Forgotten Truths To Set Faith Afire!

(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

A conscience burdened with the guilt of past sins is fearful of divine judgment.  But God in His mercy has given us two remedies for such an unhappiness. One is the Sacrament of Penance, which blots out the past by remission of sins and lightens the future by our hope for divine mercy through continued repentance and amendment of our lives…The second remedy for the ills that come to us from thinking about time is what might be called the sanctification of the moment – or the Now.  Our Lord laid down the rule for us in these words: “So do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring worries of its own. Today’s trouble is enough for today” (Mt 6:34).  This means that each day has its own trials; we are not to borrow troubles from tomorrow because that day too will have its cross.  We are to leave the past to divine mercy and to trust the future, whatever its trials, to God’s loving providence.  Each minute of life has its peculiar duty – regardless...

All men are born to live. He (Jesus) was born to do the Father’s business which was to die and thereby save.  Venerable Fulton J. Sheen

[The Eucharist must be the source and center of every human life and most especially in the lives of our priests and religious. Why, dear Lord, do so many of us remain obstinately opposed to this Truth? Why don't more of us treasure this great Gift?  Why have so many turned deaf ears to the prophets whom You have sent to us? Why are so few willing to quench Your thirst to be loved? Why, dear Lord, why?] "The moral rot of the priesthood starts with a want of lively faith in the Divine Presence, and the sanctity of the priesthood starts there too." Venerable Fulton J. Sheen

(Photo©Michael Seagriff) The priest should think of the practice of the daily Holy Hour, as something to continue for his whole life…the daily Holy Hour gives us wisdom…The mind of the priest who lives close to the tabernacle door gains a special illumination.   The priest's mind and heart are best guided when they seek the Eucharistic Lord at dawn…Daily exigencies demand a daily Holy Hour…Vitamins cannot be stored up.   Spiritual energy has to be renewed; today's strength must come from the Lord today.   Thus the monotony of life is broken, and there comes to the priest new power for each day's apostolate.    The Holy Hour each day also destroys in the priest forebodings and worries about the future.   Kneeling before the Eucharistic Lord, he receives the rations for each day's march, worrying not at all about tomorrow...The Holy Hour should be a daily event because our crosses are daily, not weekly…These daily crosses will sour us, sear our sou...