A Child’s Wish

A Child’s Wish

I wish I were the little key

That locks Love’s Captive in,

And lets Him out to go and free

A sinful heart from sin.

I wish I were the little bell

That tinkles for the Host

When God comes down each day to dwell

With hearts He loves the most.

I wish I were the chalice fair

That holds the Blood of Love,

When every flash lights holy prayer

Upon its way above.

I wish I were the little flower

So near the Host’s sweet face,

Or like the light that half an hour

Burned on the shrine of grace.

I wish I were the altar where

As on His mother’s breast

Christ nestles, like a child, fore’er

In Eucharistic rest.

But oh, my God, I wish the most

That my poor heart may be

A home all holy for each Host

That comes in love to me.

Abram J Ryan

1839-1886

Real Power

Second Sunday of Lent

Excerpt below from:  Letters To A Brother Priest (pg 9) Co-authored by Rev Fr Vincent Martin Lucia  and Rev Msgr Josefino Ramirez

"Peter, James and John witnessed the Transfiguration of Christ on Mount Tabor. The whole world will witness the glorious transfiguration of Christ in the Blessed Sacrament. It will have the exact opposite effect of the bombing of Nagasaki. At the transfiguration of Christ in the Blessed Sacrament, there will be an explosion of divine energy which will release the power of His love and renew the face of the earth. Then the world will see Real Power! All will be made well. All will belong to His Heart. All will be made one.

In the meantime, there are five graces we receive each time we visit Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. By His glorious wounds we are the ones who are transfigured and changed through His healing love. Restoration, sanctification, transformation, reparation and salvation are the graces being poured out graciously upon us with each holy hour we make.

Like Peter... this is why we should exclaim in His Divine Presence, 'Lord, how good it is for us to be here!'"

Consuming zeal for souls

 

The Good Shepherd ~ Artist: Minerva Teichert

 

 “The offspring of this intensity of love

for our Eucharistic Lord

should be a consuming zeal

for the gathering of souls

into the fold of Christ.”

 

 

St Katharine Drexel

American ~ 1858 - 1955

Foundress - Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament

aka 'the anti-Margaret Sanger'

FEAST DAY - March 3

 

 

 

 

 “And here is the passive way – to be filled unto the fullness of God. The passive way – I abandon myself to it, not in a multiplicity of trials, extraordinary penances accomplished, practices of great works – but in peaceful abandonment to the tenderness of Jesus, which I must try to imitate, and by being in constant union with His meek and humble heart."  ~ St Katharine Drexel

 

 

St Katharine Drexel, ora pro nobis!

More on St Katharine: 

Click here: Catholic Fire: St. Katharine Drexel: Brief Biography and Lenten Spiritual Helps

Generously open to graces...

 

 

"We entreat you not to offer God's grace an ineffectual welcome (II Cor 6:1).  Yes, God's grace can fill us this Lent, provided we do not close the doors of our heart. We must be well-disposed, we must really want to change; we cannot play with God's grace. ...

We cannot regard this Lent as just another liturgical season which has simply happened to come around again. It is a unique time: a divine aid which we should accept. Jesus is passing by and He hopes that we will take a great step forward — today, now."

St Josemaria Escriva

Christ is Passing By, 59

Love divine, all love excelling

“Let your religion be less of a theory

and more of a love affair.”

Gilbert K Chesterton