“And Jesus answering, said: ‘Were not ten [lepers] made clean? And where are the nine? Is there no one found to return and give glory to God, but this stranger?’
In the world, we cannot endure ingratitude. It is only when God is in question that we do not concern ourselves about being ungrateful.
This wonderful cure, this miracle, had been extended to ten persons, and of them all, one only was found who thanked his Benefactor.
Of all the benefits we have received from Jesus Christ, we cannot doubt that the Blessed Eucharist is one of the greatest: and even the greater part of the blessings we daily receive, are derived from the same source.
But who thinks of often thanking Jesus Christ for this great benefit? Who returns thanks to this loving Savior, Who, in abolishing all the other sacrifices, has left us a Victim that cannot but be pleasing to God, an offering equal to all the other benefits we have received from Him, and to those that we may ask of Him; a Host capable of cancelling all the sins of men ; a Host which is truly a sovereign remedy for all kinds of evil ; a tree of life that has power to communicate to us, not only health, but even immortality?
So sinful a forgetfulness, such enormous ingratitude, touched the Heart of a Man-God, and shall it not move mine, even when I myself am of the number of these ungrateful wretches?”
(From Devotion to the Sacred Heart by Father John Croiset, S.J.)
I Thirst for Your Love! 