Harvesting The Fruits of Contemplation

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. Andre Bessett  “When you invoke St. Joseph, you don’t have to say much. Say, ‘If you were in my place St. Joseph, what would you do? Well, pray for this on my behalf.’ ”   (From https://holycrosscongregation.org/assets/406375/quotes_from_st._andr_bessette.pdf )   St. John Eudes   “Continual submission to the holy will of God is the most universal of all virtues. Its practice should be most familiar to you, since at every moment there arise opportunities of renouncing your own will and submitting to the will of God.”     (From A Year with the Saints: Daily Meditations with the Holy Ones of God By Paul Thigpen)   St. Therese of Lisieux  "Do you realize that Jesus is there in the tabernacle expressly for you - for you alone? He burns with the desire to come into...

(Photo©Michael Seagriff) God calls all of us to walk the Via Dolorosa with Him, to spend time at the foot of His cross, to be there as He is nailed to it, to be there throughout the entire three hours of His agonizing death, to be there as He is taken down from the cross, to be there as He is placed in His mother’s arms and to be there at the tomb.  I have tried from time to time to obey Him. But I have found it hard to do. Painful would be more accurate. I don’t want to be reminded of the price He paid for my sins. I don’t want to acknowledge how ungrateful I have been for such an undeserved sacrificial gift. I am afraid of what other things He might ask of this obstinate sinner and of the additional disappointment, pain and anguish my refusing to change may cause such a loving and merciful Lord. Yet, if I am ever to succeed in abandoning my will for His, of allowing Him to make of me the new creation He intended, and of spending eternity in His glo...