Pondering Tidbits of Truth - July 9, 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.
Robert Cardinal Sarah
“Excessive, presumptuous, slanderous, and immoderate chatter often has disastrous consequences. Silence fosters recollection; it is always compromised by facile words and demagoguery. A person can recollect himself, but if he is not capable of holding his tongue, his meditation will not help him to enter into the mystery of God or to prostrate himself silently at the foot of his throne.”
(From The Power of Silence)
Vince Sigala
“I was suddenly standing in the back of a church. Behind me were two, solidly heavy, large wooden doors. There was no way through this entrance from the outside and no way out of from the inside. I was made to know that the doors had been locked by God Himself. Outside of the doors, there was great confusion, chaos, horror, fear, and death. As I looked toward the altar, a priest was elevating the Sacred Host, and people were kneeling in the pews and in the isles, some with their heads touching the ground. Not a sound came from any of them, only great reverence and silence. When the Host had reached its highest elevation, crystal clear water, somewhat thick and with light emanating from within it, flowed from the Sacred Host and into the air. The water was alive, and it slowly washed over everyone there.”
(From The Warning- Testimonies and Prophecies of the Illumination of Conscience)
Nagai Takashi
“All of us will have to render an account of our lives when we die. God will not be interested in who or what we were. No, only in this: how did we live? That will be the sole matter for judgment. A company director won’t be able to pull rank on a waiter, and a fisherman’s wife will be on a par with a millionaire’s wife. Ships’ officers will receive no preference over ships’ cooks. All will be judged by exactly the same measure: did we use our talents well and for his glory?”
(From A Song for Nagasaki)