Eucharistic Reflection - Persevere in Adoration

“… let us persevere in Adoration. The Adoration of God will never disappoint us. The patient and silent Adoration of Saint Anne made possible the birth of Mary, the mother of the Savior, the most beautiful, the purest, the holiest of all creatures. To all of you whose hearts bear suffering and sorrow, your Adoration will bear fruit in hope. Persevering and relentless Adoration tears through darkness and brings the light of hope.”

(Cardinal Robert Sarah, July 26, 2025 Homily marking the 400^th anniversary of Saint Anne, mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary, at her shrine in Sainte-Anne d’Auray,)

Pondering Tidbits of Truth - February 1, 2024

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. Augustine

We cannot keep ourselves on the road to perfection and prevent ourselves from failing except by efforts to climb higher. As soon as we begin to stop, we regress, with the result that, if we do not wish to fall back, we have to run ahead always, without slowing down."

(From Instructions for Novices by Blessed Hyacinthe-Marie Cormier, O.P.)

St. Catherine of Siena

"If sensual affection wants to love sensual things, the eye of understanding is moved in that direction. It takes for its object only passing things with selfish love, contempt for virtue, and love of vice, drawing from these pride and impatience. And the memory is filled only with what affection holds out to it. This love so dazzles the eye that it neither discerns nor sees anything but the glitter of these things. Such is the glitter that understanding sees and affection loves them all as if their brightness came from goodness and liveliness. Were it not for this glitter, people would never sin, for the soul by her very nature cannot desire anything but good. But vice is disguised as something good for her, and so the soul sins. Her eyes, though, cannot tell the difference because of her blindness, and she does not know the truth. So she wanders about searching for what is good and lovely where it is not to be found."

(From Mary's Mantle Consecration- A Spiritual Retreat For Heaven's Help by Christine Watkins)

St. Augustine

"Remember this: When people choose to withdraw far from a fire, the fire continues to give warmth, but they grow cold. When people choose to withdraw from light, the light continues to be bright in itself but they are in darkness. This is also the case when people withdraw from God.

(From Instructions for Novices by Blessed Hyacinthe-Marie Cormier, O.P.)

Pondering Tidbits of Truth - June 28, 2017

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.

Catherine Doherty, Servant of God

"One has to begin at the beginning. The beginning is to finally acknowledge your own immense poverty. Now you have to fully, deeply realize that all that you are, all that you have is from God! From this follows that you have and are nothing.

Once you make this truth of your own poverty before God the very marrow of your thoughts, your life, your love, your body, in a word, your very being, then you will become truly humble. Then you will walk in truth, walk in and with God..."

(From How Poor Can You Get? by Father David May)

Saint Maximilian Kolbe

"You [Jesus], however, did not stop with this [dying for love of us], but foreseeing all that would happen across 19 centuries from the moment of these outpourings of Your love to my appearance on earth, You desired to make provision even for this! Your heart was not satisfied that I should be nourished only with a memory of Your infinite love. You remained in this vale of tears in the most holy and singularly miraculous Sacrament of the Altar!"

(From For the Life of the World – St Maximilian and the Eucharist by Jerzy Domanski, O.F.M. Conv.)

 Cardinal Pietro Parolin

"In the midst of great concern and uncertainty about the future, what does Fatima ask of us? Perseverance in the consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, shown by the daily recitation of the Rosary? And what if, despite our prayers, wars continue? Even though immediate results may not be evident, let us persevere in prayer. Prayer is never useless. Sooner or later, it will bear fruit…Prayer is capital in the hands of God: He turns it to good account in His own times and ways, which are very different from our own."

(From Homily at Fatima - May 12, 2017 Vigil Mass)