Harvesting The Fruits of Contemplation

(Image from Biblebios.com) [If God used Balaam’s donkey to get that prophet’s attention, I guess he can use me to get yours. May these periodic postings on the second and fourth Mondays of each month (God willing) generate fruitful discussion and faithful change.] This beloved Dominican has something to say to those of us who have no difficulty "seeing" the faults of others but nary any of our own:

Thank you to RAnn for the on-going invitation to participate in Sunday Snippets each week. Go sample the wares of the diverse group of Catholic bloggers who post there. No doubt one at least one of the gifted writers there has a message meant for you. Question of the week: Who is your favorite Catholic author? I would have to say Ven. Fulton J. Sheen. Although I did not set out to make Confession a topic of more than one post, God had other plans. Here is a sampling of what I posted on my blog this week: Confession - The Forgotten Sacrament Eucharistic Reflection - Cling To Him! A Must See Invitation to Confession Pondering Tidbits of Truth - March 27, 2014 Our Holy Father - Let Us All Follow His Words and Example Another of my posts was published on Catholic Online: It's Enough to Make God and a Grown Man Cry!

Thanks to Father Z for sharing this . .

(Source: Wikimedia Commons ) 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. Madeleine L'Engle "We do not draw people to Christ by loudly discrediting what they believe, by telling them how wrong they are and how right we are, but by showing them a light that is so lovely that they want with all their hearts to know the source of it." (From Walking on Water: Reflections of Faith and Ar t)

We answer that question with this indisputable photographic proof: (Thanks to my friend Karen S. for passing this photo on. )

What a short, powerful, inspiring video on the forgotten Sacrament of Confession produced by CatholicsComeHome.org and shared via Catholic Online. Pass this on!

(Photo©Michael Seagriff) "If you would become all that God intended you to be, if you would have life and success in life, if you would have love and not love's base counterfeit, you will enter into a union with God as intimate and as vital as that which exists between a mother and the babe in her womb; in very brief, you will cling to Jesus Christ in Holy Communion! He is your only hope for success, your only means to sanctification, your one true life and real love. Cling to Him..." (From A Trappist Asks Do You Want Life and Love?)