Harvesting The Fruits of Contemplation

(St. Vincent Ferrer Parish, NYC) "Once again we are in Advent, which reminds us vividly, beautifully of Christ's first Advent in time. Even while He is coming, He is also with us now in many ways. He is with us in the Tabernacle. Incredible love that He is, He could not separate Himself from us. He also walks among us and all his priests. Through their hands, He multiplies Himself in the hosts so that they can feed us with the Bread of Life – Himself. How immense must be His love for us. Think for a moment. Allow a few moments of silence to interrupt your reading of this page. Try to comprehend the lavishness of God's love for us. Daily millions of Hosts are given in Holy Communion to the faithful throughout the world. And each Host is Christ, coming in tremendous love to be united to each and all. Think about it now! Let every day be the day of beginning again of loving Christ a little more, of hungering for Him a little more, of turning our face to Him. To accomplis...

This is the third week I am posting quotations excerpted from St. Thomas Aquinas – Meditations for Every Day, translated and illustrated by Rev. E.C. McEniry, O.P . These pearls of wisdom are worth pondering during the course of the week. If you missed the last two week's quotes, you can find them here and here .          For the first man sinned by seeking knowledge, as is plain from the words of the serpent, promising the man the knowledge of good and evil.   Hence, it was fitting that by the Word of true knowledge man might be led back to God, who wandered from God through an improper thirst for knowledge.             We hold that from the beginning of His conception, this Man (Jesus) was truly the Son of God.             Observe that the Apostle John states four reasons whereby the gift of the Incarnation shoul...

Every Monday during Advent, I will posting 12-15 quotations excerpted from St. Thomas Aquinas – Meditations for Every Day, translated and illustrated by Rev. E.C. McEniry, O.P . These pearls of wisdom are worth pondering during the course of the week: (Image Source : Wikimedia Commons )               The cause of all good things is the Lord and Divine love.             Good comes to us because God loves us. The love of God is also the cause of the good in nature.             God’s love is the greatest because of the condition of the person loved, for it is man who is the object of God’s love, the worldly man living in sin.             It would seem most fitting that by visible things the invisible things of God should be known.    ...