Harvesting The Fruits of Contemplation

You can not claim to love God and remain silent anymore. You must share this Truth, over and over:  

"…I filled Your soul in the Garden of Gethsemani with fear and sorrow even unto death; now I will comfort it and make it rejoice by fervent Holy Communion and loving visits to You in this Sacrament of Your love. I bound Your Body to a pillar and scourged it so unmercifully that Your Sacred Flesh was torn to fragments and Your Precious Blood flowed in streams to the ground; now I will receive that Divine Body devoutly and   often, and   each time   I will   solemnly promise never again to let my passions hurt You in any way…Yes, I condemned You to death. 0 dear Jesus, now I am going to visit You often in Your earthly dwelling place; here I am going to offer my life to You; here, with You and from You, I am going to seek the life of grace and the pledge of life ever- lasting…"   ( Eucharistic Whisperings - Father Winfrid Herbst, S.D.S.)   [This just one of the 250 soul stirring quotations you will discover in S tirring Slumbering Souls - 250 Eucharisti...

"My Sisters, do you truly understand what one Communion is? What! A God who gives Himself absolutely to you, that is, all that He is and all that He has in Himself! He comes in order to draw you to Himself completely, to change you into Himself and make you entirely one with Him.  Only one Communion would be necessary to make a soul go out of herself and pass into Jesus Christ, because, I repeat, He does not come to you except to draw you into Himself. Yes, my Sisters, Our Lord comes to Jesus to take possession of our hearts and make them pass into His adorable Heart.. Ask Him to attract you to Himself, to hide you in Himself...that you may dwell in Him completely hidden and completely lost, in such a way that you are no longer anything and that He alone is everything.  Ask Him to rule absolutely in you, to be the source of all your thoughts, your words, your actions - in short, that everything you do be only the fruit of His own Spirit, becoming perfectly united with Him." (...

  (Image Source: Wikimedia Commons ) The immediate impetus for this post can be found in the writings of St. Gregory the Great (540–604), a Marian apparition, conflicting statements of two Catholic Cardinals, and zeal for the salvation of souls. Bear with m e, please, as I explain. The second reading in the Office of Readings for this past Sunday were selections from St. Gregory the Great’s Pastoral Guide which you can find here . (I recommend that you read and ponder it in its entirety). Let me, however,emphasize the following excerpts: “A spiritual guide should be silent when discretion requires and speak when words are of service. Otherwise, he may say what he should not or be silent when he should speak…Indiscreet speech may lead men into error and an imprudent silence may leave in error those who could have been taught… The name of prophet is sometimes given in the sacred writings to teachers who both declare the present to be fleeting and reveal what is to come. Th...

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 Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P. “Indeed, only then do we possess a truth completely when we teach it to others, when we make others share our contemplation; only then do we wholly love God when we desire to make Him loved by all. Give money away, or spend it, and it is no longer yours. But give God to others, and you possess Him more fully for yourself. We may go even further and say that, if we desired only one soul to be deprived of Him, if we excluded only one soul – even the soul of one who persecutes and calumniates us – from our own love, then God Himself would be lost to us.” (From The Three Conversions In The Spiritual Life )   Archbishop Louis M. Martinez “Human life is not a life of isolation; it is a life of association, of companionship. By the will of God, we were born in a family, which is p...

(From St. Daniel's Church) I urge you to listen to, and then share, the homily of 95 year old Monsignor Eugene Yennock of Syracuse, New York, a link to which appears at the end of this post. While many lay Catholics, priests and bishops have remained silent during this election cycle, a few courageous souls have stepped forward and taught their family, friends, neighbors and/or flock the Truth - the Truth that binds every living human being. What is that Truth?  - that the most preeminent priority issue of our time is abortion - the willful and sinful killing of human life - made even more heinous by selling their dismembered body parts. There is no compelling proportionate reason anyone can offer to justify the physical dismemberment and killing of human life and the selling of those body parts! NONE!!!!!!   There is nothing ambiguous about this Truth.  It must be proclaimed in every home, city, village, town, and from every pulpit in this nation! This related Truth ...