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Spiritual Treasures That Will Provide Hours Of Fruitful Contemplation

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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...

Our Guardian Angel

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"One of our greatest helps in our spiritual journey is our Guardian angel.   Our Guardian angel is with us throughout our life.   God gives us this angel because we are engaged in a spiritual battle.   Our Guardian angel is entrusted with the care of our soul from the moment of our conception. He can not choose for us.   We have free will, but our Guardian angel speaks with Divine authority to help us choose rightly. Develop a personal relationship with your Guardian angel." Father George P. Schommer, O.P.  

How God Views Our Failings

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(Image Source: Wikimedia Commons )     G od detests failings because they are failings. On the other hand, however, in a certain sense, He loves failings since they give to Him an opportunity to show His mercy, and to us an opportunity to remain humble and to understand and to sympathize with our neighbor’s failings.  Pope John Paul I