Eucharistic Reflection - Turn To Your Divine Friend

Never forget it! Jesus wishes to be our closest friend, our companion along the way.

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You have, certainly, so many friends, but you cannot always be with them and they cannot always help you, listen to you, console you.

Jesus, on the contrary, is the friend who never abandons you. Jesus knows you one by one, personally, He knows your name. He follows you, accompanies you, walks with you every day. He participates in your joys and consoles you in moments of grief and sadness. Jesus is the friend we cannot do without when we have met Him and understood that He loves us and wants our love.

You can speak and confide in Him, you can address Him with affection and confidence. Jesus even died on the cross for our sake! Make a pact of friendship with Jesus and never break it. 

In all the situations of your life, turn to the Divine Friend, present in us with His ‘Grace’, present with us and in us in the Eucharist.

St. John Paul II, Corpus Christi June 14, 1979

Pondering Tidbits of Truth - March 10, 2016

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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.

Father Georges Chevrot

"You are often mistaken when you say, 'I brought my children up wrongly', or ' I did not know how to do good to those around me.' What happens is that you have not achieved the result you were hoping for, that you do not yet see the fruit you would have wished for, because the harvest is not yet ripe. What does matter is that you have sown the seed, that you have given God to souls. When God wants, those souls will return to him. You may not be there to see it, but there will be others who will gather in what have sown."

(From The Well of Life)

Pondering Tidbits of Truth - December 31, 2015

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.

 

Cassian 

"The peace of our spirit does not depend on the good nature and kindness of other people. Our neighbors' good nature and kindness are in in no way subject to our control or opinion. That would be absurd. The tranquility of our heart depends on ourselves. The ability to avoid anger, with all its ridiculous effects, has to come from within ourselves and not be dependent on the nature of other people. The power to overcome the evil in our character must not depend on some perfection outside us, but on our own virtue."

(From Constitutions, 8)

Pondering Tidbits of Truth - June 4, 2015

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.

Father Federico Suarez 

"The Cross, then, is the great place of prayer, just as it is the great altar, the great monstrance, and the first tabernacle. It is not in vain that we are told to begin and end our prayers with the sign of the Cross."

(From The Sacrifice of the Mass)

Pondering Tidbits of Truth - October 2, 2014

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

"Now is the time of mercy;  then, there will be only the time of justice. This is why we have to live in the present moment and transform it into the moment of God."

 (From About the Creed)