From Prison to Torreciudad

Book written by "Fernando".

Fernando is a guy who spent 10 years in jail (the reason for that is not given in the book), but while in jail he experienced a conversion thanks to the help of a priest and his close union to the Virgin Mary. At some point he promised her that, if he was released during that year, he would go on a walking pilgrimage to her shrine in the North of Spain. After a short while he changed slightly his promise... he would go for such a pilgrimage whenever he was released, even if it wasn't that year itself.

This book is the story of that pilgrimage.

Some remarkable things about Fernando and his trip:

1. His love for Our Lady. It sounds simple, but walking 700 km in less than a month, without a single day break is very tough. He did for love of Mother Mary, to thank her and to ask her for a new job.

2. His daring and boldness to help people, by speaking to them and giving them advice, as well as doing things for others when required... for instance, he saw a forest fire going on and he approached to see if he could give a hand in dousing the fire... it wasn't easy stuff.

Verbum Domini part 3 section 1

VERBUM MUNDO
The Word from the Father and to the Father (90 onwards)

• We cannot keep to ourselves the word of eternal life given to us in our encounter with Jesus Christ: they are meant for every one... Everyone today, whether he or she knows it or not, needs this message. It is our responsibility to pass on what, by God's grace, we ourselves have received (apostolate)

• The First Christians saw their missionary preaching as a necessity rooted in the very nature of faith

• Many of our brothers and sisters are baptized but insufficiently evangezed.

• The need for a new evangelization must be valiantly reaffirmed in the certainty that God's word is effective.

• In no way can the Church restrict her pastoral work to the "ordinary maintenance" of those who already know the Gospel of Christ. Missionary outreach is a clear sign of the maturity of an ecclesial community (apostolate ad fideam)

• The word of God is the saving truth everybody wants to hear

• On the one hand the word must communicate everything the Lord himself has told us. On the other hand, it is indispensable, through witness, to make this word credible, lest it appear merely as a beautiful philosophy or utopia, rather than a reality that can be lived and itself give life (apostolate)

• Young people need to be introduced to the word of God "through encounter and authentic witness by adults, through the positive influence of friends and the gat company of the ecclesial community"



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Verbum Domini part 1 section 3

The Interpretation of Sacred Scripture in the Church

• Without faith there is no key to throw open the Sacred text... It is impossible for anyone to attain knowledge of that truth unless he fist has infuse faith in Christ, which is the lamp, the gate and the foundation of all Scripture.

• We can never read Scripture on our own. We come up against too many closed doors and we slip too easily into error. It was written by the People of God for the People of God ... Only in this communion can we truly enter as a 'we' into the heart of the truth God wants to convey to us.

• Access to a proper understanding of bibcal texts is only granted to the person who has an affinity with what the text is saying on the basis of life experience

• "the study of the sacred page should be the very soul of theology"

• The history of salvation is not mythology, but a yrue history, and it should thus be studied with the methods of seious historical research.

• An attitude of respect, esteem, and love for the Jewish people is the onlyn truly Christian attitude in the present situation, which is a mysterious part of God's wholly positive plan.


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Verbum Domini part 1 section 2

Our response to the God who speaks

• We were created in the word and we live in the word; we cannot understand ourselves unless we are open to this dialogue.

• In this dialogue with God we come to understand ourselves and we discover an answer to our heart's deepest questions

• The Book of Psalms, where God gives us words to speak to him

• Man's sin is essentially disobedience and refusal to hear

• Our apostolic and pastoral work can never be effective unless we learn from Mary how to be shaped by the working of God within us.

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Friends of God, chapter 1

By: St. Josemaria

Ch. 1. The richness of ordinary life

• Jesus is at our side guiding us like a shepherd
• He has chosen us to be part of his family to be saints
• His invitation obliges us to struggle to the point of heroism
• These world crisis are crisis of saints
• Concern for souls follows from the fact that God has chosen us.
• Success in attracting souls depends on how much interior life we have
• Ppl are not born holy. Holiness is formed by God's grace n man's correspondence.
• Holiness God asks of us is in daily duties, n these will almost always consist of small realities.
• You will not lack opportunities to show love of God in the small n ordinary things around you.
• We are few n worth little
• A disciple of Christ calls error error but the person in error he will correct with kindness
• Victory only comes to those who strive to behave as Christians. Thus there are so many who from a human point of view should be happy but aren't. They appear to be, but just scratch the surface and...
• Interior life consists of begining once n again... The struggle is never ending
• Child helping the fishermen...if we come to God like that, knowing our weakness, we shall more easily reach the goal
• You must let yourself be helped by a spiritual director
• Have you been pursuing God's or your own glory in everything you do?
• Ppl who fly to the heights w/o interior life are like that fellow flying on the wings of a plane...frightening
• In work n dealing w others we should maintain dialogue w God which is not audible but does manifest outwards in the care we put in doing things.
• Be of one piece
• The more we advance in interior life, the more we see our own failings
• Saints were ppl like us, with weaknesses who managed to master themselves for love of God.
• Your boat -your talents, achievements, etc- are worth nothing if not left in Christ's hands.
• If we let him take command, how safe the boat will be!
• We want him to do as he pleases with all we posses
• Only in his shelter will we find true happiness

BookNo.: r010

Asunto: highlights

Fecha: 29/12/10

How To Know Your Side Project Is Ready To Be A Startup

http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/39008/How-To-Know-Your-Side-Project-Is-Ready-To-Be-A-Startup.aspx

Here are the 8 things that I realized, which are telltale signs that you might be ready to turn your project to a full time startup.

1. You’re Doing Something You Love
    
2. You’re Making Revenue
    
3. You Know The BIG Vision
    
4. Your Big Vision Does Not Have A Ceiling
    
5. You Are Ready To Be Selfless
    
6. You Have A Responsibility To Employees
    
7. You Have A Responsibility To Customers
    
8. You Have A Responsibility To Investors

El hombre de Villa Tevere. Chapter 8

St. Josemaria is a great communicator who, wanting to help everybody to get closer to God (from 100 souls, the 100) does apostolate with each person he meets, wherever he goes, adapting the way he tells things to each person, to his or her capacity.

He is a great friend to his friends, never forgetting them, always looking for ways to make them have a good time, like to a Cardinal friend of his for whom he asked some "MU sweets" which were quite cheap but the Cardinal liked a lot. Of course, he had them very nicely wrapped as well.

His interest for people's good would go from A to Z, from the gypsy "enchinador" who was almost drunk when called to meet him, to Walt Disney who like "The Way".

Telling the truth clearly to his friends, like to a priest friend of his who, when the Spanish Civil War was about to start, had decided to stay indoors to do a lot of studies instead of going out to help people (mainly spiritually).

He was a wonderful communicator, with love, gift of tongues and a lot of good humor and struggle as well.

He is confident 100% sure that the truth which he knows is true, but he respects and blesses other peoples beliefs, thus when he talks he says "I believe...". Like to a group of Japanse ladies who visited him and told them to pray for him and gave them a blessing as a priest, even if some of them were not Catholic, nor Christian.