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"Though
what is "news" and what is "new" are
not always identical, they are not mutually exclusive either.
By simply following reports about the Dead Sea scrolls in
the popular media one can learn a great deal but still may
miss what is truly important about them. When we step back
from the events, personalities, conflicts, and scandals,
and try to discern what is genuinely significant about the
Dead Sea scrolls, what emerges are new ways of looking at
the Hebrew Bible, the Jewish world of Jesus (also called
Second Temple Judaism), and Jesus and Christian origins."
-- from "What's
New(s) About the Dead Sea Scrolls?" by Daniel
J. Harrington in Cross Currents,
Winter94/95, Vol. 44 Issue 4, p463, 13p.
"Whenever
we try to say who Jesus is for us, we engage in Christology.
Christology is the attempt to understand the identity of
Jesus as the Christ, as God's anointed one, as God's Son
and the Second Person of the Trinity. We do not take up
this question as spectators. Like Saint Peter or Martha
(John 11:27), we are already deeply involved with the Lord
Jesus. For us to reflect on Jesus' identity is simultaneously
to describe Christ's relationship with us, with his disciples,
and even with those who have never heard of him. What composes
our belief in Jesus Christ is crucial to our individual
lives and to the church's life. Therefore, the fuller our
answers to the question of Jesus' identity, the fuller our
lives as we face each day, care for one another, and participate
in the Mass." -- Excerpt from Who
Do You Say I Am : Christology: What it is & why it matters - by Robert A. Krieg, professor of theology at the University
of Notre Dame - Commonweal
Magazine - March 22, 2002
"...the fantasy that you need a doctorate in ethics
to determine right from wrong encourages nonexperts to believe
that ethics is an extremely complicated matter and so we
should take a wait-and-see attitude toward our moral intuitions."
-- Avoiding Moral Choices - Call in the ethics expert -
by Gordon Marino - in Commonweal
Magazine - March 23, 2001
No matter where you go, my dear,
Nor what you say or do,
You have a loving Saviour
Who is watching over you.
He knows each sorrow on the way,
He even understands
How rough may seem the path it takes
To follow His commands.
Excerpted from Thought for the Month - He Knows - by Vera Beall Parker Spirituality for Today March 2002
Slow me
down Lord.
Ease the pounding of my heart
by the quieting of my mind.
Steady my hurried pace with a vision
of the eternal reach of time.
Give me, amidst the confusion of the day,
the calmness of the everlasting hills.
Break the tensions of my nerves and muscles
with the soothing music of the singing streams
that live in my memory.
Help us to know the magical
and the restoring power of sleep.
Teach me the art of taking small vacations,
of slowing down to look at a flower,
to chat with a friend,
to pat a dog,
to read a few lines from a good book.
Slow me down Lord
and inspire me to send my roots
into the soil of life's enduring values
that I may grow toward the start of my greater destiny.
-- from Simplicity by Rev. Mark Connolly in Spirituality
for Today August 2002, Volume 8, Issue 1
De La Salle's Vision for the Teacher in the Lasallian School
"De La Salle named twelve qualities that every good teacher should possess:
| Dignity | Calmness | Humility | Prudence |
| Wisdom | Patience | Self-Control | Gentleness |
| Zeal | Vigilance | Prayerfulness | Generosity |
For De La Salle, education meant formation of the total
person. He believed that the essential attitudes
for becoming a good teacher were these:
- Knowing each student as an individual and being interested in their whole life.
- Trying to see in each student the image and likeness of God.
- Being willing to try to maintain an open and friendly relationship with each student.
- Being willing to teach by witnessing to the values taught.
- Being open to asking God's help to overcome difficulties,
misunderstandings, or lack of easy
contact with some students. - Being willing to recognize that close association with fellow teachers and sharing ideals with them is a way of being mutually supportive in the ministry of teaching."