~ January 23, 2021 ~
Most merciful Jesus, You Yourself have said,
“Learn from Me for I am meek and humble of heart.”
Receive into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart all meek and humble souls
and souls of little children.
These souls send all heaven into ecstasy
and they are the heavenly Father’s favorites.
They are sweet-smelling bouquet before the throne of God;
God Himself takes delight in their fragrance.
These souls have a permanent abode in Your Most Compassionate Heart,
O Jesus, and they unceasingly sing out a hymn of love and mercy.
Eternal Father,
turn Your merciful gaze upon meek souls,
upon humble souls, and upon little children who are enfolded in the abode
which is the Most Compassionate Heart of Jesus.
These souls bear the closest resemblance to Your Son.
Their fragrance rises from the earth and reaches Your very throne.
Father of mercy and of all goodness,
I beg You by the love You bear these souls
and by the delight You take in them:
Bless the whole world,
that all souls together may sing out the praises of Your mercy
for endless ages.
Amen.
“Bad News”
Excerpts from the Book of Fr Michael Gaitley:
“Consoling the Heart of Jesus”
“Too often we linger with bad news. We allow ourselves to be seduced by juicy gossip, gory details, and shocking scandal… All that bad news is empty, nothing, and only a small slice of reality… It is often just a distraction, a waste of time, or worse. Dwelling on evil leads to evil. It leads to anger, envy, bitterness of spirit, lust, discouragement, and despair – but there’s another way. We can avoid the bankruptcy of such hopelessness…” (106-107).
“Instead of looking at the bad news, we can turn to the good news, to Christ’s love, and we can love him even more than before… It seems this is why God permits so much evil in the world: not so that we become discouraged and hopeless but so that the sight of it will help steel our wills to be more fully for Christ” (107).
“Some are astonished when they see the number of unbelievers, the number of pagans, of impious and impenitent sinners in the world, compared to that of the faithful. There is a surprising disproportion there which is hard to explain. One might wonder whether the Redemption has not failed after all. I think Divine Providence has permitted this… in order that fervent souls may live the apostolic spirit in a better way, with greater desire to save unfaithful souls, seeing how many there are, and that they may share even more the thirst of Jesus on the Cross and his Heart which goes out to the multitude. And then because his chosen souls, his privileged, his elect, will love him with a greater love, Jesus himself will have mercy on others. You see the responsibility!”.
Personal Response: Daily Journal
Trusting in God’s power and mercy, what is that which I bring to him today in prayer so that his goodness and power might change?
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