Thanking Him Who Is Mad With Love

This Thanksgiving Day take some time to ponder He Who created you from nothing, He Who suffered and died for you, He Who watches over you, He Who longs to hold you in His loving arms for all eternity.

If you have not contemplated these Truths in a while, now would be a great time to spend a few silent moments doing so. May the following words of St. Teresa of the Andes fuel your reflection.

Thank our Lord for all that He has given you and especially for loving you, even during those times when you may not have loved Him as you ought.

Pondering Tidbits of Truth - February 27, 2014

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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.   Thomas Aquinas

“There is a difference between the knowledge we ac­quire of God by science and by faith. The knowledge of God possessed by a study of the sciences enlightens our intellect only, by showing that God is the first cause, that He is One and All-Wise. But the knowledge of God had by faith both enlightens the intellect and delights the heart; because that knowledge not only tells us that God is the First Cause but that He is our Savior, that He is the Redeemer, that He loves us and became man for us.”

(From Saint Thomas Aquinas – Meditations for Every Day)

Eucharistic Reflection - Nothing Can Compare To It!

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“But if it is true that without Christ Jesus we "can do nothing", how much more will that be found true when it is a matter of our carrying out the action which is the holiest one of each day! To unite oneself sacramentally to Christ Jesus in the Eucharist is, for a created being, the highest act there can be. All human wisdom, whatever heights it may reach, is nothing in comparison with that act. We are incapable of adequately disposing ourselves in this without the help of Christ Himself. Our prayers show the reverence we have for Him, but it is He Himself who must prepare a dwelling for Himself within us.

Pondering Tidbits of Truth - September 12 , 2013

(St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, MA)

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. John Chrysostom 

“At times we dedicate all our efforts not only to what is superfluous but also to what is useless or even harmful, while we abandon the study of Sacred Scripture. Many people who are completely enthused over the horse races can quickly come up with the name, pedigree, race, nation, and training of the horses; their age, which horse would win the race against some other one, and an individual horse’s potential to pass the winning-post first, when mounted by a given rider, all spring immediately to mind…If, however, we ask them the number of St. Paul’s epistles, they are incapable of an answer.”

(Homilies on certain passages from the New Testament, I,1)