Harvesting The Fruits of Contemplation

Thank you Allison Gingras and Elizabeth Riordan for another opportunity to re-publish our favorite posts on Worth Revisiting . Be sure to visit Allison at Reconciled to You and Elizabeth at Theology is a Verb during the rest of the week. You will enjoy your visit If nothing else, I can be persistent. Every Christmas since 2014, I have urged all those who see this post and agree with its content to ask their pastors to include it as an insert in their Christmas bulletins. Nothing much has changed over the years. Few have accepted the invitation. This prompts me to paraphrase my Father Dominic's nightly plea: What will become of those lost souls whose ears are not permitted to hear and their eyes not allowed to see this essential, loving and truthful message? Do we even care? Who Will Step Up This Christmas and Speak the Truth in Love? (Originally posted 12/9/14) [This is one of the two times each year when, I believe,  our Lord most dreads the silence that will env...

T hank you Elizabeth Riordan at  Theology Is A Verb  and Allison Gingras at  Reconciled To You for  hosting Catholic bloggers at  Worth   Revisiting . We appreciate sharing our work with you and your readers each week.  Stop by for a visit now .   May you find something of value in what follows:   Monday Musings - There Is No Reason to Lose This War    (Originally posted on June 4, 2018)   Satan's battle plan for some time has been clear, obvious and unambiguous to anyone who has eyes to see and ears to hear - to destroy the Catholic priesthood, its Liturgy and the Eucharist.   For the most part, he has succeeded beyond his wildest expectation - although his victory is but a temporary, albeit extremely painful, one. But how many souls have been and will be lost until God has had enough and finally destroys Satan and his countless minions? Too many. And tragically not enough in posi...