Quote for the Day: God before the table

[Shin]

'When at table I resolve to place myself in the presence of God as far as I can, to remain recollected and to pass up my favorite dishes so as to practice a hidden form of mortification. I resolve not to eat between meals unless ordered to do so under obedience.

St. Conrad of Parzham, resolutions in the novitiate

[Shin]

I am finding all the more how a deeper awareness of the presence of God, and an invitation of His presence into one's life, and one's heart, through acts of Spiritual Communion, gives a person the strength to do what he could not do before.

'I am the vine: you the branches: he that abideth in me, and I in him, the same beareth much fruit: for without me you can do nothing.'

John 15:5