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The SAN Script – The week of January 4 – 8

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Love: Week 1 – Richard Rohr

Loving the Presence in the Present
Tuesday, December 29, 2015
Love people even in their sin, for that is the semblance of Divine Love and is the highest love on earth. Love all of God’s creation, the whole and every grain of sand of it. Love every leaf, every ray of God’s light. Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.
—Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

We cannot attain the presence of God because we’re already in the presence of God. What’s absent is awareness. Little do we realize that God’s love is maintaining us in existence with every breath we take. As we take another, it means that God is choosing us now and now and now. We have nothing to attain or even learn. We do, however, need to unlearn some things.

To become aware of God’s loving presence in our lives, we have to accept that human culture is in a mass hypnotic trance. We’re sleep-walkers. All great religious teachers have recognized that we human beings do not naturally see; we have to be taught how to see. Jesus says further, “If your eye is healthy, your whole body is full of light” (Luke 11:34). Religion is meant to teach us how to see and be present to reality. That’s why the Buddha and Jesus say with one voice, “Be awake.” Jesus talks about “staying watchful” (Matthew 25:13, Luke 12:37, Mark 13:33-37), and “Buddha” means “I am awake” in Sanskrit.

Prayer is not primarily saying words or thinking thoughts. It is, rather, a stance. It’s a way of living in the Presence, living in awareness of the Presence, and even of enjoying the Presence. The contemplative is not just aware of God’s Loving Presence, but trusts, allows, and delights in it.

All spiritual disciplines have one purpose: to get rid of illusions so we can be present. These disciplines exist so that we can see what is, see who we are, and see what is happening. What is is love. It is God, who is love, giving away God every moment as the reality of our life. Who we are is love, because we are created in God’s image. What is happening is God living in us, with us, and through us as love.

Gateway to Silence
God’s life is living itself in me.

Reference:
Adapted from Richard Rohr, Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer (The Crossroad Publishing Company: 2003), 28-31.

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Albert Camus, Nobel prize winner, half-length portrait, seated at desk, facing left, smoking cigarette (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

Albert Camus in Lyrical and Critical Essays

 

St Anthony this week – the week of January 4 – 8

Monday, January 4

Welcome back everyone!!

Badminton in the gym all this week

Tuesday, January 5

Orkidstra in the Learning Commons

Table tennis after school

(staff meeting next Tuesday after school – I will put up a Google Doc this week)

Wednesday, January 6

waste-free Wednesday

10:50 songs for Epiphany (rehearsal) in gym. Grade 1-6

Rosary visit
St.Anthony Catholic School
Every 1st Wednesday of the month

Rosary schedule
10:30 to 11:15 JK & FDK Natalie Schlesak
12:15 to 12:40 Grades 2 Shannon Draper

12:45 to 1:05 Grade 1 Meg Myers
12:15-1:30 Grade 4/5 French: Sylvain Girard
1:45-2:15 Grade 3/4: Maria Manzoli
2:20 -3:00 Grade 5/6: Nora Colaiacovo /Denis Chartrand

Thursday, January 7

9:20 songs for Épiphanie (pratique) in gym. Gr. 1-6

Recycle Day at St. Anthony Catholic School- PLEASE recycle today!

Friday, January 8

Popcorn fundraiser sale – grade 6

A great course to consider! – by Richard Byrne Free Technology for Teachers

Reboot Your Classroom Blog in 2016

This is the time of year in which we start to look at what we want to do differently in the new calendar year. For some of us that might mean getting back to the gym or committing to another new habit like updating a blog on a regular schedule. If you want to get your classroom blog going again or you want to start an entirely new classroom blog in 2016, myClassroom Blog Jumpstart course is for you.

Besides the nuts and bolts of how blogs work,this class will teach ways to use your classroom blog that many people overlook. You’ll also learn my tricks for keeping a consistent blogging schedule.

In this three part event you will learn:

*How to use Blogger and WordPress. Dive into features many people overlook.
*Determine which blogging platform is best for you and your students.
*Learn valuable strategies for engaging students and parents through blogs and social media.

When?

This three week event is happening on January 11th, 18th, and 25th at 7pm Eastern Time.

***********All sessions are recorded.************
Cost:

I usually charge $97 for a course like this one. As a New Year’s promotion it costs only $75 if you register before January 6th. Use the discount code “NewYear” to receive the discount.

FAQs
1. Do I have to be there for the live webinar? 
While you’ll get more out of attending the live sessions, you don’t have to attend the live session. The live sessions are recorded for you to watch as many times as you like.
2. Can I get a certificate for PD hours/ license renewal hours?
Yes, but it is up to you to determine if your school/state/province will accept the hours for license renewal.
3. What do I need to participate?
A laptop/ desktop with an updated browser. Or you can use the GoToTraining mobile apps. 
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