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The Spiritual Vineyard

The Spiritual Vineyard

By SrPatricia Jean Cushing, SJW

Listen to Spiritual Meditations that will nourish your soul and draw you closer to Him Who is the True Vine. John 15:5.
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"Jump Starting" Your Meditations

The Spiritual Vineyard Nov 28, 2018

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"Jump Starting" Your Meditations

"Jump Starting" Your Meditations

Our Need for Purgatory / It is no easy matter to be the friend of Jesus Christ. Saint John of Avila
Nov 28, 201803:09
"Jump Starting" Your Meditations

"Jump Starting" Your Meditations

How to Face the Storms in Life / God will lead you safely through all things. Saint Francis de Sales
Nov 28, 201801:08
"Jump Starting" Your Meditations

"Jump Starting" Your Meditations

The Peace Jesus Gives / God has ordained an exact balance between what we have to do and the necessary strength to do it. Don Augustine Guillerand, O. Carthusian
Nov 28, 201802:00
"Jump Starting" Your Meditations

"Jump Starting" Your Meditations

Come to Call Sinners / You must not be discouraged if Our Lord lets you see a little of your misery. From a letter by Blessed Columba Marmion
Nov 28, 201801:39
"Jump Starting" Your Meditations

"Jump Starting" Your Meditations

The Source of Jesus’ Authority / Even God can not fill what is already full. Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Nov 28, 201802:07
"Jump Starting" Your Meditations

"Jump Starting" Your Meditations

Drinking the Cup of Christ / Sometimes the Lord gives us a small part of His pain on the Cross. Mother Elvira Petrozzi
Nov 28, 201804:23
"Jump Starting" Your Meditations

"Jump Starting" Your Meditations

Pressed Down and Shaken Together / Find out every single thing that hinders God’s dwelling within you. Father John Tauler, O. P.
Nov 28, 201803:32
"Jump Starting" Your Meditations

"Jump Starting" Your Meditations

Silence after Communion / “Let him who has no sin cast the first stone.” Father Richard Veras
Nov 28, 201802:42
"Jump Starting" Your Meditations

"Jump Starting" Your Meditations

A Method for Turning the Other Cheek / When you can not rid yourself of pin-pricking vexations, repeat this prayer interiorly. Father Jean-Pierre De Caussade, S.J.
Nov 28, 201802:44
"Jump Starting" Your Meditations

"Jump Starting" Your Meditations

Taking Up Our Cross / Without crosses in our life we cannot expect to attain to an eminent degree of holiness. Father Jean-Nicolas Grou, S.J.
Nov 28, 201802:33
"Jump Starting" Your Meditations

"Jump Starting" Your Meditations

The Joy of Angels / The sin of the Angels was not accepting the future prospect of the Incarnation of the Word. Cardinal Jean Danielou
Nov 28, 201803:10
"Jump Starting" Your Meditations

"Jump Starting" Your Meditations

Living the New Commandment / I must always reflect when I see the faults of others, how weak I am myself. Lucie Christine, 1908
Nov 28, 201801:36
"Jump Starting Your Meditations

"Jump Starting Your Meditations

The Storm and Our Faith / Jesus wants to teach His disciples to bear life’s adversities courageously.
Pope Benedict Emeritus XVI
Nov 28, 201803:42
Meditations on the Litany of the Sacred Heart

Meditations on the Litany of the Sacred Heart

Invocation 12 - Heart of Jesus, Most Worthy of All Praise
Jesus loved us more than words could express, and He desired to give us a picture of His love.
Nov 15, 201806:05
Meditations on the Litany of the Sacred Heart

Meditations on the Litany of the Sacred Heart

Invocation 11 - Part IV, How a Soul Arrives at True Detachment from self
Love for Jesus is the motive and driving force of all you do
Nov 07, 201807:55
Meditations on the Litany of the Sacred Heart

Meditations on the Litany of the Sacred Heart

Invocation 11 - Part III, Effects of Obedience
They died to self, and rose for God
Nov 07, 201806:23
Meditations on the Litany of the Sacred Heart

Meditations on the Litany of the Sacred Heart

Invocation 11 - Part II, Unity in the Spiritual Life
Many love God and serve Him, but not according to His Will, but according to their own
Nov 07, 201806:37
The Eight Beatitudes

The Eight Beatitudes

Blessed are they who mourn, for they will be comforted / The Lord taught His disciples the way of life which makes one truly happy. The Values of the Kingdom of God are quite different from and even contrary to the values of the world.
Nov 01, 201812:04
The Eight Beatitudes

The Eight Beatitudes

Blessed are the Poor in Spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven / The Lord taught His disciples the way of life which makes one truly happy. The Values of the Kingdom of God are quite different from and even contrary to the values of the world.
Nov 01, 201810:60
Meditations on the Litany of the Sacred Heart

Meditations on the Litany of the Sacred Heart

Invocation 11 - Heart of Jesus, Abyss of all Virtues / One thing is necessary - Love God and glorify Him by spending yourself for your neighbor's sanctification
Oct 30, 201805:41
Meditations on the Litany of the Sacred Heart

Meditations on the Litany of the Sacred Heart

Invocation 10 - Heart of Jesus, full of Goodness and Love / Suppose Our Lord had given up His work after He found it so hard to lead us out of sin!
Oct 30, 201805:19
Meditations on the Litany of the Sacred Heart

Meditations on the Litany of the Sacred Heart

Invocation 9 - Heart of Jesus, Abode of Justice and Love / We cannot be just in the strictest degree because we are always cheating God out of some praise
Oct 30, 201807:22
Meditations on the Litany of the Sacred Heart

Meditations on the Litany of the Sacred Heart

Invocation 8 - Heart of Jesus, Burning Furnace of Charity / Christ's death on the Cross proves that His Heart is a burning furnace of love
Oct 17, 201807:30
Meditations on the Litany of the Sacred Heart

Meditations on the Litany of the Sacred Heart

Invocation 7 - Heart of Jesus, House of God and Gate of Heaven / In God's House there is always praise and thanksgiving ascending like incense to the Throne of God
Oct 17, 201812:51
Meditations on the Litany of the Sacred Heart

Meditations on the Litany of the Sacred Heart

Invocation 6 - Heart of Jesus, Tabernacle of the Most High
God's joy was to dwell amongst men and He showed His people by His nearness that He loved them
Oct 15, 201810:20
Meditations on the Litany of the Sacred Heart

Meditations on the Litany of the Sacred Heart

Invocation 5 - Heart of Jesus, Sacred Temple of God
Wherever the Divine Nature is, there must be also the Father and the Holy Spirit because they cannot be separated from the Divine Nature.
Oct 15, 201806:50
Meditations on the Litany of the Sacred Heart

Meditations on the Litany of the Sacred Heart

Invocation 4 - Heart of Jesus, of Infinite Majesty
When you make the genuflection, make a good one externally and internally
Oct 15, 201807:09
Meditations on the Litany of the Sacred Heart

Meditations on the Litany of the Sacred Heart

Invocation 3 - Heart of Jesus, Substantially United to the Word of God / Two pure and perfect natures belong to the same Person and this union is called a Hypostatic Union
Oct 15, 201810:14
Meditations on the Litany of the Sacred Heart

Meditations on the Litany of the Sacred Heart

Invocation 2 - Heart of Jesus, formed by the Holy Spirit in the Womb of the Virgin Mother
Mary is the only creature who became a blood relative of one of the three Divine Persons, and related by affinity to the other two.
Oct 15, 201807:27
Meditations on the Litany of the Sacred Heart

Meditations on the Litany of the Sacred Heart

Invocation 1 - Heart of Jesus, Son of the Eternal Father
Only in Eternity shall we see Him, and only then will we be able to stand the beauty of that vision of the Eternal Father and His well-beloved Son Who lives in Him
Oct 15, 201807:39
Listening to the Indwelling Presence

Listening to the Indwelling Presence

Chapter 2 - Co-operation is the essential condition for living our life
Oct 07, 201820:47
Listening to the Indwelling Presence

Listening to the Indwelling Presence

Chapter 1 - Have I grown familiar with the Voice of my Triune God?
Oct 05, 201814:59