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,)

Eucharistic Reflection - We Have But One Response

 

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“God is greater than our misunderstandings, greater than our doubts.  God is greater than our hearts. In the face of evil, we have no ready-made answers. We have no human answers. Faced with evil, we have but one response: Adoration. Our only response to the mystery of evil is silent Adoration. Yes, evil is incomprehensible, but by faith, we know that trusting Adoration in God is stronger than the absurdity of evil…”

(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, Brittany, France)

 

Pondering Tidbits of Truth - April 10, 2025

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.

Ven. Fulton J. Sheen 

“In silence there is humility of spirit…In such the ear is more important than the tongue. God speaks…a soul learns Wisdom by being responsive to [God’s] will. The scientist does not tell nature its laws; nature tells the scientist. Man does not tell or impose his will on God; in silence, like Mary, he awaits the Annunciation.”

Sheen Institute – Reflection April 8, 2025

 

Father Jean-Pierre de Caussade, S.J.

"The soul that does not attach itself solely to the will of God will find neither satisfaction nor sanctification in any other means, however excellent by which it may attempt to gain them. If that which God Himself chooses for you does not content you, from whom do you expect to obtain what you desire? ...It is only just, therefore, that the soul that is dissatisfied with the divine action for each present moment should be punished by being unable to find happiness in anything else." (From Abandonment to Divine Providence)

Robert Cardinal Sarah

“The desert is the place of hunger, thirst, and the spiritual combat. It is vitally important to withdraw to the desert in order to combat the dictatorship of a world filled with idols that gorge themselves on technology and material goods, a world dominated and manipulated by the media, a world that flees God by taking refuge in noise.” (From The Power of Silence: Against the Dictatorship of Noise)

 

Pondering Tidbits of Truth - December 7, 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.

A Lay Dominican from the St. Joseph Province

“In a world with noise, finding silence is a task.  Adoration may be the only place of silence for you all throughout the week. Sanctify it!"

(From Godhead Here in Hiding Whom I Do Adore – Lay Dominicans Reflect on Eucharistic Adoration)

 

Catherine Doherty, Servant of God

“Joy is very quiet and full of wonder. It is like a light that shines in the darkness and is connected with hope and with love.

To give you an idea of my joyous moments, the first occurs when I wake up every morning with the incredible thought that here God has granted me another day to love Him and to serve Him.

Simultaneously, other thoughts come to me from Satan and from my own humanity and emotions. They creep in like shadows over the shining light of my joy

They whisper: ‘Look you are going to have a full a whole day full of problems. You are going to have to be in four places at once’ and so on. Through these whispers, the whole weight of the day and of my duties creep in.

But joy smiles.  I know that I don't have to face all of those things at once, that these too are works of love for Christ's sake, that all I have to worry about is doing the duty of the moment as it comes to me, with love and enthusiasm for Love's sake-- for Christ's sake.”

(From Grace in Every Season (2001) November 26 page 311, and as reprinted in the November 2022 issue of Restoration, printed by Madonna Publications)

 

 Robert Cardinal Sarah

“Infallibly, silence leads to God, provided man stops looking at himself. For even in the experience of silence, there is a snare: narcissism and egotism.”

(From The Power of Silence – Against the Dictatorship of Noise)

 

 

Pondering Tidbits of Truth - December 8, 2022

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.

 

 

 

Robert Cardinal Sarah

“Noise surrounds us and assaults us. The noise of our ceaselessly active cities, the noise of automobiles, airplanes, machines outside and inside our houses. Besides this noise that is imposed on us. There are other noises that we ourselves produce or choose. Such as the soundtrack of our everyday routine. This noise, unconsciously, often has a function that we do not dare admit: it masks and stifles another sound, the one that occupies and invades our interior life. How can we not be astonished by the efforts that we constantly make to stifle God’s silences.”

(From The Power of Silence)

 

 

Madeliene Delbrel, Servant of God

“At the beginning of each hour of the long day, we could say 'I must begin this hour as if I were going to be a martyr, and a witness' - because there is not one second we have the right to let God’s Word lie dormant in us.”

(From We, The Ordinary People of the Street)

 

 

Father Gabriele Amorth

“Satan has had a large group of followers since God first created man. Therefore, man has always had to struggle against the temptations and possessions of the demons who act out of hatred of God. But today there is a denial of God that is to be feared. Today man has been able to impose a culture in which reason and science are enough to explain everything. God, from whom everything comes, is denied. And the result is mathematical: whoever denounces God gives himself over to the devil and to all his works. The Lord has spoken clearly: either you are with Christ or you are with Satan. There are no alternatives or half measures. Today, as never before, there are many who either believe in Satan or believe that he does not exist Thus, he can operate in total liberty tempting and tormenting men in a thousand ways, without having them think that these evils come from him.”

(From The Devil Is Afraid of Me)

 

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