It is a privilege each week to share one of my posts with Allison Gingras at Reconciled To You and Elizabeth Riordan at Theology Is A Verb as part of their Worth Revisiting promotion.
Here is a chapter from my book, I Thirst For Your Love:
Thank You For Coming!
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| Tabernacle - St. Vincent Ferrer Parish - NYC |
When I
entered this world, my Blessed Mother and her most chaste spouse, Joseph,
welcomed Me with loving arms, eyes and hearts. A choir of heavenly angels
surrounded and serenaded us!
My
heart leaped for joy when the humble shepherds came and paid Me homage. I
smiled! We waited.
But
none of the religious, political or social leaders bothered to visit. They
never thought to look for Me. I cried! Even today, centuries after my arrival,
most of them rarely think of Me. I cry!
Then
the foreign dignitaries came. They had left their country in search of the
Truth, not knowing on their departure, exactly Where, What or Who that Truth
was but certain they would find It. They did - the Incarnate Truth wrapped in
swaddling clothes and lying in a manger - and they were forever changed. I
smiled!
My
parents and I had to flee to Egypt
As I
embarked on my public ministry, many welcomed my miracles but later rejected
Me. Only My Mother, Mary Magdalene, My Beloved disciple John and a handful of
women walked the Via Dolorosa with me
and watched them nail me to the cross. They cried.
I rose
from the dead in order to restore eternal life to those who would believe in Me
- so many still do not. I cry!
I
remain physically here among those I love - Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity
- in the Most Blessed Sacrament, waiting for
them to visit. Few ever come. Hardly anyone believes I am really and
substantially present here among them. I cry!
So you
can imagine the ineffable joy I experienced when this Chapel of Perpetual
Eucharistic Adoration opened and each of you, one by one, sometimes in pairs,
began visiting me for an hour each week. You still come these many years later,
often at great sacrifice, even when you are tired, discouraged, overwhelmed
with worry, anxiety, illness or distraught over the death of a loved one.
You
have given Me the greatest gift possible – yourself, your time, and your heart.
Your presence here with Me is a source of great comfort and a most welcomed act
of reparation for the general indifference so many display toward my Pierced
and Sacred Heart!
When
you next visit and see Me encased in this modest Monstrance blessed by my
beloved John Paul II and so majestically held up by this angelic throne, know
that I look at you lovingly as tears of joy flow from my Sacred Face in
appreciation for the gift of your presence.
I love
you more than you are able to presently understand. I desire to hold you
eternally in My arms! Will you let Me?
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