Harvesting The Fruits of Contemplation

    ( Photo by Mateus Campos Felipe on Unsplash ) "This is your mission, O Adorers: to weep at the feet of Jesus despised by His own friends, crucified in so many hearts, abandoned in so many places; to console the Heart of so tender a Father, Whom the devil, His enemy, has robbed of His children. A Eucharistic prisoner, He can no longer go after lost sheep, the prey of ravenous wolves. Your mission is to beg forgiveness for the guilty; to pay their ransom for divine mercy, which needs willing hearts as substitutes; to become victims of propitiation with the Savior Jesus, Who no longer able to suffer since His resurrection, will suffer in you and through you." ( St. Peter Julian Eymard From In The Light of the Monstrance )

How can we continue to ignore this great Gift among us? When will we make time for Him?  Will we ever make Him the center of lives or will we just throw a few crumbs of our attention toward Him every once in awhile? When will we love Him as He deserves and as we ought?    

 ( Photo by Maria Oswalt on Unsplash) "He is the unknown God, often deserted even by His own. And yet He remains in the Eucharist only for man. It is His infinite love that keeps Him night and day close to man's home with all the gifts and graces of heaven. Oh! Why are men so indifferent?... If the Christians continue to desert Jesus Christ in His temple, will not the Heavenly Father take away from them His well-beloved Son whom they neglect? Has He not already taken Him away from nations and kings, who now sit in the shadow of death? To spare themselves this greatest of all evils, let the faithful souls bestir themselves and get together; let them become adorers in spirit and in truth of Jesus Christ in the Most Blessed Sacrament; let them organize a guard of honor for the King of kings, a devoted court for the God of love!" (St. Peter Julian Eymard from A Eucharistic Handbook )

 

  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.       Venerable Bruno Lanteri "At the offertory, when the gifts and the altar are prepared, ask for a heart that offers to God, in union with Christ's self-offering, the ‘living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God’ of your whole life with its joys and sorrows, its responsibilities and tasks - all that you are and all that you do." (From Overcoming Spiritual Discouragement – The Wisdom and Spiritual Power of Venerable Bruno Lanteri )   Luisa Piccarreta “Daily meditation on the Most Holy Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ produces priceless goods for those who practice it day after day. It fills us with love and gratitude and engenders real, precious repentance for one's sins - a repentance that is felt not out of fear of temporal or eternal punishments, but out of pure love for God. It detaches us from earthly t...

" In the Eucharist, Jesus exposes Himself without protection to the insults and outrages of the impious; and the number of his new executioners is very great.    Photo by Jacob Bentzinger on Unsplash His goodness is disregarded and despised by a large number of bad Christians. His Holiness is defiled by so many profanations and sacrileges and that by His own children and His best friends. The indifference of Christians leaves Him alone, abandons Him in the Tabernacle, refuses His graces, neglects and even despises Communion and the Sacrifice of the Altar. The malice of man goes so far as to deny His presence in the adorable Host, to trample it underfoot, to feed it to filthy beasts, and to use it in diabolical magic. At the sight of so much ingratitude on the part of man, Jesus must have been troubled and unsettled for a moment before instituting the Eucharist. There were so many reasons against it, the strongest of which was assuredly ingratitude. What a shame fo...