Returning love to Love...

 "Did the apostles gasp in wonder as they heard you say,

"Take this, all of you, and eat it: 

this is My Body which will be given up for you'?

I look upon the Host whenever I am at Mass,

speechless and struck with awe at such humility. 

My life is so full of me - so full of pride -

so full of the need to keep my identity. 

You are willing to hide Your Glory and Majesty

behind this wafer, so I may gaze at my God and not die. 

You want me to be comfortable in your Presence - to speak 

to You unencumbered by the difference in our natures. 

Oh Love, that is not loved,

how can I return Your love?

Wash me clean, dear Jesus, clean of every sin and weakness. 

Cover me over with mercy and forgiveness."

Mother Angelica

The Mass is My Life

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Today - approach our Lord,

full of tender mercy and love, through

 the sacrament of Reconciliation.

"A contrite heart implies the turning away from sin,
and in this way a sacrifice is offered to God 
on the altar of the heart." - St Vincent Ferrer

"The Lord offers His wounds as a guarantee of forgiveness, 

and shows that the Resurrection is not the erasure of the the past, 

but its transfiguration into a hope of mercy." - Pope Leo XIV

Third week of Advent:  JOY