Bøger af Michael Seagriff

There are 1440 minutes in each day. Can you give God just five of them? See what He will do with that modest gift of your time. If you let Him, our Lord will change you and the course of your life. This book is a simple but sure-fire tool to make certain you spend time every day thinking about and being in the presence of the God who loves you and desires to spend eternity with you. It is an inspiring way to learn more about the Catholic Faith. Slowly read and chew on just one of its 100 quotations and the truths and challenges it contains. Ask God how He wants you to respond to what you are reading. Then do as He tells you!

The 100 quotations from ancient and contemporary Catholics will challenge and inspire you. The wisdom contained within this book will provide much fruit for your contemplation.

May our loving and waiting Lord use the 250 quotations in this book to increase belief in, reverence for, devotion to and love of His Eucharistic Presence, touch lukewarm hearts, stir slumbering souls, and re-ignite the flame of love for Him that He placed in our hearts the second He breathed life into them.Listen to Him speak as you read and ponder these truths. Take a close look at yourself. Recognize the many ways in which you offend Him daily. Feel His pain and anguish over being abandoned and ignored and treated irreverently Understand how thirsty He is for your love. Then love and treat Him as He deserves.

You will find 100 quotations here. Some may be familiar to you. Others maybe not so much. All offer much fruit for your reflection and contemplation. I offer no apology for the frequent appearance of the Venerable Fulton J. Sheen - his clear and courageous voice is needed in our times.This is my challenge to all who come upon this little book. Carry it with you or put it on your Kindle, tablet, laptop, android or I-phone so it will always be readily accessible at those times when you can steal a few minutes away from the hustle and demands of daily life to think about "what is above". Read these words and ponder them, asking God to let you understand what He wants you to learn from this material. I suspect if you do as I have suggested, five things will happen: you will not tire of re-reading these truths from time to time; you will become hungry for additional spiritual nourishment; you will be eager to give Our Lord even more of your time; you may even begin sharing with family and friends what you have learned - the fruits of your contemplation; and you will want to get a copy of my other book, Forgotten Truths To Set Faith Afire! Words to Challenge, Inspire and Instruct - at least I hope you will.

The time for mincing words is over. The most significant crisis in the Catholic Church today, from which all the other problems we are experiencing flow, is the fact that an overwhelming majority of those identifying themselves as Catholic, no longer believe that our Lord Jesus Christ is really, truly and substantially present Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity in the Blessed Sacrament! The sad but truthful reality is that in far too many of our Catholic parishes we have lost the sense of the sacred and an appreciation for the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass that are both essential for fostering and maintaining a belief in the Real Presence. Instead of cursing this darkness, ignorance and disbelief, it's time to do something affirmative to console Our Lord and to help rediscover a sense of the "sacred" and of "awe and amazement" in this gift of the Eucharist, as Saint John Paul II and Benedict XVI had so frequently urged us to do. We do not need any more study groups or committees or commissions in our Church. All lukewarmness toward or outright opposition to the promotion of Eucharistic adoration and spirituality must cease. We need Bishops, priests, religious and laypeople to frequently get on their knees before their Eucharistic Lord. It is He, not any of us, Who will gift us with a deep, abiding, life-changing, sanctifying belief in His Real Human and Divine Presence here among us. Everything else we need or think we need individually or as Church will flow from Him. Ponder this Truth: Our God does not need any of us, not even for a millisecond. Yet, as Jesus hung from the cross more than 2000 years ago, He let us know He was thirsty - not a physical thirst - but an unquenchable spiritual thirst as our Lord, Savior and Redeemer to be loved by those He created and for whose eternal benefit He died. In the ensuing centuries, not enough of us have made sufficient effort to quench His thirst. For the most part, many of us ignore His plea to love Him as He loves us. He still thirsts for our love. He is still waiting for us to love Him! Has He not waited long enough? Why have so many of us been unwilling to quench His thirst?There is only one credible and honest answer to that question - one that should make each of us uncomfortable but spur us to action. If we really believed Jesus Christ was truly here with us, we would come visit Him. Nothing would prevent us from doing so. We would not permit anyone or anything to take precedence over Him.But we do not come as we ought because not enough of us believe He is here! We are the only ones who can quench His thirst. All we have to do is come into His Presence and tell Him we love Him! That's it! But most of us don't and won't.He remains not only thirsty but heartbroken!Shame on us for denying Him what He deserves, what He has asked of us and that which would be so very easy to give Him!To have such a great gift, to have a God so easily accessible and not to reverence and appreciate that Gift, is the greatest of all human failings.It is the author's hope that after reading this book you come to Love Him! Reverence Him! Visit Him! Quench His thirst!

It is my hope that something you read here might bring you laughter at a time you feel forlorn, comfort when you are overburdened with the challenges of daily living, tears of joy when certain words you read or images they generate resurrect thoughts of those you loved and lost, greater appreciation for the gift of life, zeal for the salvation of your soul, and an increased desire to give to God and those He created what He and they deserve.

Have you promised God that you would "fit Him" in that busy schedule of yours, but have not been successful in doing so? Perhaps you have not yet seen the value in making time for spiritual reading in your daily life. Are you among those who have approached spiritual reading as being worse than going to a dentist? It is time to end your spiritual malnutrition! Read these faith-enriching quotations - one soul-stirring morsel at a time!