Christian Catholic Mystic Hermit: Bl. Marmion Comes to Spiritual Rescue!

Dear Dom Marmion, my friend in Heaven and who is with His Real Presence in person, please intercede on behalf of this sinus infection that seems worsening; it just is not leaving and the head is compacted, the sinus cavities painful, and I am ill more so when I try to get up, off-kilter in walking.  Please ask Jesus to heal the sinuses, and I am asking Him, as well.  Also, please put in a good word for my left eyeball as it is infected and scratched and a lesion, to boot.  

As you know, it's Lent in the temporal Church here on earth, and I'm offering myself, all of me to the depths and breadth of my soul as far as God has created this soul, for love of God and love of others, for the well-being of the people of Ukraine and all over the world who are in terrible struggles for their lives and their countries.

Just reading what Blessed Columba Marmion wrote, now published in Christ, the Ideal of the Monk, has given me a zap of faith and trust in His Real Presence to provide all that is necessary for my body, mind, heart, and soul, in His Holy Name.   Jesus, I trust in You!  I know it is Lent and trials additional tend to come at this time for those of your followers who are striving extra much to learn and grow in Your will, especially to love as God Loves.

"Christ Jesus will not leave our generosity unrewarded.  Was it not he himself the source of all grace as of all truth, who said: 'Give, and it shall be given unto you' (Lk 6:38)?  The one who gives to a neighbor receives in his turn from God.

'There are souls who do not advance in the love of God because God acts sparingly towards them; and God shows himself sparing because they are selfish and will not give themselves to Christ in His members. (...)  'With the same measure you measure, it shall be measured to you' (Lk 6:38).

"Herein lies the secret of the sterility of more than one soul; God leaves on their isolaitin those who surround themselves  with precaution to safeguard their selfish tranquility.  By shutting themselves off from their neighbor these souls close themselves off from God.  And as God is the fount of every grace, as without Him we can do nothing for eternal beatitude, what can a soul hope for that thus voluntarily closes the avenues of grace?

"'God lets himself be touched by our miseries, but on condition that we are ourselves sensible to the needs and miseries of our brothers. (...). Let us, too, give without reservation, let us listen to our Lord who tells us:  'I who am God, have loved this neighbor, I have given myself for him, I call him to the same beatitude as yourself; whey do you not love him, if not in the same measure as I have loved him, at least as ardently as you can for my sake and in me?'"

       by Blessed Marmion  (1858-1923)

God Bless His Real Presence in us!  Love in His Love!

Catholic Hermit Trying to Turn Adversity...

...into prayer for souls.

Woke up early this morning when the pain got too intense in this body.  The hermitage was especially cold even though the pricey wall heat pump an area heat "specialist" sold me and had installed a couple years ago.

Had to stay in bed all morning other than a couple brief times up to heat some hot water for tea and heat up some of last night's pea soup.  Then I thought about the man who assured me that the heat pump would be "more than adequate" and would "heat up the whole downstairs."  

Last year in the fall and winter, I called him as the heat pump was not heating up the downstairs, not by a long measure of any imagination.  He said it will do better when there is drywall over the insulation. Well, the drywall is over the insulation; the ceilings are also insulated--something not usually done in home construction nor necessary.  But I wanted to do all I could to keep the heat contained for the next year.

So now we are in that next year, and I have to face the fact that yet another person took advantage of this ol' hermit.  A nephew emailed in jest that I should take some of the many rats I've hauled out of this place and mail him a couple for Christmas.

Well, it did make this chilled, nothing consecrated Catholic hermit laugh a bit, which was the nephew's intention.  Rats for a rat....

But immediately I had already told myself the "salesman" hopefully did not intentionally lie.  He simply is rather ignorant as I later learned he had taken up the business of heating not many years previously.  Most likely, his love of photography was not generating enough income....  I suppose desperation helps us become more enthusiastic in what we are trying to sell someone?

I will have to get some additional heat sources for the winter.  A desert is stark and cold or stark and hot in various means and ways.  In the meantime, since I will use an extra space heater for the tiny room in which I have a mattress on the floor--I am offering prayers with any reminder of the man who sold me what is not at all adequately heating the hermitage.

Hell is supposedly very hot by some accounts.  Jesus refers to the fires of hell.  So that reminded me that my most important work as a hermit is praise of God and prayer for souls.  I am praising God that I have a sock hat to wear on my head and a comforter to keep the bed warm, and I have some plug-in space heaters.  There are people in the world who have far, far less as heat sources and are far more chilled.

Now the outdoors has heated up enough so that the inside is not as cold.  I will rise, dress, and head down into the crawlspace to turn off the water supply.  There is a plumbing task to accomplish today!  And while under there, I'll offer up a nasty task as an extra big prayer for the man who sells over-priced heat pumps to make a living, and for those friends of his who gave excellent referrals--as they only meant to help him out with his business.  

The nasty task is to remove a dead rat--one that died under there about a month ago, judging from the length of time it took the stench to subside.  I'll scoot over to that area of the hermitage, under the floors thereof, and locate the corpse, bag it, and bring it out and bury it.  That is my way of dealing with people who maybe do ratty things.

I try to give benefit of the doubt that most people do not intentionally do things.  They get enthused or desperate, or believe so much in their abilities that they exaggerate.  I don't think they intend to not tell the truth; and it is true that sometimes companies also stretch the truth in what their products will accomplish.  Yes, I had researched the product in addition to speaking with others who have it.

And, I can clean the filter as that might help a tad bit on the out-put.  I still have some more insulation I can add to one area under the house, as well.  But mainly, I will pray for souls of people earning a living and for my own soul, that we try our best to keep ourselves squeaky clean and holy from any tendencies to take advantage no matter how desperate or ignorant of consequences to others, that we may be.

We must turn all adversities in ourselves and in others, into prayers of positive action and hope for our betterment as people with souls!  Let our lights shine before mankind and do unto others as we would do unto ourselves.

Praise God for all our many blessings and the ability He gives us to pray through any adversity and to praise Him for giving us the ability to praise Him!

God bless His Real Presence in us, little children that we are!  Remain in His Love!  Our souls can be just the right "temperament" and keep our hearts warmly loving, always.

Later:  Only could get to a dead baby rat.  That suffices.  The big one must have crawled under some major pipes so cannot get to that area.  I have been considering any times in my life in which I have been a rat in any way to anyone.  I'm finding some examples!  His Real Presence deals with us directly!