we love, it is truly God loving through us. When we will God's

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• Eat Pray Love By Elizabeth Gilbert

  Published: July 14, 2007, 11:45 pm

  Tags: Spiritual Formation, Interfaith, International Experiences, Gender Issues, Book Discussions

  I'm excited for our discussion of Eat Pray Love, the story of Liz Gilbert's one year journey abroad in search of herself, God and balance. The following is taken from the Penquin discussion guide, accessible here. The website also contains a good introduction and an interview with author Liz Gilbert. My additions to the discussion guide are in

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• The Active and Contemplative Life versus Active-Contemplative Life

  Published: July 21, 2007, 9:50 pm

  Tags: Contemplative, Active, Martha, Contemplatives, Rector, Mary, Questioned, Church, Formation, People, Reflections

  For few days, I’ve been contemplating about my experiences that were affecting my present thinking. It’s like an experiences of crises, sorts of spiritual crisis and difficulty reconciling my feeling, thinking and perception of what’s happening with me. Totally I was tired. Last Tuesday during our Theology of the Church

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• Eucharistiana: Home for Exceptional Children

  Published: July 18, 2007, 8:53 am

  Tags: Institution, Aris, Exceptional, Eucharistiana, Theories, Sped, Expect, Children, Formation, People, Reflections

  This is not my first time to be with children but not with the exceptional ones. I was already assigned to our own House for street kids and with other children in places like Payatas and Balubad Settlement Area. Nevertheless, I lack experiences how to be present with them. Aris is one of the children of Asilo de San Vicente de Paul in Paco,

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• Interview with Brother Canisio and the Marist Ad Gentes Program

  Published: July 11, 2007, 8:09 am

  Tags: Gentes, Gentes , Proclaim, Canisio, Orientation, Hopes, News, Marist, Formation, Religious, Life

  time being involved with formation of children and educators. From 1995 to 2003 and from 2004 to 2006 I was also involved in Marist formation as a formator, accompanitor and a superior for six years. What is your purpose of coming here in the Philippines? Ad Gentes. We don’t have frontiers anymore. I want to help to make the project

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• Marvelous Companion, the Beauty of Living in a Community

  Published: July 2, 2007, 5:21 am

  Tags: Sean, States, Marvelous, Community, Communities, Book, Belong, Concerns, Formation, Religious

  Based from the Book, “Marvelous Companion” by Br. Sean Sammon, FMS, Superior General of the Marist Brothers. Brother Sean wrote the book in response to the demands of the present time that concerns community living. He says that community is always an affair of heart. Yet there are concerns about quality of community living, that there

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• Knocking from the Inside: A Theology of Redemption in light of God's Omnipresence

  Published: August 2, 2007, 10:10 pm

  Tags: Theology, Spiritual Formation

  If God is everywhere, then s/he must be Everywhere, including within the vibrating cells unbelievers, nonbelievers, partial believers and even gay haters, gluttons and grass. Even me. Even before I was becoming a Christian, opening to an increasing awareness of God's truth, grace -- really just God's love in all its many faces, like justice and

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• Finding Peace and Joy

  Published: August 17, 2007, 11:35 pm

  Tags: Spiritual Formation

  I just got accepted into grad school and am so excited, but there is so much termoil going on in my heart and in my life that it is hard not to be angry with God. I know he can handle my anger, my fears and my worries, but somehow I just want him to tell me why things have to be so hard. So hard for my family, so hard for our finances, so hard

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• Are You Getting Married? Know Your Partner First!

  Published: August 20, 2007, 9:11 am

  Tags: Marriage, Husband, Comparison, Couples, Counselor, Wife, Interpersonal, Conjoint, Formation, Thinking Aloud

  The week of vacation is ended and here, going back to the normal student life, our Pastoral counseling class has just started; no holiday for us. If we enjoyed the outing in Subic last weekend, I can say that our first class today was also exciting. We were discussing last meeting about “Am I in Love,” Increasing Intimacy, Love,

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• Defending the Faith

  Published: August 24, 2007, 10:27 pm

  Tags: Spiritual Formation, Culture, Church

  The recent discussion (here and elsewhere) on the whole Mother Teresa and doubt topic got me thinking about how we handle faith under attack. Many people are attacking Mother Teresa and Christians in general right now. But as seen even here, this issue is one that has caused pain and questioning for many Christians. They are confused by such a

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• Religion and college students

  Published: August 26, 2007, 7:00 am

  Tags: Christian Formation

  The Social Science Research Council has a new website that offers a series of essays about the religious engagement of college students. Here is the SSRC explanation for the website: Recent studies of college students' attitudes toward religion suggest that the academy is no longer the bastion of secularism it was once assumed to be. And these

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• Prayer synchroblog posts

  Published: August 27, 2007, 12:21 pm

  Tags: Spiritual Formation

  We are really amazed by how many people have taken part in the synchroblog today. As promised here are the links for those of you who want to read some of what has been written. I'll update the list if and when more entries are posted. There are some really excellent posts out there. Thank you to everyone here who has taken part. One thing

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• Healing the Eight Stages of Life Workshop Today

  Published: August 30, 2007, 9:49 pm

  Tags: Workshop, Stages, Healing, Woundedness, Wholeness, Fullness, Participants, Growth, Formation, Work, People, Life

  Every individual has experienced hurts in the past, traumatic for some, forgotten by many. The woundedness being experienced were being neglected, never recalled and definitely being buried in the memory and never healed. These become obstacles to our growth into wholeness and fullness of life. These unknowingly become part of our everyday life,

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• Come In to Learn, Go Out to Behave

  Published: September 9, 2007, 12:42 am

  Tags: Formation, Thinking Aloud, People

  I was saddened with the periodical examination test results of my student at Asilo. Three of them expressed their sadness on getting low scores after their teachers gave their test papers. What we did today was to discuss and check what we missed during our study period. While reading their test papers, I remembered Likto’s complain to me

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