THIRTY SECOND MEDITATION FOR LENT
But Jesus turning to them, said: "Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not over me; but weep for yourselves and for your children." (Luke 23:28)
Has ever such love been known as that which Jesus Christ shows us on this occasion? His Sacred Body has been torn by the scourges. He has lost a great quantity of blood. He has become an object of mockery and derision to the whole people. And in this pitiable state, He is not concerned about His own sufferings. He feels only those which He foresees that we shall bring on ourselves by our want of gratitude. If there is any feeling in our hearts, what can touch them, if this will not? Jesus Christ forgotten, despised and outraged in the Blessed Sacrament feels more keenly the evils which we shall bring on ourselves by these acts of contempt, than the contempt itself. "Weep, My children," He says to us, "weep for your neglect of your Redeemer, your Father. Weep for your black ingratitude which you have pushed to extremes, weep for these acts of irreverence which you have committed so boldly in My presence; weep for so many sacrilegious Communions; for for your loss in refusing to know Me, or while knowing Me, in refusing to love Me." For what, then, shall I shed tears, O my Savior, if I can think of ingratitude without weeping?
[From 'The Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus' by Fr. John Croiset, SJ]
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