Pondering Tidbits of Truth - February 27, 2020

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. Peter Julian Eymard

"This is your mission, O Adorers: to weep at the feet of Jesus despised by His own friends, crucified in so many hearts, abandoned in so many places; to console the Heart of so tender a Father, Whom the devil, His enemy, has robbed of His children. A Eucharistic prisoner, He can no longer go after lost sheep, the prey of ravenous wolves. Your mission is to beg forgiveness for the guilty; to ransom them from divine mercy, which needs willing hearts as substitutes; to become victims of propitiation with the Savior Jesus, Who no longer able to suffer since His resurrection, will suffer in you an through you."

(From In The Light of the Monstrance)

Father Donald Haggerty

"The danger is quite real that souls habituated to constant technological stimuli will never be silent with themselves, never alone in a receptive manner, and so never able to discover God in a personal encounter of prayer."

 (From Contemplative Enigmas)

Archbishop Luis M. Martinez

"The Holy Spirit brings about our sanctification in two ways. The first is by helping us, moving us, and directing us, but in such a way that we are actually doing our own work. It is our glory to fulfill our own destiny. God has given us the wonderful and terrible gift of freedom, by which we ourselves are the artisans of our own happiness or or our own ruin.

But the Holy Spirit has another way of directing. It is His personal direction of our deeds, when He no longer merely illuminates us with His light, or warms us with His fire to show us the road that we must follow. In this second way, He Himself deigns  to move our faculties and urge us so that we may perform His work."

(From True Devotion to the Holy Spirit)