"We see Christians despise Jesus in the Most Blessed Sacrament and His Heart which has loved them and which consumes Itself with love for them! To despise Him, they take advantage of the veil which hides Him. They insult Him with their irreverences, their guilty thoughts and criminal glances in His presence. To insult Him, they avail themselves of His inalterable patience of, of the kindness which suffers everything in silence as it did with the impious soldiery of Caiphas, Herod and Pilate. They blaspheme sacrilegiously against the God of the Eucharist. They know that His love renders Him speechless. They crucify Him even in their guilty soul! They receive Him! They dare take this living Heart and bind it to a foul corpse; they dare deliver it to the devil who is their Lord! No, never even in the days of His Passion, has Jesus received so many humiliations as in His Sacrament! Earth for Him is a Calvary of ignominy.
In His agony He sought a consoler; on the Cross He asked for some one to sympathize with His afflictions. Today more than ever, we must make amends, a reparation of honor, to the adorable Heart of Jesus. Let us lavish our adorations, our love on the Eucharist. To the Heart of Jesus living in the most Blessed Sacrament, be honor, praise, adoration, kingly power forever and ever!"
(St. Peter Julian Eymard from In The Light of the Monstrance)
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