Pondering Tidbits of Truth - December 7, 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.
A Lay Dominican from the St. Joseph
Province
“In a world with noise, finding silence is a
task. Adoration may be the only place of
silence for you all throughout the week. Sanctify it!"
(From Godhead Here in Hiding Whom I Do Adore – Lay Dominicans
Reflect on Eucharistic Adoration)
Catherine Doherty, Servant of God
“Joy is very quiet and full of wonder. It is like a
light that shines in the darkness and is connected with hope and with love.
To give you an idea of my joyous moments, the first
occurs when I wake up every morning with the incredible thought that here God
has granted me another day to love Him and to serve Him.
Simultaneously, other thoughts come to me from Satan
and from my own humanity and emotions. They creep in like shadows over the
shining light of my joy
They whisper: ‘Look you are going to have a full a
whole day full of problems. You are going to have to be in four places at once’
and so on. Through these whispers, the whole weight of the day and of my duties
creep in.
But joy smiles. I know that I don't have to face all of those
things at once, that these too are works of love for Christ's sake, that all I
have to worry about is doing the duty of the moment as it comes to me, with
love and enthusiasm for Love's sake-- for Christ's sake.”
(From Grace
in Every Season (2001) November 26 page 311, and as reprinted in the November
2022 issue of Restoration, printed by Madonna Publications)
“Infallibly, silence leads to God, provided man stops
looking at himself. For even in the experience of silence, there is a snare:
narcissism and egotism.”
(From
The Power of Silence – Against the Dictatorship of Noise)
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