Harvesting The Fruits of Contemplation

(Art Work of Marge Hendry- Photo©Michael Seagriff)  “No one can live continually in sin and continue to say the Rosary: either they will give up sin or they will give up the Rosary.”           (Bishop Hugh Doyle)

How can we let the month of May draw to a close without sharing yet another masterful narrative image of our Blessed Mother? We can't! (Image Source: Wikimedia Commons ) "She [Mary] holds all the great Truths of Christianity together; as a piece of wood holds a kite. Children wrap the string of a kite around a stick and release the string as the kite climbs   to the heavens. Mary is like that piece of wood. Around her we wrap all the precious strings of the great 'Truths of our holy Faith—for example, the Incarnation, the Eucharist, the Church. No matter how far we get above the earth, as the kite may, we always have need of Mary to hold the doctrines of the Creed together. If we threw away, the stick, we would no longer have the kite; If we threw away Mary, we would never have Our Lord. He would be lost in the Heavens, like our runaway kite, and   that would be terrible, indeed, for us on earth."    (From The...

Grotto at Notre Dame (Photo©Michael Seagriff) Thanks to the generosity and encouragement of Allison Gingras and Elizabeth Riordan, an ever-expanding group of Catholic bloggers take the time each week to re-post their favorite articles on “It’s Worth Revisiting” Wednesdays. Do yourself a favor- go there now (and every Wednesday) and let these authors bless and challenge you in your Faith journey. During the rest of each week. visit Allison at   Reconciled To You and Elizabeth at Theology Is A Verb . You will be pleased with what they share. I share the following with you this week:: The Eucharist and the Rosary - Our Spiritual Armament [What follows is a modification of an article I posted nearly two years ago. It seemed appropriate and timely to share it again.] There are two devotions close to my heart and vital for the future of our Church and for the salvation of our souls - The Eucharist and the Rosary. May we rediscover each day a deeper and...

Let us imagine that the Communion, for which we are preparing, is to be the last in our lives. Let us prepare, every time, as though, on quitting the holy table, we had to pass from this life to eternity. If we desire that the sacrament of the Eucharist should produce in us sentiments of the love of God, let us think of the immense love which God has shown us in instituting this mystery, and of His design to oblige us thereby to love Him perfectly.

What tears our Blessed Mother must shed  and how tormented she must be since so many of her children have not listened to her.