A worthwhile penance

#279  Wed. July 9/14, l1:40am, St. Theresa’s before the Blessed Sacrament

Thank you for coming to adore.

You see when I call you to write I will always provide the paper and pen.

Be still, quiet within your thoughts.

Let My Eternal Presence fall all around you.

Do not let your surroundings distract you and grab your attention.

Let you soul wander in My Eternal Presence.

There is no time here, no place here.

There is no before or after, there is only NOW. 

Climb the stairs in My Heart. They take you nowhere because ALL is Here in My Most Sacred Heart. 

Settle your heart in Mine. Do not look for compensation, solutions, complications, answers, questions, problem solving. 

Look for nothing.  Look at Me and contemplate My Loving Face. Not the scarred, human face of the Crucifixion, but the radiant Face of Love.

Do not get lost in My Suffering.  Free your soul to see the fullness of Me your Saviour.  I died yes, but I have risen.

Do not hang on to the Face of Suffering because then you will not see beyond to the Face of Eternal Love.

Yes, you can contemplate My Suffering Face, BUT only if it makes you a more loving, forgiving person.

So often when we contemplate My Suffering Face we dwell on all the harm done to Me and try to make up for it.  That is impossible.

You can contemplate My Suffering Face only if you are willing to accept My Forgiveness for what you may have done to cause Me to suffer.

You can contemplate My Suffering Face only if you are willing, as I AM, to forgive unconditionally all the atrocities that have been done to Me.

My People have suffered.  Yes indeed, but in the end the sin ends up in My Lap.  It is done to Me, against Me.  It is done against Love which I AM.

It makes no sense to get really upset about all the atrocities in the world unless you are willing to join Me in Forgiving.  Not forgiving people because of what they have done to other human beings, but for what they really have done to Me.

How do you start to do this?

Again it is the ‘soul and soul’ prayer.  Bring your soul and the perpetrator’s soul and the soul of the person who has been harmed together into My Sacred Heart and look into My Loving Face and see nothing but forgiveness for each of you.

That is the Face I ask you to contemplate.  For as you contemplate My Suffering Face, you are praying to release Me from this suffering, yet My only consolation for all of My Suffering is if you will turn away from bitterness, hatred, revenge, hardness of heart, and love unconditionally the ‘hurter’ and the ‘hurt’.

My Face suffers not only by what the ‘hurter’ does to the ‘hurt one’ but your hardness of heart, believe it or not, adds to My Suffering.

We do not think that our bitterness, our revenge, our meanness, our hatred, yes hatred, add to the Suffering on My Face, but oh yes they do.

If you know Me and believe My greatest Commandments then you should not be adding to My Suffering.

Do you see how we see the speck in the other person’s eye and do not see the plank in our own?

And I do not expect you now to go around saying “ Oh Jesus what hurt I have caused you”.  As if that will make up for it.

Surely I accept your admittance of how your sins have hurt Me --- hurt our relationship.  But if you get caught in that one mode of thought, grieving how your sins have hurt our relationship, then you have not grown in knowing and serving Me.

Yes, we have to name and claim our sins, yet not keep returning to apologize if we do not intend to try to do better.

And the better is --  loving, loving yourself and Me – loving our relationship.

When we don’t get beyond saying how sorry we are, what sinners we are, then we are still in our ‘me’ mode and not listening or wanting to take the bigger-by-far step of loving and forgiving unconditionally. 

Contemplate My Loving Face.  That is a much harder and more challenging prayer.

My Suffering Face you feel you can relate to because you have suffered.

Yet, My Loving Face takes it up a whole bunch of notches.  Beg Me for the Grace to contemplate My Loving Face.

Now I do not negate pondering My Suffering Face, but that has to lead you to being more ready and willing to contemplate My Loving Face.

It is My Example of Love that heals all who are hurt and heals all those who are the hurters.

You can be contrite, contrite, contrite for years, yet your true contrition is to accept My Graces to love and love unconditionally. 

Your sins must bring you to the Cross.  I should say, embrace your sins and bring them to the foot of the Cross to be washed by the outpouring of My Loving Blood.

Come before Me and adore My Loving Face, My Face of Forgiveness, tenderness, patience, kindness, lots and lots of healing love.

Thank you for coming.  Please continue to beg for the Graces, which I have in abundance, to be able to contemplate My Loving Face.

What a worthwhile penance for you to do.