“The same Jesus who walked across the water and stretched out His hand to save a drowning Peter reaches out in the Blessed Sacrament to strengthen the weak and comfort the afflicted. Even if you think that you are the worst person in the whole world, you are that much more welcome to come to Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. He said that He has come not for the well but for the sick, because the well do not need a physician. Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament is the divine physician of our soul. The farther away you think you are from God, the more Jesus wants you to come to him in the Blessed Sacrament. He said that He has not come for the self righteous, but for sinners.
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In the 1960s there was song called ‘Suzanne’. The lyrics were: ‘And Jesus was a sailor and as He sailed across the waters, only drowning men could see Him.’
The greater our need and desperation, the more clearly we should see Jesus calling us to Himself in the Blessed Sacrament. From the Blessed Sacrament, Jesus says to us now what he said to Saint Peter then:
‘Take courage. It is I. Do not be afraid!’ It is I! It is really the Jesus who loves you and who died for you who is truly present in the most Blessed Sacrament. We have nothing whatsoever to fear. We should not let our sins keep us from coming to Him because He is infinite mercy. We should not let the fact that we may not be able to pray well keep us from coming to Him, because the mere fact that we go to the Chapel of Perpetual Adoration is, in itself, a prayer of great faith. We should not let a busy schedule keep us from coming to Him because spending time with Jesus and in the Blessed Sacrament is the best and greatest time that we will ever spend on earth.”
(From Come to Me in the Blessed Sacrament)
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