Eucharistic Reflection - Let St. Joseph Lead You

"We have close to us as much as Joseph had at Nazareth; we have our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament, but our poor eyes fail to see Him. Let us once become interior souls and we shall immediately see. In no better way can we enter into the Heart of our Lord than through Saint Joseph. Jesus and Mary are eager to pay the debts which they owe him for his devoted care of them, and their greatest pleasure is to fulfill his least desire. Let him, then, lead you by hand into the interior sanctuary of Jesus Eucharistic."

St. Peter Julian Eymard

Monday Musings - Perfection

 

Eucharistic Reflection - The Silence of Adoration

"Once you feel the attraction to remain in the silence of adoration in God’s presence, you must give yourself entirely to the Holy Spirit and remain there in pure faith. If God gives you no feeling, no sentiment, no distinct thought, just be there before Him in silent love. During such moments He operates insensibly in the soul and does more for her perfection than she could in a lifetime by her own thoughts."

Blessed Columba Marmion

Monday Musings - We Are Pilgrims In This Life

 

Pondering Tidbits of Truth - April 13, 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.

Catherine Doherty, Servant of God

"God invites us to accept the loneliness of walking alone with Him. He says: ‘Yes, you need help from other people, but first get it from Me. Attach yourself to Me. I will give you everything you need, for I am the Lord of everything. I will renew and restore you and you will have new eyes and new ears."

(From Are You Ever Lonely? March 2023 issue of Restoration)

 

St. John Marie Vianney

"What a sad life does he lead who wants both to please the world and to serve God! It is a great mistake to make, my friends.

Apart from the fact that you are going to be unhappy all the time, you can never attain the stage at which you will be able to please the world and please God. It is as impossible a feat as trying to put an end to eternity.

Take the advice that I am going to give you now and you will be less unhappy: give yourselves wholly to God or else wholly to the world.

Do not look for and do not serve more than one master, and once you have chosen the one you are going to follow, do not leave him.

You surely remember what Jesus Christ said to you in the Gospel: you cannot serve God and Mammon; that is to say, you cannot follow the world and the pleasures of the world and Jesus Christ with His Cross. Of course you would be quite willing to follow God just so far and the world just so far!

Let me put it even more clearly: you would like it if your conscience, if your heart, would allow you to go to the altar in the morning and the dance in the evening; to spend part of the day in church and the remainder in the cabarets or other places of amusement; to talk of God at one moment and the next to tell obscene stories or utter calumnies about your neighbor; to do a good turn for your next-door neighbor on one occasion and on some other to do him harm; in other words, to do good and speak well when you are with good people and to do wrong when you are in bad company."

(From The Sermons of the Cure d'Ars 1960)

Venerable Fulton J. Sheen

"Every moment comes to you pregnant with a Divine purpose; time being so precious that God deals it out only second by second. Once it leaves your hands and your power to do with it as you please, it plunges into eternity - to remain forever whatever you made of it."

(From March 23, 2023 Reflection from The Sheen Institute)

Eucharistic Reflection - And The Other Nine?

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"How sad as well as how impossible it is to count the number of backs that are turned away from Me at every minute! I cannot ask, as I did in the Gospel [when I cured 10 lepers], 'And the other nine?' The number is not nine anymore, but countless! Here, let me say a word of thanks to you. To you who visit Me where no one else comes to visit: In gratitude to you, I allow Myself to be present in many tabernacles.

When you come, then I have somebody to ask: 'Where are the others?'

And to that question that I ask of you, without the sound of words, you answer Me with your love, your reparation, but without words. I hear you speaking to Me with your tears, 'I am here for them'."

(From The Bishop of the Abandoned Tabernacle)

Monday Musings - The Sweetest of All Messages

 

Eucharistic Reflection - He Listens!

"[Jesus] He listened to everything. To the petition made in faith and spoken from the heart by the woman with a hemorrhage, to Zacchaeus, to the blasphemous shouts in the Praetorium, to the triumphant Hosanna, and to the false testimony; to the silent weeping of the penitents and to the evil thoughts of His enemies. He listened to everything!

He continues living in this way in the Tabernacle: listening to everyone and to everything. But there's a big difference between His way of listening and the way man listens. Man is wont to listen only with his ear- sometimes, maybe, with his mind. Jesus in the Tabernacle listens with His ear and with his mind, that is, with understanding. He also listens with His heart because He loves us.

And to think that there are tabernacles where there is no one present to talk to Him. He who is so good! Immaculate Mother, angels of the Tabernacle, speak to the ear of your Jesus in those tabernacles where there is so much painful silence."

(From The Bishop of the Abandoned Tabernacle)

Monday Musings - Lest We Forget