"If,
amidst the impiety which Jesus Christ meets with at the hands of heretics, He
at least were honored and ardently loved by the faithful, we might in some
degree console ourselves for the outrages of the one, by the love and sincere
homage of the other. But alas! Where are we to look for that crowd of adorers,
earnestly bent on honoring Jesus Christ in our Churches? Are not our Churches deserted? Can there be greater
coldness and indifference than what is shown towards Jesus Christ in the
Blessed Sacrament? The scant number that are
to be seen in our Churches during the greater part of the day, are they not a
visible proof of the forgetfulness and want of
love of almost all Christians? Those who approach our Altars most frequently,
familiarize themselves with these most august mysteries. It may be said, that
there are Priests, whose familiarity to Jesus Christ goes so far as to grow
into indifference and contempt."
(Devotion to The Sacred Heart - Father John Croiset, S.J. excerpted from Stirring Slumbering Souls - 250 Eucharistic Reflections)
.jpg)
