Harvesting The Fruits of Contemplation

(Image Source: Wikimedia Commons ) St. Dominic de Guzman founded the Order of Preachers – the Dominicans – to preach the Gospel and to save souls.  His zeal to save souls knew no limits. He reportedly spent every night in prayer tearfully asking God, “What will become of sinners?” Does such zeal for the salvation of souls exist today? I n a recent post on Missio Dei , Kaleb Hammond questioned how many individuals in the world today believe that: “Jesus is the one and only way to salvation, without whom we cannot enter heaven" and “Hell is a real possibility for each of us and that Heaven is guaranteed to no one.” Not many, he concluded, since we live in a culture that believes one religion is "just as good as another" and that all of us will go to heaven.  I highly recommend that you read his post, The Heresy of Universalism .  Here is a link . Sadly, Kaleb is right. Our Church has long abandoned its primary duty - the salvation of souls. Not enough of its leader...

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. Catherine of Siena "We've had enough of exhortations to be silent! Cry out with a hundred thousand tongues. I see that the world is rotten because of silence." Father Frederick Faber If we hated sin as we ought to hate it, purely, keenly, manfully, we should do more penance, we should inflict more self-punishment, we should sorrow for our sins more abidingly. Then, again, the crowning disloyalty to God is heresy. It is the sin of sins, the very loathsomest of things which God looks down upon in this malignant world. Yet how little do we understand of its excessive hatefulness! It is the polluting of God's truth, which is the worst of all impurities. Yet how light we make of it! We look at it and are calm. We touch it and do not shudder. We mix with it and have no fear. We see it touch holy th...