[ANANDASHRAM] THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

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Adherence to the external forms of worship ceases when your mind is drawn
inward. The object of all such worship is to achieve this aim. In
meditation, your mind should think only of God who resides within you, and
not wander about in the midst of passing scenes of the objective life. When
you realize union with the Divine within you, you will have attained the
fruit of all your Sadhana. The mind going inward through the practice of
prayer and meditation finds the presence of the Divine first within, and
then without, everywhere. You realize that you are the Spirit, not of local
individual value, but of a universal nature and significance. You rise
above all forms, thoughts and movements in which you had been involved when
the mind was externalized. The inner perception and realization of God is
the culmination of all spiritual effort. Now you know who you are in
reality. You are verily He!

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Rathayatra and Indian Festivals

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- RathaJatra and India-Festival ~ July 9, 2016 ~ 9am to 3pm ~
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Hindu Temple and Cultural Center of WisconsinAmerican Hindu
Association (AHA)2138 South Fish Hatchery Rd, Fitchburg , WI 53575

AHA Cordially invites all for RathaJatra and India-Festival ~ July 9,
2016 ~ 9am to 3pm  ~Venue: 2138 S Fish Hatchery Rd, Fitchburg, WI
53575 (map)


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Rathayatra & India Festival 2016: Volunteer Sign-UP
Fri Jul 1, 2016 - Sat Jul 9, 2016

We are looking for community volunteers to help us organize the HTCC
Rathayatra & India Festival 2016. Volunteers are needed on the day of
the event to run stalls and other assigned tasks as well as for set up
in the days leading up to the event.
Please sign up below to volunteer and help us organize this community event:

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When a man walks in the fear of God

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"When a man walks in the fear of God he knows no fear, even if he were to
be surrounded by wicked men. He has the fear of God within him and wears
the invincible armor of faith. This makes him strong and able to take on
anything, even things which seem difficult or impossible to most people.
Such a man is like a giant surrounded by monkeys, or a roaring lion among
dogs and foxes. He goes forward trusting in the Lord and the constancy of
his will to strike and paralyze his foes. He wields the blazing club of the
Word in wisdom."

St. Symeon the New Theologian, The Practical and Theological Chapters.

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"For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a
building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." 2
Corinthians 5:1

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The Bible reading for the 28th of Baunah, July 5, is:
1 Most assuredly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the
door, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. 2 But
he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. 3 To him the
doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice; and he calls his own sheep
by name and leads them out. 4 And when he brings out his own sheep, he goes
before them; and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. 5 Yet they
will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him, for they do not
know the voice of strangers. 6 Jesus used this illustration, but they did
not understand the things which He spoke to them. 7 Then Jesus said to them
again, Most assuredly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. 8 All who
ever came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear
them. 9 I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will
go in and out and find pasture. 10 The thief does not come except to steal,
and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that
they may have it more abundantly. 11 I am the good shepherd. The good
shepherd gives His life for the sheep. 12 But a hireling, he who is not the
shepherd, one who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves
the sheep and flees; and the wolf catches the sheep and scatters them. 13
The hireling flees because he is a hireling and does not care about the
sheep. 14 I am the good shepherd; and I know My sheep, and am known by My
own. 15 As the Father knows Me, even so I know the Father; and I lay down
My life for the sheep. 16 And other sheep I have which are not of this
fold; them also I must bring, and they will hear My voice; and there will
be one flock and one shepherd. (John 10:1-16)
Departure of St. Theodosius, 33rd Pope of Alexandria.
Commemoration of the Consecration of the Church of Anba Sarabamoun, Bishop
of Nikios.

The Bible reading for the 29th of Baunah, July 6, is: Luke 16:1-12
Martyrdom of the Seven Ascetic Saints in Tounar Mount.
Martyrdom of Sts. Abba Hour and his Mother Theodora.

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Prayer Requests:
If you have an update on a prayer request, please let me know.

Please remember the following in your prayers:

The families of the recently Crowned, Coptic and Ethiopian Martyrs. May God
grant them strength and peace.
The Helmi family.
Czarina V. - Ovarian and Uterine cancer.
Yaga - Cancer.
Robert - 8-month-old infant with a rare kidney disease.
Faith and family - Healing and guidance
Ricardo F. - Serious Health issues
Edmund B. - Eye medical condition.
Thomas, Matthew, Irene and Ayman M.
Hanna - Heart surgery
Ursula - Another surgery
Evelyn - Cancer
5 years old Luke - Health issues
Daoud - Peace.
Edith D.
AA and her kids
MB
Emad
Brienne B. - Dealing with a serious illness
John B. - Peace
M & M - Strong faith
Mina, I.
Mary - Illness
Slava - Recovery from a motorcycle crash
The Orthodox community in Olympia, WA
The unity of the Churches and all Christians.

Egypt and the Christians in Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Pakistan. "Blessed is
Egypt My people." Isaiah 19:25

Please pray for the peace of the world.

Please remember me in your prayers.

"casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you." 1 Peter 5:7






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Fwd: How Present Are YOU?

On Sunday, June 26, 2016 at 7:46:59 PM UTC+5:30, Angel Of Peace wrote:
> You're sitting in the meeting, someone calls your name and you suddenly notice you haven't heard what's been said for some minutes.  In a split second your attention is back in the room and you realise you had drifted off.  Not into sleep but into 'absence'.  You're not exactly sure how long you were away!  You were lost in a story that you were running on the screen of your mind.  You remember now.  One part was a memory of an unhappy encounter with a member of your family the night before, which then dissolved into some worries about possibly having to sell your house in the next six months. 
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> During the course of your absence you went through a series of judgments, regrets, assessments, worries, hopes, evaluations and criticisms.  You were busy in your absence!  In just a few minutes you not only made your self unhappy but you missed some vital information that was shared in the meeting at which you were assumed by others to be present.  Your body was in the room but you were not!
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> This is something that happens to us all at some time or other.  And for some it happens all too frequently.  Many of us are often absent from our life but we don't notice our lack of presence.  We are not aware of making our many escapes from being fully 'here' and completely in the 'now', until we realise we've been away!
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> You could argue that 'being absent' is not a new phenomenon in human consciousness, and it's definitely not a new and exclusive habit to this generation or this era. But like stress, abuse, interpersonal conflict and levels of anger, it seems it may be on the rise. 
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> Deepest Addiction!
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> One of the obvious reasons is we all now live in the 'age of distraction'.  Every day our attention is up for auction.  We are surrounded and hounded by a media driven world with vast industries spending huge amounts of time and energy trying to hook our attention in order to get into our pockets.  That, combined with a sophisticated array of technological windows on to the world and the result is an 'addiction to distraction' unknown to previous generations.  So it's easy to understand why we have a tendency to create the habit of escaping into a multitude of events, messages and other people's lives.  We have become superconscious of 'what's happening now' both near and far.  But this kind of 'now' is not an indication of real presence simply a habitual desire to know more about what's going on somewhere else or to someone else. 
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> And then, when we do attend the meeting, or sit quietly somewhere with our coffee, or take a stroll through the forest, the 'habit of absence' kicks in and we start to run a variety of stories in our heads.  Absence is when we lose our self in a mental story entirely created by our self on the screen of our own mind.  The stories are filled with those judgments, hopes, guilts, evaluations, regrets and many other thinking habits and emotional patterns.  We are not aware that they are just stories, that we are the creators of the stories and that we are losing our self, our awareness, in the stories. 
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> Resisting Reality
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> Even if someone were to point out that we are attempting to escape from the reality of our self, or from the reality of what's in front of us now, we would probably reply with something like, "But it's natural ...or... I'm being creative...or...But we need to think about these things ...or... I am anticipating and preparing for what might happen in  reality".  When, in fact, we are more likely to be resisting the reality of the present moment, fighting the reality of what's happing in front of us now or just succumbing to the habit of avoidance.
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> We sometimes notice however, that our feelings of sorrow, irritation, frustration and all our fears are arising from all those moments when we lose our self in our mental compendiums of fictional tales. We sometimes notice that they disturb our peace and drain our energy. It's not easy to see, but in truth we lose our self in our own 'interpretations' of previous experiences or in constructions of future speculations.  Even in the cinema we will lose our self not in the movie but in our 'interpretations' of the movie.  That's why no story that we ever run on the screen of our minds is ever 'true'!  There is always some distortion or deviation in our interpretations and re-interpretations.  Which is one of the reaons why 'truth' can never be captured by the mind.
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> Living fully in the present is quite a different 'insperience'.  The inner signs of being fully present include a quiet mind which is no longer busy running stories of our past or future, or of other people's lives.  All forms of resistance to the world, or projections onto the world, have ceased, and there is a serene acceptance of what is happening in the world 'out there' around us.  There is an easiness that feels like an ability to flow with the ever changing currents of events and circumstances alongside an inner wisdom that supplies the clarity not to just go with any old flow!  There is an inner calm that seems to give us the power to remain internally stable no matter what happens in our life or in others lives.

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06 July 2016
Wednesday, 14th Week in Ordinary Time
St. Maria Goretti, Virgin and Martyr
Green.

Hos 10:1– 3, 7 – 8, 12 / Mt 10:1 – 7

St. Maria Goretti (1890 – 1902), a 12-year old Italian maiden, was stabbed
to death by one who wished to seduce her.

Gospel Reading: Mt 10:1 - 7
Then he called his twelve disciples to him and gave them authority over the
unclean spirits to drive them out and to heal every disease and sickness.

These are the names of the twelve apostles: first Simon, called Peter, and
his brother Andrew; James, the son of Zebedee, and his brother John;
Philip and Bartholomew, Thomas and Matthew, the tax collector; James, the
son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus; Simon, the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot,
the man who would betray him.

Jesus sent these twelve on mission with the instruction: "Do not visit
pagan territory and do not enter a Samaritan town. Go instead to the lost
sheep of the people of Israel. Go and proclaim this message: The kingdom of
heaven is near."

Reflection
"The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!" This is the message of Jesus; this is
the message the Twelve and his disciples were commissioned to preach.

We, like the apostles, are tasked to speak God's words and to bring healing
to those who need it. But then you may ask, "Why would God choose me?" You
may think yourself unworthy of such an 'honor' and feel you have nothing to
offer. But are you really that different from any of the Twelve? Think
about it: His twelve apostles consisted of fishermen, tax collectors and
even one who ultimately betrayed the Lord Himself. How "worthy" were they?

Jesus chose them not because they seemed qualified or extraordinary: there
is a mystery in God's choices. He chooses based on what he knows. He knows
what we are capable of doing under his guidance.
We just have to take that leap and let him. We can, like the
disciples/apostles, perhaps very unlikely, cast out demons, cleanse lepers,
or cure diseases. However, the work of "healing" does not only come in the
form of medical miracles; it assumes many forms – like effecting a change
of heart, counseling, spreading God's word and love to others by the way we
live, in whatever station in life we may be – a teacher, a doctor, a
carpenter, a caregiver, a friend. Serving is not a grand gesture; it is
doing little things every day for the greater glory of God.


WE PRAY FOR MTQ DAILY PRAYER DIARY INTENTIONS:

BIRTHDAY
George Christian Young III

THANKSGIVING
Lucia and Rolan Ong and Family

WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
Susana Lim Lorenzo & Jose Lorenzo

Finally, we pray for one another, for those who have asked our prayers and
for those who need our prayers the most.

Have a good day!

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