Pondering Tidbits of Truth - July 1, 2021

 

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 Raniero Cantalamessa, O.F.M. Cap.

“When God finds a person determined to obey Him, He takes the life of that person in His hands like the helm of a boat or the reins of a horse. Not just in theory, but in reality. He becomes ‘Lord,’ that is, He who ‘rules’ and ‘governs’.”

 (From Obedience. The Authority of the Word)

St. Peter Julian Eymard

“Our Lord must be honored in the manner and through the virtue which He manifests in the Blessed Sacrament. Now then, what virtue does He practice and teach there constantly and visibly, to all, even to the most ignorant? Humility: He is more humiliated there than in His birth, in His life, even in His death. Here His annihilation veils and entombs everything, His divinity, His humanity, His words and His actions. If then you want to honor Him, as is the essential duty of your vocation, honor Him in His condition of humility, imitate Him in what He is. He has descended lower than men, lower than a slave, lower than the least of animated beings, since He is a thing, an appearance of bread destined to be eaten and destroyed. Come down to His level. You must glorify our humble Lord by making of yourselves His throne, by putting yourselves beneath His feet. How low He is! No matter what you do you can never go lower than our Lord. Come down, come down ever lower in order to honor and love Him by your humility and your own abasement.

Why is He so humiliated? In order to show us that He loves us, to glorify His father, and to atone for human pride. Well then, you must also glorify God by your humility, love our Lord to the point of annihilating yourselves, and abase yourselves to make up for the many souls who do not want to humble themselves. Our Lord bears in Himself the pain of their pride. Let us come to His aid and relieve Him by sharing His cloak of humiliations with Him.”

(From The Eucharist and Christian Perfection, Part I)

 

Sam Guzman

“The question we must ask ourselves is: What do we believe deeply enough to die for? Until we can answer that question, we cannot know what we are living for.”  (From TheCatholicGentleman.com)

 

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