Harvesting The Fruits of Contemplation

(Image Source: Wikimedia Commons ) "Imagine now that you hear these sweet words from your Savior: 'It is because you are poor that I come into you; it is because you are sick that I come to heal you; it was to give you My life and let you share My sanctity that I made Myself Sacrament; come then with confidence and give Me Your heart; that is all I desire from you'." St. Peter Julian Eymard from Holy Communion )

Certainly our Blessed Mother never intended to limit these words of encouragement to the ears of St. Juan Diego. No, this is the message she wants all her children to hear and embrace:

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. Christine Watkins  “For now, there is only one thing that is needed: to love God with all that we have, and to lover others as ourselves. If our day is spent in turmoil over tomorrow, our Father’s will has vanished in the clouds of worry.”  (From Mary’s Mantle Consecration ) Father R. Garrigou-LaGrange, O.P. "Preparation for the life of prayer depends not only on humility, but also on mortification...if our minds are preoccupied with worldly interests and affairs, and our souls agitated by too human an affection, by jealousy, by the memory of wrongs done to us by our neighbor, or by rash judgments, we shall not be able to converse with our Lord. If in the course of the day we criticize our superiors or fail in docility toward them, when evening comes we shall hardly be likely to find the presen...