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Greater Community Spirituality (Chapter Eighteen) What Is Human Destiny? Part Three – Video

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Religion, spirituality influence health

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Religion and spirituality have distinct but complementary influences on health, new research from Oregon State University indicates.

Religion helps regulate behavior and health habits, while spirituality regulates your emotions, how you feel, said Carolyn Aldwin, a gerontology professor in the College of Public Health and Human Sciences at OSU.

Aldwin and colleagues have been working to understand and distinguish the beneficial connections between health, religion and spirituality. The result is a new theoretical model that defines two distinct pathways.

Religiousness, including formal religious affiliation and service attendance, is associated with better health habits, such as lower smoking rates and reduced alcohol consumption. Spirituality, including meditation and private prayer, helps regulate emotions, which aids physiological effects such as blood pressure.

The findings were published recently in the journal Psychology of Religion and Spirituality. Co-authors were Crystal L. Park of the University of Connecticut, and Yu-Jin Jeong and Ritwik Nath of OSU. The research was supported by a grant from the John Templeton Foundation.

No one has ever reviewed all of the different models of how religion affects health, said Aldwin, the Jo Anne Leonard endowed director of OSUs Center for Healthy Aging Research. Were trying to impose a structure on a very messy field.

There can be some overlap of the influences of religion and spirituality on health, Aldwin said. More research is needed to test the theory and examine contrasts between the two pathways. The goal is to help researchers develop better measures for analyzing the connections between religion, spirituality and health and then explore possible clinical interventions, she said.

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Editorial: Grow in spirituality and grace

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Good Friday is the pinnacle of Holy Week, the most solemn part of the Triduum that leads to Easter Sunday. Catholics all over the world, including in the Philippines, observe it with reverence and devotion. It was on Good Friday that Jesus Christ give up His life to save humanity. The holy day is spent by meditation on the Passion of Christ, Stations of the Cross, the Santo Entierro procession, senakulo or passion play, Visita Iglesia, Seven Last Words, fasting and abstinence, Holy Hour, and church services.

In predominantly Catholic Philippines, flagellants roam the streets and the reenactment of Jesus life in some provinces, drawing both local and foreign tourists. Government offices, schools and establishments such as shopping malls are closed on Good Friday.

Good Friday rites in many parts of the country are a Mammoth procession in San Pablo, Laguna; Moriones Festival in Marinduque; Bala-an Bukid in Iloilo City; Huge 14th station in Iguig, Cagayan; Stations of the Cross at Lourdes Grotto in Novaliches, Quezon City; amulet hunting in Sipalay, Negros; 45 Five Statues in Paete, Laguna; Capilya in Zamboanga; Cenaculos in Taguig City; and Pagtaltal sa Jordan, Guimaras.

No masses are celebrated on Good Friday; statues, crosses, and paintings are covered in dark cloth. The only service is the somber ceremony of the cross, with liturgy consisting of three parts: Liturgy of the Word, Veneration of the Cross, and Holy Communion. After the ceremony, priest and people leave in silence, the altar bare except for the cross and two or four candlesticks.

In the 4th Century, the Church began observing the Friday before Easter as the day associated with Christs sacrifice.

In the 6th Century, the word Good Friday was adopted by the Roman Church. Two possible origins for Good Friday the first Gute Freitag (German for good or holy Friday) may have come from the Gallican Church in Gaul (modern-day France and Germany). The second may be a variation on Gods Friday, where good was used to replace God, a word viewed as too holy to be spoken aloud. A historical event occurred on Good Friday in 1998 when the Irish and British governments signed a peace treaty in Belfast ending the differences between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Since the peace treaty was signed on Good Friday on April 10, 1998, it was called the Good Friday Agreement.

On this observance of Good Friday, we pray for Gods mercy and blessings for the Filipino people and our Republic of the Philippines. May each one of us grow in spirituality and grace. MAY GOD BLESS US ALL!

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Menno Haven's Spirituality and Aging Conference is May 6

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CHAMBERSBURG >> Featured speakers at the 2014 Spirituality and Aging Conference on May 6 will be Gerald and Marlene Kaufman, authors of "Necessary Conversations," who will discuss those important talks that families should begin as parents age such as finances, medical care, end of life wishes, living arrangements and when to stop driving.

The Kaufmans believe that having direct conversations prevent the necessity of forced conversations in emergency situations and avoids decision making under pressure.

The seminar will take place at Northgate at Menno Haven, 1500 Northfield Drive.

It will begin at 9 a.m. with the talk "Changing Roles"; at 10:30 the topic will be "Parent's Finances"; at 1:15 p.m., "Medical Needs and Safety"; and at 2:15, "Age Diversity as Strength."

Lunch will be served at noon.

Cost is $13 for those registered by April 25, and includes lunch. Cost is $15 for those who register after April 25.

To make reservations, call 1-800-222-6695.

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5 online sites to help rekindle your spirituality this Holy Week

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By Melissa G. Bagamasbad | Lifestyle Section, InterAksyon.coma Tuesday, April 15, 2014 10:13 am

In this age of digital communication, websites like the CBCPs Visit Iglesia site are accessible. Image from visitaiglesia.net.

Reviving your spirituality on the last days of the Lenten season can be a virtual, tech-savvy experience, notes Fr. Javy Alpasa, SJ. We need to be where the people are, he explained.

In the age of digital communication, spiritual education has become even more accessible with various social media sites engaged on the topic. Facebook fan pages, blogs on spirituality by Christians and religious groups, for instance, have been gaining following for their interactive discussions, including offering contact numbers for spiritual counseling. There are also mobile apps such as the Meditation Timer that helps schedule its users meditation cycles, complete with Tibetan singing bowls.

Fr. Javy recommends prayers, fasting and abstinence, and making sacrifices, he also shares other activities one can do during Holy Week.

1. Visit a prayer site.. sacredspace.ie, an Irish-based prayer site, for instance, has ready-made prayers for your needs and intentions. You can choose a date, then print the prayer. Together with the prayer is a passage from the Bible, or scripture. There are also reflection points afterward, which allow the user to look at his feelings, personal life and actions, to name a few. An audio version is also available.

2. Watch spiritual programs on television or online. Masses and spiritual talks can also be viewed through live streaming. On Good Friday, Fr. Javy recommends viewing the Seven Last Words on IBC 13, from 12 noon to 3 p.m. Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle will be one of the homilists.

3. Go on a recollection. There will be one at the Ateneo de Manila University on Katipunan Avenue in Quezon City starting Maundy Thursday until Black Saturday; sessions will be held from morning till noon at Escaler Hall (Call +632 426-6001 for details.) There will be points for reflection to be given, with a liturgy to follow in the afternoon.

4. Do the Visita Iglesia. It doesnt even have to be far. Go to any church near your place, he said. If one cannot accomplish one station per church for the Stations of the Cross, it can also be two stations per church, according to him. [It is for] family bonding and fellowship, he said, adding the old adage, the family that prays together, stays together. The CBCP has an online Visita Iglesia, visit http://visitaiglesia.net/2014/.

On Good Friday, Fr. Javy also recommends doing thepasyon, together with the liturgical services at church. The Veneration of the Cross can also be done at any church. On Black Saturday, all churches have a vigil as well.

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Religion, Spirituality, Nature Of Reality & Quantum Physics On The Freedomlink – Video

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Psalms, Tweets and spirituality in the digital age

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FROM THE PSALMS TO THE CLOUD: CONNECTING TO THE DIGITAL AGE By Maria Mankin and Maren C. Tirabassi Published by Pilgrim Press, $18

You dont have to be an environmentalist to wonder about technology. Will it be our great savior or will it be another thorn in the flesh, another opportunity to hear Henry David Thoreaus lament?

"But lo! Men have become the tools of their tools," he wrote in 1854's Walden.

Inside From the Psalms to the Cloud: Connecting to the Digital Age lies an excellent collection of prayers and worship materials that finds a way to help us understand the tool of technology. It is a useful green book, on that gives us a way out of the totalitarian world of the market and into a world that we make with words.

It seems just about everybody is on the other side of the time famine -- that pervasive sense that there is not enough time to do what we want to do -- and the trust famine -- that is, with so little time and so much information probing, whos exactly in charge? It seems many are deep into digital and connectivity overload.

As Thoreau observed, are we in charge of our tools and our time, or are our tools and time famine in charge of us?

In this optimistic book, the prophets arrive. Authors Maria Mankin and Maren Tirabassi ask the right question: Can a technology devoted to advertising be useful to spirituality?

They answer with a careful yes, taking us on the long road from the psalms to Twitter, by way of vintage wine in vintage wineskins, uncorked.

Mankin and Tirabassi gather the wisdom from dozens of writers of prayers and liturgies to show us a way to go deep digitally. Whether they are praying for energy that will deeply change all of our clocks, or for the return of the time when sanctuary for immigrants will become again dusty places with pews, or in any of John Dannons exquisite doxologies for the natural and ecclesiastical seasons, or beginning a prayer with the language of To Whom It may Concern, or encourage us to spend a day saying nothing that doesnt need saying.

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