Forgotten Truths To Set Faith Afire!

(Image Source: Unsplash.com ) " To contemplate Christ involves being able to recognize Him wherever He manifests Himself, in His many forms of presence, but above all in the living Sacrament of His Body and Blood.   The Church draws her life from Christ in the Eucharist; by Him she is fed and by him she is enlightened." Saint Pope John Paul II 

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...

(Image source: Wikimedia Commons ) Not only must we have a prayer life, before we can go out and preach, but our preaching, our witnessing to Christ, must flow from our life in God through contemplation.  Father William Hinnebusch, O.P. 

Photo©Michael Seagriff We should read our Lord’s Passion constantly; what great benefit we will gain by doing so.  Even if you are as hard as stone, when you contemplate that He was sarcastically adorned, then ridiculed, beaten and subjected to the final agonies, you will be moved to cast all pride from your soul.  St. John Chrysostom