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Body and Soul
*Recipe of the Week*
Healthy Dairy and Gluten Free Almond Flour Cookies
We must nourish our body as well as our soul. Let us steward well the temple God has given us!
Ingredients
2 cups of Almond Flour
1/4 cup Maple Syrup or Honey
1/4 cup Coconut oil (melted and cooled)
1/2 tsp Baking Powder
1/3 cup dairy free dark chocolate chips.
1/4 tsp Salt
1tsp Vanilla Extract
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 350 °F (180 °C). Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper and lightly oil the paper with coconut oil. Set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, add all the ingredients except the chocolate chips: almond flour, baking powder, maple syrup, melted coconut oil, vanilla extract, and salt.
- Stir with a wooden spoon or the paddle attachment of a stand mixer, until the cookie dough forms.
- Fold in the chocolate chips and stir to incorporate.
- Divide the dough into 12 small balls, lightly oil your hands to handle the dough as it's a bit sticky.
- Place each dough ball onto the prepared baking sheet, leaving a thumb of space between each cookie. Lightly press the top of each one with the palm of your hand. They will not spread a lot, the shape you create now is what you get at the end.
- Bake the cookies on the center rack of the oven for 14-16 minutes at 350 °F (180 °C) until golden brown on the edges.
- Let them cool them down for 10 minutes on the cookie sheet, then slide a spatula under each cookie and cool down on a wire rack for 1 hour.
A Step Closer To Heaven
June is dedicated to the honoring and adoration of the Sacred Heart of Jesus! May we learn anew, throughout the coming weeks, to live as flames of His Sacred Love. May our love be purified and renewed in the furnace of His Divine Love and sacrificial Heart. Sacred Heart of Jesus, Have Mercy on us and on the whole world!
I must decrease so He may increase...
I must decrease so He may increase...
Our Highlighted Reflection Of The Week
God, Man, and Divine Revelation
We must consider Divine Revelation in reference to God's action of revelation of His person and His Divine Love. The Catechism illustrates that "Through an utterly free decision, God has revealed Himself and given Himself to man. This he does by revealing the mystery, His plan of loving goodness, formed from all eternity in Christ, for the benefit of all men. God has fully revealed this plan by sending us his beloved Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit."(CCC, 50). The final goal of divine revelation is yo draw us into intimacy with God through a shared knowledge of who he is. Such an intimacy with God is only possible through true knowledge of who God is, which requires us to know God past intellectual knowledge. Intimacy with God requires divine love, Christ becoming flesh to live and die for us. Through divine revelation God shows us himself and also the way to him. Such an experience of divine love can only confirm us in our identity as sons and daughters of this love. We, as children of God, receive our divine inheritance through eternal life. Divine Revelation is both person/ideas and a process. God's act of revelation, in the end, upholds our cooperation and free will.
Grace is in general ( gratia, Charis,) a supernatural gift that the Creator of the Universe bestows upon the intellectual creatures of the world. More so, sanctifying grace is vital in the obtainment of eternal salvation. A very beautiful aspect of sanctifying grace is that not only does God graciously relinquish it to us despite our sins, but He also allows us to pursue His grace further, through salutary acts or in a state of holiness. Salvation, which is essentially eternal heavenly bliss, is a result of knowing and pursuing the Triune God, who even to the one unendowed with grace "inhabiteth light inaccessible."(1 Tim. 6:16). The majestic edifice of Christianity is caressed in its entirety by the fundamental pillar of grace.
-E.B.