Harvesting The Fruits of Contemplation

T hank you Allison Gingras and Elizabeth Reardon for hosting Worth Revisiting each week. Please visit them regularly at Reconciled to You and Theology is a Verb , respectively. May you find the following post worthwhile: I wish to share this post with you: Monday Musings - Hearts Have Grown Cold (Originally posted on March 6, 2017) Our world, country and Church are in turmoil - all because we have turned our backs to God. We think we know better than He. So prideful and self-centered have we become that we treat Him far too often as an unnecessary outdated crutch whom only weak and fearful people need. We prefer instant earthly pleasure rather than deferred eternal joy. We want to impose our will on Him rather than conforming ours to His. But it is not too late to allow Him to change our hearts and to lead us into His eternal embrace. But we must make that choice. He will not force Himself on us, not even on His priests. The way back i...

O my daughter! Would that the believers in the holy Catholic faith opened their hardened and stony hearts in order to attain to a true understanding of the Sacred and mysterious blessing of the Holy Eucharist!  (Image source: Wikimedia Commons ) If they would only detach themselves, root out and reject their earthly inclinations, and, restraining their passions, apply themselves with living faith to study by the Divine light their great happiness in thus possessing their eternal God in the Holy Sacrament and in being able, by its reception and constant intercourse, to participate in the full effects of this heavenly manna!  If they would only worthily esteem this precious gift, begin to taste its sweetness, and share in the hidden power of their omnipotent God! Then nothing would ever be wanting to them in their exile.

The biggest crisis in our Church is the lack of belief in our Loving Lord's Real Presence - Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity - in the Holy Eucharist. Take a look at this video and believe. Blessed are those who have not seen but believe! Lord, increase our belief in, reverence for, and appreciation of Your Presence here among us.   Let us go and adore Him!

(Photo©Michael Seagriff) 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. St. Leo the Great "Whoever truly wishes to venerate the Passion of the Lord should contemplate Jesus crucified with eyes of his soul, and in such a way that he identifies his own body with that of Jesus." (From Sermon 15 on the Passion ) St. Alphonsus Liguori "But God is merciful. Behold another common delusion by which the devil encourages sinners to persevere in sin! A certain author has said that more souls have been sent to hell by the mercy of God than by His justice. This indeed is the case; for men are induced by the deceits of the devil to persevere in sin, through confidence in God's mercy; and thus they are lost." (From Sermons For All the Sundays of the Year )   Servant of God, Madeleine Delbrel "In the area of God's work we are all a...

We thank Allison Gingras and Elizabeth Reardon for hosting Worth Revisiting each week and encourage you to visit them regularly at Reconciled to You and Theology is a Verb , respectively. I wish to share this post with you: Mercy and Justice Go Hand in Hand  (Originally published on February 15, 2016)  There is not now, never has been, and never will be any human being [save for our Most Blessed Mother Mary], who is not a sinner.  We are all in need of God’s mercy – an undeserved and unlimited mercy so long as we have breath in our lungs, acknowledge and repent of our sin s and humble ourselves to ask for it!. The sad reality of our time, however, is that so few of us see any sin in our lives that would warrant requesting God’s mercy.   So foolishly we neither seek nor ask for it.   If that is the condition of our souls at the time of our bodily death, only Justice can await us – eternal separation from He Who loved and created us to b...

(Image source: Wikimedia Commons ) "God has blessed our Churches with His Real Presence where He can be worshiped, adored and loved, where He changes, heals and comforts the hearts and souls (and sometimes bodies) of many. Yet few come to keep Him company or to make reparation to Him for those who do not believe in Him. Where are the courageous prayer warriors willing to get up in the early morning hours to be with Him while the rest of us sleep? How sad and lonely is Our Lord – so intimately present among us but ignored by the majority of people claiming to love Him." (From I Thirst For Your Love )