Harvesting The Fruits of Contemplation

We thank Allison Gingras and Elizabeth Reardon for hosting Worth Revisiting each week and encourage you to visit them regularly at Reconciled to You and Theology is a Verb , respectively. I wish to share this post with you: Mercy and Justice Go Hand in Hand  (Originally published on February 15, 2016)  There is not now, never has been, and never will be any human being [save for our Most Blessed Mother Mary], who is not a sinner.  We are all in need of God’s mercy – an undeserved and unlimited mercy so long as we have breath in our lungs, acknowledge and repent of our sin s and humble ourselves to ask for it!. The sad reality of our time, however, is that so few of us see any sin in our lives that would warrant requesting God’s mercy.   So foolishly we neither seek nor ask for it.   If that is the condition of our souls at the time of our bodily death, only Justice can await us – eternal separation from He Who loved and created us to b...

((Source: Wikimedia Commons ) 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. Bernard "If we shall have to account for idle words, consider how rigorously we shall be judged for lying, sharp and stinging, insulting and derisive, presumptuous, unbecoming, flattering, complaining or slanderous words! How true is the statement that in much speaking sin is unavoidable!" (As quoted by Mother Julienne Morrell, O.P. in A Treatise on the Spiritual Life )