Eucharistic Relection - Stay Near The Sacred Host
“If among
those who read these words there be anyone suffering from painful, inexplicable
feelings of which bind the soul, oppressing it and spreading over it
profoundest darkness, if there be any one weighted down by weariness or
dreadful temptations who feel that they are losing everything – Faith, Love,
and Hope – that God Himself seems to be turning from them, that Heaven is closed
to them and that death is in their souls, I implore you come to the Host. Throw
yourself at His feet and cry out to him, “I have none but You, save me by Your
love and by the Wound of your Heart.”
Then abandon yourself
to Him, Leave your soul in His hands, as the Canaanite woman confided to Christ
her daughter who was possessed of an evil spirit…In His name I say to you: “No,
you will not perish…” Never during His mortal life nor in His sacramental state
has Jesus repulsed or abandoned anyone who had recourse to Him.
However, terrible
the state of your soul may seem to you, however unfortunate or even guilty you
may feel, do not shy from Him, do not lose courage but cling to your Jesus even
as a drowning man clings to a rope. Stay near the Host for His Heart is ever
watchful. Who can tear you away if you not wish to leave? Has He not said, that
He himself will be your Defender? Remember His Word has never deceived anyone.
I implore you,
do not listen to satan who wishes to drive you away. Stay with Jesus who is
there in the Sacred Host, for from Him even as in the days of His mortal life,
there will come forth that powerful virtue which heals and saves.
It is for you
that He is there, for you that He offers His Blood, His Wounds, and His Merits.
It is when you are there prostrate at His feet, that His Blood flows over your
soul, that He covers you with His Merits, that He hides you in His Wounds and
in His Heart.
If you but
understood the gift of God, if you but knew Him who waits for you all day long
even as He waited at the well of Jacob for the Samaritan woman, you would
realize that it is there that He has desired to cover you with His protection and
His love, it is there that He wishes to be your Savior and your Friend, it is
from there that He will come to you in your last hour if you have gone to Him during
your life and it is there that He will receive you into His Heart to conduct
you to eternal happiness.”
We would probably have more devotion to Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament if a)the truths of adoration were preached a lot more from the pulpit; b)if every parish celebrated Benediction after Mass at least once a month and after Stations of the Cross during Lent; and c)if an adoration program were established in every parish. Now more than ever we need Jesus. We Catholics are so blessed with the Real Presence an we are so indifferent to Him!
ReplyDeleteAmen to all of the above!
ReplyDeleteHe is the answer.
After more than a decade of promoting Adoration, I remain saddened over the fact that so many of His priests, who He has been constantly calling into His Presence, not only ignore His invitation but oppose those who try to invite others.
This will all change in His perfect timing.
In the meanwhile Lord gives us the grace to persevere.