Pondering Tidbits of
Truth is my simple and
inadequate way of providing nuggets of spiritual wisdom for you to chew on from
time to time.
Frank Morriss
“Unfortunately,
there is a tendency to think that the laity need only gather together and
receive inspiration from the Holy Spirit. It is a situation readily open to
that master of deceit – Satan, who can quite easily convince the foolish that
he is indeed the holy spirit, when
he is not even a holy spirit.”
(From Lumen
Gentium: The Church of Our Time Looks at Herself)
St. John Chrysostom
“Zeal for the
salvation of souls is of so great a merit before God, that to give up all our
goods to the poor, or to spend our whole life in the exercises of all sorts of
austerities cannot equal the merit of it. There is no service more agreeable to
God than this one. To employ one's life in this blessed labor is more pleasing
to the Divine Majesty than to suffer martyrdom. Would you not feel happy if you
could spend large sums of money in corporal works of mercy? But know that he who
labors for the salvation of souls does far more; nay, the zeal of souls is of
far greater merit before God…than the working of miracles.”
St. Alphonsus de Liguori
“Our most loving Redeemer,
on the last night of his life, knowing that the much-longed-for time had
arrived on which He should die for the love of man, had not the heart to leave
us alone in this valley of tears; but in order that He might not be separated
from us even by death, He would leave us His whole self as food in the Sacrament
of the Altar; giving us to understand by this that, having given us this gift
of infinite worth, He could give us nothing further to prove his love: He loved them to the end.”
(From The Passion
and Death of Jesus Christ)
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Colleen:
ReplyDeleteYou are most kind. Words have the power to touch, to move and to transform.
Mike