Pondering Tidbits of Truth - July 31, 2025

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.

Mother Angelica  "Please, make a visit every so often. Just go into your church for a moment and say, “Hi, Jesus, I’m here. I don’t have much to say.” He knows that...He wants our will, our love, our faith, and our trust. Remember now, you have that, you have everything. Every day, whatever church you belong to, he waits in that tabernacle, hoping when that door opens, it’s you."

 

St. Peter Julian Eymard "Oh! How well the devil knows that by keeping souls away from the Eucharist he is destroying the Christian family and fostering selfishness in us. For there are only two loves: the love of God and the love of self. We must give ourselves to the one or to the other. How unhappy are they who no longer have the Eucharist! What darkness! What lawlessness of mind! What coldness of heart! Satan alone reigns as master and with him every evil passion! As for us, the Eucharist delivers us from all evils!"         (An excerpt from 30 Day Eucharistic Revival: A Retreat with St. Peter Julian Eymard)

St. John Chrysostom

"There is nothing to be dreaded in human ills except sin—not poverty, or disease, or insult, or ill treatment, or dishonor, or death, which people call the worst of evils. To those who love spiritual wisdom, these things are only the names of disasters, names that have no substance. No, the true disaster is to offend God, to do anything that displeases him."

 (From A Year With The Church Fathers)

Eucharistic Reflection - God Is Thirsting for Our Love

God is love and He loves each of us more than anyone can. And what does He want from us? Love! When you love Him, you become like Him and you are united together as one!

When you grow to love Jesus more, you will feel a very special and deep closeness with Him and a growing awareness of His presence in your midst.

When a soul feels His love, it will be overflowing with love, peace and joy. It will be drunk on the love of God. Stay still with the Lord. Just as the baby falls asleep in his mother's arms, fall asleep in the presence of the Lord.

Instead of gossiping, bring Jesus all your worries and concerns. Tell Him, instead of your friends! God is my best friend! He will never leave me or forsake me. He loves me unconditionally!

In the Sacrament of the Eucharist, You Lord have left us a memorial of Your Passion. Help us, we beg You, to so reverence the Sacred Mysteries of Your Body and Blood that we may constantly feel within our lives the effects of Your redemption. You who love and reign forever!

“O Most Holy Trinity I adore you. My God, my God I love You in the Most Blessed Sacrament!

Ponder this Truth:

“The union between God and man in Holy Communion is the one thing that terrifies hell.”—Pope   Benedict XVI.

God will shower you with the graces you need to get to heaven. God is thirsting for our love!

Remember:

“The Eucharist is the Sacrament of Love, it signifies love, it produces love.” —St. Thomas Aquinas

Now go love Him as you ought and as He deserves!

(Donna Catherine Karas, St. Louis Bertrand Fraternity, Louisville, KY, excerpted from Godhead Here In Hiding Whom I Do Adore - Lay Dominicans Reflect on Eucharistic Adoration)

Eucharistic Reflection - The Best Reason

One of 250 Eucharistic Reflections you will find in Stirring Slumbering Souls:

(Our Lady of Good Counsel, Verona, NY)

"People come to Me for different reasons. Some come only on Sundays and holy days, through a sense of obligation. Either they do not want to lose Heaven, or they desire My help in their daily life. Then there are those who come to Me through mere habit. They act automatically, without any particular devotion to Me. There are, however, a certain number who come to Me for the best reason. They come because they are glad to be near Me. These people please Me best of all. They receive many extra graces which are not granted to the others." 

(My Daily Bread - Father Anthony J. Paone, S.J.)

Eucharistic Reflection - Let Us Go!

"Jesus could have limited His Presence only to the celebration of the Mass, but no! He wanted to make a permanent dwelling among us.

Night and day He awaits us and offers Himself to us at all times. Like a tender mother, He opens His arms to us. He is there generously to give us His gifts. He is there to draw us to Him and lead us to paradise with Him. Oh! Let Us Go visit Him often."

(St. John Bosco from 15 Days of Prayer With Don Bosco)

Eucharistic Reflection - Have You Forsaken Him?

[The next time you visit the Blessed Sacrament enter silently into this conversation.] 

[Jesus:] "See how forsaken I am! I am the shame of the wise, the scandal of the powerful, the laughing-stock of the crowd, the scapegoat of rulers.  But if they weep over their offenses I pardon them all, for I am Jesus! Tell me, have you not forsaken Me?... Answer Me....

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[A Simple Soul:] What have I, Lord Jesus, that Thou hast not given me? What do I know, that Thou has not taught me? What can I do, if Thou dost not help me?...O pardon my faults that have so wounded You. Thou has created me without any merit of mine. Thou has redeemed me without any cooperation. Thou has done much in creating me, and still more in redeeming me. Wilt Thou be less powerful or less generous in forgiving me? For all the blood Thou has shed  and the cruel death Thou hast suffered were not for the profit of the Angels who implore Thee.  If then I have denied Thee, let me praise Thee. If I have outraged Thee, let me love Thee. If I have offended Thee, let me serve Thee. 

For, to live without loving Thee, and to love without suffering for Thee. O Jesus...that would be death without Thee.

 

(From Twenty Holy Hours by Rev. Mateo Crawley-Boevey, SS CC)

Draw Near To Him Without Fear

[“My people have done two evils. They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and have digged to themselves cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water. - (Jer. 2:13)”]

(Photo©Michael Seagriff)

“WHAT heart so hard but could find a motive for contrition in this tender reproach! No question here of the Divine majesty outraged, the Divine rights infringed. The harm to ourselves—this is the evil we have done by forsaking God. And He stands sadly by, watching our futile efforts to fill with earth's sorry pleasures the hearts created for Himself.