Forgotten Truths To Set Faith Afire!

Meditation or mental prayer may be defined as the silent application and elevation of our heart and mind to God to offer Him praise and homage, and to promote His glory by our advancement in virtue…”True prayer,” says St. Gregory, “is not in the sound of the voice, but in the desire of the heart; not our words but our desire to give power to our cries in God’s hearing.”    In mental prayer, along with the elevation of the heart must go the elevation of the mind and these must produce acts of the will if mental prayer is to be fruitful.   Father Charles Hugo Doyle

(Image Source: Wikimedia Commons )   We ought not to imagine God as far from us, or as if He were not present to us, for He is within us.  Father Charles Hugo Doyle       [Just one of 1200 encouraging quotations you will find in Forgotten Truths To Set Faith Afire! - Words to Challenge, Inspire and Instruc t]

(Image Source: Wikimedia Commons ) In our combating of temptation there are six main things to be done: forestall temptation by watchfulness and prayer; resist it manfully; avoid the presumption that you can dally with evil and conquer it at will; avoid the occasions of sin – persons, places and things; acquire a healthy distrust of self and confidence in God's help; and resist temptation promptly and perseveringly. .   Father Charles Hugo Doyle

(Image Source: Wikimedia Commons ) External mortification [of our sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch] is necessary in order   to mortify the disorderly appetites and senses of the body, and interior mortification of our passions [love, hatred, desire, aversion, joy, sadness, courage, fear, hope, despair and anger] is necessary in order to mortify the irregular affections of the soul.   Interior mortification is more excellent than exterior, both because it has a nobler object, the soul and its powers, and because the exterior ought to proceed from the interior.    Father Charles Hugo Doyle 

(Image Source: Wikimedia Commons ) The more a soul has sorrow for its sins, the more it has peace, because confidence increases when repentance deepens.   The more pain he feels for having displeased God, the more the soul will hope that God will grant mercy and therein rests its joy.   The reason the number of saints is so small in the world today is that there are very few persons who have the courage to face up to their transgressions of God's law or are sufficiently confident to continue it long enough for it to prove effective.   The foundation of Christian perfection is humility, and humility can be acquired only by a deep knowledge of one's miseries, that is to say, of one's sins at their roots. Father Charles Hugo Doyle