Harvesting The Fruits of Contemplation

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 . Catherine Doherty, Servant of God "One has to begin at the beginning. The beginning is to finally acknowledge your own immense poverty . Now you have to fully, deeply realize that all that you are, all that you have is from God! From this follows that you have and are nothing . Once you make this truth of your own poverty before God the very marrow of your thoughts, your life, your love, your body, in a word, your very being, then you will become truly humble. Then you will walk in truth, walk in and with God..." (From How Poor Can You Get? by Father David May) Saint Maximilian Kolbe "You [Jesus], however, did not stop with this [dying for love of us], but foreseeing all that would happen across 19 centuries from the moment of these outpourings of Your love to my appearance on earth, You des

Thank you Allison Gingras  (Reconciled To You) and Elizabeth Riordan ( Theology Is A Verb ) for another opportunity to re-publish our favorite posts on Worth Revisiting . Stop for a visit now (and every Wednesday). The gifted writers who post there each week will no doubt have much of value to offer you.   Here is my contribution: Monday Musings - If You Love God and His Priests  (Originally published January 23, 2017) The tragic truth about our Catholic Church today and far too many of its bishops, priests, religious and lay people is the failure to make the Sacred Eucharist the center of our lives, as our Lord has commanded us to do. In far too many parishes, we have, for all practical purposes, ignored and abandoned our Eucharistic Lord imprisoned in tabernacles behind locked doors.  When we are in His Presence we often act irreverently and as if He were not there. Multiple surveys have concluded that

"The saints in heaven live in perpetual adoration, because their joy is derived from eternal contemplation.  (Image source: Wikimedia Commons ) On earth, where in some manner we must imitate the life of heaven, Christian devotion has striven to make the Sacred Host the center of perpetual contemplation and adoration. …The Sacred Host perpetually exposed on its Eucharistic throne, and, before it, day and night, loving souls in adoration and contemplation! Is this not truly heaven on earth?"  (Father Jose Guadalupe Trevino from The Holy Eucharist )