Harvesting The Fruits of Contemplation

“Sadness is looking at yourself; happiness is looking at God. Conversion is nothing more than shifting your gaze from below to above.” – Saint Carlo Acutis

"I adore you, with all the angels and saints, and with those chosen souls that are already the blessed of Your Father and are all aglow with burning love of You"- EWTN Adoration Prayer

Monday Musings - The Sweetest of All Messages

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I Thirst For Your Love!

June 12, 2014

[What follows is the Introduction to my recently released book, I Thirst for Your Love. The book includes contributions from Dom Mark Daniel Kirby, O.S.B. Copies can be purchased here and here .] The time for mincing words is over. The most significant crisis in the Catholic Church today, from which all the other problems we are experiencing flow, is the fact that an overwhelming majority of those identifying themselves as Catholic, no longer believe that our Lord Jesus Christ is really, truly and substantially present Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity in the Blessed Sacrament! The sad but truthful reality is that in far too many of our Catholic parishes we have lost the sense of the sacred and an appreciation for the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass that are both essential for fostering and maintaining a belief in the Real Presence. How can that be?

Eucharistic Reflection - Mad With Love

September 01, 2026

Pondering Tidbits of Truth - August 27, 2026

August 27, 2026

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. Matthew Kelly “Are we paying attention to what God is doing in our lives? Are we over here asking God to do this or that other thing, while God is beckoning us over here, trying to get us to focus on what matters most? Jesus is telling us: Pay attention. It is right before you. Pay attention to what God is doing in your life right now." (From Daily Gospel Reflection on Dynamic Catholic for July 22, 2025) Father Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P. “In the Sacrament of Love, the Sacred Heart expresses to us Its thirst for our souls. Every day He offers Himself to us as food, to sanctify us more and more and to assimilate us to Himself…He asks us for our love as if he had need of us, whereas it we who can do nothing without Him.” (From Zeal for the Kingdom of God ) St. Thomas Aquinas “The Lord’s prayer ...

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PRAYER TO BE PRESERVED FROM SUDDEN DEATH

MOST AMIABLE JESUS "I humbly implore Thee by Thy ignominious Scourging, The Crowning with Thorns, Thy Holy Cross, and by all Thy Goodness, not to permit me to pass out of this world without having received Thy most holy Sacraments." -Prayer of St. Vincent Ferrer

The Fatima Chaplet of Adoration and Reparation

Don't Hesitate To Appeal

“Souls that make an appeal to My mercy delight Me. To such souls I grant even more graces than they ask. I cannot punish even the greatest sinner if he makes an appeal to My compassion.” - St. Faustina’s Diary, 1146

Remember

"Every 'flaw' I see in others is just a reflection of my own sinful soul. I must remember this Truth the next time I choose to be unkind or critical of someone else.”

God's Magnificent Creation

St. Catherine of Siena - Praying With Confidence: "Lord, I shall not move away from Your feet, Your Presence, as long as Your goodness has not conceded to me what I desire, as long as You do not agree to what I ask of You. I want You to promise me eternal life for all those whom I love. Lord put Your hand in mine! Give me proof You shall give me that which I beseech You.”

I Thirst For Your Love!

June 12, 2014

[What follows is the Introduction to my recently released book, I Thirst for Your Love. The book includes contributions from Dom Mark Daniel Kirby, O.S.B. Copies can be purchased here and here .] The time for mincing words is over. The most significant crisis in the Catholic Church today, from which all the other problems we are experiencing flow, is the fact that an overwhelming majority of those identifying themselves as Catholic, no longer believe that our Lord Jesus Christ is really, truly and substantially present Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity in the Blessed Sacrament! The sad but truthful reality is that in far too many of our Catholic parishes we have lost the sense of the sacred and an appreciation for the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass that are both essential for fostering and maintaining a belief in the Real Presence. How can that be?

Eucharistic Reflection - Mad With Love

September 01, 2026

Pondering Tidbits of Truth - August 27, 2026

August 27, 2026

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. Matthew Kelly “Are we paying attention to what God is doing in our lives? Are we over here asking God to do this or that other thing, while God is beckoning us over here, trying to get us to focus on what matters most? Jesus is telling us: Pay attention. It is right before you. Pay attention to what God is doing in your life right now." (From Daily Gospel Reflection on Dynamic Catholic for July 22, 2025) Father Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P. “In the Sacrament of Love, the Sacred Heart expresses to us Its thirst for our souls. Every day He offers Himself to us as food, to sanctify us more and more and to assimilate us to Himself…He asks us for our love as if he had need of us, whereas it we who can do nothing without Him.” (From Zeal for the Kingdom of God ) St. Thomas Aquinas “The Lord’s prayer ...

Monday Musings - So When Can We Expect to Hear Humanae Vitae Preached at Sunday Masses?

July 22, 2013

(Image from Biblebios.com) If God used Balaam’s donkey to get that prophet’s attention, I guess he can use me to get yours. May these periodic postings on the second and fourth Mondays of each month (God willing) generate fruitful discussion and faithful change. I recently read a short but interesting article written by Father Michael Orsi. It is entitled How Same-Sex Marriage Won . You can read his article here at Catholic Exchange . As I am wont to do, I simply passed it along to several social media sites with the same question I posed in today's post. That's all I did. What a stir it created.

Monday Musings - Hold On To His Boundless Mercy

August 31, 2026

Eucharistic Reflection – More Favored Than St. Mary Magdalen, the Apostle Thomas and St. John

January 21, 2014

(Source: Wikimedia Commons ) I often think of the goodness and kindness of God my Savior while He was here on earth with His visible presence. One might almost say that His doing good went too far, was excessive, though of course it was not; for He was God and God is goodness itself.