I just finished listening to a sermon on Audio Sancto (www.audiosancto.org), and was struck by what the priest said. If you haven't yet heard of this website, I highly recommend it! It's full of wonderful, traditional sermons on a variety of topics. They average about 20 mins long. Anyway, I just finished this one: http://www.audiosancto.org/sermon/20130630-Devotion-to-HIM-is-the-Key-to-Happiness.html on devotion to Our Lord (I recommend listening to it!). The priest challenged everyone to spend 15 minutes a day meditating on Our Lord present here on earth in the Blessed Sacrament, thinking about Him, rather than ourselves. This means not just meditating in the car, but actually setting aside 15 minutes of our day (I'm sure we can all manage 15 minutes) to truly stop and think about Our Lord in a quiet place. Take the focus completely away from us and meditate only on God, for Charity cannot reign in a heart that is self-centered and we must have it reign in our hearts because Charity is love of God. How can we say that we truly love God when our hearts are full of so many worldly things? If we really loved Him, we would have no issue taking 15 minutes at the very least to converse with God and meditate on Him. Don't we like to talk with the people we love? Don't we spend hours sometimes talking with these people? Then certainly we can do the same for the One whom we are supposed to love above all else and Who loves us enough to die for us.
The priest said to do this for 30 days. I'd really like to make this a new resolution as I've been so bad about truly meditating. There are so many things I'm sure Our Lord is trying to me that I'm too busy to hear and won't actually stop to listen.
So here it goes...15 minutes a day, for 30 days!
~Lindsay
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