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

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 ) It is never true to say that we have no time to meditate; the less one thinks of God, the less time there will always be for God....For it does not require much time to make us saints; it requires only much love.   Venerable Fulton J. Sheen

(My Way of Life) By meditation man perceives that he can find his true place in the universe and his real happiness only through the surrender of himself to God.  In meditation man perceives the goodness and kindness of God to himself, and this begets love, which is the cause of devotion. Through meditation man also perceives his shortcomings and unworthiness, which leads him to lean on the strength of God for his salvation, and so to submit himself to God.  The knowledge of his own defects may make a man sad, but the knowledge of God's goodness gives him joy.   Walter Farrell, O.P., S.T.M. and Martin J. Healy, S.T.D.