Pondering Tidbits of Truth - October 29, 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.

  

 

 

Archbishop Joseph Raya

“Faith doesn’t mean you can’t panic. Mary and Joseph almost certainly panicked when they lost Jesus in the temple. What it means is that you keep on going even if you do panic. You just do whatever is right in front of you, and keep on going, in faith that it will all work out.”

 (From July-August 2020 issue of RESTORATION published by Madonna House)

 

 

Dan Burke

“No matter how [spiritual] consolation specifically surfaces within us, if it is authentic, it will always draw us to submit to the magisterium of the Church and to God’s will and ways. It is really no more complicated than that. The challenge is that if we are not well catechized – and most of us are not – we may not understand or even notice when we are led astray. By God’s grace we have a catechism that addresses all the most important topics of our faith. The more we know our faith, the better our practice of discernment will be.”

(From Spiritual Warfare and the Discernment of Spirits)

 

Pope Benedict XVI

 “A first essential setting for learning hope is prayer. When no one listens to me anymore, God still listens to me. When I can no longer talk to anyone or call upon anyone, I can always talk to God. When there is no longer anyone to help me deal with a need or expectation that goes beyond the human capacity for hope, He can help me.”

 (From On Christian Hope)

 

There Is Nothing on This Earth More Magnificent Than The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass

 

Eucharistic Reflection - Let Us Remind Ourselves!

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"Let us remind ourselves that each of our Communions ought to be substantially more fervent than the preceding, since each of them ought to increase the love of God in us, and thus dispose us to receive our Lord with a greater fervor of will on the following day."

(Father Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P. from The Three Conversions in the Spiritual Life)

Monday Musings - Lord Teach Me!

 

 

 

This Is No Time To Be Timid! Share God's Truth and the Unambiguous Teaching of This Courageous Priest - Silence in the Face of This Intrinsic Evil Makes You Complicit - Speak Up and Save Souls!

 

Looking At Pain With The Mind of Christ

We are not required to ask for suffering. We are not prohibited from seeking to be relieved from our suffering. But when God wills it, we can accept it and recognize it for what it actually is:

Eucharistic Reflection - He Allows Himself To Be Found

"God is not the great unknown, whom we can but dimly conceive. We need not fear, as heathens do, that He might be capricious and bloodthirsty or too far away and too great to hear men. He is there [in the Eucharist], and we always know where we can find Him, where He allows himself to be found and is waiting for us.

 

Today this should once more sink into our hearts: God is near. God knows us. God is waiting for us in Jesus Christ in the Blessed Sacrament. Let us not leave Him waiting in vain! Let us not, through distraction and lethargy, pass by the greatest and most important thing life offers us...Let us not pass it heedlessly by. Let us take time, in the course of the week, in passing, to go in and spend a moment with the Lord Who is near. During the day our churches should not be allowed to be dead houses, standing empty and seemingly useless. Jesus Christ's invitation is always proffered from them. This sacred proximity to us is always alive in them. It is always calling us and inviting us in. This is what is lovely about Catholic churches, that within them there is, as it were, always worship, because the Eucharistic presence of the Lord dwells always within them.

(Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI from God Is Near Us)

Pondering Tidbits of Truth - October 15, 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

 

 

 

Father Kevin M. Cusick

“When we are ashamed of the truth about how God made us, and ashamed to tell others that truth, we are asking our Lord to be ashamed of us before His heavenly Father when we stand before the throne of the Triune God at the end of our earthly lives.”

(From article, The Kingdom For A Pronoun, published in the October 1, 2020 issue of The Wanderer)

 

Venerable Bruno Lanteri

 

Be on guard against discouragement and lack of trust. Strive to do well all that you do, but do this with respect for your humanity, without striving for impossible perfection, focusing simply on the day at hand. Remember that "the just man falls seven times a day," and so you will find blessing in beginning not only every day, but every hour."

(From Overcoming Spiritual Discouragement) 

 

Jesus to St. Catherine of Siena

"Nothing has ever happened and nothing happens save by the plan of My divine Providence. In all things that I permit, in all things that I give you, in tribulations and in consolations, temporal or spiritual, I do nothing save for your good, so that yo may be sanctified in Me and that My Truth be fulfilled in you."

(From The Dialogue)