Harvesting The Fruits of Contemplation

(Photo©Michael Seagriff) "...You are the body of Christ; you are members of Jesus Christ; you are the temple of the Holy Spirit. What a marvel! We are here in a church built of stone, before a tabernacle made of marble, and we approach this place with awe. We observe silence. We tiptoe our way ahead to the altar, we open ourselves to the radiance of this silence which is made different by the Sacred presence of the Host...He is there for us, to consecrate us, to transform us into a living host, so that we may truly be the sanctuary of the divinity." (Father Maurice Zundel from Wonder and Poverty, excerpted from May 14, 2020 Meditation of the Day in Magnficat )

  (Often quoted by Catherine Doherty, Servant of God and founder of Madonna House Apostolate)

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.       Dom Jean Baptiste Chautard, O.C.S.O. “It is impossible to meditate upon the consequences of the dogma of the Real Presence, of the Sacrifice of the Altar and of Communion, without being led to the conclusion that Our Lord wanted to institute this Sacrament in order to make it the center of all action, of all loyal idealism, of ever apostolate that could be of any real use to the Church. If our whole Redemption gravitates about Calvary, all the graces of the mystery flow down upon us from the Altar. And the gospel worker who does not draw all his life from the Altar utters only a word that is dead, a word that cannot save souls,   because it comes from a heart that is not sufficiently steeped in the Precious Blood.” (From The Soul of the Apostolate )   The Journal of a Priest at Prayer “I have not set bisho...