Jesus wants me to tell you again…how much love He has for each one of you-beyond all you can imagine. I worry some of you still have not really met Jesus-one to one-you and Jesus alone. We may spend time in chapel but have you seen with the eyes of your soul how He looks at you with love? Do you really know the living Jesus, not from books but from being with Him in your heart? Have you heard the loving words He speaks to you? Ask for the grace; He is longing to give it.

 Until you can hear Jesus in the silence of your own heart, you will not be able to hear Him saying, “I thirst” in the hearts of the poor. Never give up this daily intimate contact with Jesus as the real living person not just the idea. How can we last even one day without hearing Jesus say, “l love you”- impossible. Our soul needs that as much as the body needs to breathe the air. lf not, prayer is dead and meditation only thinking.

 Jesus wants you each to hear Him speaking in the silence of your heart. Be careful of all that can block that personal contact with the living Jesus. The devil may try to use the hurts of life, and sometimes our own mistakes to make you feel it is impossible that Jesus really loves you, is really cleaving to you. This is a danger for all of us. And so sad, because it is completely opposite of what Jesus is really wanting, waiting to tell you. Not only that He loves you, but even more, He longs for you. He misses you when you don’t come close. He thirsts for you.

 He loves you always, even when you don’t feel worthy… When not accepted by others, even by yourself sometimes; He is the one who always accepts you. My children, you don’t have to be different for Jesus to love you. Only believe that you are precious to Him. Bring all you are suffering to His feet: only open your heart to be loved by Him as you are. He will do the rest.

 Saint Teresa of Calcutta

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Ave Maria Meditations

Some time ago a Hindu gentleman was asked, “What is a Christian?” He gave an answer that was both very simple and surprising, “A Christian is someone who gives of himself.” From the very start, we perceive that indeed to be a Christian is nothing other than to give of oneself for the sake of Christ. God so loved the world that He gave us His Son. That was the first act of self-giving. His Son was given to us because He wanted to be one with us, like us in everything except sin.

The Son’s coming is ushered in by a new act of self-giving. Christ is given into the care of a woman, the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Virgin Immaculate. Because of her deep humility and total openness to God, the first thing that occurs to Mary is to share her Son with others.

With the attitude of a servant of the Lord, Mary went with haste to share Jesus with others. We know what happened when Saint John the Baptist welcomed Jesus while he was still in the womb. Mary’s gift of Jesus filled Saint John and his parents with joy when the Virgin arrived pregnant with child to visit her cousin Elizabeth.

As if this self-giving, this first self-giving, were not enough, Christ made Himself the Bread of Life. He wanted to give Himself to us in a very special way, a simple, tangible way, because it is hard for human beings to love God whom they cannot see. He made Himself the Bread of Life to satisfy our love for God. We have been created for greater things. We have been created in God’s image and likeness. We have been created to love and to be loved.

Saint Teresa of Calcutta

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“Mary is our Coredemptrix with Jesus. She gave Jesus His body and suffered with Him at the foot of the Cross. Mary is the Mediatrix of all grace. She gave Jesus to us and, as our mother, she obtains for us all His graces.

Mary is our advocate who praises Jesus for us. It is only through the heart of Mary that we come to the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus.”

Saint Teresa of Calcutta  (Feast Day is September 5th)

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Confession makes the soul strong because a really good confession, the confession of a child in sin coming back to the father, always begets humility and humility is strength. Confession is nothing but humility in action. We call it penance, but really it is a sacrament of love, a sacrament of forgiveness. It is a place where I allow Jesus to take away from me everything that divides, that destroys. When there is a gap between me and Christ, when my love is divided, anything can come to fill the gap. We should be very simple and childlike in confession. “Here I am as a child going to the Father.”

We go to confession a sinner full of sin. We come from confession a sinner without sin by the greatness of the mercy of God. No need for us to despair. No need for us to be discouraged. No need, if we have understood the tenderness of God’s love. You are precious to Him. He loves you, and He loves you so tenderly that He has carved you on the palm of His hand.

Remember that when your heart feels restless, when your heart feels hurt, when your heart feels like breaking then remember, “I am precious to Him. He loves me. He has called me by my name. I am His. He loves me. God loves me.” And to prove that love He died on the cross.

Saint Teresa of Calcutta

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