{"id":9642,"date":"2026-06-10T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/?p=9642"},"modified":"2026-05-10T17:11:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T21:11:18","slug":"day-33-reparation-as-receiving-divine-love-and-spreading-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/consecration-to-the-hearts-of-jesus-mary-and-joseph\/day-33-reparation-as-receiving-divine-love-and-spreading-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 33: Reparation as Receiving Divine Love and Spreading It"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

READING 1<\/strong>
Lamentations 3:21-26<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. \u201cThe Lord is my portion,\u201d says my soul, \u201ctherefore I will hope in him.\u201d The Lord is good to those who wait for him, to the soul that seeks him. It is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

READING 2<\/strong>
From the encyclical Dilexit Nos x 197-199 by Pope Francis<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

While nothing need be added to the one redemptive sacrifice of Christ, it remains true that our free refusal can prevent the heart of Christ from spreading the \u201cwaves of his infinite tenderness\u201d in this world. Again, this is because the Lord wishes to respect our freedom. More than divine justice, it was the fact that Christ\u2019s love might be refused that troubled the heart of Saint Th\u00e9r\u00e8se, because for her, God\u2019s justice is understood only in the light of his love. As we have seen, she contemplated all God\u2019s perfections through his mercy, and thus saw them transfigured and resplendent with love. In her words, \u201ceven his justice (and perhaps this even more so than the others) seems to me clothed in love.\u201d1<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was the origin of her Act of Oblation, not to God\u2019s justice but to his merciful love. \u201cI offer myself as a victim of holocaust to your merciful love, asking you to consume me incessantly, allowing the waves of infinite tenderness shut up within you to overflow into my soul, and that thus I may become a martyr of your love.\u201d2<\/a><\/sup> It is important to realize that, for Th\u00e9r\u00e8se, this was not only about allowing the heart of Christ to fill her heart, through her complete trust, with the beauty of his love, but also about letting that love, through her life, spread to others and thus transform the world. Again, in her words, \u201cIn the heart of the Church, my Mother, I shall be love… and thus my dream will be realized.\u201d3<\/a><\/sup> The two aspects were inseparably united.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Lord accepted her oblation. We see that shortly thereafter she stated that she felt an intense love for others and maintained that it came from the heart of Christ, prolonged through her. So she told her sister L\u00e9onie: \u201cI love you a thousand times more tenderly than ordinary sisters love each other, for I can love you with the heart of our celestial spouse.\u201d4<\/a><\/sup> Later, to Maurice Belli\u00e8re she wrote, \u201cHow I would like to make you understand the tenderness of the heart of Jesus, what he expects from you!\u201d5<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

REFLECTION<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercy (misercordia<\/em> in Latin) is the Lord\u2019s heart (cor<\/em>) for our misery (miseria<\/em>). To receive the Lord\u2019s pent up mercy\u2014mercy that others were not receiving into their misery\u2014St. Th\u00e9r\u00e8se had to enter into their misery. Her willingness to receive His mercy was a willingness to share in the misery of others. For St. Th\u00e9r\u00e8se that came particularly through sharing in the wound of abandonment, the wound of distrust and disbelief particularly suffered by atheists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a wound familiar to her in her own way, because of the repeated experience of abandonment in her childhood\u2014first from her mother\u2019s breast cancer, then from the removal of her wet nurse, then from the loss of her mother through death, then from the departure of her replacement mother, Pauline, who entered Carmel. St. Th\u00e9r\u00e8se knew repeated loss from her earliest years, even while she experienced tremendous love from her Papa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

God used that wound to bring her mystically into the misery of atheists that she could receive the mercy of God for atheists and in some way help to redeem atheists. Her Oblation led her into a supernatural suffering and a supernatural love as she shared the agony and the mercy of the Heart of Jesus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How is the Lord inviting you to share the miseries of the world so as to receive more mercy from the Heart of Jesus? How is Jesus inviting you to open your heart to receive more of His Love for His little ones and even for the lost ones?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PRAYERS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Newman\u2019s Prayer to the Sacred Heart (longer or shorter form)
One of the prayers from the Roman Missal
Act of Oblation to Merciful Love<\/p>\n\n\n

  1. Ms A, 83v.; cf. Letter 226 to Father Roulland, 9 May 1897. \u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li>
  2. Act of Oblation to Merciful Love, 9 June 1895, 2r-2v. \u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li>
  3. Ms B, 3v. \u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li>
  4. Letter 186 to L\u00e9onie, 11 April 1896. \u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li>
  5. Letter 258 to l\u2019Abb\u00e9 Belli\u00e8re, 18 July 1897. \u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n

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    READING 1Lamentations 3:21-26 But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. \u201cThe Lord is my portion,\u201d says my soul, \u201ctherefore I will hope in him.\u201d The Lord is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"[{\"content\":\"Ms A, 83v.; cf. 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