THIRTY FOURTH MEDITATION FOR LENT
"And this is the judgment: Because the light is come into the world and men loved darkness rather than the light." (John 3:19)
How deplorable was the blindness of the Jews! And what can they answer, when they will be reproached with the evils which they have brought on themselves by their blindness? You had the Light in your midst, it will be said against them, and you closed your eyes because you preferred the darkness. The Sun of Justice, so long expected, had risen among you. You refused to make use of this Daylight which was to make you happy. This same Light is still in our midst in the Blessed Sacrament, and are all Christians wiser than the Jews? Do all Christians make use of this Light? Is there not reason to fear that the presence of Jesus Christ in the Blessed Eucharist, with His Sacred Heart ever ready to pour out on us the treasures of grace which It contains and of which It is the Source, will be the cause of our condemnation? Have we recourse to Jesus Christ in the Blessed Sacrament, and do we address ourselves to Him with confidence? Do we seek from Him the helps and graces necessary for us in various happenings of life? Alas! This Light is despised because people love the darkness, and this contempt will be the cause of their condemnation.
[From 'The Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus' by Fr. John Croiset, SJ]
How deplorable was the blindness of the Jews! And what can they answer, when they will be reproached with the evils which they have brought on themselves by their blindness? You had the Light in your midst, it will be said against them, and you closed your eyes because you preferred the darkness. The Sun of Justice, so long expected, had risen among you. You refused to make use of this Daylight which was to make you happy. This same Light is still in our midst in the Blessed Sacrament, and are all Christians wiser than the Jews? Do all Christians make use of this Light? Is there not reason to fear that the presence of Jesus Christ in the Blessed Eucharist, with His Sacred Heart ever ready to pour out on us the treasures of grace which It contains and of which It is the Source, will be the cause of our condemnation? Have we recourse to Jesus Christ in the Blessed Sacrament, and do we address ourselves to Him with confidence? Do we seek from Him the helps and graces necessary for us in various happenings of life? Alas! This Light is despised because people love the darkness, and this contempt will be the cause of their condemnation.
[From 'The Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus' by Fr. John Croiset, SJ]
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