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FReeper Canteen ~ Sunday Chapel ~ Living Prayer ~ 30 December 2012
Serving The Best Troops and Veterans In The World !! | The Canteen Crew

Posted on 12/29/2012 5:04:10 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska


 

 

 

 

LIVING PRAYER


Brother Lawrence was a monk who lived almost 300 years ago and worked in the galley of his monastery. He wrote a book, The Practice of the Presence of God, which today is considered a classic in the area of Christian devotion. Brother Lawrence spent much of his time in the monastery scullery scrubbing pots and pans. He also had a collateral duty as the monastery cobbler. In these jobs, he said, he learned to glorify God in simple tasks and to pray with his hands. By bringing to each small job the best of his ability, he developed the practice of living prayer. Whether he was bustling around the galley, repairing shoes or kneeling in prayer, he learned to grow spiritually as well as mentally and to cultivate a never-ending, ever-deepening sense of God's presence.

Each day you do hundreds of small tasks. Perhaps you feel at times unrecognized or unnoticed, or that your job is insignificant in the great scope of things. The fact is it doesn't matter what you do or what position you hold. What really matters is the spirit in which you work, and how you approach your work. Brother Lawrence teaches us an important and very wise lesson: even the simplest tasks, when done to the best of your ability, are important in God's eyes. Whenever you bring to any job the best of yourself, your fullest mind, an honest heart, and a striving for excellence, then your work, no matter what you do, becomes like a living prayer to God.

CAPT Jane F. Vieira, CHC, USN



 

 



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To: Jet Jaguar; txradioguy; Laurita; CMS; OneLoyalAmerican; Defender2; JemiansTerror; Beagle8U; ...
To our Military -

Thank you for protecting us. Sleep well and safe.
May you be protected. May your families' hearts be at ease.

Thank you to our Allies.

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To those of our Military and Allies who gave their all,
- May your souls rest in peace. May your families be comforted.
May your/our country always remember.


21 posted on 12/29/2012 7:24:19 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska ((~ RIP Brian...heaven's gain...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
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To: AZamericonnie; ConorMacNessa; Kathy in Alaska; MS.BEHAVIN; LUV W; left that other site
This is a period instrument recording of one movement from Schubert’s Mass in E-flat, one of the last things he ever wrote. The format of the Gloria is A-B-A-C.

The A section is a wonderful and majestic melody, but Schubert has planted the diminished fifth – aka the tritone, the forbidden interval in church music – like little mines throughout. It’s just the composer being naughty.

At 3:52 the B section turns to the minor, and the melody is suspiciously like the Dies Irae from the requiem mass.

At 7:56, the A section returns in drastically shortened form.

At 8:47, the C section is a long fugue. Schubert was taking counterpoint lessons from Simon Sechter, and this is a good example of how fugues began popping up like mushrooms in Schubert’s output in his last year. The tritone is the glue that holds the fugue together, and it pops up everywhere.

Schubert: Mass in E-flat, D. 950, Gloria

22 posted on 12/29/2012 7:48:41 PM PST by Publius ("A centralized government is a centralized evil." -- Gen. John Graham)
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Canteen ping....."Living Prayer".


23 posted on 12/29/2012 8:02:09 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska ((~ RIP Brian...heaven's gain...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
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To: xzins; bethelgrad; lightman; LiteKeeper; MoJo2001; 007; 1 FELLOW FREEPER; 11B3; 1FreeAmerican; ...
Canteen ping....."Living Prayer".


24 posted on 12/29/2012 8:02:09 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska ((~ RIP Brian...heaven's gain...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
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To: xzins; bethelgrad; lightman; LiteKeeper; MoJo2001; 007; 1 FELLOW FREEPER; 11B3; 1FreeAmerican; ...
Canteen ping....."Living Prayer".


25 posted on 12/29/2012 8:02:58 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska ((~ RIP Brian...heaven's gain...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
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To: All

The Lord's Prayer

26 posted on 12/29/2012 8:19:55 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska ((~ RIP Brian...heaven's gain...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
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To: Publius

Good evening, Publius, and a Blessed Lord’s Day to you and yours.

Thanks for Schubert’s Gloria.


27 posted on 12/29/2012 8:30:59 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska ((~ RIP Brian...heaven's gain...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
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A Blessed Lord's Day to you and your family.


The 23rd Psalm


28 posted on 12/29/2012 8:37:20 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska ((~ RIP Brian...heaven's gain...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
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To: All


29 posted on 12/29/2012 8:41:18 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska ((~ RIP Brian...heaven's gain...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
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Shorty GiggleLips & the Canteen Kids – click

30 posted on 12/29/2012 8:46:36 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska ((~ RIP Brian...heaven's gain...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
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Thanks, Troops and Vets, for your service to our country.



Josh Groban ~ What Child Is This

Thanks, unique, for the logo.


31 posted on 12/29/2012 9:16:08 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska ((~ RIP Brian...heaven's gain...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
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"But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you. Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness." -from THE BIBLE: Romans 6:17-18
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32 posted on 12/29/2012 11:50:23 PM PST by Cindy
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To: Kathy in Alaska

A blessed Lord’s Day to you Kathy.

It’s been in the low 20’s here.

An inch or less of snow expected here tonight and same for Sunday during the day.

A lot of fog these past 2 weeks — that’s unusual.


33 posted on 12/30/2012 12:00:04 AM PST by Cindy
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To: Cindy

Thank you. And a Blessed Lord’s Day, Cindy, to you and yours. Thank you for the links.

One inch of snow at a time is good. I don’t like fog. Be safe.


34 posted on 12/30/2012 12:37:12 AM PST by Kathy in Alaska ((~ RIP Brian...heaven's gain...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
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To: Kathy in Alaska

I hear you.

If one wanted fog; one would live in London.

Take care of yourself, and as always, thank you for this thread Kathy.


35 posted on 12/30/2012 12:49:21 AM PST by Cindy
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To: Kathy in Alaska

Welcome Troops, Veterans, Families, and Allies!
God Bless You and Keep You Safe.

Thanks, unique, for our troop blessing.

On Jordan's Stormy Banks

Morning Has Broken


36 posted on 12/30/2012 12:52:34 AM PST by Kathy in Alaska ((~ RIP Brian...heaven's gain...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
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Welcome Troops, Veterans, Families, and Allies!
God Bless You and Keep You Safe.

Thanks, unique, for our troop blessing.

There Is A Fountain

Day By Day


37 posted on 12/30/2012 1:01:30 AM PST by Kathy in Alaska ((~ RIP Brian...heaven's gain...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
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Welcome Troops, Veterans, Families, and Allies!
God Bless You and Keep You Safe.

Thanks, unique, for our troop blessing.

The Lily of The Valley

Shall We Gather At The River


38 posted on 12/30/2012 1:14:42 AM PST by Kathy in Alaska ((~ RIP Brian...heaven's gain...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
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To: Kathy in Alaska
A very pleasant good morning to everyone at the Canteen and to all our military at home and abroad. Thanks for your service to our country.

((HUGS))Good morning, Kathy. How's it going?

39 posted on 12/30/2012 1:17:18 AM PST by E.G.C.
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Welcome Troops, Veterans, Families, and Allies!
God Bless You and Keep You Safe.

Thanks, unique, for our troop blessing.

Like A River Glorious

When Morning Gilds The Skies


40 posted on 12/30/2012 1:22:39 AM PST by Kathy in Alaska ((~ RIP Brian...heaven's gain...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
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