Monday Musings - We Need To Be Witnesses

 

Pondering Tidbits of Truth - October 7, 2021

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.

  

 

 

Pope Pius XI

“…if Christ is to reign as King of nations, he must first reign totally as King of individuals…” Christ must reign in our minds - which must assent firmly and submissively to all revealed truth and to all Christ's teachings. He must reign in our wills - which should bow in obedience to God's law and precepts. He must reign in our hearts which turning aside from all natural desires should love God above all things and cling to Him alone. He must reign in our bodies and our members which should serve as instruments of our souls sanctification.”

(From Encyclical - Quas Primas)

 

Johann Tauler, O.P.

“Dear children, to receive the Sacrament worthily is the best and finest thing that we can do, but to come to it unworthily and unprepared is the most terrible and sorrowful of all things.”

 (From Spiritual Conferences)

 

Father Jacques Philippe

"By accepting the sufferings ‘offered’ by life and allowed by God for our progress and purification, we spare ourselves much harder ones. We need to develop this kind of realism and, once and for all, stop dreaming of a life without suffering or conflict. That is the life of heaven, not earth. We must take up our cross and follow Christ courageously every day; the bitterness of that cross will sooner or later be transformed into sweetness."

 (From Interior Freedom)

 

Pondering Tidbits of Truth - July 23, 2020

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 Lorenzo Scupoli

“The final means of acquiring both distrust of self and confidence in God is that before attempting to perform any good action, or to encounter some failing, we should look at our own weakness on the one hand, and on the other contemplate the infinite power , wisdom and goodness of God. Balancing what we fear from ourselves with what we hope from God, we shall courageously undergo the greatest difficulties and severest trials.”

(From The Spiritual Combat and a Treatise On Peace of Soul )

Robert Cardinal Sarah

“I wish to underline a very important fact here: God, not man is at the center of Catholic liturgy. We come to worship Him. The liturgy is not about you and me; it is not where we celebrate our own identity or achievements or exalt or promote our own culture and local religious customs. The liturgy is first and foremost about God and what He has done for us.” 

 (From Towards An Authentic Implementation of 'Sacrosanctum Concilium')

 

Tim Staples

"We have a job to do. We have to get the Faith into our heads and into our hearts—not just for the information, but to let it sink in deeply—so that we can go out and rescue a culture that has rejected God and does not know who they are as human beings."

(From Why Be Catholic?)