Harvesting The Fruits of Contemplation

Sometimes, one priest must have the courage to challenge some of his brother priests by writing frankly and truthfully. This is the time. Thank you Father Mark for doing so. You Pass Me By Nothing so grieves my Heart as the coldness and indifference of priests and of consecrated souls to my living presence among them. Had they not the privilege of my abiding sacramental presence close at hand, they might be excused for the hardness of their hearts, but those who have me near, those who dwell close to my tabernacles have no excuse for the estrangement of their souls from the Sacrament of my Love. On the Day of Judgment I will hold them accountable for the neglect and indifference by which they alienated themselves from me, while I, the living God, the God who is love, the God who is all mercy and who sought their friendship and their company waited for them, and waited in vain. Even you, O my priests, my adorers, my chosen friends, consolers of ...

O Lord, have mercy on me a sinner! (Source unknown)

What is your response when you first come into the Presence of Your Lord? Do you adore Him by genuflecting before the tabernacle where He has been eagerly awaiting your arrival? When you get to the pew do you kneel down and talk to Him or do you spend the time before Mass catching up with your neighbors? What should your response be? There are valuable lessons to learn from Elizabeth 's reaction (and that of the child in her womb) to Mary's visitation.  "Who am I," the pregnant octogenarian asked as John the Baptist leaped for joy, "that the mother of my Lord should come to me?" Mary was the first tabernacle. Clearly, Elizabeth and her son recognized in whose Presence they were. When was the last time you leaped for joy (spiritually or physically) as you approached the tabernacle, or gazed upon Our Lord exposed in a Monstrance or when He was placed on your tongue? When you approach the sanctuary to receive the Body, Blood, So...

Respect for human life, from the moment of natural conception until the moment of natural death, is the only foundation for a just and moral society. These words are easy to say, but hard to live. Those who try to do so are often criticized and persecuted. Pray for him. Thanks to LifeNews. com for passing this on. Might you do the same?

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The "Yes" of Even One Soul Another Treasure b y    Father Mark No soul need ever be afraid of meeting my gaze, for in my eyes there is naught but mercy and love. Those who turn away from my gaze, those who fear the encounter with me face-to-face, are those who fall away from my love. I call you to a life of adoration so that you might contemplate my Face and read thereon all the love of my Sacred Heart for poor sinners, and especially for my priests. Whenever a soul seeks my gaze, my Heart is moved to show that soul an immense pity, to lift her out of the sin into which she has fallen, to bind up her wounds, and restore her to the joys of friendship with my Heart. When a priest begins to avoid looking at my Face, he has begun to alienate himself from the merciful love of my Heart. This will he begin, little by little, to lose confidence in my mercy, to consent to sin, and to descend into the darkness of a life from which I have been exiled. Look upon me for ...

If the great event of the Second Vatican Council was a breath of the Spirit that was blown into the world through the windows of the Church, then we need to recognize that a lot of worldliness has also blown in with the Spirit, creating a current and blowing the leaves all over. We’ve seen everything and yet nothing has been lost, but order must be patiently restored. Order is restored above all by strongly affirming the primacy of the Risen Christ, present in the Eucharist. There is a great peaceful battle to be waged which is that of Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration, so that the entire world can become part of a network of prayer, united to the Holy Rosary, in which we reflect on the salvific mysteries of Christ with Mary. This will generate and develop a movement of reparation and penetration.  (Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy, Cardinal Mauro Piacenza) Thanks to Michael Voris for pointing out these recent observations of the good Cardinal.