Eucharistic Reflection - With A Heart Humbled and Broken With Grief

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Most adorable and most amiable Jesus! Ever full 

of love for us, ever touched with compassion for our 

miseries, ever actuated by the desire of making us 

partakers of Thy treasures, and of giving Thyself 

wholly to us: Jesus, my Savior and my God, Who, 

through an excess of the most ardent and most won- 

derful love, hast placed Thyself in the condition of a 

victim, in the Adorable Eucharist, where Thou offers 

Thyself for us in sacrifice so many times every day, 

what must be Thy sentiments in this state, at finding 

no return for all this, in the hearts of the greater part 

of men, but hardness, forgetfulness, ingratitude and 

contempt! 

Was it not enough. Oh my God, to have taken the most

painful means of saving us, when Thou could 

have shown us Thy excessive love at much less cost ? 

Was it not enough to abandon Thyself once to that cruel 

agony, and deadly sorrow, caused in Thee by the horrible

sight of our sins, with which Thou was loaded ? 

Why would Thou still expose Thyself daily to all the 

insults of which the unspeakable malice of men and 

devils is capable? 

Ah! my God and my most loving Redeemer, what

are the sentiments of Thy Sacred Heart at the sight

of all this ingratitude, and of all these sins ? 

How great was the bitterness with which so many

sacrileges, and so many outrages, afflicted and

tormented Thy Heart ? 

…With a heart humbled and broken with grief, I ask of 

Thee a thousand and a thousand times pardon for all these

indignities. Why cannot I, oh my God, wash with my 

blood every spot where Thy Sacred Heart has been 

so horribly outraged, and the greatest proof of Thy love 

received with such incredible contempt? 

…But oh, my beloved Savior, what covers me still 

more with confusion, and should fill me with greater 

grief is, that I also have been of the number of these

ungrateful souls…

 (From Devotion to the Sacred Heart by Father John Croiset, S.J.)