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the world. Jesus receives our gift and
offers it to the Eternal Father in union
with all that His Sacred Heart is doing
in these Tabernacles. In honoring Christ
in this manner, our short prayer will be
multiplied, as it were, thousands of times
in order to reach all the Tabernacles
that are privileged t o house Him.
The tragic thing is that we ask God
for everything else we think we need,
but not His mercy. We speak of war, of
suffering and of poverty, and yet we
fail to appreciate the mercy of God
and our need for it. Here is the true
picture of being a little child spiritually,
even in our devotions, walking between
Jesus and Mary through grace - our right
hand in His and our left hand in Hers!
We need both because God ordained
both to redeem us. “We cannot give ourselves
wholly, constantly and heroically
to the love and service of Christ, the
Head, without giving ourselves wholly,
constantly and heroically even to the
least of His members, for Christ does
not give Himself to us except united
to our neighbor.” (Union with God by
Dom Marmion) We cannot repay God
in person, but He has placed us in the
midst of our fellow man that we can
do for him that which we cannot do
for God. One, who isolates himself
spiritually, even in his private devotions,
is a mutilated member of Christ’s
Mystical Body, the same as a physical
member which is cut off from a living
human body.
Dietrich von Hildebrand says, “A true
personality is never solitary in the
sense of being isolated from others ...”
It is with all Christians that we are
to gain Heaven. With self-knowledge,
mortification and sacrifice, the emptying
of ourselves into others can have only
one consequence - filling up of ourselves
with creatures in return. Nature never
remains empty. Christ will remain hidden,
silent and humiliated until there is
time no more. The vigilance of Christ
in all the Tabernacles of the world, the
p rice of our sanctity, is not prized.
May the Heart of Jesus in the Most
Blessed Sacrament be praised, adored
and loved with grateful affection, at
every moment, in all the Tabernacles
of the world, even to the end of time!
Amen.
It is not possible for us to satisfy our
natural cravings for the comforts, honors
and achievements of this world and,
at the same time, live deeply interior
lives. Mediocre men and women have
received the most terrifying condemnation
God ever hurled at a creature:
“I would that thou wert cold or hot,
but because thou art lukewarm, I
will vomit thee out of My Mouth.”
St. Catherine of Siena attributes
mediocrity or lukewarmness, to lack
of appreciation or ingratitude for the
love of Christ. At this moment, God
is making an act of love for us. Why
are we not making an act of love for
Him? Discover what things stand in
the way of a more recollected life
and eliminate as many of them as
possible, without detriment to daily
duty and charity. No devotion, no
matter how true and beautiful, can
take the place of the Holy Sacrifice of
the Mass and the Sacraments. T
he evil spirit is ever bent on
perverting the restoration of all things
to God through Jesus and Mary. As Head
of the Mystical Body of Christ, God
reaches out to every member of the