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I first saw this on Aleteia and had to share it.

Sunday Snippets - March 8, 2015

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It's Sunday and time to visit RAnn and the diverse group of Catholic bloggers she hosts every Sunday at Sunday Snippets - The Catholic Carnival. Drop in. You will be thankful you did.

Here is what I shared:

Never Presume On God's Mercy

Don't Look For Human Approbation

Eucharistic Reflection - Come to The Tabernacle

"It's Worth Revisiting" Wednesday - " How Much Do YOU Love God?

Keep The Light of Conscience On

Keep The Light of Conscience On

"It's Worth Revisiting" Wednesday -"How Much Do YOU Love God?

Thanks to the generosity and encouragement of Allison Gingras and Elizabeth Riordan, a number of Catholic bloggers take the time each week to re-post their favorite articles on “It’s Worth Revisiting” Wednesdays.

Do yourself a favor- go there now (and every Wednesday) and let these authors bless and challenge you in Faith journey.

During the rest of each week. visit Allison at Reconciled To You and Elizabeth at Theology Is A Verb. You will be pleased with what they share.

This is what I have chosen to share this week:

How Much Do YOU Live God?

(Originally posted July 15, 2012)

Too often we have taken God for granted. So sometimes He asks others “to shake things up.” Today may be one of those days.

Here is a question worth pondering now and in the days to come:

“What if God loved you only as much as you loved Him?”

(Father Francis Hudson, S.C.J.)

Have you ever loved someone so much that you could hardly wait to hear from them, to speak with them and to see them? How often have you looked forward to a visit from someone you deeply love only to have that person not come? How hurt have you felt when you were ignored and your love not returned?

Imagine then how God - Who is Love – Who loves us more than words can describe - feels when we fail to demonstrate our love for Him? He waits in our churches hour after hour just to hear our voices and to see our faces.

Yet, few of us come to be with Him.

(Photo©Michael Seagriff)

“If you want to experience true peace, come to the Tabernacle. Oh, what love you will feel. My Father waits for you: He waits until you are ready to sit and honor His Son. He waits for you to open your heart: to believe He is there, so that He can give you the warmth of His Love and His Peace. For if you believe I am there, all things are possible. What happened? Your families before you, honored Me. They sat with Me: talked with Me. Churches were full, and because of their love for Me, and the one who sent Me, they did all they could for my Church.

A lot has happened in the last 30 [40+] years. I am the same God, yet there is no reverence for Me or my Son. You come with your hands in your pockets, not folded in prayer; children eat, laugh and play in the real presence of my Son. Some look away, as if they don’t know what to do; most don’t know who I am. Come to the Tabernacle and learn who I am. I am Love, Peace and Joy in your times of darkness, in your times of sorrow. I have always loved you. Do you remember, I died for you.

Come, Come to the Tabernacle so that I can teach you Who I am.”

(From Queen of All Hearts Magazine March-April 2005 by Karen Marzovilla, S.F.O.)

Never Presume on God's Mercy

As so many spiritual advisers have taught: The more we come to know ourselves and our sinfulness, the more we will come to know and love God and to appreciate and seek His mercy.

Sadly, the world has lost the sense of sin and knows not how much they are in need of God's mercy. By never making an attempt to know themselves, many impede the likelihood they will ever come to know God or seek His mercy. How tragic!

Father Grou gives us a good starting point from which to begin the journey to self-knowledge:

Sunday Snippets - March 1, 2015

It's Sunday and time to visit RAnn and the diverse group of Catholic bloggers she hosts every Sunday at Sunday Snippets - The Catholic Carnival. Drop in. You will be thankful you did.

I shared the following posts this week:

Beware of Incoming Missiles

Your Hearts, Works, Joys and Sorrows belong on the Paten

Eucharistic Reflection - I Also Blush. Do You?

It's "Worth Revisiting" Wednesday - Listen Again to the Venerable Fulton J. Sheen"

Pondering Tidbits of Truth - February 24, 2015