Comments on: The Better Part – A Christ-Centered Resource for Personal Prayer http://rcspiritualdirection.com/blog/2010/01/24/the-better-part-a-christ-centered-resource-for-personal-prayer Seek Him - Find Him - Follow Him Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:09:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Anonymous http://rcspiritualdirection.com/blog/2010/01/24/the-better-part-a-christ-centered-resource-for-personal-prayer/comment-page-1#comment-6375 Anonymous Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:57:00 +0000 http://rcspiritualdirection.com/blog/?p=164#comment-6375 Dan here - feel free as long as you provide a link back as you have indicated. Blessings on your efforts! Dan here – feel free as long as you provide a link back as you have indicated. Blessings on your efforts!

]]> By: Kristen Soley http://rcspiritualdirection.com/blog/2010/01/24/the-better-part-a-christ-centered-resource-for-personal-prayer/comment-page-1#comment-6374 Kristen Soley Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:46:00 +0000 http://rcspiritualdirection.com/blog/?p=164#comment-6374 Father, I have been doing "The Better Part" as my morning Devo and it is truly fruit bearing.  I thank you for it.  I have a blog geared for women called to the vocation of wife / mother.  There have been several times that would have loved to add one of your quotes from your book to a post.  If I link to your book, may I quote you in the book?... for example... the coke quote...  p 139, # 28...  that is perfect and everybody needs to hear it!  Humbly, Kristen Father, I have been doing “The Better Part” as my morning Devo and it is truly fruit bearing.  I thank you for it.  I have a blog geared for women called to the vocation of wife / mother.  There have been several times that would have loved to add one of your quotes from your book to a post.  If I link to your book, may I quote you in the book?… for example… the coke quote…  p 139, # 28…  that is perfect and everybody needs to hear it! 
Humbly,
Kristen

]]> By: Anonymous http://rcspiritualdirection.com/blog/2010/01/24/the-better-part-a-christ-centered-resource-for-personal-prayer/comment-page-1#comment-6184 Anonymous Fri, 06 Jan 2012 20:30:00 +0000 http://rcspiritualdirection.com/blog/?p=164#comment-6184 Eileen - yes - search in the iTunes store for "Better Part" - let me know if you can't find it. Eileen – yes – search in the iTunes store for “Better Part” – let me know if you can’t find it.

]]> By: Anonymous http://rcspiritualdirection.com/blog/2010/01/24/the-better-part-a-christ-centered-resource-for-personal-prayer/comment-page-1#comment-6141 Anonymous Wed, 28 Dec 2011 21:01:00 +0000 http://rcspiritualdirection.com/blog/?p=164#comment-6141 I love this book, but  I am having vision problems and the print is very hard for me to read. So I was delited to see Praising and Pondering today. I am able to enlarge the print on my computer to 125% so I could see it. I suppose I will have to look toward getting a kindle to make more books accessible. Thank you for this treasure. I love this book, but  I am having vision problems and the print is very hard for me to read. So I was delited to see Praising and Pondering today. I am able to enlarge the print on my computer to 125% so I could see it. I suppose I will have to look toward getting a kindle to make more books accessible. Thank you for this treasure.

]]> By: Cheryln27 http://rcspiritualdirection.com/blog/2010/01/24/the-better-part-a-christ-centered-resource-for-personal-prayer/comment-page-1#comment-6035 Cheryln27 Thu, 22 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0000 http://rcspiritualdirection.com/blog/?p=164#comment-6035 Dear Dan and Fr. Bartunek, I just recently bought the book "The Better Part"-Each year around special Liturgical Feasts, our pastor highly recommends his congregation to go out and buy this this book- well I finally put 2+2 together and realized this book on this website was the same one...what a awesome treasure find!...aside from the 1000 pages that are delicately paper thin w/ a gold ribbon bookmark and it weighs a good solid few pounds, it is the most surprisingly comforting and easy to read book that I have come across in my spiritual book repertoire. It's like sitting down with Jesus as He is putting an arm around you like a good friend. He speaks to you in this book in a very revealing, personal and soothing approach. I am drawn to it each day for a quiet moment and don't want to put the book down for any interruption.... Each page of the scripture readings with Jesus 's interpretations as teacher and friend and its meditations is a page turner, both to be savored and contemplative.  It is worth every penny as a scriptural resource guide.  Thank you Fr. Bartunek for putting together this wonderful treasure! Cheryl  Dear Dan and Fr. Bartunek,
I just recently bought the book “The Better Part”-Each year around special Liturgical Feasts, our pastor highly recommends his congregation to go out and buy this this book- well I finally put 2+2 together and realized this book on this website was the same one…what a awesome treasure find!…aside from the 1000 pages that are delicately paper thin w/ a gold ribbon bookmark and it weighs a good solid few pounds, it is the most surprisingly comforting and easy to read book that I have come across in my spiritual book repertoire. It’s like sitting down with Jesus as He is putting an arm around you like a good friend. He speaks to you in this book in a very revealing, personal and soothing approach. I am drawn to it each day for a quiet moment and don’t want to put the book down for any interruption…. Each page of the scripture readings with Jesus ‘s interpretations as teacher and friend and its meditations is a page turner, both to be savored and contemplative.  It is worth every penny as a scriptural resource guide. 
Thank you Fr. Bartunek for putting together this wonderful treasure!
Cheryl 

]]> By: Tattered Titles – And the winners are… - Roman Catholic Spiritual Direction http://rcspiritualdirection.com/blog/2010/01/24/the-better-part-a-christ-centered-resource-for-personal-prayer/comment-page-1#comment-5487 Tattered Titles – And the winners are… - Roman Catholic Spiritual Direction Sat, 10 Dec 2011 21:15:17 +0000 http://rcspiritualdirection.com/blog/?p=164#comment-5487 [...] The Better Part – Fr. John Bartunek [...] [...] The Better Part – Fr. John Bartunek [...]

]]> By: Blog around the world update for 2011 – God is at work… - Roman Catholic Spiritual Direction http://rcspiritualdirection.com/blog/2010/01/24/the-better-part-a-christ-centered-resource-for-personal-prayer/comment-page-1#comment-5261 Blog around the world update for 2011 – God is at work… - Roman Catholic Spiritual Direction Sun, 04 Dec 2011 22:50:11 +0000 http://rcspiritualdirection.com/blog/?p=164#comment-5261 [...] serve you we have produced a regular flow of quality content that includes exceptional books like The Better Part (in print, on Kindle, and iPhone!) and Encounter with Mercy, and personal spiritual guidance. If [...] [...] serve you we have produced a regular flow of quality content that includes exceptional books like The Better Part (in print, on Kindle, and iPhone!) and Encounter with Mercy, and personal spiritual guidance. If [...]

]]> By: Anonymous http://rcspiritualdirection.com/blog/2010/01/24/the-better-part-a-christ-centered-resource-for-personal-prayer/comment-page-1#comment-5113 Anonymous Tue, 29 Nov 2011 02:59:00 +0000 http://rcspiritualdirection.com/blog/?p=164#comment-5113 I can't follow your reasoning about Jesus' birthday Joe.  We celebrate His conception because of the miracle that it is.........yet Jesus was born....left His mother's womb and entered the world as a baby.  Scripture tells us that the angels were celebrating this event.  This was the first coming of Christ.  If my understanding of the Advent season is correct, we use this time to remember Christ's birth, to remind ourselves of, and prepare for His second coming, and most importantly, to reflect on our acceptance of Christ in our own lives...as did Our Lady.   It's a time to re-prioritize our lives. My anxieties stemmed from trying to mix the secular holiday and traditions with the religious.  Also from a lack of trust in God.....being a mom and wanting things to be perfect for my family, and not being realistic about kids and life.  As my faith has grown, my anxieties have dissolved. God Rocks! :) I can’t follow your reasoning about Jesus’ birthday Joe.  We celebrate His conception because of the miracle that it is………yet Jesus was born….left His mother’s womb and entered the world as a baby.  Scripture tells us that the angels were celebrating this event.  This was the first coming of Christ.  If my understanding of the Advent season is correct, we use this time to remember Christ’s birth, to remind ourselves of, and prepare for His second coming, and most importantly, to reflect on our acceptance of Christ in our own lives…as did Our Lady.   It’s a time to re-prioritize our lives.

My anxieties stemmed from trying to mix the secular holiday and traditions with the religious.  Also from a lack of trust in God…..being a mom and wanting things to be perfect for my family, and not being realistic about kids and life.  As my faith has grown, my anxieties have dissolved.

God Rocks! :)

]]> By: Joe http://rcspiritualdirection.com/blog/2010/01/24/the-better-part-a-christ-centered-resource-for-personal-prayer/comment-page-1#comment-5112 Joe Mon, 28 Nov 2011 23:38:00 +0000 http://rcspiritualdirection.com/blog/?p=164#comment-5112 I read Fr. Bartunek's remedy for avoiding anxiety during Advent.  Although I am so excited to have found this website, as I have just recently been craving a spiritual advisor, I have to ask: Why does any Catholic get anxious about Advent?  Why prepare?  I realize that one should prepare for the Feast when we celebrate the time mankind first saw the Face of God and that we should give Jesus a birthday present of a pure, devoted soul; but should not all that preparation and avoidance of anxiety preceed the Annunciation, when we celebrate the moment when the Word Became Flesh?  Jesus' birthday is a day in His Life that began nine months earlier.  Why would anyone be anxious?    I read Fr. Bartunek’s remedy for avoiding anxiety during Advent.  Although I am so excited to have found this website, as I have just recently been craving a spiritual advisor, I have to ask: Why does any Catholic get anxious about Advent?  Why prepare?  I realize that one should prepare for the Feast when we celebrate the time mankind first saw the Face of God and that we should give Jesus a birthday present of a pure, devoted soul; but should not all that preparation and avoidance of anxiety preceed the Annunciation, when we celebrate the moment when the Word Became Flesh?  Jesus’ birthday is a day in His Life that began nine months earlier.  Why would anyone be anxious?   

]]> By: Why am I in this terrible storm? - Catholic Spiritual Direction http://rcspiritualdirection.com/blog/2010/01/24/the-better-part-a-christ-centered-resource-for-personal-prayer/comment-page-1#comment-3786 Why am I in this terrible storm? - Catholic Spiritual Direction Sun, 02 Oct 2011 15:27:51 +0000 http://rcspiritualdirection.com/blog/?p=164#comment-3786 [...] Dear Father John, since receiving “The Better Part“, I have set aside a time every morning and have read and meditated on the meditation [...] [...] Dear Father John, since receiving “The Better Part“, I have set aside a time every morning and have read and meditated on the meditation [...]

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