2 TIMOTHY 2:10
“Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain salvation in Christ Jesus with its eternal glory.”
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PICCARRETA:
Aug. 6. “How happy you will feel, thinking that your sufferings serve to save souls, to console Jesus, to kiss His wounds, to tell Him that you love Him! In every pain you suffer, tell Jesus to bring you His Love. Love Him always, and Jesus will be wounded by your love and will love you more.”
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BOH VOL 7 Oct. 2, 1906
How our sufferings can relieve Jesus.
Having received Communion, I felt I was outside of myself and I saw a person who was very oppressed by various crosses, and blessed Jesus was saying: “Tell her that in the act in which she feels as though dogged by persecutions, by punctures, by sufferings, she should think that I am present with her, and that whatever she suffers she can use to heal and medicate my wounds.
So, her sufferings will serve to medicate now my side, now my head, now my hands and feet, which are too much in pain and embittered by the grave offenses that creatures give Me. This is a great honor that I give her, by giving her, Myself, the medicine to medicate my wounds, and by also giving her the merit of charity for having medicated Me.”
While He was saying this, I saw many purging souls who, on hearing this, all amazed, said: “Fortunate are all of you to receive so many sublime teachings – that you acquire the merits to medicate a God, which surpass all other merits in merit – and your glory will be distinct from the others, as is Heaven from the earth.
Oh, if only we had received these teachings – that our sufferings could serve to medicate a God – how many riches we would acquire, which now we do not have!”
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PRAYER OF THE DAY:
“My Jesus, In the pains which you send me, it seems that You send me the chalice in which I must place the fruit of those pains. These pains, suffered with love and resignation, will turn into a most sweet nectar for You. In every pain I will say:
“Jesus, You are calling me around You to be Your angel. You want my comforts, so You make me share in Your pains.
My love, Jesus, in my pains I look for your Heart to rest, and in your pains I intend to give You shelter with my pains, so that we may exchange them, and I may be your consoling angel.”
Adapted from
17th Hour, Hours of the Passion, Reflection and Practices