Harvesting The Fruits of Contemplation

“Sadness is looking at yourself; happiness is looking at God. Conversion is nothing more than shifting your gaze from below to above.” – Saint Carlo Acutis

"My child, when I give you spiritual consolation, accept it gratefully. Remember always that it is a free gift, not due to any merits of yours." - From My Daily Bread

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Monday Musings - Podcast - Holding On To Anything?

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September 14, 2015

(Image Source: Wikimedia Commons ) Amazing what we can accomplish when we cooperate with God. Visit here and you will understand what I mean.

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PRAYER TO BE PRESERVED FROM SUDDEN DEATH

MOST AMIABLE JESUS "I humbly implore Thee by Thy ignominious Scourging, The Crowning with Thorns, Thy Holy Cross, and by all Thy Goodness, not to permit me to pass out of this world without having received Thy most holy Sacraments." -Prayer of St. Vincent Ferrer

Ask Yourself:

"What have I: not seen? not heard? or not understood?"

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PRAYER OF ST. CATHERINE OF SIENA

"Eternal Father, all things are possible for You. Although You created us without our assistance, You will not save us unless we help. Therefore, I pray You re-create their wills so that they wish for what they do not wish for: I ask this of Your infinite mercy. You have created us out of nothing. Now that we exist have mercy on us. Re-make the vessel which You created in Your own image and likeness. Bring them back to Your grace through the grace and blood of You Son, the beloved Jesus Christ."

Remember

"Every 'flaw' I see in others is just a reflection of my own sinful soul. I must remember this Truth the next time I choose to be unkind or critical of someone else.”

LET US NEVER FORGET

"For there is nothing hidden that will not become visible and nothing secret that will not be known and come to light." - Luke 8:17

Prayer for Our Priests

"O dear Jesus, look down with love on your priests. Fill them with burning zeal for the conversion of sinners; keep unstained their anointed hands which daily touch Your Immaculate Body; keep unsullied their lips purpled with Your Precious Blood; keep pure and unearthly a heart sealed with the sublime mark of Your glorious Priesthood. Bless their labors with abundant fruit, and may those to whom they have ministered on earth, be one day their joy and consolation in Heaven. Amen. (From Dominican Prayer Book)

God's Magnificent Creation

Eucharistic Reflection - He Heals. Visit Him!

August 11, 2026

“Faith in the Eucharist opens out the whole invisible world to us. Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament is nothing less than radiation therapy for our cancer of the eyes. When we gaze upon the Eucharist the healing graces that come from it are the same as the grace that Jesus unleashed upon all of those blind men He healed in the Gospels. It is the same healing, the same mercy, the same compassion, the same transformation that He offers to us in adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. ‘Do this in memory of Me.’ … the Eucharist gives us a deep gaze into the invisible world and we can trust God Who has told us it is true.” (Monsignor James Shea at the Eucharistic Conference, Fargo, ND, September 2022, as posted on Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration,com) ·

Eucharistic Reflection – More Favored Than St. Mary Magdalen, the Apostle Thomas and St. John

January 21, 2014

(Source: Wikimedia Commons ) I often think of the goodness and kindness of God my Savior while He was here on earth with His visible presence. One might almost say that His doing good went too far, was excessive, though of course it was not; for He was God and God is goodness itself.

Monday Musings - Trusting God

August 10, 2026

Eucharistic Reflection - Do So With Great Faith and Love

August 04, 2026

"Certainly, I think that if we were to approach the most Blessed Sacrament with great faith and love, once would be enough to make us rich. How much richer from approaching so many of times as we do. The trouble is we do so out of routine and it shows.” St. Teresa of Avila

A Permanent Question

July 01, 2020

When we spend time with Jesus we become like Him. Why are we not encouraged to do so? (Photo by Jacob Bentzinger on Unsplash )

Monday Musings – Every Knee Shall Bend!

May 12, 2014

(Image source: Biblebios.com) If God used Balaam’s donkey to get that prophet’s attention, I guess he can use me to get yours. May these periodic postings on the second and fourth Mondays of each month (God willing) generate fruitful discussion and faithful change. A few days ago, I was prompted to read through some older journal entries and discovered one from more than 13 years ago. How timeless are the insights God gives us, especially those we may have forgotten but are blessed to rediscover! Let me share with you what I wrote (with some editing) more than a decade ago:. “I attended Mass at a Dominican Monastery today. There are no resident Dominican friars there. As I exited my car, I saw an elderly Franciscan priest getting out of his vehicle. He had come to say Mass. He was unable to stand upright. His elderly and frail body was hunched over (literally in half) as he walked carefully on the snow with the aid of a cane, his priestly vestments ...

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