Harvesting The Fruits of Contemplation

“Sadness is looking at yourself; happiness is looking at God. Conversion is nothing more than shifting your gaze from below to above.” – Saint Carlo Acutis

"We must show love for those who do evil to us and pray for them. Nothing is dearer or more pleasing to God than this. - St. Bridget of Sweden

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So Sin Is No Big Deal?

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February 10, 2014

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A PERMANENT QUESTION

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

Spiritual Weapon Needed For Our Times - Chaplet of St. Michael The Archangel

Remember

"Every 'flaw' I see in others is just a reflection of my own sinful soul. I must remember this Truth the next time I choose to be unkind or critical of someone else.”

LET US NEVER FORGET

"For there is nothing hidden that will not become visible and nothing secret that will not be known and come to light." - Luke 8:17

Prayer for Our Priests

"O dear Jesus, look down with love on your priests. Fill them with burning zeal for the conversion of sinners; keep unstained their anointed hands which daily touch Your Immaculate Body; keep unsullied their lips purpled with Your Precious Blood; keep pure and unearthly a heart sealed with the sublime mark of Your glorious Priesthood. Bless their labors with abundant fruit, and may those to whom they have ministered on earth, be one day their joy and consolation in Heaven. Amen. (From Dominican Prayer Book)

God's Magnificent Creation

Eucharistic Reflection - Come To Adoration

July 28, 2026

"In our self-center ed culture and classic American emphasis on work, we often feel we have to accomplish something during our times of prayer before the Blessed Sacrament. We rate our experience by how 'good' our prayer was, how heartfelt our devotion was, or how focused we could remain. Yet prayer and contemplation are fundamentally God's work, in which we are invited to participate. We need only to give Him the opening, and He will do the rest. By coming to adoration, we are handing Him the keys to our hearts, allowing the rays of His love and grace to bathe our souls in the light of His Presence, as the rays of the sun bathe our bodies in light. If we can take the time to pull away from the busyness and distractions of life and just sit at His feet, He will lead us." (From Manual for Eucharistic Adoration - Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration )

Pondering Tidbits of Truth - July 30, 2026

July 30, 2026

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. Father Jacques Philippe “When a problem has robbed us of our peace, the most important thing is not to resolve the problem in the hope of regaining our peace, but to regain a minimum of peacefulness, and then to see what we can do to face the problem. We will avoid making irrational choices for all the wrong reasons. How do we get back this minimum level of peace? Essentially through prayer, listening to the Word, and believing that God will never abandoned us.” (From Fire & Light: Learning to Receive the Gift of God ) Msgr. Romano Guardini "[Some people], when they [receive Holy Communion], strive with all their might for sensible sweetness, instead of worshipping in humility and praising God within themselves. So much are they given to this, that they think when they derive no sensible sweetness, they have done nothing, so m...

Monday Musings- Attach Yourself To The Will of God

July 27, 2026

Monday Musings - Stomach, Sex and Money

June 27, 2016

[What follows pretty well describes our current culture. This clear thinking and prophetic Bishop saw this coming more than 30 years ago. Yet, the majority of his brethren remained silent over the ensuing decades. Even now, some have still not found their voices.] “…contemporary paganism is characterized by the search for material well-being at any I cost, and by the corresponding disregard- or to put it more accurately, fear and genuine terror – of anything that could cause suffering. Image source: Wikimedia Commons ) With this outlook, words such as God, sin, Cross, mortification, eternal life…become incomprehensible to a great number of people, who are ignorant of their meaning and content. You have witnessed the incredible fact that many people began by putting God in parentheses, in some aspects of their professional lives. But then, as God demands, loves and asks, they end up throwing Him out - like an intruder - from their civil laws and from th...

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 )

Guest Blog - From Vultus Christi - Listen My Priests!

January 13, 2015

(Image Source: Vultus Christi ) From time to time, it is my privilege to share the powerful exhortations posted on Vultus Christ i by Dom Mark Daniel Kirby, O.S.B. - intended to re-ignite a passionate love for the Eucharist in all of us, and most particularly in his brother priests. Father is the Prior of the Benedictine Monks of Perpetual Adoration of the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar at Silverstream Monastery , whose website describes their community as follows: "Under the patronage of Our Lady of the Cenacle, the monks of Silverstream Priory devote themselves to the worthy celebration of the Sacred Liturgy (which St Benedict called the Opus Dei , or "Work of God"), in its age-old classical forms and to perpetual adoration of the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar, the Eucharistic Face of Christ, in a spirit of reparation. Their life of praise and adoration is marked by a heartfelt solicitude for the sanctification of priests." [Conside...

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