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Monday Musings - Tarry In His Presence

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Good Friday Reflection

April 18, 2014

This is not just another Friday. This is Good Friday. Will that fact make any difference in the way we live this day? For far too many of us, today will likely pass much like any other Friday - a mad rush to get to the weekend with little thought of He Who made us and whose sacrificial and brutal death redeemed us. Where is our gratitude? Unforgettable (Source: Wikimedia Commons ) This the day so long foretold This the day of justice lacking This the day of man’s ingratitude This the day of cowardice and fear

Eucharistic Reflection - Why Did You Come Down To This Dirty, Miserable Earth?

March 26, 2024

Pick up a copy of Pondering Tidbits of Truth, Volume 6 and listen for God's still voice. He will use the words in this volume to reignite the flame of faith in your heart and draw you closer to Him.

Monday Musings - Eucharistic Revival

April 08, 2024

It should come as no surprise that the efforts of the Lay Dominicans of St. Joseph Province to help promote Eucharistic Adoration are bearing fruit. Here is one Adoration Chapel where two copies of their book, Godhead Here in Hiding Whom I Do Adore - Lay Dominicans Reflect on Eucharistic Adoration , have found a home. The reflections in this book are stirring souls and touching hearts. Have you gotten your copy yet? Is there one in your Adoration Chapel? Why not? May Father' Bruno's observations encourage you to do so: “Hidden within these pages, the reader discovers the God who has chosen to dwell within the Tabernacle of the human heart. Each reflection is its own monstrance, bearing the shape of its unique human author, while manifesting our heavenly Father's Spirit of Truth. Here you will find thoughts and events that are ordinary and surprising, instructive and lyrical, worthy of both cross and crown. The common life of the early Dominicans was called ‘the holy

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Michael Seagriff: My vocation as a Lay Dominican created an insatiable desire to learn, study, live and share my Faith. For more than ten years I led a Prison Ministry program and have spent the past decade promoting Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration. Now retired, I aspire to promote zeal for the salvation of souls, awe and amazement for the Holy Eucharist and Eucharistic Adoration, and fidelity to the Truths of our Catholic Faith.

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Prayer for Our Priests

"O dear Jesus, look down with love on your priests. Fill them with burning zeal for the conversion of sinners; keep unstained their anointed hands which daily touch Your Immaculate Body; keep unsullied their lips purpled with Your Precious Blood; keep pure and unearthly a heart sealed with the sublime mark of Your glorious Priesthood. Bless their labors with abundant fruit, and may those to whom they have ministered on earth, be one day their joy and consolation in Heaven. Amen. (From Dominican Prayer Book)

A PERMANENT QUESTION

When we spend time with Jesus we become like Him. Why are we not encouraged to do so?

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Eucharistic Reflection - A Prayer at Eucharistic Adoration

April 16, 2024

“I adore you, O Christ, and I praise you because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world.” I come before you, Lord, in adoration, kneeling before Your Presence in the Blessed Sacrament. I bow before Your Body and Blood broken and poured out on the cross. The image of the Annunciation embossed on the golden door of the tabernacle fills my mind with wonder and gratitude for the gift of Your incarnation. You are here. I am here. You are God. I am not. You are the creator. I am your creature. You are life. I am alive. You are the Redeemer. I am redeemed. You are the Savior. I am saved. You are mercy. I am forgiven. You are love. I am loved. You are Lord. I am Your unworthy servant. You are the way. I am a pilgrim. You are the truth. I believe. You are the life. I live in You. You are the master. I am your disciple. You are the Bread come down from heaven. I receive You. You are God made man. I share in Your divine life. In humbling Yourself to b

Pondering Tidbits of Truth - April 18, 2024

April 18, 2024

Pondering Tidbits of Truth is my simple and inadequate way of providing nuggets of spiritual wisdom for you to chew on from time to time. Father Jacques Philippe “The fact that we can’t save ourselves is something we acknowledge in words, but in fact we find it very hard to accept. We’d all like to be saved by our own efforts…to shine in other people’s eyes, even on the spiritual level. Worldly people want to be highly regarded because they have luxurious cars, expensive watches, designer clothes, professional prestige, and go around with beautiful people. As good Christians, we may want to stand out for our virtues, charisms, experience, and sound judgement. Then we consider that we are on the right path. But in fact we’re in danger of ending up with exactly the same mindset as the worldly people described above. Very often, without realizing it, we have a worldly outlook on the spiritual life: self-fulfillment, self-affirmation, expansion of the ego, etc. And spiritual pride, w

Monday Musings - How Do We Look Upon Others?

April 15, 2024

The previous quotation is from Fire & Light - Learning to Receive the Gift of God . The following questions follow Father Philippe's quotation and are excerpted from Pondering Tidbits of Truth, Volume 6 : PAUSE AND PONDER : How welcoming and inviting am I to those I encounter daily? Do people feel comfortable around me? Am I able to treat everyone as God would?

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