Harvesting The Fruits of Contemplation

"The next day, the church was cold, and I wanted to finish my prayers before it got dark. Jesus begged me to stay. 'Do not leave Me here. I am alone and without consolation. How often I am alone. I share this Church with you. You enter whenever you wish. Did you see anyone else?' (Image Source: Wikimedia Commons ) 'No one Lord. During this time, I saw no one.' Jesus responded, You see why I say, 'Do not leave Me alone.' I will accompany you with the penetrating glance of my eyes." (From The Flame of Love - The Spiritual Diary of Elizabeth Kindelmann )

Read what retired History professor Richard Fitzgerald had to say about Pondering Tidbits of Truth - Volume VI:  “Author, Michael Seagriff, has created a remarkable work that will significantly impact all who read it. The book is filled with spiritual treasures that will provide hours of fruitful contemplation. Moreover, and more importantly, the book creates an avenue of coming closer to God and seeking His will for one’s life.”   Now peruse and ponder one of its 150 challenging quotations.  [16]    St. Catherine of Siena To join two things together there must be nothing between them or there cannot be a perfect fusion. Now realize that this is how God wants our soul to be, without any selfish love of ourselves or of others in between, just as God loves us without anything in between. (From The Letters of St. Catherine )    PAUSE AND PONDER : God wants us to die to ourselves, to place Him above ourselves and all other creatures. Have I bee...

"If, amidst the impiety which Jesus Christ meets with at the hands of heretics, He at least were honored and ardently loved by the faithful, we might in some degree console ourselves for the outrages of the one, by the love and sincere homage of the other. But alas! Where are we to look for that crowd of adorers, earnestly bent on honoring Jesus Christ in our Churches?   Are not our Churches deserted?   Can there be greater coldness and indifference than what is shown towards Jesus Christ in the Blessed Sacrament? The scant number that are to be seen in our Churches during the greater part of the day, are they not a visible proof of the forgetfulness and want of love of almost all Christians? Those who approach our Altars most frequently, familiarize themselves with these most august mysteries. It may be said, that there are Priests, whose familiarity to Jesus Christ goes so far as to grow into indifference and contempt."   ( Devotion to The Sacred Heart - Father ...