“He was spurned and
avoided by men.” Isaiah 53:39
On this Holy Thursday night Jesus showed us the very ‘depth
of His love’ by giving us the complete gift of Himself and His total love in
the Holy Eucharist. Then He appealed to His apostles for the first holy hour of
prayer when He took them into the garden in the middle of the night, and asked
them to watch and pray with Him.
As He started to
pray, He began to sweat blood. The agony He suffered was the realization that
the Holy Eucharist would be rejected by so many and appreciated by so few. To
reject the Holy Eucharist is to reject Jesus Himself.
He saw down through the ages how He would be left alone,
spurned and avoided by men in so many tabernacles of the world, while He comes
to bring so much love and so many blessings. How few would believe in His Real
Presence; and fewer still respond to His appeal to be loved in the Blessed
Sacrament. And His Heart was “filled with sorrow to the point of death.” The
blood He sweated was grief poured out from a broken heart caused by the sorrow
of His Eucharistic love being so rejected.
Then an angel brought Jesus indescribable strength and
consolation by showing Him every holy hour that you would ever make. At that
moment in the garden, Jesus saw you praying before Him now and He knew that His
love would be returned. This is why your visit today is so important to Him.
Your holy hour consoles Him for those who do not love Him and wins countless
graces for many to be converted to Him.
He sees you before Him now and forgets the rejection of the
world. Here we offer to Jesus any rejection we may receive from others that He
may be loved by all men in this Most Blessed Sacrament.
Blessed Sacrament
Prayer: Conscious of Your loving Prudence, Jesus, we unite ourselves deeply
to Your attitude in the garden when You prayed: “Father, not My will, but Your
will be done.” During this decade we offer You the perfect love of Mary to make
up for what is lacking in our own hearts, and to repair for all of the
rejection that You receive from the world in this Sacrament of Your love (Come to Me in the Blessed Sacrament, Fr.
Martin Vincent Lucia, Apostolate for Perpetual Adoration, Mt. Clemens, MI).
1 comment:
Absolutely beautiful! I like the point that you make... ...To reject the Holy Eucharist is to reject Jesus Himself.... This is so true and yet I wonder how many really think about this, dwell upon the thought and understand what they do.
Thank you too for The Blessed Sacrament Prayer ... I've not heard (or read) this prayer before. It is so apropos for the season of lent. Again, thank ypou for sharing your thoughts in this manner.
Gene
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