Harvesting The Fruits of Contemplation

[ What follows is one of the many painful but necessary Truths to ponder if we are to  to re-establish awe, amazement, and belief in, and reverence for, our loving Lord physically present in the Holy Eucharist. ]    ( Bibliothèque Municipale de Reims, ms. 993, Folio 158v) "…we did not wake up one fine day in 2016 and find ourselves suddenly confronted with Eucharistic sacrilege being promoted from on high. It was a long, slow process that led to this moment. It consisted in the gradual dilution of the sacredness of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and of the Blessed Sacrament at its heart, with institutionally tolerated sacrilege along the way. Fifty years of desacralization has ended in the temerity of contradicting the entire Catholic tradition about the most holy of all of the Church’s mysteries. The first major step was the allowance of Communion in the hand while standing - a sharp break from the deeply ingrained practice of many centuries of kneeling in adoration at

How different would we conduct ourselves if we really believed this Scripture? We deceive ourselves and jeopardize our salvation if we think we will get away with what we have said and done in the dark.

    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.     Madeliene Delbrel, Servant of God "Saving the world does not mean making it happy; it means showing the world the meaning of its suffering and giving it a joy that nothing can take away. If we must fight against the misery and misfortune which Christ took so seriously as to speak of judging us in the end solely by what we did for others in this regard, we must keep in mind that what is at stake is ultimately not solving these problems and constructing a second earthly paradise. Rather, what is at stake is eternal life." (From We, the Ordinary People of the Streets )   Venerable Bruno Lanteri “If you want peace in this life, you must, first of all, decide to accommodate yourself to circumstances and not demand that circumstances accommodate themselves to you. You must, secondly, strive to practice uniformity of your will

"Why art Thou left alone in this Most Holy Sacrament? Where are Thy adorers and Thy friends? Has Thy Church failed to announce Thy Gospel to the world, and to make Thy presence known? Why art Thou so ignored, forsaken, and left alone in Thy tabernacles, without honor and with no one to thank Thee for the gift of Thy Real Presence? Why is the world kept in the dark concerning Thee in this Most Holy Sacrament, when Thou art all that this world needs, and all that souls desire?"  ( Vultus Christi - Thursday of Adoration and Reparation for Priests )

 

“Oh! How I pity the blindness of souls who do not know God, who are weary and bored in His holy presence, who are not moved to reverence by His greatness!... The heavens and earth are full of the majesty of His glory and we do not think about it. We do not give ourselves to that adorable fullness in order to have a share in it. Photo by Maria Oswalt on Unsplash )   What pains me most is that during the most precious moments of our lives, those for prayer, we allow our souls to remain without attention, without respect, without vigilance, and without love toward a Majesty so adorable. Alas! If we were before an earthly monarch, what would our disposition be? But for a God of infinite greatness, holiness, and majesty we do not have the fortitude to wait in His divine presence for one hour with reverence. If we knew the importance of the loss we bring about through our fault, we would weep tears of blood. But we are in the darkness, our senses cast us into the blindness and our faith