Harvesting The Fruits of Contemplation

  (Image Source: Wikimedia Commons ) [104] Mother Angelica of the Annunciation  "All earthly joys are finite glimpses of eternal bliss. But because we tend to hold on to what we see with our physical eyes, we tend to forget what can be seen only with the eyes of Faith. And so it is that Heaven is always remote from our thoughts and removed from our daily experiences.  (From Mother Angelica on God, His Home, and His Angels )  PAUSE AND PONDER: Where do I seek to satiate my hunger for joy: in the people and material things of this world or in seeking an intimate spiritual relationship with the God who offers me eternal joy? Has any earthly joy ever lasted?   (Excerpted from Pondering Tidbits of Truth – Volume 6 )

 

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. Peter Kreeft. Ph.D   “What is the best argument for the evangelist to use when telling the Good News? The most effective one is joy. It’s irresistible because it’s what everyone deeply wants. We can put up walls of argument against arguments, but we can’t argue with joy.”   (From The Mystery of Joy )      Venerable Fulton J. Sheen  "If you have never before prayed to Mary, do so now. Can you not see that if Christ himself willed to be physically formed in her for nine months and then be spiritually formed by her for thirty years, it is to her that we must go to learn how to have Christ formed in us? Only she who raised Christ can raise a Christian."   (From Advent Meditations with Fulton J. Sheen )     St. Therese...

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. A Lay Dominican from the St. Joseph Province “In a world with noise, finding silence is a task.  Adoration may be the only place of silence for you all throughout the week. Sanctify it!" (From Godhead Here in Hiding Whom I Do Adore – Lay Dominicans Reflect on Eucharistic Adoration )   Catherine Doherty, Servant of God “Joy is very quiet and full of wonder. It is like a light that shines in the darkness and is connected with hope and with love. To give you an idea of my joyous moments, the first occurs when I wake up every morning with the incredible thought that here God has granted me another day to love Him and to serve Him. Simultaneously, other thoughts come to me from Satan and from my own humanity and emotions. They creep in like shadows over the shining light of my joy They whisper: ‘Look you are going to have a full ...

 

(Photo©Michael Seagriff) "No one can see God without falling in love with Him, and no one can meet a saint without meeting God in him or her. That is the good news: that in a world dedicated to the will to power, there is no power greater than that of sanctity; and that in a world dedicated to the pursuit of selfish pleasure, there is no pleasure greater than that of unselfish love of God and man. No one can ignore or refute the joy of a saint.  (Peter Kreeft, Ph.D from How To Destroy Western Civilization )

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. Thérèse of the Child Jesus “This I know very well: although I should have on my soul all the crimes that could be committed, I would lose none of my confidence; rather, I would hasten, with my heart broken into pieces of sorrow, to cast myself into the arms of my Savior. I know how greatly He loved the prodigal son; I have marked His words to Mary Magdalen, to the adulterous woman, to the Samaritan. No, no one could make me afraid, because I know to whom to cling by reason of His love and His mercy. I know that all this multitude of offenses would disappear in the twinkling of an eye, as a drop of water cast into a roaring furnace.” (From Interior Castle ) St. Francis of Paola "I earnestly admonish you, therefore, my brothers, to look after your spiritual well-being with judicious concern. Death is certain; life ...