St. Francis Church For The Recovering - Iglesia Para Enfermos(as)

Our New Address.

2009-04-11T11:08:00.000-07:00

St Francis Church has moved. We now may be found at:

http://stfrancisplace.blogspot.com

New material is being posted at the above site address.

God Bless,

Rev. Ralph

El evangelio segun san mateo cap. 1

2009-04-08T22:20:00.000-07:00

Jesus de Nazareth.pelicula

2009-04-08T22:10:00.001-07:00

St. Francis Place: Spiritual Outreach.

2009-03-20T09:40:00.000-07:00

Thomas Keating Centering Prayer Guidelines Intro

2009-03-12T09:39:00.000-07:00

Moving Beyond The Ego Driven Church

2009-02-14T16:19:00.001-08:00

Ajahn Brahm On Spirituality And Forgiveness.

2009-01-30T11:09:00.000-08:00

Reincarnation: Here We Go Again!

2009-01-30T06:20:00.000-08:00

Christian Meditation #2

2009-01-28T14:45:00.000-08:00

A Discourse by Father Bede.

Christian Meditation #3

2009-01-28T14:44:00.000-08:00

Christian Meditation #4

2009-01-28T14:43:00.000-08:00

Christian Meditation #5

2009-01-28T14:42:00.001-08:00

Getting Started in Meditation Part 1

2009-01-28T12:24:00.001-08:00

Getting Started in Meditation Part 2.

2009-01-28T12:22:00.000-08:00

Wayne Dyer - The Power Of Intention. Part 1

2009-01-24T08:00:00.000-08:00

Wayne Dyer - The Power Of Intention. Part 2

2009-01-24T07:00:00.000-08:00

Wayne Dyer/How God Tells You It's Time For a Change

2009-01-23T07:50:00.001-08:00

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer on Ellen

2009-01-23T07:42:00.001-08:00

Let Go Of My Ego!

Wayne Dyer/The Awakened Life -- Part 1

2009-01-23T07:28:00.001-08:00

Wayne Dyer/The Awakened Life -- Part 2

2009-01-23T07:26:00.000-08:00

Wayne Dyer/The Awakened Life -- Part 3

2009-01-23T07:25:00.000-08:00

The Gift of Inner Peace - Learn to Meditate

2009-01-23T06:52:00.000-08:00

Silver And Gold I Have None...

2009-01-19T16:17:00.000-08:00

Ajahn Brahm MN 58 Clip

2009-01-17T08:50:00.001-08:00

Dr. Wayne Dyer

2009-01-15T19:52:00.001-08:00

2009-01-13T09:57:00.000-08:00

"Love one another unconditionally, and you will be Enlightened."

-Dattatreya Siva Baba

Why Meditate?

2009-01-12T10:12:00.000-08:00

How Meditation Works To Aid Mind, Body, and Spirit.

2009-01-12T08:37:00.000-08:00

Spiritual Insights From Practice Of Meditation.

2009-01-12T07:08:00.000-08:00

Be Here Now

2009-01-09T05:59:00.000-08:00

Vipassana Meditation - by Ram Dass

2009-01-04T19:27:00.001-08:00

The Metta Sutta In English (Chant)

2009-01-04T18:29:00.000-08:00

Metta Sutta, translated by Amaravati Sangha

This is what should be done
By one who is skilled in goodness,
And who knows the path of peace:
Let them be able and upright,
Straightforward and gentle in speech,
Humble and not conceited,
Contented and easily satisfied,
Unburdened with duties and frugal in their ways.
Peaceful and calm and wise and skillful,
Not proud or demanding in nature.
Let them not do the slightest thing
That the wise would later reprove.
Wishing: In gladness and in safety,
May all beings be at ease.
Whatever living beings there may be;
Whether they are weak or strong, omitting none,
The great or the mighty, medium, short or small,
The seen and the unseen,
Those living near and far away,
Those born and to-be-born —
May all beings be at ease!

Let none deceive another,
Or despise any being in any state.
Let none through anger or ill-will
Wish harm upon another.
Even as a mother protects with her life
Her child, her only child,
So with a boundless heart
Should one cherish all living beings;
Radiating kindness over the entire world:
Spreading upwards to the skies,
And downwards to the depths;
Outwards and unbounded,
Freed from hatred and ill-will.
Whether standing or walking, seated or lying down
Free from drowsiness,
One should sustain this recollection.
This is said to be the sublime abiding.
By not holding to fixed views,
The pure-hearted one, having clarity of vision,
Being freed from all sense desires,
Is not born again into this world

Be Still And Know

2009-01-04T16:47:00.000-08:00

Feed My Sheep. Christ and Enlightenment.

2009-01-04T05:53:00.000-08:00

Grace and Finding the Space Between Thoughts

2009-01-03T23:56:00.000-08:00

Brother David Steindl-Rast

The Power of Silence

2009-01-03T22:10:00.000-08:00

Ready Now - desperation band

2009-01-03T21:39:00.001-08:00

River Meditation: The Lillies Of The Field.

2009-01-03T16:03:00.001-08:00

Dealing With Difficult People.

2009-01-02T06:22:00.000-08:00

Ajahn Brahm from the Buddhist Society of Western Australia.

Investigating For Yourself.

2009-01-02T06:20:00.000-08:00

Ajahn Brahm from The Buddhist Society of Western Australia. Good Year Mates!

(Part 1/4) Awakening to life through truthful relationships

2008-12-30T09:32:00.000-08:00

Why Meditation? - Ayya Khema

2008-12-30T06:20:00.001-08:00

Short Discourse On Mind, Body, and Spirit.

Christmas Message 2008-2009.

2008-12-27T09:58:00.001-08:00

Music: Peace on Earth-U2

2008-12-27T08:20:00.000-08:00

Bumper Sticker of Note:

2008-12-27T08:17:00.000-08:00

Seen On Bumper Sticker:

Lets All Start A New Holiday Tradition:
STOP SHOPPING!

Cheryl Bear - Our Father

2008-12-26T09:51:00.001-08:00

Native American Prophecy Part 1.

2008-12-26T09:07:00.000-08:00

Native American Prophecy Part 2.

2008-12-26T09:06:00.001-08:00

Native American Prophecy Part 3.

2008-12-26T09:05:00.000-08:00

Native American Prophecy Part 4.

2008-12-26T09:04:00.000-08:00

Native American Prophecy Part 5.

2008-12-26T09:03:00.000-08:00

Native American Reconciliation Ministry.

2008-12-25T04:31:00.000-08:00

Love Of Enemies In Buddhism and Christianity.

2008-12-24T03:29:00.000-08:00

Beautiful Lord - Leeland

2008-12-23T23:55:00.000-08:00

The Kingdom Of God Is Within You. Luke 17:20- 21. Full Length

2008-12-23T18:11:00.000-08:00

Music: Change - Tracy Chapman

2008-12-23T15:00:00.000-08:00

Music: If We Are The Body

2008-12-23T07:04:00.000-08:00

Casting Crowns

Ghetto Gospel

2008-12-22T11:00:00.000-08:00

Tupac with Elton John

"Anyone who would be my disciple must pick up his cross and follow me." Jesus of Nazareth

Music: Everything Under The Sun.

2008-12-22T06:21:00.000-08:00

Crux and Rev. B

Only You Can Make The Difference.

2008-12-21T20:55:00.000-08:00

Leo Buscaglia reading the poem, "Things You Didn't Do."

Be Reconciled

2008-12-21T04:49:00.000-08:00

One Bread One Body

2008-12-20T16:23:00.000-08:00

Music By John Michael Talbot.

Thomas Merton - What the Contemplative Has To Offer

2008-12-19T08:23:00.000-08:00

Brother Sun, Sister Moon

2008-12-19T07:06:00.000-08:00

I Surrender All

2008-12-16T11:58:00.000-08:00

Brian Littrell

The Power Of Forgiveness: Thich Nhat Hanh

2008-12-15T22:32:00.000-08:00

Solid Rock - Bob Dylan

2008-12-15T07:15:00.000-08:00

Thich Nhat Hanh - Simple Mindfulness

2008-12-15T06:18:00.000-08:00

"American Prayer"- Beyonce, Bono & The Edge.

2008-12-14T04:03:00.000-08:00

"If God loves you...what's the problem?"
-Bono

Thich Nhat Hahn - The Energy Of Prayer.

2008-12-11T17:40:00.000-08:00

I Am A Servant

2008-12-10T06:23:00.000-08:00

Larry Norman

That's The Way God Planned It. Billy Preston, 1973.

2008-12-09T09:58:00.000-08:00

Buddha, Man, and Jesus.

2008-12-06T17:05:00.001-08:00

Radical Forgiveness and Strength.

2008-12-04T10:16:00.000-08:00

Forgive Mumbai Attackers, Victims' Relative Says

2008-12-04T05:22:00.000-08:00

Forgive Mumbai attackers, victims' relative says
Story Highlights
"We must show that love is possible," says mother, wife of Mumbai attack victims

"We must send them our love [and] forgiveness," Kia Scherr says

Attack survivors describe final moments of Alan, Naomi Scherr in restaurant

Founder of group that led trip: I identified bodies after attacks were over

(CNN) -- A Virginia woman whose husband and daughter were gunned down in last week's terror attacks in India says the attackers should be forgiven.

"We must send them our love, forgiveness and compassion," Kia Scherr told reporters Tuesday of the Mumbai attackers, nine of whom were killed by Indian forces. "As Jesus Christ said long ago, they know not what they do.

"They are in ignorance, and they are completely shrouded and clouded by fear, and we must show that love is possible and love overpowers fear. So that's my choice."

Alan Scherr, 58, and Naomi Scherr, 13, were among 25 people who had traveled to India for a meditation retreat with Virginia-based spiritual group Synchronicity Foundation, to which the Scherrs belonged.

Authorities said the father and daughter were found fatally shot in a restaurant in Mumbai's Oberoi Hotel, where the group was staying.

Kia Scherr, who didn't go on the trip, said at a news conference in Faber, Virginia, she is experiencing the "deepest grief and pain I have ever known." Watch Kia Scherr talk about the command to forgive »

Synchronicity's founder, Charles Cannon, told reporters Alan Scherr was in Cannon's room at the Oberoi shortly before the attacks began on the night of November 26. They were discussing the next day's activities for the group.

"He said that he was hungry and he was going down to the restaurant to eat," Cannon said.

Scherr and his daughter were in the restaurant with other Synchronicity travelers when gunmen burst into the hotel and started shooting, Cannon said.

One of the travelers, Andi Veragona, told CNN affiliate WTVF that she was trying to play dead during the attack, and that she was trying to calm Scherr, who was next to her.

"[He] was panicking, and I put my hand on the back of his neck, and just saying, 'Shhh,' " she told the Nashville, Tennessee, station. "And then I felt a bullet penetrate his head, and he just went limp, and he was bleeding all over me."

Linda Ragsdale, Veragona's friend and fellow Tennessee resident, told The Washington Post that she pulled Naomi Scherr under a table but couldn't save her.

"I was taking in the enormity of the moment, thinking that this energetic child who I had been playing with in the pool the night before -- and had made a pact to do somersaults with -- was dead, shot," Ragsdale told the Post.

Ragsdale's husband, Ben, said his wife and others played dead, but a gunman "decided to shoot into the file of them."

Three of the Synchronicity survivors in the restaurant -- including Ragsdale and Veragona -- were shot, and a bullet grazed a fourth. Ben Ragsdale said hotel staff eventually led the four outside, where they caught the taxis that drove them to a hospital.

Cannon told CNN's "Larry King Live" on Tuesday that he and two others were in his hotel room when the attacks began. They barricaded the door and remained there for nearly 48 hours, getting information about the whereabouts of other Synchronicity members by cell phone and their room phone, he said.

"Slowly, we were able to account for everyone but [Alan and Naomi Scherr]," Cannon said. "And we knew they had been in the restaurant at a table where four of the others who were shot and injured had gotten out."

About two days after the attacks began, Indian commandos escorted Cannon and the two others out of Cannon's room, he told reporters at Tuesday's news conference. He said the hotel looked like "a bombed-out war zone."

"Bodies [were] everywhere, glass, everything broken and smoky," he said of the hotel, where grenades had exploded and fires had burned.

On his way out, police asked him if he could identify any remains, he said.

Cannon said he stepped over bodies and walked through pools of blood in the restaurant to get to the table where Alan and Naomi had been sitting.

"I found and identified Alan and Naomi, who were laying under the table, heads facing each other and their arms outstretched to each other and overlapping," he said. "It [was] one of the most challenging things I have ever had to do in my life, to identify the remains of two people who I loved like family."

Three of the wounded Synchronicity travelers still were in an Indian hospital this week, Cannon said on "Larry King Live."

Ragsdale's son told CNN she had been shot in the back, but that the bullet hit nothing vital. Veragona suffered leg and arm wounds.

Kia Scherr told reporters she had spoken to her husband and daughter by phone in the days before the attacks, and that they were "having the times of their lives."

The trip was the first time Naomi had traveled by plane, and it was Alan's third visit to India this year, she said.

"He told me by phone one day: 'I love these people. I could live here,' " she told "Larry King Live."

CNN's Brian Todd contributed to this report.

Be Here Now

2008-12-03T22:04:00.000-08:00

Ram Dass On Life, Death, and Eternity.

The Tune - Larry Norman

2008-12-03T06:45:00.000-08:00

Something To Believe In

2008-12-02T20:00:00.000-08:00

Poison

"Give me something to believe in...that there's a Lord above."

Has The Christian Church Lost The Gospel?

2008-12-02T14:44:00.000-08:00

Understanding The Gospel

2008-12-02T08:55:00.000-08:00

2008-12-02T07:32:00.000-08:00

Every new moment that arises in your life can now be a point of choice. . .in which you can choose to treat yourself and others with Compassion rather than Judgment.
--David Harp

What Is The Gospel Jesus Preached?

2008-12-01T10:55:00.000-08:00

The Topic: What is the gospel Jesus preached?

A dialogue between Shabir Ally and Prof. Anthony Buzzard

(July 1 2000, University of Toronto)

Letting Go Of And Embracing Your Anger.

2008-11-30T16:07:00.000-08:00

Surrender Yourself To The Now.

2008-11-30T08:17:00.001-08:00

Thich Nhat Hahn - The End Of Suffering

2008-11-30T08:06:00.001-08:00

Breathing Meditation With Thich Nhat Hahn.

2008-11-30T07:53:00.000-08:00

Walking Meditation With Thich Nhat Hahn

2008-11-30T07:52:00.001-08:00

What Is Nirvana? A Discourse By Thich Nhat Hahn.

2008-11-30T06:25:00.000-08:00

Pope's Comments Seem to Throw Cold Water On Worth of Interfaith Dialogue

2008-11-27T08:50:00.000-08:00

From: Dallas Morning News

Pope's Comments Seem to Throw Cold Water On Worth of Interfaith Dialogue.

9:27 AM Mon, Nov 24, 2008 | Permalink
Bruce Tomaso E-mail News tips

No one who knows anything about Pope Benedict XVI believes he is ever going to be enthusiastic about interfaith discussions if they put the various faiths involved on equal footing -- if, in other words, an underlying assumption of such talks is that Islam, or Judaism, or Buddhism, or whatever, is as valid a way of expressing human understanding of God as is Christianity.

In Benedict's mind, that is simply not the case: The pope, make no mistake, is Catholic.

According to this story from The New York Times, Benedict appears to have reinforced his opinion in comments published Sunday in Corriere della Sera, Italy's leading daily newspaper.

Benedict praised a forthcoming book about Christianity, saying it "explained with great clarity" that "an interreligious dialogue in the strict sense of the word is not possible." In theological terms, he added, "a true dialogue is not possible without putting one's faith in parentheses."

His comments were contained in a letter to Marcello Pera, the author of the new book, "Why We Must Call Ourselves Christian," which argues that Europe should stay true to its Christian roots. That's a point Benedict has made many times, even as Europe at once grows more secular, and more religiously diverse.

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Interview with Plum Village

2008-11-26T08:50:00.001-08:00

From: phathue

Interview with two novice monks from Plum Village Practice Center (Southfrance) under the guidance of Ven. Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh.

www.phathue.de

Compassion - Dalai Lama, Muhammad Ali, Thomas Merton

2008-11-26T08:43:00.001-08:00

Interview With Ajahn Brahm

2008-11-26T08:34:00.001-08:00

Ram Dass Interviews Thicht Nhat Hanh.

2008-11-26T08:15:00.000-08:00

Please call me by my true names by Thich Nhat Hanh

2008-11-26T08:13:00.000-08:00

Peace Is Every Step

2008-11-21T21:33:00.000-08:00

Thich Nhat Hanh

Dharma After Dark Part One: A Tale Of Two Servants.

2008-11-21T18:46:00.000-08:00

Dharma After Dark Part Two: Being and Becoming God's Grace.

2008-11-21T18:45:00.000-08:00

First Supper Part 1.

2008-11-21T18:40:00.000-08:00

From the book Living Buddha Living Christ by Thich Nhat Hahn. Happy ThanksGiving!

First Supper Part 2.

2008-11-21T18:37:00.000-08:00

From the book Living Buddha Living Christ by Thich Nhat Hahn. Happy ThanksGiving!

Can A Christian Practice Meditation?

2008-11-15T19:42:00.001-08:00