In the presence of Jesus in the
Blessed Sacrament I invariably find something that the world always hides from
me, namely, knowledge of self. In the light of the Holy Eucharist all my faults
and failings and all my sins, past and present, become clear to me; and then
from the very depths of my heart there wells up a cleansing, purifying font of
sorrow. Oh, how poor and miserable I appear to myself when in the presence of
Jesus! And yet how sweet and salutary are the tears that I shed at the sight of
transgressions!
If I cannot find it here, then
where in the world can I find it – a little patch of earth, I mean, one to be
watered by my tears so that thereon the tender blossoms of hope may germ and
grow? Who, if not Jesus, can say to me, “Go in peace, thy sins are forgiven
thee”?
(Eucharistic
Whisperings,
Father Winfrid Herbst, SDS)
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