Читать книгу The Book of Perpetual Adoration - H.M. Boudon - Страница 47

The Book of Perpetual Adoration.

Father, but all the tenderness of a Maternal heart. Yes, says our infinitely loving Lord, though a mother should be unnatural enough to forsake her child, I will never forget thee, O my people ! And He has indeed well proved it, in feeding us with His flesh and giving us His Blood to drink. After such love, what may we not well expect from so merciful a God? Why should we be anxious, or grieve ourselves about our salvation or temporal affairs ? If we will give ourselves up to Him and the attractions of His Love, Paradise is ours ; even in this life we shall succeed in everything, although we are often not aware of it, for we consider mental anxiety, poverty, contempt, and being forsaken by creatures, as misfortune and misery, whilst in reality they conduce to our eternal salvation.

Jesus, in the Divine Eucharist, fulfils the office of Judge, to hear our complaints ; but it ought to be the sweetest consolation to us that He is, at the same time, our Advocate. Therefore it is to His Sacred Feet that we should often go and expose the difficulties of the great affair that we have before us, which in reality is the only important affair, that of our salvation. Oh, the insensibility of human hearts ! There is nothing people will not do for a worldly, insignificant lawsuit ; they consult the most skilful lawyers, they boast of the favour of judges, they make use of the credit of their friends, but for the affair of Eternity, they will scarcely take one step. If they speak to the Adorable Jesus, it