Harvesting The Fruits of Contemplation

Another week and an additional opportunity to t hank Elizabeth Riordan at  Theology Is A Verb  and Allison Gingras at  Reconciled To You for  hosting Catholic bloggers at  Worth   Revisiting . We appreciate sharing our work with them and their readers each week.  Stop by for a visit now .   Here is my contribution, soon to be included in Volume 5 of my book series entitled Pondering Tidbits of Truth. Pondering Tidbits of Truth (Originally published January 4, 2018) 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 . Jean-Baptiste Chautard, O.C.S.O. "A preacher endowed with learning but of only mediocre piety may be able to paint a picture of Christian Truth that will stir souls, bring them a little closer to God, even increase their faith. But if one is to fill souls with the life-giving savor of virtue, he must first...

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 . Jean-Baptiste Chautard, O.C.S.O. A preacher endowed with learning but of only mediocre piety may be able to paint a picture of Christian Truth that will stir souls, bring them a little closer to God, even increase their faith. But if one is to fill souls with the life-giving savor of virtue, he must first have tasted the true spirit of the Gospel and made it enter into the substance of his own life by means of mental prayer.  (From The Soul of the Apostolate)  

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 . Jean-Baptiste Chautard, O.C.S.O. "Preaching b y example will always be the foremost instrument of conversion…Lectures, good books, Christian newspapers and magazines, and even fine sermons must gravitate around this fundamental program: that we need to influence people by an apostolate of good example , the example of fervent Christians, who make Jesus Christ live again on this earth by spreading about them the good odor of His virtues."  (From  The Soul of the Apostolate) St. Vincent de Paul "Believe me, we will never be of any use in doing God’s work until we become thoroughly convinced that, of ourselves, we are better fitted to ruin everything than to make a success of it."  Father Jean-Pierre de Caussade, S.J. "The soul that does not attach itself solely to the will of ...