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
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“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) |
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Thomas Howard "This is why Catholics genuflect when they come to church. They know that this is a holy place, and to be found on one’s knee is a very good posture in such precincts. It says, ceremonially, not verbally, I am a creature and thou art my Creator. I am thy child and thou art my Father. I am a subject and thou art my Sovereign. And, alas, I am a sinner, and thou art holy.’ To kneel, only briefly, in this fashion is to order one’s body as well as one’s mind to what is true." (From On Being Catholic) |
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Father Ambrose Criste, Norbertine priest
“This island [New York City] and indeed, our entire post-modern western world — unbelievably rich and powerful as it is in terms of this world’s goods — will remain the poorest place on earth unless you, you and I engage in the sacred liturgy correctly, faithfully, internally, and with that millennia-long tradition of Holy Church. Our worshipping [of] God like this, correctly like this in the Holy Eucharist, then, makes us able to take our Eucharistic Lord Jesus Christ out into the streets.”
(From CatholicVote)
