Harvesting The Fruits of Contemplation

“Be a Catholic: When you kneel before an altar, do it in such a way that others may be able to recognize that you know before whom you kneel.” - St. Maximilian Kolbe

“…refuse God nothing.” – Father Willie Doyle

Monday Musings - The Key To Happiness

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June 20, 2016

The key is not worldly power, possessions and prestige. It is interior:

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Pondering Tidbits of Truth - October 11, 2012

October 11, 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. Mary Comm “We (the church) have been an unintentional accomplice to the millions of lives lost and to the multiplied millions of lives devastated by abortion. We didn’t want them to abort. We didn’t mean for them to abort. But, because of our lack of knowledge, because of our fear, we have continued to stand by and do nothing. We, God’s hands and feet in this dark and hurting world, have been unintentional, unknowledgeable accomplices, but an accomplice nonetheless.” ( From In Our Midst Ministries, Inc.) Dietrich Bonhoeffer “In New York,...

A Glimpse of St. Louis Bertrand

October 09, 2012

St. Louis Bertrand, O.P. (1526-1581) His early years – On January 1, 1526, one hundred and seven years after the death of St. Vincent Ferrer, another Dominican saint was born in Valencia – St. Louis Bertrand. He was actually baptized in the same Church and font in which St. Vincent had been baptized. Louis’s father, John, was related to and had an ardent devotion to Saint Vincent . He passed that devotion to his son – one which Louis treasured throughout his life. Louis has been described as “a fretful child and nothing seemed to comfort him except the sight of the holy images in the churches”. (Wilberforce 15) However, at an early age, he dedicated himself to the service of God and his studies. He learned to read and recite the Office of Our Lady before he was eight years old. As he grew older, he seldom spoke “unless the...

May More of Our Priests Accept God's Invitation to Come Before His Eucharistic Face and Enter His Sacred Heart

July 09, 2012

In case you have not recently read Vultus Christi, Father Mark’s blog , make sure you read what follows and then share it with everyone you know, especially with as many priests as you can. Recommend Vultus Christi to your priests. We need to challenge our priests and they us. We must pray for their sanctification, as they pray for our holiness as well. The Friendship of Christ for His Priests How it grieves My Heart when the unique love I offer a soul is spurned, or ignored, or regarded with indifference. I tell you this so that you may make reparation to My Heart by accepting the love I have for you and by living in My friendship. Receive My gifts, My kindnesses, My attention, My mercies for the sake of those who refuse what I so desire to give them. Do this especially for My priests, your brothers. I would fill each one of My priests with My merciful love, I would take each one into the shelter of My wounded Side, ...

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Monday Musings - Seek God's Grace To Change Now

May 25, 2026

O Christian soul, what will be your sentiments at the hour of death with regard to this world and all its perishable goods, vain honors, false riches and cheating pleasures. Alas! The world must then end in your regard. It will turn upside down before your eyes, and you will begin to see the nothingness of all those things on which you had here set your heart. How will you then despise all worldly honors and preferences when you see yourself at the brink of the grave, where the worm will make no distinction between the king and the beggar. How little account, will you then make of the esteem of men, who then will think no more of you. How will you undervalue your riches, which now must be left behind you, when six feet of earth and a coffin and a shroud will be all your possession. How despicable will all worldly pleasures seem to you, which at the best could never give you any true satisfaction, and now fly from you and dissolve ...

Eucharistic Reflection - Have You Thanked Him?

May 26, 2026

"My Lord Jesus Christ, who, for the love You bear to mankind, do remain night and day in this Sacrament, full of pity and love, awaiting, calling, and receiving all who come to visit You; I believe that You are present in the Sacrament of the Altar; I adore You from the depths of my own nothingness; I thank You for the many graces You have given me, and especially for having given me Yourself in this Sacrament." (St. Alphonsus de Liguori)

My Brother Pete - May He Rest in Peace

May 28, 2026

Today is the seventh anniversary of the death of my brother Pete. He was a Marine’s marine who gave his all to the Corps and the defense of this nation and its freedoms. May his sacrifices, sufferings and courage never be forgotten. May I ask you to join me in praying: “Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him. May his soul, and the souls of all the faithfully departed, through the mercy of God rest in peace. Amen". We miss you Pete!

Reparation – A Forgotten Word and Concept

March 09, 2015

(Photo©Michael Seagriff) In a world which, for the most part, no longer recognizes sin or the eternal consequences of sin, and where so many summarily announce that everyone will go to heaven, “reparation” is oftentimes an unwelcomed word and theological concept. How gravely mistaken are the souls who feel this way. So what does “reparation” mean? The late Servant of God, Father John A. Hardon S.J, offers this simple explanation: “Reparation is the act or fact of making amends. It implies an attempt to restore things to their normal or sound conditions, as they were before something wrong was done. It applies mainly to recompense for the losses sustained or the harm caused by some morally bad action. With respect to God, it means making up with greater love for the failure in love through sin; it means restoring what was unjustly taken and compensating with generosity for the selfishness that caused the injury.” Obviously there is much more ...

Monday Musings - To Scold or Not To Scold

January 05, 2015

Not to beat a dead horse but I believe this is worth repeating: Love and Justice require us to share God's Truth unambiguously but lovingly with our fallen-away or non-practicing Catholic family and friends.

Eucharistic Reflection - Our Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament

June 12, 2013

(Source: Missionaries of the Blessed Sacrament) "Mary devoted herself exclusively to the Eucharistic Glory of Jesus. She knew that it was the desire of the Eternal Father to make the Eucharist known, loved and served by all men; that need of Jesus’ Heart was to communicate to all men His gifts of grace and glory. She knew, too, that it was the mission of the Holy Spirit to extend and perfect in the hearts of men, the reign of Jesus Christ, and that the Church had been founded only to give Jesus to the world. All Mary’s desire, then, was to make Him known in His Sacrament. Her intense love for Jesus felt the need of expanding in this way, of consecrating itself - as a kind of relief, as it were - because of her own inability to glorify Him as much as she desired.