Harvesting The Fruits of Contemplation

This is the third week I am posting quotations excerpted from St. Thomas Aquinas – Meditations for Every Day, translated and illustrated by Rev. E.C. McEniry, O.P . These pearls of wisdom are worth pondering during the course of the week. If you missed the last two week's quotes, you can find them here and here .          For the first man sinned by seeking knowledge, as is plain from the words of the serpent, promising the man the knowledge of good and evil.   Hence, it was fitting that by the Word of true knowledge man might be led back to God, who wandered from God through an improper thirst for knowledge.             We hold that from the beginning of His conception, this Man (Jesus) was truly the Son of God.             Observe that the Apostle John states four reasons whereby the gift of the Incarnation shoul...

As I noted last week, every Monday during Advent, I will posting 12-15 quotations excerpted from St. Thomas Aquinas – Meditations for Every Day, translated and illustrated by Rev. E.C. McEniry, O.P . These pearls of wisdom are worth pondering during the course of the week. If you missed last week's quotes, you can find them here.          Nothing can be thought of that is more wonderful than the Divine fact, that the true God, the Son of God, became a true man.             God moves man to know the truth, to love good things and to perform just works. (Image Source: Wikimedia Commons )             There was no cause of Christ’s coming into the world, except to save sinners.   Take away the diseases, take away the wounds, and there is no need of medicine.          ...

You do not have to wait another minute! The long-promised Volume 5 of Pondering Tidbits of Truth is now available in paperback. From the back cover:   "There is so much noise in this world that we are not only having trouble hearing ourselves think, we rarely hear the voice of God. So many are the distractions and demands placed on our time, that we nary give God a thought. Many of us recognize this failure and long for a way to make time for Him. Countless others are unaware of the damage being done to their eternal souls by rarely if ever thinking of He Who created them. What can we do about this? We must, all of us, make time for God every day. But where to begin? Right now, promise your Creator that you will give Him five minutes of your time every day." How? Pick up your copy of Pondering Tidbits of Truth Volume 5 and begin each day reading and pondering one of its 100 quotations. Watch God work in your life. You can order your copy here .

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    Pondering Tidbits of Truth - Volumes, 1, 2, 3 and 4     We are all busy people. There are probably more than a few days when we give God little or no consideration - not because we don’t love Him or don’t have a desire to get closer to Him or to learn more about Him or what He expects of us -but because we are overwhelmed by the responsibilities and trials of our earthly lives.  Let me ask you a few questions? Have you promised God that you would "fit Him" in that busy schedule of yours, but have not been successful in doing so? Perhaps you have not yet seen the value in making time for spiritual reading in your daily life. Are you among those who have approached spiritual reading as being worse than going to a dentist? Are you at the point in your spiritual life where you sense God prodding you to spend more time each day reading, pondering and reflecting on the truths of your Catholic faith, but you do n...