Jesus: My friends, behold
the Heart which has loved you beyond description, even far beyond the
crucifixion of My body and soul on Calvary; see the Heart which has loved you
to the complete giving of Itself, this Heart which will keep Me your prisoner
forever, your captive in the Holy Tabernacle. Here in the divine Eucharist, I
have exhausted, My inexhaustible love. Sad to say, it is also here that man comes
to exhaust his boundless ingratitude!
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You parents, naturally so sensitive, whose
hearts have suffered so much from cruel hurts inflicted by your own children
whom you have often spoiled, add up, if you can, all your bitterness, add that
to all the tears shed since the beginning of the world, in the garden of
Paradise. All of that is but a drop of water compared to the fathomless
shoreless ocean of My anguish on the holy Altar.
Come close to Me, all of you who are
bruised by deception and pierced to the heart by your own at home, come, you
who are crushed by injustice, tortured by cruel separations, by misfortunes and
anguish often more sorrowful than death itself! You who are deprived of
prosperity here below also come, all of you whose souls are torn in shreds!
Finally, you who have tasted the chalice of all griefs, and have been touched
by all the cruelties of life, come to Me, not only to be consoled, but that you
may understand in the light of the Tabernacle as Christians, that the torrent
of your misfortunes is only a drop of that flood that God the Father pours on
His Son, your hidden God. In this prison I expiate the ingratitude of men who
forget their God and wound their Savior as the most ungrateful of sons
overwhelm their parents with shame and anguish!
See Me disdained, put in the last place,
forgotten even as the most ordinary of friends would not be forgotten; despised
even as the worst scoundrel would not be despised. And yet, I am the King, the
Savior of the world. I am Jesus, your God and your brother. My friends, have
pity on My soul, sorrowful unto death.
(From Twenty Holy Hours by Rev. Mateo Crawley-Boevey, SS.CC.)
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This is just breathtaking. It inspires me even more to get to work in the Sacred Heart Apostolate. How much does Jesus want to be honored and included and in the center of our homes and family lives! We have a glimpse of it here. Father Mateo was the Apostle of Sacred Heart Enthronements and dedicated his entire life to it!
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