OFFERING

“Behold the Heart that has so loved mankind… Behold it, my children, satiated with reproaches, in this Host where It beats, amidst fires of charity, for you… only for you! And unable to bear any longer the burnings that consume It, I have willed to offer It to the very world that has pierced It with the dart of ingratitude and suffering… This is the supreme and last recourse of My redemption…

Here is My Heart: I give it to you, I offer it to you without reservation, in exchange for your sinful and ungrateful Heart… Oh, I thirst, I thirst immensely to be loved, in this Sacrament of the Altar… In it I have been until now the King of silence, the Monarch of oblivion… But the hour of My triumphs has arrived… I come to reconquer the earth… Yes, I must subdue it, despite the strife of hell, and I will save it by the omnipotence of My Heart.”  Accept me, I beg you… extend your hands and your souls to receive this supreme gift of my redeeming mercy… I come to bring fire to the earth, fire of life, of boundless love, fire of holiness, fire of sacrifice, and what else could I desire but that it burn?…

Fix your eyes upon my wounded breast… there you have the Heart that loved you even in the anguish of Bethlehem… and more; even in the humiliations and darkness of Nazareth… much more still; even in the shameful agonies of Calvary… This is the same Heart that ceased to beat on Golgotha, yes, the same one, that continues to love in the inextinguishable fire of the altar… of the Holy Eucharist.

And you do not love me!

Meditation taken from the HOLY HOUR. Composed by Father Matthew Crawley-Boevey (1875-1960).