Topic Needed for Talk

[Lil Red]

Okay, I'm a presenter for a conference next weekend. I need help finding a topic. The theme of the conference is "Open Our Ears Lord". Here are the other topics from the other presenters:

-Knowing God through our senses
-Theology of the Body
-The Real Presence of the Eucharist
-Mission Possible (I don't really know what this is about)
-Paschal Mystery Bracelets

Help me think of a good topic please! I can't come up with any ideas!

btw, Danielle Rose is our special guest.

[Lil Red]

bump

[Nicole8223]

Maybe something about learning to listen to God better...and the talk could be focused on prayer. There is so much good stuff on prayer...the different types of prayer.

I'll keep thinking...

[prose]

"Hearing God's Voice in Everything."
"Hearing God When you Least Expect it"
"The Subtilty of God, He Doesn't Always Use His 'Booming' Voice"
"Answering Prayer, God's Art."

Ummmm

That's all I can think of for titles for now...

[Thy Geekdom Come]

It seems to me that what you need is a talk on the importance of making a response of faith when the Lord [i][b]does[/b][/i] speak to us.

[Lil Red]

raph, you bring up a good point. currently i am torn between doing something about "flavor" - ie being the salt of the earth and giving your life witness to Christ, no matter how small the contribution. or about doing something about technology & faith - like "iFaith" or "iCatholic" or something catchy about how technology (specifically podcasting, etc) is changing the way we look at faith, but how it is still important to go to Mass and sit and listen in silence to God.

so what do you think?

[franciscanheart]

[quote name='Nicole8223' date='Sep 30 2005, 11:04 AM']Maybe something about learning to listen to God better...and the talk could be focused on prayer.  There is so much good stuff on prayer...the different types of prayer.

I'll keep thinking...
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yeah i really like the prayer talk. the last retreat i went to - that was prolly the coolest talk. prayer is so huge and so many people struggle with it - and thats okay!

[quote name='prose' date='Sep 30 2005, 11:05 AM']"Hearing God's Voice in Everything."
"Hearing God When you Least Expect it"
"The Subtilty of God, He Doesn't Always Use His 'Booming' Voice"
"Answering Prayer, God's Art."

Ummmm

That's all I can think of for titles for now...
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i like these ideas too...


podcasting is good too but if i had to choose to listen to either or the two topics you are trying to decide between it would be the first one.

[prose]

I went to a talk about "e-Catholicism" once... It was about the internet and how it is affecting Catholics worldwide.

It was pretty interesting

[Lil Red]

thanks, hughey!

[franciscanheart]

[quote name='prose' date='Sep 30 2005, 12:19 PM']I went to a talk about "e-Catholicism" once...  It was about the internet and how it is affecting Catholics worldwide.

It was pretty interesting
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oh i think its incredibly fascinating but not owning an ipod, and having only used one maybe three times, i would be more interested in the other talk. ipods are big and a lot of people do have them... but not everyone. i guess id want to listen to a talk that would relate to me more.




red: whatever you do it will be great! this i know for sure! good luck with everything!

[Lil Red]

i think i'm going to go with talking about being salt of the earth and title it "Do You Have Flavor?"

[franciscanheart]

[quote name='Lil Red' date='Sep 30 2005, 12:28 PM']i think i'm going to go with talking about being salt of the earth and title it "Do You Have Flavor?"
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its gunna be awesome!

[Old_Joe]

God is Love

[Thy Geekdom Come]

[quote name='Lil Red' date='Sep 30 2005, 12:57 PM']raph, you bring up a good point. currently i am torn between doing something about "flavor" - ie being the salt of the earth and giving your life witness to Christ, no matter how small the contribution. or about doing something about technology & faith - like "iFaith" or "iCatholic" or something catchy about how technology (specifically podcasting, etc) is changing the way we look at faith, but how it is still important to go to Mass and sit and listen in silence to God.

so what do you think?
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I know nothing about all that podcasting stuff, lol...but I think that the salt of the earth thing is important.

I'm particularly struck by the rich young man...he follows the moral law and Jesus calls him to give up that wealth and follow him, but he doesn't. I mean...imagine the plan Jesus could have had for him...he could have been a great saint close to the throne of God, but something got in the way...his wealth...and that, in our culture, seems particularly relevant.

Likewise, the parable of the sower is good...the Word is spread, God reaches out to us, but there are all these different things keeping us from Him...either we don't have the foundation (rich soil) and it fails to grow in us, or it grows too quickly because we do not have deep roots (which seems to me to happen very often in youth ministry conversions...many have not been fed, hear the Word, convert, and then fall away quickly because they lack the discipline to stick with it), etc.

[Thy Geekdom Come]

[quote name='prose' date='Sep 30 2005, 01:19 PM']I went to a talk about "e-Catholicism" once...  It was about the internet and how it is affecting Catholics worldwide.

It was pretty interesting
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My catechetics professor talked with me about that after class one day...he was amazed when I told him how many members were on PM, lol...

[prose]

I liked how he addressed all the areas, from how to determine if a site is adhering to the Church's teachings to how internationally the Catholic community is growing stronger through the sharing of knowledge.

It was a great talk.

[phatcatholic]

going w/ the theme, what if u went thru the various times in scripture where Jesus (or the Father) says, "he who has ears to hear, let him hear" and just briefly comment on each one.

[journeyman]

Going with the theme of "ears to hear"

This was part of the readings recently . . . how hard it is to hear God in the tiny whispering when there are winds and earthquakes going on 1 Kings 19

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Then the LORD said, "Go outside and stand on the mountain before the LORD; the LORD will be passing by." A strong and heavy wind was rending the mountains and crushing rocks before the LORD--but the LORD was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake--but the LORD was not in the earthquake.
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After the earthquake there was fire--but the LORD was not in the fire. After the fire there was a tiny whispering sound.
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When he heard this, Elijah hid his face in his cloak and went and stood at the entrance of the cave. A voice said to him, "Elijah, why are you here?"



pulled these from a Protestant page - so check the references

Matthew 13:16 "But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear."

Proverbs 20:12 "The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made even both of them."

Psalm 78:1 "Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth."

Proverbs 4:20 "My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings."

Proverbs 15:31 "The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise."

Proverbs 13:1 "A wise son heareth his Father's instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke."

Proverbs 13:1 "...A scorner heareth not rebuke."

2 Timothy 4:3 "For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears:"

2 Timothy 4:4 "And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables."

Proverbs 28:9 "He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination."

John 10:27 "My sheep hear My voice..."

Hebrews 3:15 , "...Today if you will hear His voice, harden not your hearts..."

Psalm 81:11 ""But My people would not hearken to My voice, and Israel would none of Me."

Ezekiel 20:8 - "...they rebelled against Me, and would not hearken unto Me..."

Zechariah 7:11 - "...they refused to hearken...and stopped their ears, that they should not hear."

Jeremiah 13:10 "...evil people, which refuse to hear My words..."

Psalm 81:13 - "Oh that My people had hearkened unto Me, and Israel had walked in My ways!"

Revelation 2:7 - "He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith..." (multiple repetitions after each letter to the seven churches)

[journeyman]

Going with the salt theme

[url="http://www.saltinstitute.org/pubstat/malott.html"]Salt and Christianity[/url] from the Salt Institute

[url="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13403b.htm"]Salt[/url] Catholic Encyclopedia

Salt of the Earth by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger - Spiritual Book, 283 pp.
Salt of the Earth by Cardinal Ratzinger---an important volume which gives an extraordinary insight into the mind and thought of the Cardinal (the "Panzer-Cardinal" to his detractors and "Call to Action" types). There is a touching account of his youth, family life, student days, and even the period when he was an American prisoner of war. Readers will find fascinating this theologian's views of Hans Kung, sexual consumerism, evolution, and Fatima. There are precious comments on liturgy, infallibility and authority, celibacy, liberation theology and other attempts to politicize the Gospel, moral relativism, "fundamentalism," "pathological forms of religiosity," the exodus of Catholics to the sects, and "the dictatorship of public opinion." While admitting that he has "so little knowledge of America," he does not hesitate to refer to the few American bishops "who are perhaps really somewhat extreme." He expresses the "humiliation" he feels that it is "Catholic countries like Rwanda and Burundi which have become the scene of the greatest atrocities." Cardinal Ratzinger emphasizes that the renewal of the Church must come from new movements and groups of Catholics that implement both the spirit and letter of Vatican II. Decrying the false "spirit of Vatican II" that waters down the faith to make modern man more "comfortable", Cardinal Ratzinger, one of the key theologians laboring at the council, insists that the Council Fathers in no way intended to "turn the faith upside down, but, on the contrary to serve it properly."

Genesis 19:26 But Lot's wife looked back, and she was turned into a pillar of salt.

[url="http://www.bartleby.com/59/4/saltoftheea2.html"]http://www.bartleby.com/59/4/saltoftheea2.html[/url]
Basic, fundamental goodness; the phrase can be used to describe any simple, good person: “I like Mary: she’s reliable, trustworthy, and straightforward; she’s the salt of the Earth.” In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus tells his followers, who are mainly fishermen and other simple people, “Ye are the salt of the Earth.”

[url="http://www.bardstown.com/~brchrys/homilies/mk020605.htm"]http://www.bardstown.com/~brchrys/homilies/mk020605.htm[/url]
[A Homily of Fr. Matthew Kelty, O.C.S.O. for the 5th Sunday of the Year (A), 2004: (Mt 5:13-16) ]
Light of the World, Salt of the Earth

but you probably already had all this stuff . . .

[journeyman]

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