Harvesting The Fruits of Contemplation

Once again, I thank Allison Gingras and Elizabeth Riordan for their weekly invitation to re-post our favorite articles on Worth Revisiting . Go here now (and every Wednesday) and let an interesting group of Catholic bloggers nourish you in your Faith journey. V isit Allison at   Reconciled To You and Elizabeth at Theology Is A Verb during the rest of each week.   They have much to offer. I decided to share the following: Have We Forgotten The Guilty One? (Originally posted August 2, 2015) (Photo©Michael Seagriff) Last week I suggested that our individual and collective loss of any sense of sin and the moral decline in our current culture might well be attributed to our failure and reluctance to ponder the Passion, Sufferings and Death of Our Lord.    If you missed that short post you can find it here.   In thinking further about this point, I recalled reading an excerpt some time back from an an arti...

(Photo©Michael Seagriff) Last week I suggested that our individual and collective loss of any sense of sin and the moral decline in our current culture might well be attributed to our failure and reluctance to ponder the Passion, Sufferings and Death of Our Lord.  If you missed that short post you can find it here. In thinking further about this point, I recalled reading an excerpt some time back from an an article in an old issue of  The Sacred Heart Messenger, entitled "The Guilty One".   This compelling reflection may explain our reluctance to spend time at the foot of Christ's Cross . I hope it, and the words of Monsignor Hugh F. Blunt which it quotes, will provide additional fruit for your contemplation : "And we - who are we? - We are the ones who murdered her [Mary's] Son. That is another fact we too often forget! It was just after we had spiked Him to His deathbed and just before He died that He made the bequest [Son, beh...