As this week is a special time for
Jesus and for us of greater love and greater union, let us try in a special way
to come as closely as human heart can come to the Heart of Jesus and try
to understand as much as possible Jesus’ terrible pain caused to Him by our sins
and this thirst for our love.
He has never felt this pain so much as during this week, so
precious for Him and for us. No wonder it came out so clearly in the last
moments of His human life when He said, "I Thirst."
Thank God, our Lady was there to understand fully the thirst
of Jesus for love – she must have straight away said, "I satiate Your thirst
with my love and the suffering of my heart. Jesus, my Jesus, I love You."
How clear her total surrender, her loving trust must have
satiated His thirst for love, for souls – that is why it is very important to
keep very close to Our Lady as St. John and St. Mary Magdalen kept. Often I
wonder what they felt when they heard Jesus say. "I Thirst."
That is why my children, this week is so important to the
life of our Society and reason for our existences as MC – to satiate the thirst
of Jesus on the Cross for love, for souls by working at the salvation and
sanctification of the poorest of the poor.
Who are the poorest of the poor? – my Sisters, my Brothers,
my Fathers, every member of our MC family – that’s where this beautiful gift of
love – of satiating the thirst of Jesus for love, for souls begins.
That is why my children let us deepen our knowledge of the
thirst of Jesus on the Cross, in the Eucharist, and in every soul we meet, for
this knowledge will help us to be holy like Jesus and Mary.
