Pondering Tidbits of Truth - March 9, 2023



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.



  

 Ven. Fulton J. Sheen

"For meditation the ear of the soul is more important than the tongue: St. Paul tells us that faith comes from listening. Most people commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking."

 (From Go To Heaven)

  

St. Manuel Gonzalez Garcia

“My faith was looking at Jesus through the door of that Tabernacle, so silent, so patient, so good, gazing right back at me…His gaze was telling me much and asking me for more. It was a gaze in which all the sadness of the Gospels was reflected; the sadness of ‘no room in the inn’; the sadness of those words, ‘Do you also want to leave Me?”; the sadness of poor Lazarus begging for crumbs from the rich man's table; the sadness of the betrayal of Judas, the denial of Peter, of the soldiers slap, of the spittle in the Praetorium, and the abandonment of all. All of this sadness was there in that Tabernacle, oppressing and crushing the sweet Heart of Jesus and drawing bitter tears from His eyes. Blessed tears from those eyes! The gaze of Jesus in that Tabernacle was a gaze that pierced the soul, and one can never forget it. I was trying not to cry, so as not to make Jesus even more sad. His gaze expressed the sorrow of One who loves, but who does not find anybody who wants to receive that love.”

 

 (From The Bishop of the Abandoned Tabernacle)


Father Donald Haggerty

“Truth was nailed to a cross at Calvary in Jesus Christ. And it should be equally evident that the crucifixion of Truth continues throughout the course of history…. What God asks us to accept is that, if we are worthy of it, Christ will be mocked and scourged within our own life, even in trying to love and save souls.”

 (From Conversion: Spiritual Insight Into An Essential Encounter With God) 

 

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