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the HERALD Religion Wednesday February 12 Spiritual help is available when times get tough By JIM RYAN Herald Special Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time Luke 17 Feb 16 1992 A spirituality for tough economic times Hard economic times You bet Is there a good side Not according to the media You can listen or read but all you get is bad news Is there another side to the story Well of course But naturally We re adults right it doesn come cheap We re talking about the spiritual side of an economic downturn Yeah And if you thought the material costs were steep the spiritual costs will kill you But we re adults right And killing vou whether softly or roughl isn just a metaphor It really kill you in the spiritual world that good t we have a role for spiritual economists on the even news Spiritual economists are harder on you than the most con servative material economists We re not talking a masochistic economics but we are talking hurting economic strategies IF you could find a country singer who could sing hurting songs from a spiritual point of view and have him or her booked into the Hollywood I d be a patron Spiritual economists are more tired of over spending and deficit financing in a spiritual sense than Michael Wilson If you thought Wilson had a patent on a belt tightening system that rivals diet pills for results then look at the spiritual economists They re great for fat reduction Well talk about two Carl Jung is one Jesus is another A psychoanalyst for tough economic times Take Carl Jung Robert in eludes this story about Carl Jung in his book Iron John It is said that whenever a fnend reported enthusiastically I have just been promoted Jung would say I very sorry to hear that but if we stick Bible Digest And he taught saying unto them Is It written My house shall be called of ail nations the house of prayer but ye have made it a den of thieves Mark 17 ft is past tunc for prayer to become a priority of God s peo ple Take them to pray They went out from us but they were not of us for If they had been of us they would no doubt have continued with us but they went out that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us I John 19 Real followers of Jesus will en dure to the end Are you a real Christian BRIDAL PARTY HALTON HILLS CULTURAL CENTRE 1230P M SUN MAR Call Debbie at 8778591 together I think we will get through it If a friend arrived depressed and ashamed saying I ve just been fired Jung would say Let open a bottle of wine this is wonderful news something good will happen now Historic building Do you know the history of this building If the answer is no you are not alone Not too many do This is the Methodist Church of Salmonville and now the Community Centre of Terra built in 1862 The first church service was held in early 1863 becoming the United Church of Canada in Then in 1950 it was given to Terra Cotta for a Community Centre According to the written minutes at a public meeting the trustees of the church were elected as trustees of the community centre and is still operating as a com centre by a group of dedicated volunteers This year we are planning some 130th birthday events and need the help of any interested parties history buffs and historians etc If you have pic tures newspaper clippings photographs or memories about the church or community centre in Tuckers Mill Plewes Mill Salmonville Terra Cotta all the same place we would be very grateful if you would load them to us They will be returned to you Write to Terra Cotta History Committee Box Terra Cotta Ontario LOP Or call A J Von Zuben RR l Terra Ontario LOP evenings S Did you grow up in Terra Cotta Why not come back and share your memories and help us celebrate our birthday Religion and Reality by Jim Ryan A gospel for lough economic times How about Jesus In this week s gospel Jesus says How happy are you who are poor yours is the Kingdom of God But alas for you who are rich you are having your consolation now These two spiritual economists seem to agree But what does it mean Wait there s more Happy you who are hungry now you shall be satisfied Happy you who weep now you shall laugh And conversely alas for you who have your fill now you shall go hungry Alas for you who laugh now you shall mourn and weep Whatdoesitmean The spiritual economists refer to this as the katabasis principle In a spiritual economy it means that the person or community is discovering new spiritual riches The community begins to live at a deeper level The community which lives according to this has learned to be discontented with all limited things and Is willing to dig deeper Luke A gospel writer for tough economic times But seriously folks without irony Luke is the right guy to read m tough times His ap proach the good person is the one who copes realistically end resourcefully with what has come upon him or her the HERALD to year tiiol services coll our Advertising at for ANGLICAN St Albans Anglican Church 19 St s Drive Acton Sunday Services 30am Sunday 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