Do you know your purpose?  Learn more in the Newsletter...

Welcome to the 
Benedictine Cyber Toolbox
A Newsletter for Benedictine Living Today
 July-August 2015

10th Anniversary Edition of
St. Benedict's Toolbox: The Nuts and Bolts of Everyday
Benedictine Living
is here!
Give a look!  Click here for complete information.
 

Welcome to the Newsletter for Benedictine Living

To all who are joining the newsletter for the first time, WELCOME!  I hope that you will find it helpful and interesting.  To my long-time, faithful readers, glad you're back. The newsletter is now in a "Mobile-Friendly" form to help you more easily read it on a tablet or mobile phone (But please don't read while you're walking!)

If you would like to comment on the new format, good or bad, click here.

The change was a techno-challenge for me and significantly delayed my sending it to you.  I felt like this:

Not coping with the techno challenge

Oh dear.  Benedict says, "As soon as wrongful thoughts come into your heart, 
crush them on the rock that is Christ 
and share them with a spiritual mentor."  4.50

 I hope that you had a good summer with time for rest, relaxtion and renewal so that you cope with life's challenges better than I.

Blessings,
Jane


New Edition of 
St. Benedict's Toolbox Has Arrived

The new revised and expanded edition of St. Benedict's Toolbox has an additional 100 pages in a slightly larger size to bring you more practical wisdom from St. Benedict.  The edition includes a new chapter entitled
"Community, Relationships and Being a Benedictine Presence," expanded historical background to the Rule and new content and tools in each chapter.


Want to see a bit of the book?  Read the first chapter.

To order from Cokesbury at 1-800-672-1789 or online.
Or .order from Amazon.com.

These jaws went hungry
Give-A-Toolbox Project 
Donates Books Worldwide

Through the generous donations from Toolbox lovers across the country, 562 first editions of 
St. Benedict's Toolbox were saved from the jaws of the nasty book pulverizer (See picture).  The books were given free of charge to Christians in churches, church-sponsored organizations and monasteries worldwide who cannot afford to buy books but who long for spiritual inspiration and practical guidance in the Christian life.  To see the list of places where books were sent and more about the project, click here.

To all who contributed to this project, many, many thanks!

Jane's Article

Living Your Purpose

Do you know what your purpose is? Do I know what my purpose is? Are we each living our purpose?

To neglect our purpose is to neglect who God created us to be. So how might we discover and more fully live into the purpose for why we're even on this good earth?
A Tool for Living Your Purpose

In my article "Living Your Purpose" I shared clothing designer Eileen Fisher's experience of sitting in a chair, embodying her purpose and letting that purpose question her.  If you haven't read the article I invite you to by clicking here.

To learn about and use this Tool, please click here.
A Moment for Scripture

Sunrise in England 2008
Let me hear of your steadfast
love in the morning,
 for in you I put my trust.
   Teach me the way I should go,
    for to you I lift up my soul.
Psalm 143:8
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Two Kinds of Cooked Food:
Benedictine Recipes for Today

"It is enough, we believe, to provide all tables with two kinds of cooked food because of individual
weaknesses."   RB 39.1 

Tired of the same old recipes?  Try cooking the "Benedictine Way" with Jane...Lots of garlic and onion.  These are VEGETARIAN recipes but meat may be substituted if you are ill (RB 36.9).

Benedictine Asian Eggplant is the offering for this issue.  

If you would like to read about Benedict's instructions regarding food and drink, click here.

To read about the whys and hows of these recipes, read here.

Bring Jane to your Church, Monastery or Organization

Donnie and Bill discuss the Rule
St. Benedict's Church - Bollingbrook, IL.
Jane is available to lead retreats and programs on spirituality and the Benedictine way.  Content is personalized.  Programs will bring the ideas to life in a practical and down-to-earth way.

Retreats are modeled by Benedictine balance of time alone and time together and time for rest, study and prayer.

Contact Jane at 908-233-0134 or cell 908-463-3252 or email Jane.  For information about programs, visit Jane's website and click on "Retreats and Programs" on the main menu.  Here you can learn about current and past programs.  Click here to go to the website.
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The Rev. Dr. Jane A. Tomaine | St. Benedict's Toolbox Ministries | 908-463-3252 | janetomaine@stbenedictstoolbox.org | www.stbenedictstoolbox.org
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