Harvesting The Fruits of Contemplation

“I know I would not be able to work one week if it were not for that continual force coming from Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament." - St. Teresa of Calcutta

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Monday Musings - What A Soul Must Do

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August 29, 2022

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PRAYER OF ST. CATHERINE OF SIENA

"Eternal Father, all things are possible for You. Although You created us without our assistance, You will not save us unless we help. Therefore, I pray You re-create their wills so that they wish for what they do not wish for: I ask this of Your infinite mercy. You have created us out of nothing. Now that we exist have mercy on us. Re-make the vessel which You created in Your own image and likeness. Bring them back to Your grace through the grace and blood of You Son, the beloved Jesus Christ."

PRAYER TO BE PRESERVED FROM SUDDEN DEATH

MOST AMIABLE JESUS "I humbly implore Thee by Thy ignominious Scourging, The Crowning with Thorns, Thy Holy Cross, and by all Thy Goodness, not to permit me to pass out of this world without having received Thy most holy Sacraments." -Prayer of St. Vincent Ferrer

A PERMANENT QUESTION

When we spend time with Jesus we become like Him. Why are we not encouraged to do so?

God's Magnificent Creation

Monsignor Eugene Yennock Has A Message You Must Hear!

September 30, 2020

(From St. Daniel's Church) I urge you to listen to, and then share, the homily of 95 year old Monsignor Eugene Yennock of Syracuse, New York, a link to which appears at the end of this post. While many lay Catholics, priests and bishops have remained silent during this election cycle, a few courageous souls have stepped forward and taught their family, friends, neighbors and/or flock the Truth - the Truth that binds every living human being. What is that Truth? - that the most preeminent priority issue of our time is abortion - the willful and sinful killing of human life - made even more heinous by selling their dismembered body parts. There is no compelling proportionate reason anyone can offer to justify the physical dismemberment and killing of human life and the selling of those body parts! NONE!!!!!! There is nothing ambiguous about this Truth. It must be proclaimed in every home, city, village, town, and from every pulpit in this nation! This related Truth ...

Eucharistic Reflection - Like A Potter To The Clay

March 03, 2026

(Image Source: Wikimedia Commons ) "Silence in front of the Blessed Sacrament is one of the hardest yet most spiritually rewarding moments in a Catholic's spiritual development.- Like a potter to the clay, allowing God to work in you and being comfortable not speaking, not interrupting, but allowing one's soul to conform to the will of God. That sounds easy, but it's really hard." (Shaun Kenny from "Silence In A Cluttered Age" published in the July 24, 2019 issue of The Wanderer )

Eucharistic Reflection - Go Be with Him!

February 24, 2026

" You must spend time in the Presence of God! When you go to church to spend time at Adoration, give your full attention to the Lord. Talk to Him just as if you were talking to a friend or relative. Know that He is there in front of you, waiting for you! All you need to do is to open your eyes and your hearts to God. Even though God knows everything that is in your heart, He wants you to share those thoughts with Him. He is waiting for you to ask Him to help you, your loved ones and others in need. Only He knows what you and they need and what is best for the salvation of your soul and theirs. Be grateful that you can come into His Presence and be with Him. Remember that everything we have is a gift from God. He may not always give us what we request, but God will always give us what we need. Should we not offer all the joys and tribulations of our lives to Him? Should we not worship and love Him as He asks? Should we not ask Him to change our hearts and teach us how to love...

Monday Musings - Suffer the Little Children (and Sinful Prisoners Too)

July 08, 2013

(Image from Biblebios.com) If God used Balaam’s donkey to get that prophet’s attention, I guess he can use me to get yours. May these periodic postings on the second and fourth Mondays of each month (God willing) generate fruitful discussion and faithful change. I was prompted a few weeks back to go through and empty out my desk drawer. It had been far too long since I had de-cluttered it. I had forgotten the hidden treasures it contained. Then I saw them – about 15 of them. Suddenly, I realized how long it had been since I last went to prison. Odd, isn’t it. The one place I visited where I was always immensely blessed is filled with men and women whom the majority of us would never voluntarily choose to have anything to do with - no matter that our Faith teaches that all of us, including the greatest sinners among us, were created in the image and likeness of God and that each of us, without exception, by and through the unearned and undeser...

Eucharistic Reflection - Model For Christian Life

December 02, 2025

(From Hands At Mass ) "Think of how the Eucharist is given: bread broken, wine poured out: this is a model for Christian life. We, too, are called to be broken for others, poured out in service, hidden in love. The Eucharist gives us the strength to live this way, but it also sets the pattern for how we must live.” (Father Richard D Breton from the October 16th 2025 issue of the Wanderer , entitled Learning Humility from the Eucharist )

Any Chance We Will Hear This Truth On Super Bowl Sunday?

February 01, 2014

He Thirsts for You! For Your Love! Quench His Thirst! (Source: FOCUS ) Why not at least spend a few minutes during half-time with Him - if not physically than spiritually in some quiet corner of your home?