July 14
"Our sensible appetites, inclined to sensuality and to sloth, need to be vivified by contact with the virginal body of Christ, who endured most frightful sufferings for love of us. We, who are always inclined to pride, to lack of consideration, to forgetfulness of the greatest truths, to spiritual folly, need to be illumined by contact with the sovereignly luminous intellect of the Savior, who is 'the way, the truth, and the life.'"
-The Three Ages of the Interior Life,
Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange
Today's Reflection:
A living faith makes us hungry for the Eucharist because a living faith is fueled by the Eucharistic Presence. It is the food of our soul. Our human condition leaves us ripe for sin. Left on our own, the appetites of the flesh would eventually swallow us up. To remain faithful, we need the spiritual strength which comes only from the Eucharist.
Today, spend a few minutes praying and ask yourself, "Is my 'living faith' alive?" If not, spend some time entering into dialogue with God centered on the Living Word, and list out some virtues that you can live more intently.
Reflection taken from Full of Grace: Women and the Abundant Life
by Johnnette S. Benkovic
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