Harvesting The Fruits of Contemplation

Dearest Lord Jesus! You are present Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity in the Eucharist, we know.  Sometimes, as in the miracle You granted us in Bordeaux, France in 1822, You appear as a person, blessing the faithful.  Sometimes, as in Chirattakonam, India, in 2001, You appear as an image.  Particularly poignant to me are the miracles in which the Eucharist becomes a piece of flesh.  I’m thinking specifically of the 1996 miracle in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Since this was obviously a miracle — You allowed the Host to turn into flesh and stay uncorrupted for 3 years in the Tabernacle—then Cardinal Bergoglio allowed a sample to be sent to a doctor without sharing any information with the doctor about the source of the sample.   The doctor, a cardiologist/forensic pathologist, was disturbed by the fact that the sample was a piece of heart muscle that belonged to a living person when taken, and that this person had been beaten about the chest (as evidenced by...

“If a man is ever to enjoy communion with Christ, so as to have the blood of God running in his veins and the spirit of God's throbbing in his soul, he must die to the lower life of the flesh. He must be born again… And hence the lore of Calvary is the lore of every Christian: unless there is the cross there will never be the resurrection, unless there is the defeat of the Calvary there will never be the victory of Easter, unless there are the nails there will never be the glorious wounds, unless there is the garment of scorn there will never be the robes blazing like the sun,   unless there is the crown of thorns there will never be the halo of light...for the law laid down at the beginning of time which shall be effective until time shall be no more, is that no one shall be crowned unless he has struggled and overcome." (Ven. Fulton J. Sheen from The Moral Universe )

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. Ven. Fulton J. Sheen "Because kindness is related to love, it follows that the kind person loves another not for the pleasure the other person gives, not because the other person can do us a kindness in return, but because the other person is loveable in himself...To a great extent the world is what we make of it. We get back what we give. If we sow hate, we reap hate; if we scatter love and gentleness, we harvest love and happiness. Other people are like a mirror which reflects back on us the kind of image we cast. The kind person bears with the infirmities of others, never magnifies trifles , and avoids a spirit of fault-finding." (From  Way to Happiness )   Paul Washer "Your children will go to public school and they will be trained for somewhere around 15,000 hours in ungodly secular thought. And then they'll go to S...

  “What does Jesus Christ do in the Eucharist? It is God who, as our Savior, offers Himself each day for us to his Father's justice.  If you are in difficulties and sorrows, He will comfort and relieve you. If you are sick, He will either cure you or give you strength to suffer so as to merit Heaven. If the devil, the world, and the flesh are making war upon you, He will give you the weapons with which to fight, to resist, and to win victory. If you are poor, He will enrich you with all sorts of riches for time and eternity. Let us open the door of His Sacred and adorable Heart, and be wrapped about for an instant by the flames of His love, and we shall see what a God who loves us can do. O my God, who shall be able to comprehend?” St. John Vianney

 

  (Image Source: Hands at Mass ) "Christ not only was obedient to His heavenly Father by giving up His life on the cross, He continues this obedience by remaining with us in the Blessed Sacrament of the Altar. That is His greatest triumph of love, which according to His promise, He will fulfill until the end of the world. Our Lord, glorified in heaven, yet wishing to abide with us in unceasing unity, is obedient to the first invocation of the priest, who in His name, repeats the words of consecration: "This is my body...this is my blood" (Matthew 26:26,28). Christ does not look upon the person who utters these words, nor upon his degree of perfection, but He is obedient to every priest without exception, in order to descend on our altars and give Himself to us entirely."  (Mother Raphael Lubowidzka of the Sweetest Heart of Jesus, CSFN, from 100 Holy Hours for Women )