Eucharistic Reflection - Oh, The Blindness of Souls!

“Oh! How I pity the blindness of souls who do not know God, who are weary and bored in His holy presence, who are not moved to reverence by His greatness!... The heavens and earth are full of the majesty of His glory and we do not think about it. We do not give ourselves to that adorable fullness in order to have a share in it.

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What pains me most is that during the most precious moments of our lives, those for prayer, we allow our souls to remain without attention, without respect, without vigilance, and without love toward a Majesty so adorable. Alas! If we were before an earthly monarch, what would our disposition be? But for a God of infinite greatness, holiness, and majesty we do not have the fortitude to wait in His divine presence for one hour with reverence. If we knew the importance of the loss we bring about through our fault, we would weep tears of blood. But we are in the darkness, our senses cast us into the blindness and our faith is as if it annihilated. What will we do in eternity if one hour of prayer wearies us?”

 (From The Breviary of Fire- Letters by Mother Mectilde of the Blessed Sacrament)