Monday Musings - Take Your Crucifix

 

Pondering Tidbits of Truth - October 27, 2022

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.

 

 

 

St. John Marie Vianney

"I can't stop praying for poor sinners who are on the road to hell. If they come to die in that state, they will be lost for all eternity. What a pity! We have to pray for sinners! Praying for sinners is the most beautiful and useful of prayers because the just are on the way to heaven, the souls of purgatory are sure to enter there, but the poor sinners will be lost forever. All devotions are good but there is no better one than such prayer for sinners."

(From I Thirst For Your Love)

 

Alexander de Rouville 

My child, God will not allow you to be tempted, tested or tormented beyond your strength. His help will always be equal to the trial He sends. 

Give heed to His grace, for it already speaks to you, and respond to His inspirations. If God has more crosses in store for someone, He gives greater graces that the person may bear them.

Crosses are the most precious gifts God can give His creature; and the creature's acceptance of them is the most pleasing sacrifice it can offer its Creator. 

If the crosses He intends for you are heavy, that means He has great plans for your sanctification. Do you want to prevent those divine plans being fulfilled?

Your disturbance and fears will not take the crosses from you, whatever you do; you must carry them. What, then, is the wiser thing for you to do?

It is to submit, my child, to all that God bids you do. You must say: The Lord is the master; let Him do with me as He thinks best 9cf. Luke 1:38).

Then you will see God moved by your submission; faithful to His promises, He will make lighter than you thought possible the crosses which from a distance seemed so heavy. He will make them so light that you will say: Just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so too, through Christ, do we receive consolation in equal measure (2 Cor 1:5).

(From The Imitation of Mary)

 

 

Sister Lucia of Fatima

"Since we all need to pray, God asks of us, as a kind of daily installment, a prayer which is within our reach: the Rosary, which can be recited either in common or in private, either in church in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament or at home, either with the rest of the family or alone, either when traveling or while walking quietly in the fields. A mother of a family can say the Rosary while she rocks her baby’s cradle or does the housework. Our day has 24 hours in it. It is not asking a great deal to set aside a quarter of an hour for the spiritual life, for our intimate and familiar converse with God."

(From Daily Catholic Wisdom)

Eucharistic Reflection - Being With Jesus

"It is happiness to be in heaven, no doubt, because it is to be with Jesus; but have we not almost the same happiness here? Do we not possess Him in the Most Holy Sacrament? Did we but know how to profit by His Divine Presence, we should in some way have no reason to envy the inhabitants of the Heavenly City."

 Marie Estelle Harpain

Monday Musings - God Is Near Us

 

Eucharistic Reflection - The Most Beautiful Of All Missions

"Eucharistic adorers share Mary’s life and mission of prayer at the foot of the Most Blessed Sacrament. It is the most beautiful of all missions, and it holds no perils.  It is the most holy, for in it all the virtues are practiced.  It is, moreover, the most necessary to the Church, which has even more need of prayerful souls than of powerful preachers; of men of penance rather than of men of eloquence.  Today more than ever have we need of men who, by their self-immolation, disarm the anger of God inflamed by the ever-increasing crimes of nation. 

We must have souls who by their importunity re-open the treasures of grace which the indifference of the multitude has closed.  We must have true adorers; that is to say, men of fervor and of sacrifice. 

When there are many such souls around their Divine Chief, God will be glorified, Jesus will be loved, and society will once more be Christian, conquered for Jesus Christ by the apostolate of Eucharistic prayer."

(Meditation of  St. Peter Julian Eymard)

Monday Musings - What Is Holiness?

 

Pondering Tidbits of Truth - October 13, 2022

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

 

 

 

Alexander de Rouville

"The Holy Spirit does not tell everyone: 'Give away all that you have.' He does not require that degree of perfection from everyone, but He does say to everyone: 'Do not be attached to possessions.' God cannot establish His rule in a heart that is attached to the passing things of earth."

(From The Imitation of Mary)

 

Father Andrew Haggerty

"The idea that contemplation could be at one's personal disposal and available on demand is an obvious misconception. The only proper expectation is that the soul's yearning to love God has come from God and cannot be fruitless. A soul becomes contemplative on the condition that it takes seriously a need in love to give itself in a complete surrender to God."

(From The Contemplative Hunger)

 

 Servant of God Dolindo Ruotolo

"Amid the disharmony of our chaotic lives, the rosary is the instrument, the harp or the psaltery with its ten chords, for each group of harmonies. With the Rosary we continually raise a song of love from earth."

(From  Champions of The Rosary)