Monday Musings - Serving God Faithfully

 

Pondering Tidbits of Truth - February 23, 2023

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. 

Venerable Archbishop 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 The Cries of Jesus from the Cross)

 

Father Donald Haggerty

“Many times in her life Mother Teresa repeated that the presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist was inseparable from His presence concealed in the poor. The presence is  one presence, she constantly affirmed. The same Jesus who hides in the Sacrament is disguised in the distressing appearance of the poor man. As she prayed on her knees before that Host in Kolkata,  one wonders what may have passed through her heart and mind. In her saintly awareness, Jesus Christ on the floor of the Chapel was the same Christ lying sick and abandoned on dirty street corners and alleyways throughout the world. Our love for the Eucharist can only deepen as we receive Him in Mass only to go in search of Him in His concealed presence among the poor. This truth can be a great provocation after a conversion. A rhythm of seeking and finding Him in His Real Presence can extend outside the Mass to many unsuspected moments of the day if we open our eyes differently to the poor - in all the disguises of isolation.” 

(From Conversion: Spiritual Insights Into An Essential Encounter With God)

 

 

Catherine Doherty, Servant of God

“When we are in pain—physical, psychological, spiritual—we lift our pains into the Lord’s cupped hands (the pain of rejection is the hardest). It is like the water that is added to the wine in the sacrament of the Eucharist. The Lord takes our pain, especially the pain of rejection, and He uses it to help others across the whole earth.” 

(From Cross of Rejection)

Monday Musings - May We Always Remember

 

Pondering Tidbits of Truth - June 11, 2020

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

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Father Dave Pivonka, TOR

“The disciples saw Jesus raise someone from the dead, they were catechized by him, he taught them how to preach, how to forgive, how to love. Yet after his Resurrection and before the sending of the Holy Spirit, we find them in a locked room, filled with fear. That's where many people's spiritual lives are, too—trapped, dry, and stagnant. But on Pentecost, something happened that changed the disciples—and that same something has to happen to us. We can't live our spiritual lives in a locked room, but in front of the world, alive and full of joy.”

(From The Wild Goose)

 

St. Charles Borromeo

 "If we wish to make any progress in the service of God, we must begin every day of our life with new eagerness. We must keep ourselves in the presence of God as much as possible and have no other view or end in all our actions but the divine honor."

 (From Aleteia - 5 Inspiring Quotes from St. Charles Borromeo)

Dom Lorenzo Scupoli

 “The man who has deep distrust of himself and places great confidence in God is not at all surprised if he commits a fault…he correctly attributes what has happened to his own weakness and lack of confidence in God. Thus, he learns to distrust himself more, and he places all his hopes in the assistance of the Almighty. He detests beyond all things the sin into which has fallen; he condemns the passion or criminal habit that occasioned his fall; he conceives a deep sorrow for his offense against God.”

(From The Spiritual Combat and a Treatise On Peace of Soul)