Harvesting The Fruits of Contemplation

(Image Source: Wikimedia Commons ) "Ponder Jesus as God in all His infinite and incomprehensible grandeur, in His eternity, His immensity, His majesty, His might, His wisdom, His power, His beatitude, His richness, His holiness, His patience, His justice, His mercy, and that He is contained with all that in the Eucharist." (Father Charles Edme Cloyseault  as quoted by James Monti in September 21, 2017 article in  The   Wanderer , entitled “Preparing to Enter Into The Awesome Mystery of the Mass”.)

(Photo©Michael Seagriff) When we look around our family, Church and world, we have no one else to blame but ourselves for the messes we have created. Want to know why? Listen here .

We thank Allison Gingras at  Reconciled To You   and Elizabeth Riordan at  Theology Is A Verb   for  hosting Catholic bloggers at  Revisiting Wednesday .  It is a privilege for us to share our work with them and their followers . Stop by for a visit now .  [ 40 Days For Life's Fall  campaign launches tomorrow. This is an event worthy of, and in need of, your participation. I thought I would share a reflection I wrote nearly four years ago.] Cold As Death (Originally published on  February 21, 2013 ) Yesterday was abortion day at our local Planned Parenthood center. Three of us were outside praying for the staff, the parents and the unsuspecting children encased in their mothers’ wombs. It was bitterly cold. In fact, this is the first time over the past four years when I ever felt cold enough to wear a hooded sweatshirt and gloves. But it was not just the physical cold and wind that was bot...

(Image source: Wikimedia Commons ) Jesus, today's adoration is the meeting of my soul and all of my being with you. I am the creature meeting the Creator; the disciple before the Divine Master; the patient with the Doctor of souls; the poor one appealing to the Rich One; the thirsty one drinking at the Font; the weak before the Almighty; the tempted seeking a sure Refuge; the blind person searching for the Light; the friend who goes to the True Friend; the lost sheep sought by the Divine Shepherd; the wayward heart who finds the Way; the unenlightened one who finds Wisdom; the bride who finds the Spouse of the soul; the 'nothing' who finds the All; the afflicted who finds the Consoler; the seeker who finds life's meaning. (Blessed James Alberione from Eucharist Adoration by Marie Paul Curley, FSP)

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 Winfrid Herbst, S.D.S. "We need God. Without Him we can do nothing. But God also needs us. He needs us to bear witness to the fact that He exists; that God became man; that God died; that God rose again; that men can become like God. God needs us to be animated Gospels and give the world the almost unbelievable ‘Good News’ that God is our Father and we are heirs to all that almighty God possesses." (From God, A Woman and the Way ) Father J. Urteaga Loidi "If you give yourself to God give yourself the way the saints did. Let no one and nothing occupy your attention and slow you down: you belong to God. If you give yourself, give yourself for eternity. Let neither the roaring waves nor the treacherous undercurrent shake the concrete solidity of your foundations. God depends on you: He leans on you....

Thank you Allison Gingras at  Reconciled To You   and Elizabeth Riordan at  Theology Is A Verb   for once again hosting Catholic bloggers at  Revisiting Wednesday .  It is a privilege for us to share our work with you and Your followers . Stop by for a visit now .  Monday Musings - No Time To Be Timid We should have two goals in this life: to save our souls and the souls of all whom we know, love and meet. Nothing can be more important than this. (Image source: Wikimedia Commons ) While none of us should presume upon God's mercy, it is an eternal Gift which He offers to all His creatures who humble themselves and ask for it... How painful it is then for so many of us, when those we know and love and who have separated themselves from our loving and merciful God, refuse to  approach Him and give little or no concern to their eternal home.

(Photo©Michael Seagriff) Jesus is surrounded today by an emptiness, which has been brought about especially by you priests who, in your apostolic activity, often go about uselessly and very much on the periphery, going after things that are less important and more secondary forgetting that the center of your priestly day should be here , before the tabernacle, where Jesus is present and is kept especially for you. He is also surrounded by the indifference of many of my children, who live as if He were not there and, when they enter church for liturgical functions, are not aware of His divine and Real Presence in your midst. Often Jesus in the Eucharist is placed in some isolated corner whereas He should be placed in the center of the church and He should be placed at the center of your ecclesial gatherings, because the church is His temple which has been built first for Him and then for You. (Blessed Mother to Father Stefano Gobbi from To the Priests: Our Lady’s Beloved...