Pondering Tidbits of Truth - Week of August 16, 2012

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.

From Scripture (Hebrews 13:3)

“Be as mindful of prisoners as if you were sharing their imprisonment, and of the ill-treated as of yourselves, for you may yet suffer as they do.

From Saint Edmund Campion

[When asked to save his life by renouncing his Catholic Faith, this saint had this to say;]

“Your Majesty, for the past ten years I have given this matter thought. I thought about it seriously when I left the Church of England and went to the continent to be reconciled with Rome. I thought of it seriously when I entered the Society of Jesus and was ordained a priest. And ever since I have been back in England, how many times I thought that I could indeed save my life if I turned traitor to my Lord Christ and His Church! But He Himself has said to us all: ‘He who would save his life must lose it.’

I remain true to Christ and His Church.”

(From Edmund Campion-Hero of God’s Underground by Harold C. Gardiner, S.J)

From Jean-Baptiste Chautard, O.C.S.O.

“It is impossible to meditate upon the consequences of the dogma of the Real Presence, of the Sacrifice of the Altar, and of Communion without being led to the conclusion that Our Lord wanted to institute this Sacrament in order to make it the center of all action, of all loyal idealism, of every apostolate that could be of any real use to the Church.”

(From The Soul of the Apostolate)