Harvesting The Fruits of Contemplation

"Adoration is a furnace and a forge. The soul called to a life of adoration must expect to suffer the intensity of the fiery furnace, and the reshaping of all that is misshapen in her in the forge of My Divine Will. For this to happen, it is enough that the soul offers Herself to My love and remain humble, peaceful, and quiet as I purify and transform My Presence. (St. Agatha's Parish, Canastota, NY) If only souls knew the power to purify and to transform that emanates from My tabernacles! If only My priests knew this they would hasten into My presence and remain there, waiting   for   Me   to   do   in   them   what,   of   themselves,   they cannot do. It is the simple prayer of adoration that renders a priest fit for the sacred ministry by giving him a pure heart and by correcting all that is incompatible with My Divine Holiness and with My Priestly Love in his life. This way of holiness through adoration is a secret revealed to My ...

Nothing of eternal value will result from keeping our necks in the sand. Now is the time to ponder what awaits all of us:   (Image Source: Wikimedia Commons ) "Reflect, then, on the sentiments that will be yours when you will stand before the tribunal of God, with no defenders but your good works, with no companion but your own conscience. And if then you will not be able to satisfy your Judge, who will give expression to the bitterness of your anguish?    For the question at issue is not a fleeting temporal life, but an eternity of happiness or an eternity of misery. Whither will you turn? What protection will you seek? Your tears will be powerless to soften your Judge; the time for repentance will be past. Little will honors, dignities, and wealth avail you, for 'Riches,' says the Wise Man, 'shall not profit in the day of vengeance, but justice shall deliver a man from death.' ( Prov.  11:4).   The unhappy soul can only exclaim with the prophet, 'The sorrow...

Eucharistic Adoration is the greatest of actions and there is nothing greater or holier we can do on earth than this adoration. To adore is to share the life of Mary on earth when she adored the Word Incarnate in her virginal womb, when she adored Him in the Crib, on Calvary, in the divine Eucharist. (Photo©Father Lawrence Lew, O.P. Used With Permission) To adore is to share the life of noble souls on earth, whose love and happiness found expression in the long hours they passed at the foot of the Tabernacle to adore therein the hidden God and to glorify and love Him as much as they could. The Tabernacle was their only reason for loving life; they lived only to consume themselves in the flames of His love. To adore is to share the life of the saints in heaven who never cease to praise, bless and adore the goodness, the love, the glory, the power and the divinity of the Lamb immolated for the love of men and the glory of God the Father. Eucharistic Adoration is the holiest of...

We must never presume upon God's mercy. Too many of us take His mercy for granted. We do not like to think of His justice. Why Catholics are being told they all have a reasonable hope of being saved.  This is not quite what many of our Saints have concluded. (Image Source: cathopic.com ) Here are two short examples: According to St. Leonard of Port Maurice, Saint Vincent Ferrer reported "that an archdeacon in Lyons gave up his charge and retreated into a desert place to do penance, and that he died the same day and hour as Saint Bernard. After his death, he appeared to his bishop and said to him, ‘Know, Monsignor, that at the very hour I passed away, thirty-three thousand people also died. Out of this number, Bernard and myself went up to heaven without delay, three went to purgatory, and all the others fell into Hell.' "  Saint Jacinta of Fatima warned that “So many people are going to die, and almost all of them are going to Hell! So many people falling into ...

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.     St. Margaret Mary "The Divine Heart is an ocean full of all good things, wherein poor souls can cast all their needs; it is an ocean full of joy to drown all our sadness, an ocean of humility to drown our folly, an ocean of mercy to those in distress, an ocean of love in which to submerge our poverty."   (From T he Heart of Prayer: The Essential Guide to Knowing God Through Prayer )     Laura Catherine Worchacz “[Our Blessed Mother) Mary devoted herself exclusively to the Eucharistic glory of Jesus. She knew it was the desire of the Eternal Father to make the Eucharist known, loved and served by all men; that the need of Jesus’ heart was to communicate to all men His gift of grace and glory…She was consumed with the desire to make Jesus and the Blessed Sacrament known to all, to inflame all hearts with His lov...