Harvesting The Fruits of Contemplation

“Be a Catholic: When you kneel before an altar, do it in such a way that others may be able to recognize that you know before whom you kneel.” - St. Maximilian Kolbe

"There is nothing the devil fears so much, or so much tries to hinder, as prayer. - St. Philip Neri

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He Saw The Future Clearly

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November 19, 2015

How different our Church and this world might be today had we listened to even a tenth of what he shared: (Source: Posted by Dorothy B.G. on Google+ )

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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

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A PERMANENT QUESTION

"When we spend time with Jesus we become like Him. Why are we not encouraged to do so?"

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."

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)

Pray The Litany For America

Let us pray for our nation. With gratitude to my Dominican brother, Louis Pizzuti, for composing this Litany For America

God's Magnificent Creation

Monday Musings - So When Can We Expect to Hear Humanae Vitae Preached at Sunday Masses?

July 22, 2013

Monday Musings - Suffer the Little Children (and Sinful Prisoners Too)

July 08, 2013

(Image from 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. I was prompted a few weeks back to go through and empty out my desk drawer. It had been far too long since I had de-cluttered it. I had forgotten the hidden treasures it contained. Then I saw them – about 15 of them. Suddenly, I realized how long it had been since I last went to prison. Odd, isn’t it. The one place I visited where I was always immensely blessed is filled with men and women whom the majority of us would never voluntarily choose to have anything to do with - no matter that our Faith teaches that all of us, including the greatest sinners among us, were created in the image and likeness of God and that each of us, without exception, by and through the unearned and undeser...

Eucharistic Reflection - If Only I Had Talked to Him...

June 09, 2026

"St. Theresa of Avila once heard someone say: 'If only I had lived at the time of Jesus… If only I had seen Jesus…If only I had talked with Jesus'…To this, Theresa replied: 'But do we not have in the Eucharist the living, true and real Jesus present before us? Why look for Him?' ” (Author Unknown, from Forgotten Truths to Set Faith Afire! Words to Challenge, Inspire and Instruct )

Eucharistic Reflection - Sincere Contrition and Perfect Love

June 16, 2026

(Image Source: Hands at Mass ) "A Christian on leaving the holy place moved by the holy thoughts that have been aroused in him by the sight of the ceremonies he has seen, and the prayers that he has said, ought to say to himself: 'I have just come from assisting at Holy Mass, a God has immolated Himself for me; He has shed His Blood for the salvation of our souls; what more could He do?' Oh! how miserable I am, I who for so many years have refused Him my heart, which He has created for Himself and which He asks of me only in order to make it happy. I have just celebrated the praises of God with this same mouth that I had often sullied by all sorts of sins. Oh! my God, shall I always then beg from creatures the peace they are powerless to give me! My tongue shall it serve sometimes to praise You, sometimes to mispraise You. No, Lord, I now wish only to bless and to love You. Any Christian who has not, in going out, these thoughts in his heart, has not assisted at the Ho...

Reparation – A Forgotten Word and Concept

March 09, 2015

(Photo©Michael Seagriff) In a world which, for the most part, no longer recognizes sin or the eternal consequences of sin, and where so many summarily announce that everyone will go to heaven, “reparation” is oftentimes an unwelcomed word and theological concept. How gravely mistaken are the souls who feel this way. So what does “reparation” mean? The late Servant of God, Father John A. Hardon S.J, offers this simple explanation: “Reparation is the act or fact of making amends. It implies an attempt to restore things to their normal or sound conditions, as they were before something wrong was done. It applies mainly to recompense for the losses sustained or the harm caused by some morally bad action. With respect to God, it means making up with greater love for the failure in love through sin; it means restoring what was unjustly taken and compensating with generosity for the selfishness that caused the injury.” Obviously there is much more ...

Monday Musings - Seek God's Grace To Change Now

May 25, 2026

O Christian soul, what will be your sentiments at the hour of death with regard to this world and all its perishable goods, vain honors, false riches and cheating pleasures. Alas! The world must then end in your regard. It will turn upside down before your eyes, and you will begin to see the nothingness of all those things on which you had here set your heart. How will you then despise all worldly honors and preferences when you see yourself at the brink of the grave, where the worm will make no distinction between the king and the beggar. How little account, will you then make of the esteem of men, who then will think no more of you. How will you undervalue your riches, which now must be left behind you, when six feet of earth and a coffin and a shroud will be all your possession. How despicable will all worldly pleasures seem to you, which at the best could never give you any true satisfaction, and now fly from you and dissolve ...

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