Each family will be given 2 Cds Spiritual joy

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Each family will be given 2 CdsSpiritual joy
Book of Acts, Peter Paul

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How to Please the others
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• If you are bust to please God and Others will
  rejoice but if you are only interested to please
  yourself, you wont be happy
• Trying to smile is to give love. You are saying
  You are important

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Encourage Sacrifice
Spiritual Life
Smile Concern
Love Sharing
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You Are Loved
You Are Important
You are Very Good
Let us Talk
SMILE
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What are you Thinking of?
What do You Need?
What do You Like?
What do You say?
Gift!
Caring
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2-Caring

• Talk about the things that are imp. To the other.
• Caring is most needed when it is given to most
  needed and offered about the issues are most
  liked. Caring is to listen to what is being said.
  Offering gift that is needed, perhaps none-
  physical

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Then Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said
to him, "One thing you lack Go your way, sell
whatever you have and give to the poor, and you
will have treasure in heaven and come, take up
the cross, and follow Me." (Mk1021)
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• But He answered and said to them, "You give them
  something to eat." And they said to Him, "Shall
  we go and buy two hundred denarii worth of bread
  and give them something to eat?" (Mk637)

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Greeting Cards
Words
Praise
New Tasks
Encourage
Appreciate
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3- Encourage

• It is an art how to encourage. It is a dynamic
  process, once the cycle of appreciation starts it
  never ends
• We need to use words of praise more often, it is
  highly needed in this era when there is a
  profound sense of inferiority.
• Exaggeration in words of praise are greatly
  needed.
• You can criticize after youve praised.
• Appreciate before you ask or order!!
• Assign responsibilities to the other means that
  you trust him and ready to appreciate him

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Words
Encourage
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Words
Praise
Encourage
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Words
Praise
Encourage
Appreciate
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Words
Praise
New Tasks
Encourage
Appreciate
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Greeting Cards
Words
New Tasks
Praise
Encourage
Appreciate
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• for you have had five husbands, and the one whom
  you now have is not your husband in that you
  spoke truly." (Jn418)

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EncourageSamaritan Woman

• Our Lord found a small thing to praise her upon,
  being truthful
• Zacchaeus He called him with his name He
  appreciate /encourages his repentance.
• Zacc. Was ready to let go of his possessions
  after he was appreciated.
• Peter was ready to leave all when he was given a
  task

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• And when Jesus came to the place, He looked up
  and saw him, and said to him, "Zacchaeus, make
  haste and come down, for today I must stay at
  your house
• (Lk195)

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Then He said to them, "Follow Me, and I will make
you fishers of men (Matt 419)
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You First
Laboring
With Loss
With Joy
Sacrificing
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4- sacrifice

• Means You are more important than me.
• Usually carries some losses ( Time, money, labor)
  but you gain more blessings
• Sacrifice with joy and you may have to labor.
• Examples good shepherd , John the Baptist. Our
  Lords icon is between John and St Mary

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You First
Laboring
With Loss
With Joy
Sacrificing
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You First
Laboring
With Loss
With Joy
Sacrificing
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The Good Shepherd

• I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives
  His life for the sheep
• (Jn 1011)

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• He must increase, but I must decrease

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Communication
Avoid Interruption
Select Your Expression
Listen Carefully
Respect The other Opinion
Understand
Avoid Mocking
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Communication
Avoid Interruption
Select Your Expression
Listen Carefully
Respect The other Opinion
Understand
Avoid Mocking
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Communication
Avoid Interruption
Select Your Expression
Listen Carefully
Respect The other Opinion
Understand
Avoid Mocking
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Communication
Avoid Interruption
Select Your Expression
Listen Carefully
Respect The other Opinion
Understand
Avoid Mocking
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Communication
Avoid Interruption
Select Your Expression
Listen Carefully
Respect The other Opinion
Understand
Avoid Mocking
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I have loved you," says the LORD. "Yet you say,
"In what way have You loved us? Was not Esau
Jacob's brother? Says the LORD. Yet Jacob I
have loved (mal12)
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Word of God
Guidance
Spiritual Environment
Spiritual Role Model
Spiritual Life
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How to transmit Joy through your spiritual Life

• Sole Model
• Using Word of God
• Exchange sessions with spiritual ones
• Give giudance

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Communication

• Smile
• Sharing
• Caring
• Sacrifice
• Spiritual Life
• Encourage
• Love

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• The most precious gift you can present to whom
  you love
• Knowing God

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• I have come that they may have life, and that
  they may have it more abundantly
• (Jn1010)

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Food
Occasion
Hobby
Fun
Work
Activity
Sharing and caring
Concern
Grief
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Now Jesus, going up to Jerusalem, took the twelve
disciples aside on the road and said to them
(Matt 2017)
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• Love suffers long and is kind love does not
  envy love does not parade itself, is not puffed
  up 5does not behave rudely, does not seek its
  own, is not provoked, thinks no evil 6does not
  rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth
  7bears all things, believes all things, hopes all
  things, endures all things. 8Love never fails.
  But whether there are prophecies, they will fail
  whether there are tongues, they will cease
  whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away
  (1Cor134-8)

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Q/A

• Love believes everything?
• A Probably means believing God in everything,
  also the people you love you can believe however
  it needs wisdom
• Q People who lack a smiley face?
• A Depends on internal peace, if he has peace
  inside he will be smiley regardless of his
  features. King visited a VA hospital, in a
  separate room a sick person- all burnt- but the
  only clear thing is his smile!!

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Q/A

• With our busy schedule, we never meet
• ADangerous, we should all work against the
  surroundings to keep our unity
• Hard to lover our enemies!
• A Not to not hate him is a step, followed by
  trying to love. This verse is connected with how
  much your relation with God. Love with heart,
  mind and actions. If I cannot heartedly love him
  I may give an act of love, hopefully God will
  open my heart to love more. Love with your mind,
  convincing yourself to love the other.

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Q/A

• Love or weakness??
• A abide with the command regardless how they
  will understand it. Our Lord himself was
  misunderstood. Also, we always need wisdom.
• Good practice when you cannot love Pray Bless
  them and bless me, forgive them forgive me
• What is the policy regarding avoiding the person
  who I cannot love.
• A You need to ask your father of confession.

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Q/A

• Misunderstanding between Paul and Barnabas
  resulted in separation into 2 directions. The
  preaching benefited
• Repentance/ Baptism is the sea which washes all
  the past actions.
• Bless them and bless me, forgive them forgive
  me.
• Right thiefwas not written in the Gospel.
  However, it is the tradition as well as those on
  the right.
• Do your best in loving others not waiting for a
  reward or return of love.

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Q/A

• St. Paul had to shave because of a vow
• A some fathers do not agree with St. Paul on
  agreeing to follow that vow. Others feel he was
  trying to gain the Jews with any possible way. He
  circumcised Timothy
• He blamed Peter in Galatians because Peter was
  following the Judaisation move

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From Bishop David

• His Holiness will return Home on Sunday He had to
  get treatment for Kidney dysfunction,
• He is currently under nutrition regimen with no
  need for surgery.
• H. H met with a lot of clergy.

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rejoice in iniquity,