Harvesting The Fruits of Contemplation

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. Boniface   "Can there be a more fitting pursuit in youth or a more valuable possession in old age than a knowledge of Holy Scripture? In the midst of storms, it will preserve you from the dangers of shipwreck and guide you to the shore of an enchanting paradise and the ever-lasting bliss of the angels.   (From Morning Offering )   Father Jesse Maingot, O.P. “My love of God is really an invitation to be loved by Him…God longs for each one of us. He wants us to understand how much He wishes to give Himself to us…Our spiritual life is God’s pursuit of us. We must yield ourselves to this God who is chasing after us."   (From SpiritualDirection.com )   St. Louis Mary de Montfort "Only he will receive, will find, and will enter who perseveres in asking, seeking, and knocking. It is not enough to ask Almighty ...

 

 

Let's be frank:   If we really believe that Jesus Christ is truly and  substantially present, Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity in the tabernacles of our Churches, we would be there with Him. We would do everything in our power to spend some time with Him and to encourage others to do so as well.  But we don't really believe this essential Truth. We have abandoned our Loving Lord to his prison-tabernacle and locked the doors of His Churches so that even the few drawn to be with Him are unable to get in. Stop for a moment and ponder this shocking reality from our Lord's perspective. Is this anyway to treat the Son of God? Of course it isn't. Go visit and comfort our abandoned and forgotten Lord . Bring  a copy of   Stirring Slumbering Souls - 250 Eucharistic Reflections  with you and let the wisdom it contains draw you into His loving embrace and Presence. Enlist in His army of Adorers. Let Him change you and the world! Here is a sample of what others have...

 

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. Dan Burke and Connie Rossini   “When we have too many vocal prayers to say, our goal easily changes to getting them done instead of praying them well. They become less, rather than more, contemplative. The Holy Spirt might be moving us to linger silently on the meditation of a mystery, but we feel that we can't stop or we will never fit all our prayers in. So we find ourselves working against the Holy Spirit...We forget that the very purpose of prayer is communing with the Lord."                                                           (From The Contemplative Rosary )     Thomas Howard   "This is why Cath...

"I came to Adoration tonight with my addled brain to talk to Jesus and see if He really wants me to continue with my apostolate. I prayed the Office and waited to hear what He had to say. No new words, just silence. A calm. An eternity. A fatherly gaze of understanding — nothing so definite as that, just warmth. Less than that. It was my intellect that told me He is in that monstrance and all His attention is on me. Knowing that enables me to feel it. A powerful whisper. Then a wordless sense of all the Scripture passages that move me, gathered together in His gaze. How many mistakenly come to ask Jesus for guidance and hear nothing because they have not heard what He has said already in scripture. “We played the flute and you did not dance; we sang a dirge and you did not mourn,” and again, “If you had believed Moses, you would believe me now.” How to encourage a hard heart to hear and to love? Maybe some do not want to hear because they want only a relationship with God ...

 

[What follows is one of the 175 Eucharistic Reflections in Godhead Here In Hiding Whom I Do Adore - Lay Dominicans Reflect on Eucharistic Adoration  that will grab your heart and stir your soul.]  "There is a place in the human heart that can only be filled by You, Lord. Try as we might to fill that space with glittery goods or flatterers, it remains nothing but a vacant apartment, an echo chamber, without You.  It is a place at the core of my being; I am empty, lonely, without You there. At Adoration, everything changes. If I let You in, You fill that insatiable yearning place.   You melt my iciness; my heart begins to glow.   In a mystical moment, I am warmed and satisfied in a way both quieting and yet passionate. Adoration is my private door that I can open to you. Immediately, You sweetly and lovingly permeate every corner of my emptiness.   By a treasured grace, I learned of this door as a child.   In my long ago, my parents took my hand l...

 (Sources: GabiAfterHours   and Apostolate of Eucharistic Adoration