“I know I would not be able to work one week if it were not for that continual force coming from Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament." - St. Teresa of Calcutta
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“I gaze at the Lord and He gazes back at me.” ~ CCC So says the peasant in the time of the Cure of Ars. I tend to take this approach in Your presence too, Lord. I look at You in the tabernacle, in the monstrance, on the cross. Somehow, someway, You are changing something inside of me and I know not what or how. “Here I am Lord.” ~ 1 Samuel 3 Here I am, Lord. Here I am with all my thoughts, emotions, worries, desires. My Mom. My sister. My girlfriend. Work. House chores. All of these dances around in my head. All those areas in my life can be sources of frustration; sometimes the world seems like it’s closing in around me, sadness. I cannot take much more of it. Take me as I am; do not abandon me. “I am with you always, until the end of the age.” ~ Matthew 28 This is on my mind. You are putting Your hand on my shoulder, smiling, and looking into my eyes with a love I cannot fathom. Kiss me on my forehead with the kiss of Your mouth. Em...
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. Robert Cardinal Sarah “Relativism, that terribly effective bleach, has wiped out everything in its path. Doctrinal and moral confusion is reaching its height. Evil is good, good is evil. Man no longer feels any need to be saved. The loss of the sense of salvation is the consequence of the loss of the transcendence of God.” (From The Day Is Now Far Spent) Father Thomas Dubay "God gives prayer growth precisely according to our degree of readiness for it. He forces no one. According as we are more or less receptive, He bestows more or less depth of communion. In the same manner, five hundred people in a parish church all hear the same sound waves during the homily, but they profit from it exactly as they are or are not disposed for the message. Jesus taught the same truth in his parable of the sower: from the wor...
(Image from Biblebios.com) If God used Balaam’s donkey to get that prophet’s attention, I guess he can use me to get yours. May these periodic postings on the second and fourth Mondays of each month (God willing) generate fruitful discussion and faithful change. I recently read a short but interesting article written by Father Michael Orsi. It is entitled How Same-Sex Marriage Won . You can read his article here at Catholic Exchange . As I am wont to do, I simply passed it along to several social media sites with the same question I posed in today's post. That's all I did. What a stir it created.
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