Worth Revisiting - Eucharistic Reflection - Not Much Has Changed
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Eucharistic Reflection - Not Much Has Changed
Sadly, as noted by Father John Croiset in 1863, the lack of appreciation for
the gift of Jesus living physically among us is not a recent
development:
“There
have been newly converted Christians, in the Indies and in Japan,
who have traveled more than a hundred leagues every year, to have the
consolation of once adoring Jesus Christ in the most Blessed Sacrament, of hearing
one single Mass; and they thought nothing of the fatigue, of so difficult a
journey, that they might have the happiness of spending half an hour with Jesus
Christ.
My
God! How many will rise up at the day of judgment and will condemn us! We have
Jesus Christ in our town; religious persons have Jesus Christ in their own
house; and this benefit is esteemed as nothing! And some value it so little,
that they only visit Jesus Christ with indifference and even with repugnance,
and almost all without devotion.”
(From Devotion To The Sacred Heart by Father John Croiset, S.J.)
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