Aha! Here we have the key to developing a true relationship with God. We can know quite a bit about God through reason as Aristotle did when he formulated the "Uncaused cause", and through reading the Bible. It is only when we consider who we are and who He is that we can truly begin to know Him.
This is not just another Friday. This is Good Friday. Will that fact make any difference in the way we live this day? For far too many of us, today will likely pass much like any other Friday - a mad rush to get to the weekend with little thought of He Who made us and whose sacrificial and brutal death redeemed us. Where is our gratitude? Unforgettable (Source: Wikimedia Commons ) This the day so long foretold This the day of justice lacking This the day of man’s ingratitude This the day of cowardice and fear
"There are some people who go to Holy Communion to gain the esteem of the world. It avails them nothing. Others go out of habit. Poor Communions, they have not the right intention. Go to Communion to obey Jesus Christ, who has commanded you to do so, under pain of not having eternal life. Go to Communion to obtain the graces that you need, humility, patience, purity. Go to the Holy Table to unite yourself to Jesus Christ so that He will make of you other Christ’s, which happens to those who receive Him worthily. When you go to Holy Communion you should always have an intention, and say when about to receive the Body of Our Lord: 'O my good Father, who art in heaven, I offer you, at this moment, your dear Son, such as He was when He was taken down from the Cross, and laid in the arms of the Holy Virgin, and as she offered Him to You in sacrifice for us. I offer Him to You by the hands of Mary, to obtain such or such graces, faith, charity, humility.' My children, listen w
Pondering Tidbits of Truth i s my simple and inadequate way of providing nuggets of spiritual wisdom for you to chew on from time to time. St. Catherine of Siena "The wound in the side of Christ, the Precious Blood and the Pierced Heart were a constant preoccupation of St. Catherine of Siena. In a beautiful passage in one of her letters, she summarizes the inner meaning of these devotions: 'Place your lips to the side of the Son of God, for it is an opening which emits the fires of charity and pours forth its Blood to wash us from our iniquities. The soul which reposes there and looks with eyes of its soul on the Heart opened and consumed by love will be made comformable to Him, for seeing itself so much loved it cannot fail to love in return. That soul becomes perfect because what it loves it loves for God and it loves nothing outside of Him. In desire it becomes to Him another self, since is has no other will but that of God'. " (From Dominican Spirituality - Prin
Aha! Here we have the key to developing a true relationship with God. We can know quite a bit about God through reason as Aristotle did when he formulated the "Uncaused cause", and through reading the Bible. It is only when we consider who we are and who He is that we can truly begin to know Him.
ReplyDeleteIndeed Barb.
ReplyDeleteI am finding Father Nicholas Grou and his book, "The Spiritual Life" a treasure.
Amen. A point worth pondering.
ReplyDeleteFor a lifetime, no doubt! Thanks for the visit Anne.
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