Tag. You're It!
I was tagged by Fr. Gregory Jensen while in Houston.
Here are the rules:
Pick up the nearest book of 123 pages or more. (No cheating!)
Find Page 123.
Find the first 5 sentences.
Post the next 3 sentences.
Tag 5 people.
The nearest book was sitting on my deck next to my computer: The Fulfillment of All Desire by Ralph Martin. Honest.
p. 123:
that you may stand before God with as much zest as reverence, not sluggish, not drowsy, not yawning, not sparing
your voices, not leaving words half-said or skipping them, not wheezing through the nose with an effeminate stammering, in a weak and broken tone, but pronouncing the words of the Holy Spirit with becoming manliness and resonance and affection,
and corrently; that while you chant you ponder on nothing but what you chant.
Many spiritual directors, including some of the saints, offer suggestions concerning methods in prayer. Francis de Sales, very
much influenced by his own experience of St. Ignatius' Spiritual Exercises, offers some suggested structures and formats for the practice of meditation and prayer. He suggests six steps as a guide to moving through a time of prayer.
1. Play yourself in the presence of God. Remember that God is near, not far away. He is in the very depth of your heart, your spirit. Being all your prayers, whether mental or vocal, in the presence of God.
Now I'm supposed to tag 5 people:
I tag Mark Shea, Fr. Mike, Gashwin Gomes, Aimee Milburn, and Tom Kreitzberg.
Done.
posted by Sherry W @ 9:44 PM
6 Comments
6 Comments:
I had received a couple of e-mails to this thing. I am still mystified as to its purpose (so did not attempt to do anything about it).
Can anyone explain to me what it is supposed to be about? Is it supposed to be a spiritual book? But it doesn't say so. The nearest book to me isn't even in English. The next nearest is entitled "Fundamentals of Computer Algorithms" by Horowitz and Sahni. Maybe this is going to help someone spiritually, but it seems a bit far-fetched!
jj
Well, I'll let myself be tagged, but won't tag others. The closest book to my computer is the Bible, since I'm working on homilies and missions these days. Page 123 of the NAB is in the middle of Leviticus, and the designated sentences are thus:
"I am the Lord who have consecrated them.
Neither a lay person nor a priest's tenant or hired servant may eat of any sacred offering.
But a slave whom a priest acquires by purchase or who is born in his house may eat of his food."
Leviticus 22: 10-11
John:
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I don't know. Hadn't encountered it before. I seldom pass on these kinds of things but since it was Fr. Gregory who tagged me, thought I would.
Reveals what we are reading, I suppose.
Figure 3.17, due to J. S. Shreve [14], compares the response of a nonrecursive and recursive filter. It is seen that the recursive filter provides a frequency response that better resembles the rectangular shape than the nonrecursive, and does so with only two delay lines rather than the four of the nonrecursive filter.
The recursive filter provides more flexibility in shaping the frequency response to produce better response than the nonrecursive filter, and it does so with fewer delay lines.
Thanks, Sherry! I think it's kind of fun. Not sure I'll do it on my blog, as lately I've received several tags/memes/awards (must mean I'm getting popular), and it gets time-consuming after awhile (grad school has pretty much overwhelmed my life - I am looking forward to getting done!).
Anyway, collecting dust next to my computer because I’m been too busy to even think to put it back on the shelf is Joseph Ratzinger's Introduction to Christianity. Here are the three sentences in question:
Further, attention must be directed to a third element, which likewise persists throughout biblical thinking: this God is the God of the promise. He is not a force of nature, in whose epiphany the eternal might of nature, the eternal "Stirb und Werde", is demonstrated; he is not a God who orients man to the recurring pattern of the cosmic cycle; rather, he directs man's attention to the coming events toward which his history marches, to a meaning and goal that have a final validity; he is regarded as the God of hope in the future, in a direction that is irreversible.
Finally, it must be pointed out that the El-faith was accepted in Israel chiefly in its extension to "Elohim", an extension that also hints at the process of transformation that even the El-figure needed.
Aren't we an erudite bunch! :D
Ah. So no one actually knows what the point is! :-)
jj
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