Sunday, November 14, 2004

All we like sheep have gone astray

Do not say, to justify your estrangement from the holy table, 'that you have too much to do.' Has not the Divine Savior said: 'Come to Me all ye that labor and are exhausted: come to Me, I will relieve you.' Can you resist an invitation so full of love and tenderness? Do not say that you are not worthy of it. It is true that you are not worthy, but you have need of it. If our Lord had been thinking of our worthiness He would never have instituted His glorious sacrament of love, for no one in the world is worthy of it - not the saints, nor the angels, nor the archangels, nor the Blessed Virgin...but He was thinking of our needs. Do not say that you are sinners, that you are too wretched, and that is why you dare not approach it. You might just as well say that you are too ill, and that is why you will not try any remedy nor send for the doctor.

-Saint John Vianney (via Surekha)

The Eucharistic Meditiations

1 Comments:

At 2:49 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yeah, this has nothing to do with Saint John Vianney or sheep or the Eucharistic Meditations, but thank you for shepherding (alright, so it does have something to do with sheep) my stuff home tonight. My door was very happy to be ornamented, and my throat was happy that I didn't leave my water bottle somewhere on the Odd Quad, comme d'habitude.

You're not online, hence wanton abuse of blog.

Love,
Emily

 

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