Tag: Father John Croiset

It’s Time to Repair The Damage We Have Done!

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“As the sanctity and merit of our actions depends on

the motive and spirit with which they are actuated,

the practice of the devotion to the Sacred Heart of

Jesus, however holy, would be of little use, unless it

were animated with the spirit and the motive which

                   gives it all its value.

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This motive, as we have said, is to repair, as far as

possible, by our love, our adoration, and by every

kind of homage the indignities and outrages which

Jesus Christ has endured, and still daily endures, in

the most Blessed Sacrament. It is in this spirit, and

in these sentiments, the devotion should be practiced.”

                                    (From Devotion to the Sacred Heart by Father John Croiset, SJ.)

Not Much Has Changed

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“There have been newly converted Christians, in the Indies and in Japan, who have traveled more than a hundred leagues every year, to have the consolation of once adoring Jesus Christ in the most Blessed Sacrament, of hearing one single Mass; and they thought nothing of the fatigue, of so difficult a journey, that they might have the happiness of spending half an hour with Jesus Christ

Chapel Franciscan Monastery

My God! How many will rise up at the day of judgment and will condemn us! We have Jesus Christ in our town; religious persons have Jesus Christ in their own house; and this benefit is esteemed as nothing! And some value it so little, that they only visit Jesus Christ with indifference and even with repugnance, and almost all without devotion.”

(From Devotion To The Sacred Heart by Father John Croiset, S.J.)