Pondering Tidbits of Truth - November 26, 2025

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 God for certain graces for a month, a year, ten, or even twenty years; we must never tire of asking. We must keep on asking until the very moment of death, and even in this prayer that shows our trust in God, we must join the thought of death to that of perseverance and say; 'Although he should kill me, I will trust in him' (Job 13:15) and will trust Him to give me all I need." 

(From The Secret of the Rosary)

Eucharistic Reflection - He Is Ready

 

Monday Musings - Find What You Are Seeking

 

A Painful and Upsetting Truth

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 recently said about Stirring Slumbering Souls:

"I am still reading Slumbering Souls and wanted to thank you for reawakening my adoration and love of Jesus. - Patricia Grant

“Thank you so much for sharing this beautiful gem with me. I feel like every single Catholic should read it and have a copy and then share it with someone who isn’t and then we would be all set in this world. Such richness here and it stirs up so much in the soul." - Anne Costa

"Love your Stirring Slumbering Souls. Beautiful, inspiring work."- Patricia Casey Vanderloo

"I absolutely LOVED this book. The saints' quotes about the Eucharist were so profound. The author did a fantastic job getting inspirational quotes from so many different sources. I didn't want to put this book down and have purchased it as gifts for several friends." - An Amazon review by Janeen

 Stop what you are doing and go visit Him!

Monday Musings - Eucharistic Processions and Grace

 

Pondering Tidbits of Truth - November 13, 2025

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 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)

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)

Eucharistic Reflection - Words Outside of Time

"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 on their terms. Can we accept a relationship with Him on His terms?

If He seems silent, let us have ready at hand his very words of love, encouragement, and hope—ancient words in scripture that he speaks to us now—he who is outside of time.

(Mrs. Rose Folsom, OP, Pius V Fraternity, Cantonville, MD, excerpted from Godhead Here in Hiding  Whom I Do Adore - Lay Dominicans Reflect on Eucharistic Adoration)