Harvesting The Fruits of Contemplation

When I suggested that readers of my book, “ Forgotten Truths to Set Faith Afire! Words to Challenge, Inspire and Instruct” take their time to ponder and “chew on” the wealth of spiritual inspiration contained in it, I never thought someone would take me literally.

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Just a reminder - today and tomorrow (March 21 and March 22, 2013) are the last two days to get a free Kindle copy of Forgotten Truths To Set Faith Afire! Words To Challenge, Inspire and Instruct by clicking here . Let your family and friends know of this great offer!   Take a quick look at the back cover:       Help make this the number one Free Kindle Christian Inspiration Book on Amazon this week! Put it on your Kindle, your tablet, your laptop, your android or i-phone. Have spiritual nourishment at your fingertips wherever you may be. This is not a one-time read. This is a book that you can draw inspriation from for years to come. Do not pass up this opportunity to let God touch your heart and stir your soul!

DON'T MISS OUT ON YOUR FREE KINDLE COPY OF - Forgotten Truths To Set Faith Afire! - Words To Challenge, Inspire and Instruct. GO TO AMAZON.COM BETWEEN MARCH 18 AND MARCH 22, 2013  to get a free Kindle version. It is a perfect companion for this "Year of Faith" and recipient of the Catholic Writers' Guild's Seal of Approval . If you do not have a Kindle, you can simply download the appropriate and free Kindle Book App and put Forgotten Truths on your desktop, laptop, tablet, android or I-phone - making s piritual inspiration and nourishment instantly available to you any time you can steal a few minutes away from your daily routines. May God use this book to touch hearts and stir souls! Please tell you family, friends and fellow parishioners and bloggers of this offer in time for them to obtain their free copy as well.

There is no mystery – far too many Catholics do not know, have forgotten and/or have never been taught the fundamental truths of their Faith. The Pope’s call for the New Evangelization demands that this tragic state of affairs ends - and it must begin with each one of us. We must learn or re-learn our Faith and then help others to do likewise. Now there is a great tool that allows you to easily reignite your Faith and to evangelize family and friends. For $.99 you can purchase a Kindle copy of Forgotten Truths To Set Faith Afire! Words to Challenge, Inspire and Instruct and have the wisdom of more than 1200 quotations at your fingertips – words that will touch your heart and stir your soul – and in a format easy to use. If you do not have a Kindle, you can download the free Kindle Book reader and put Forgotten Truths on your desktop, laptop, tablet, android or i-phone.   Be challenged, inspired and instructed in the Catholic Faith one quotation at a time, at a ...

Just a reminder - today and tomorrow you can get a free Kindle copy of Forgotten Truths To Set Faith Afire! Words To Challenge, Inspire and Instruct by clicking here . Do not pass up this opportunity to let God touch your heart and stir your soul!

DON'T MISS OUT ON YOUR FREE KINDLE COPY OF  -  Forgotten Truths To Set Faith Afire! - Words To Challenge, Inspire and Instruct. GO TO AMAZON.COM ON NOVEMBER 23 or 24  to get a free Kindle version. It is a perfect companion for this "Year of Faith" and recipient of the Catholic Writers' Guild's Seal of Approval .  If you do not have a Kindle, you can simply download the appropriate and free Kindle Book App and put Forgotten Truths on your desktop, laptop, tablet, android or I-phone - making s piritual inspiration and nourishment instantly available to you any time you can steal a few minutes away from your daily routines. May God use this book to touch hearts and stir souls! Please tell you family, friends and fellow  parishioners and bloggers of this offer in time for them to obtain their free copy as well.  

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Pardon the self-promotion but there is only one way to sell a book - let as many people and groups know about it! I was privileged to be profiled in  this month's issue of the Catholic Writers' Guild (CWG) Member Newsletter. In the event you have not seen it or are not yet a CWG member, the Profile follows: (Excerpted from CWG Member Newsletter Issue #52- July 2012) MEMBER PROFILE – MICHAEL SEAGRIFF Author and Lay Dominican Maria: Michael, you recently had a book published “Forgotten Truths to Set Faith Afire: Words to Challenge, Inspire and Instruct.” Congratulations! When did you feel receive God’s inspiration to write this book? How did it “come to you,” as they say? Michael: Over the past fifteen years, God placed a tremendous hunger in my heart to study the Truths of our Catholic Faith. During that time, I highlighted and made photocopies of thousands of passages from various articles a...

 The Catholic Writers' Guild has awarded its "Seal of Approval" to Forgotten Truths to Set Faith Afire! - Words to Challenge, Inspire and Instruct.

Thought I would share the most recent review posted on Amazon.com: In Company with the Saints , May 6, 2012 By   J. Stutmann "voracious reader" (Rome, NY) This review is from: Forgotten Truths to Set Faith Afire!: Words to Challenge, Inspire and Instruct (Paperback) When I sit down to read passages from this book, I feel as if I am sitting in company with the saints! Each saint quote is like conversing with that saint because their thoughts and what they have said is meant for all people to hear, see,and know for our spiritual benefit. I in turn am spurred to think in response to what was said and that leads to the deepening of knowledge from my head to my heart. Blessed be God in His Angels and in His Saints! I love reading this book in company with the Lord in adoration..the words just jump off the page to me! I have often longed for a book such as this, having quotes of so many saints at my fingertips and now I have one! Thank you Michael, for...

I was humbled and honored to be notified last week that the Catholic Writer's Guild has awarded its "Seal of Approval" to Forgotten Truths to Set Faith Afire! Words to Challenge, Inspire and Instruct . "The SoA is not a critique of a work, but rather an assurance of its Catholicity and that neither the work nor its author go against the Mageristerium authority of the Catholic Church." CWG "evaluates for Catholicity, not for writing style or quality." Other individuals who have read the book have offered their view on its content. Here are excerpts from what four readers have shared: “ I am very impressed with this book and the author's commitment to writing about the Catholic Faith in a very informational and inspirational manner. I have no doubt that this book will help others on their Faith journeys.” Donna M. Cooper O’Boyle , EWTN host and author of numerous books, including Mother Teresa and Me .   “ The volume is a g...

(From the Introduction to Forgotten Truths To Set Faith Afire! Words to Challenge, Inspire and Instruct ) “After 20 centuries of miracles from Cana to Fatima, after 20 centuries of martyrs, after 20 centuries of sanctity in every walk of life, after centuries of intellectual brilliance (Augustine, Aquinas, Bonaventure, Scotus), after all the truth that has been poured out by the Fathers, Doctors and ecclesiastical writers, by the 20 Ecumenical Councils of the Church, the infallible pronouncements of our Pontiff…after all this, the world is as pagan today as when Christ was born and had to flee.   Perhaps more so... God, in his world today, is as hidden to most people as he was when in Egypt 's exile.”               Father M. Raymond, O.C.S.O. made these observations in a 1954 book entitled, “God, A Woman and the Way”.   This gifted Cistercian priest warned us then that we Catholics were suffering from amnesia – ...

St. Claude de la Colombiere was a 17th century Jesuit whose life we recall today. He believed that one of "the most firmly established and consoling of the truths that have been revealed to us" is "that (apart from sin) nothing happens to us in life unless God wills it so." St. Claude became the spiritual director of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque. He encouraged, supported and promoted her call to spread devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The saint was also a gifted spiritual writer, who has left a number of gems, including one of my favorite books, Trustful Surrender to Divine Providence (TSTDP) . Blessed John Paul II canonized him in 1992. Read and ponder what he has to say about earthly happiness and prayer: Let me show you a good way to ask for happiness, even in this world. It is a way that will oblige God to listen to you. Say to Him earnestly: either give me so much money that my heart will be satisfied, or inspire me with such contempt for it that...

Would you indulge me in some selfish self-promotion? I have been led to publish a book that I think you and those you know and love would appreciate. It’s called: Forgotten Truths to Set Faith Afire! – Words to Challenge, Inspire and Instruct . May I ask you to do five simple things? First, go here and read a brief synopsis of the book. Second take a look at the reviews that have been posted on Amazon.com to date (more to follow) Third, Look Inside the book and see what it is all about. Fourth, consider purchasing a copy for yourself, a loved one or friend. Fifth, even if you chose not to purchase a copy, please pass this request onto your family, friends and business associates via your e-mail contacts, Facebook, Tweeter, LinkedIn and other social media networks and ask them to do exactly what I am asking of you. If everyone who receives this bold request did as I am so selfishly requesting, thousands of people who might not otherwise have ever heard of this humble litt...

Today we commemorate the life of St. Francis de Sales, Bishop and Doctor of our Church. His Introduction to the Devout Life is a timeless spiritual treasure that has had a profound impact on many a searching soul - including myself. I am indebted to my first spiritual director for having given me his personal copy of this classic and for putting me on a solid spiritual path. I consider this one of the most important and life changing spiritual books that I have ever read.     To wet your appetite, take a reflective look-see at how Saint Francis so exquisitely puts our ability to accept suffering in its proper perspective: “The Everlasting God has in His wisdom foreseen from eternity the cross that He now presents to you as a gift from His innermost heart. This cross He now sends you is considered with His all-knowing eyes, understood with His divine mind, tested with His wise justice, warmed with loving arms and weighed with His own hands, to see that it be not one inch...

Yes, I’ll admit it. I love everything I ever read that was written by the late Servant of God, Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen. You will find more than two dozen of his gems included in my book, Forgotten Truths To Stir Faith Afire! –Words to Challenge, Inspire and Instruct” .   The following, however, is one that got away. I don’t know how I overlooked it: "America is suffering not so much from intolerance, which is bigotry, as it is from tolerance, which is indifference to truth and error, and a philosophical nonchalance that has been interpreted as broad-mindedness." (Servant of God, Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen )  

We marvel at the physical miracles, big and small, that Jesus performed during His time here on earth – for example raising Lazarus from the dead and healing St. Peter’s mother-in-law of her fever. And well we should. But what we often overlook is the frequency with which Jesus spoke to and expelled demons – as is mentioned in today’s Gospel. Isn’t it foolish to think that there is less demonic presence in our current times then when Jesus walked this earth? The reality of Satan and the never ending spiritual battle to which we are subjected during our earthly lives are two topics rarely discussed or considered these days. Too few among us recognize that we are engaged in spiritual combat with the unseen demons roaming the world in search of our souls. This is not, according to Father George P. Schommer, O.P., a good thing: “The devil is real.   We fail to recognize the reality of his existence and power and therefore we often fall prey to his many tricks.  ...

Great news! The Kindle version of Forgotten Truths To Set Faith Afire! - Words to Challenge, Inspire and Instruct just became available on Kindle. It will take a few days for it to appear along side the soft copy currently available on Amazon.com. You don't have to wait for Amazon to merge the two, You can go right here and buy your Kindle copy right now. Would you help pass the word?

One of the many pearls you will find in Forgotten Truths To Set Faith Afire - Words to Challenge, Inspire and Instruct  is this beautiful prayer  attributed to  Blessed John Cardinal Newman: God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me, which He has not committed to another. I have my mission – I never may know it in this life, but I should be told it in the next. Somehow, I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in his – if, indeed, I fail, He can raise another, as He could make the stones children of Abraham. Yet, I have a part in this great work; I am a link in the chain, a bond of connection between persons. He has not created me for naught. I shall do good, I shall do His work; I shall be an angel of peace, a preacher of truth in my own place, while not intending it, if I do but keep His commandments and serve Him in my calling. Therefore I will trust Him. Whatever, wherever ...