<US>The Sack of Potatoes
- From: "Fr. Pat Umberger" <frpat@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Fr. Pat Umberger" <frpat@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 10:13:52 -0500
.=: U S U A L S U S P E C T S :=.
from Father Pat Umberger
"Round up the usual suspects" ~"Casablanca," the movie
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T H I S N O V E M B E R !
PILGRIMAGE TO SOUTHERN ITALY, ROME AND THE VATICAN
Southern Italy, Assisi, Rome and the Vatican - 10-22 November 2008
Departing from La Crosse, WI (LSE), Chicago (ORD), or New York (JFK)
Only ELEVEN Spaces remain, only THREE seats from La Crosse remain.
SEATS WILL BE TICKETED ABOUT 10 OCTOBER!
SINGLE OR TRAVELING ALONE?
Our Pilgrimages are very friendly to single travelers. There are quite a
few signed up for this Pilgrimage. You'll make friends quickly, that's for
sure. Pentecost Tours will do all they can to match you up with a roommate
if you'd like. Or, if you'd prefer, you could pay the single supplement
($45 per night we are lodged in hotels) and have a private room.
Assisi, Rome, the Vatican, Orvieto, Loreto, Lanciano, Sorrento, Capri, the
Blue Grotto, Amalfi, Pompeii, Montecassino, Mt St. Angelo, San Giovanni
Rotondo, the Wednesday audience with Pope Benedict XVI and more!
Imagine yourself spending a couple days on the Mediterranean at Sorrento,
taking the boat to the Isle of Capri and visiting the Blue Grotto there,
visiting Montecassino (Saint Benedict and the Saint Benedict Medal),
Pompeii, the Amalfi Coast and more. Imagine visiting Assisi and walking in
the footsteps of Saint Francis and Saint Clare. Imagine visiting the sites
of Eucharistic miracles at Lanciano and Orvieto. Imagine yourself visiting
the tomb of Padre Pio at San Giovanni Rotondo. Imagine being at an audience
with Pope Benedict XIV, visiting the Sistine Chapel, Saint Peter's Basilica,
the tomb of St. Peter himself, the home of Padre Pio, the Eucharistic
Miracles at Orvieto and Lanciano, Assisi, the home of Saint Francis and
more. We'll return with memories and inspiration to last a lifetime!
Use the brochure ... on-line at www.frpat.com
T E C H T I P F R O M F A T H E R P A T
No "Phishing!"
It's another scam, called Phishing. All these folks need is a bite or two
and they can become very wealthy, at the expense of you, the "Phish!" They
send a e-mail saying somebody has been trying to access your account or give
another reason. They ask you to log into their Web Site and give bank
information, Social Security numbers, passwords, etc. If you click on the
link they send, which you SHOULDN'T do, you'll see that you're at a
different Site altogether. It will look exactly like their site though. If
you submit the information you've given them all the tools they'll need to
steal your identity, wreck your credit rating and steal your money.
Financial institutions don't use e-mail to get information from you. If
you're in doubt, call them, or log into your account they way you normally
do. But "don't" click on that link sent by the Phishers!
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A T R E A T
Forwarded by member Susan from Silver Springs, Maryland ...
T H E S A C K O F P O T A T O E S
My teacher had each of us students get a clear plastic bag and a sack of
potatoes. Then for every person we'd refuse to forgive in our life, we had
to take a potato, write on it the name of the person and the date, and put
the spud in the plastic bag. Some of the bags, as you can imagine, very
very heavy.
Then she told us to carry this bag full of the potatoes with us everywhere
for one whole week. We had to keep it at our bedside every night, on the
car seat when in the car, next to our desk at work, etc.
The hassle of lugging that bag around with us made it so clear what a weight
we were carrying spiritually, and how we had to pay attention to it all the
time to not forget, and keep leaving it in embarrassing places.
Naturally, the condition of the potatoes deteriorated into a nasty slime.
That helped us appreciate the price we pay for keeping our pain and heavy
negativity!
Too often we think of forgiveness as a gift to the other person. While
that's true, it clearly is also a gift for ourselves!
So the next time we decide we can't (won't) forgive someone, we can ask
ourselves, "Isn't MY bag heavy enough?"
We can empty that sack out before it gets too heavy and slimy. Or better
yet, we don't even have to start to put those potatoes into it. We can be
willing to forgive in the same way that the Lord has forgiven us.
It is not easy to let go of our resentments. If you'd like more information
and some great techniques, just visit the special page at my Web Site:
www.frpat.com/resentments.htm. More than 48,000 people have already been
helped!
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Keep me in your prayers and know you're remembered in mine as well. May
God continue to draw near to you and those you love and keep you safe!
All the best and God Bless,
Father Pat
"Be still and know that I am God." ~Psalm 46:10
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May God Bless you and those you love, and keep you safe,
Father Pat
"Be still and know that I am God." ~Psalm 46:10
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