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.
Pope Pius XI
"Christ must reign in our minds
– which must assent firmly and submissively to all revealed truth and to
Christ’s teachings. He must reign in our wills
– which should bow in obedience to God’s laws and precepts. He must reign in
our hearts - which, turning aside from
all natural desires, should love God above all things and cling to Him alone.
He should reign in our bodies and members, which should serve as
instruments of our soul’s sanctification."
(From Encyclical Quas Primas)
Rev. M. Raymond, O.C.S.O.
"This
morning, I, and every priest who offered the Holy Sacrifice, took an
almost weightless wafer of wheat, a drop of water, and a very
insignificant amount of wine - three very ordinary, and truly
insignificant things, no matter how we view them - and we offered them
to God. Certainly in a world such as ours, these three things, plus a few
words my fellow priests and I spoke, amount to nothing. Yet, when
touched by God, when taken by Christ, when transubstantiated, what in
the world can compare with them?
Of
the three things offered, neither you nor I, by ordinary vision, could
see anything of the water; and of the wheat and the wine, the
appearances remained just as insignificant after Consecration as before.
But how deceiving are those appearances!
The
dynamism and power said to be latent in certain atoms, is as nothing
compared to the Power in what looks like a tiny wafer of wheat and a
half ounce of wine. Omnipotence is there. And so with our significant
lives and the truly insignificant acts that fill them. Once they are
placed in Christ Jesus, touched by God, taken into His Christ, they can
save the world."
(From God, A Woman and The Way)
Catherine Doherty, Servant of God
"The
naked crucified One always knows His own, and [He] especially cannot
resist the ones who strip themselves inwardly naked for Him and immolate
themselves with Him on His own cross for love of Him and for the souls
for whom He dies.
Stripped
in this fashion, dying to self, crucified through poverty and
obedience, walking in humility which is truth, you will be able to feel
what the poor feel. You will heal, console, and bring multitudes to God.
You will be truly poor in the full sense of that glorious word, and
hence truly rich."
(From Dearly Beloved, Volume 1)
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