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Pondering Tidbits of Truth - May 24, 2018

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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 .   Dom Eugene Bryant “ No one can truly say he loves his Savior if he does not feel ready to embrace the sufferings God sends him, in order to lighten the load that the Savior had to bear in the Agony in the Garden.”

Is There Something We Should Be Doing?

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Pondering Tidbits of Truth - July 30, 2015

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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. Gregory the Great There are some who wish to be humble, but without being despised, who wish to be happy with their lot, but without being needy, who wish to be chaste without mortifying the body, to be patient without suffering. They want both to acquire virtues and to avoid the sacrifices those virtues involve; they are like soldiers who flee the battlefield an try to win the war from the comfort of the city.” (From Moralia ) St. Maria Faustina Kowalska “I will thank the Lord Jesus for every humiliation and will pray specially for the person who has given me the chance to be humiliated. I will immolate myself for the benefit of souls. I will not count the cost of any sacrifice, I will cast myself beneath the feet of the sisters, like a carpet on which they can not only tread, but also wipe their feet. My place is...

Care About Your Soul?

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Then it's time to do something about it!