Pondering Tidbits of Truth - June 9, 2022

  

Pondering Tidbits of Truth my simple and inadequate way of providing nuggets of spiritual wisdom for you to chew on from time to time.

 

 

 

St. John Vianney

“Take in one hand a sponge full of water, and in the other a little pebble; press them equally. Nothing will come out of the pebble, but out of the sponge will come abundance of water. The sponge is the soul filled with the Holy Spirit, and the stone is the cold and hard heart which is not inhabited by the Holy Spirit.”

(From Sermons of St. John Marie Vianney)

 

Father Kevin M. Cusick

“The vaccine for the real pandemic, one of fear, is faith. There is no real control possible over physical reality, the span of a human life or the world in which we live. Only faith can open the possibility of cooperating with the Creator, acknowledging our complete dependence upon Him now and in eternity. Through prayer, committed, regular and sincere, we grow in faith.

Every time we kneel and pray, every time we seek the silence of our church and the glow of the tabernacle lamp beckoning within, we receive another dose of the only vaccine that conquers our greatest enemy, he who through fear and sin can cast both body and soul into Gehenna.

In the Mass, the perfect prayer, we truly meet and receive the One in whose infinite and everlasting love all the answers to our probing questions and baseless fears lie. “Fear is useless. What is need is Faith’.”

 (From Faith Vaccinates Against Pandemic of Fear in December 16, 2021 issue of The Wanderer)

 

Mother Mectilde of the Blessed Sacrament

 “All that you desire of me is that I remain immersed in the center of my nothingness, where, ceasing to be, I confess and proclaim in silence that You are, O my God, the One who is, and the only One worthy of being eternally. Amen.”

 (From The “Breviary of Fire” – Letters by Mother Mectilde of the Blessed Sacrament)