Zeal for souls Zeal for souls finds its source in charity and in the contemplation of Christ crucified. His wounds, His Blood, the excruciating sufferings of His agony, all tell us how much God values souls and how dearly He loves them. But this love is unrequited, and it seems that ungrateful men strive more and more to elude His action. “O my dear Lord, how much oppressed You are by those to whom You have shown so much good! It seems as though these traitors would send You to the cross again and that You would have nowhere to lay Your head. My heart cannot conceive this without being sorely distressed”. “O eternal Father! Surely all these scourgings and insults and grievous tortures will not be forgotten. How, then, my Creator, can a heart as loving as Yours endure that an act which was performed by Your son in order to please You the more and to obey Your commands (for He loved You most deeply, and You commanded Him to love us) should be treated as lightly as the heretics treat the most Holy Sacrament today, destroying His tabernacles and demolishing His churches? Could it be that Your Son failed to do something to please You? Has He not fulfilled everything?... Has this most loving Lamb to pay once more whenever we relapse into sin? Permit it not, my sovereign Lord! Let thy Majesty be appeased! Look not upon our sins, but upon our redemption by Thy most sacred Son, upon His merits and upon those of His glorious Mother and of all the saints and martyrs who have died for you!” “…..behold, Lord, You are a God of mercy; have mercy upon this poor sinner, this miserable worm who is so bold with You, Behold my desires, my God, and the tears with which I beg this of You; forget my sins, for your names sake, and have pity on all these souls who are being lost, and help Your church”. (St. Teresa of Jesus) taken from [Divine Intimacy- Fr Gabriel of St Mary Magdalene O.C.D.]
Posted on: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 09:16:46 +0000
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