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       Alexander de Rouville "The Holy Spirit does not tell everyone: 'Give away all that you have.' He does not require that degree of perfection from everyone, but He does say to everyone: 'Do not be attached to possessions.' God cannot establish His rule in a heart that is attached to the passing things of earth." (From The Imitation of Mary )   Father Andrew Haggerty "The idea that contemplation could be at one's personal disposal and available on demand is an obvious misconception. The only proper expectation is that the soul's yearning to love God has come from God and cannot be fruitless. A soul becomes contemplative on the condition that it takes seriously a need in love to give itself in a complete surrender to God." (From The Contemplative Hunger )    Servant of God Dolindo Ruotolo "Amid the d...

Thank you Allison Gingras at  Reconciled To You  and Elizabeth Riordan at  Theology Is A Verb   for hosting Worth Revisiting each week. It is a privilege to share our work with you and your followers . My contribution this week as we near the end of the Month of the Rosary: Recite The Rosary Like A Child    (Originally posted on October 15, 2018)   "The rosary is not a tedious prayer just because the person is always repeating the Hail Mary. Each Hail Mary recited, with the contemplation of the mysteries, is always said with a different feeling and the intensity of the prayer is not monotonous. It is an intensity of love.  (Image Source: Wikimedia Commons ) Does not a child call his mother all the time? His cry: "Mom!" is different according to the need that inspires and animates it. Therefore, recite the rosary like a child, invoking our Heavenly Mother and imploring her help."   (Servant of God, Dol...

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.   Dr. Peter Kreeft “In our day, the Sacrament of Confession has suffered a radical decline. In one large Dutch diocese during a twelve-month period there were no confessions. There is no place on earth the Devil fears more than the confessional. His desperate propaganda has been incredibly successful even within the Church.” (From Christianity for Modern Pagans - Pascal’s Pensees ) Rev. M. Raymond, O.C.S.O. “As I write this book [ God, A Woman, and The Way ], I know that out of the almost two billion persons on the earth at this moment [1954], not more than one third of them knows so much as the name of the One who died that they might live eternally. And as one very observant mystic remarked: ‘Out of that third, close to ninety-nine per cent of them know it in vain.’ Is that not enough to set the nine...

"The rosary is not a tedious prayer just because the person is always repeating the Hail Mary. Each Hail Mary recited, with the contemplation of the mysteries, is always said with a different feeling and the intensity of the prayer is not monotonous. It is an intensity of love.  (Image Source: Wikimedia Commons ) Does not a child call his mother all the time? His cry: "Mom!" is different according to the need that inspires and animates it. Therefore, recite the rosary like a child, invoking our Heavenly Mother and imploring her help."   (Servant of God, Dolindo Ruotolo Champions of the Rosary )

[Each Monday of October, in commemoration of it being the Month of the Holy Rosary, I will post a rosary reflection in hopes of  fostering greater devotion for, and an increased commitment to, its daily recitation. I highly recommend Champions of the Rosary - The History and Heroes of a Spiritual Weapon by Father Donald H. Calloway, MIC] (Photo©Michael Seagriff) “The Most Holy Virgin, in these last times in which we live, has given a new efficacy to the recitation of the rosary to such an extent that there is no problem, no matter how difficult it is, whether temporal or above all spiritual, in the personal life of each one of us, of our families…that cannot be solved by the rosary. There is no problem, I tell you, no matter how difficult it is, that we cannot resolve by the prayer of the holy rosary.”                 (Servant of God, Lucia Dos Santos from Champions of the Rosary )