Pondering Tidbits of Truth - February 15, 2018

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. Anthony Mary Claret

"...the most important point on which depends your whole welfare in the spiritual life...one must tread in the footsteps which Jesus Christ left before us, and keeping Him faithful company, patiently bear the desolation and affliction in one's spirit, pain and hardships in one's body, outrages, injuries, ill-will and persecution from whatever source they come."

(From The Golden Key to Heaven)

Father Leo Thomas, O.P.

"Our eyes are the eyes of that God uses to weep for the pain in the world. Our emotions are the emotions God uses to have compassion upon His people. Our hands are the hands God uses to bestow His healing blessing upon those in need. If we do not weep, some people will never know God cares. if we do not lay our hand on others in a gesture of acceptance, some will never experience healing in this world...This is the mystery of the Incarnation: God will establish His presence in the world through the weakness and limitations of sinful humanity."

(From Healing Ministry: a Practical Guide)

St. Catherine of Siena

"O immeasurably tender love! Who would not be set afire with such love?...You gave us the Word, Your only-begotten Son...What was the reason for this? Love. For You loved us before we existed. O good, O eternal greatness, You made yourself lowly and small to make us great! No matter where I turn, I find nothing but your deep and burning love."

(From The Dialogue)