There many other things that can be said about Divine consolations, especially about the reasons why God decides to give them to us in the first place, but I believe that the most essential treatment that needs to be made here concerns how we ought to respond to them. I say that because Divine consolations will come to many us for whatever reason God deigns, but it is how we respond to them is what is most crucial to know.
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Draw Nearer To God, Seek and Find (Reflection on Mass Readings)
In this day and age, many of us aren’t very far from Jesus physically, in the sense of seeking Him out in Holy Eucharist, and most of us aren’t lepers, but there are certain aspects of our life that do need to be cleaned and made whole and turned over to God. You may live near the Church, but how close is your heart to Jesus? You may not be a leper, but is there an aspect of your life that separates you from the people of God and is requiring you to receive the Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation?
On Mammons, Golden Calves, and Anxiety – Reflection on the Readings at Today’s Mass
Jesus said to his disciples: “No one can serve two masters. He will either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink, or about your body, [...]
On Imitating Christ in Condescending to Meet Neighbor (Reflection on Readings at Mass)
Jesus said to his disciples:“I tell you, unless your righteousness surpassesthat of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven. “You have heard that it was said to your ancestors,You shall not kill; and whoever kills will be liable to judgment. But I say to you,whoever is angry with brotherwill be [...]
A Reflection on Jesus’ Beatitudes
When Jesus saw the crowds, he went up the mountain, and after he had sat down, his disciples came to him. He began to teach them, saying: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are they who mourn, for they will be comforted. Blessed are the meek, for [...]
The Grace Found in Sitting Down (Reflection on Mass Readings)
Today’s Gospel Reading comes from Matthew 15:29-37, and it is about the Jesus feeding the ‘four thousand’ after he had fed the ‘five thousand’: At that time:Jesus walked by the Sea of Galilee,went up on the mountain, and sat down there. Great crowds came to him,having with them the lame, the blind, the deformed, the [...]
How Sweet to my Taste is your Promise! (Reflection on Mass Readings)
Today’s First Reading comes from Revelation 10:8-11: I, John, heard a voice from heaven speak to me.Then the voice spoke to me and said:“Go, take the scroll that lies open in the hand of the angelwho is standing on the sea and on the land.”So I went up to the angel and told him to [...]
A Comment on Resurrection, Marriage, Angels, and Intercessory Prayer with the Saints (Reflection Readings at Mass)
The Gospel Reading from today’s Mass comes from Luke 20:27-38: Some Sadducees, those who deny that there is a resurrection,came forward and put this question to Jesus, saying,“Teacher, Moses wrote for us,If someone’s brother dies leaving a wife but no child,his brother must take the wifeand raise up descendants for his brother. Now there were [...]
On the Realization of Faith and Hope
As I was sitting next to the pond today, reading the second book of the Philokalia (published by Faber Faber), I came across one of St. Maximos’s last entries in his collection of spiritual teachings of the First Century – It reads: “When the intellect is absorbed in the contemplation of things invisible, it seeks [...]
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