My friendship
Thursday, 12 September 2013 19:37
Learn to listen to Me and I will speak to you heart to heart as a man converses with his friend. I long to hold conversation with you. I want to speak to you, to instruct you, to guide you, to comfort you, just as I instructed, guided, and comforted Saint John and My other disciples.
My Heart’s desire is that all priests should enter into the gift of My Divine Friendship. I desire that My priests, My chosen ones, should turn to Me in their doubts, their fears, their perplexities, and their weaknesses.
I desire that they should learn to share all things with Me. It is not enough to seek Me at certain times only, nor is it enough to share with Me only a part of what they live, or pieces of their existence. To live in My friendship is to share all things with Me, to keep no secrets, to reserve nothing for oneself alone. It is not good for man to be alone. For this reason have I made Myself ever present and available in the Sacrament of My Love.
The soul who spends time in My presence, close to My open Heart, will learn all that My Heart contains, and will come to share in all My sentiments and desires.
Remain in My presence whenever and for as long as you can. Being with Me is the great means to healing and to holiness. It is enough to remain with Me if you be like Me. Come to Me, full of expectant hope, and I will do all the rest. To adore Me is to seek My Face and to approach My Heart, full of wonder and of holy fear, and above all, full of love. Adoration is the wordless confession of My Divinity.
Adoration proclaims that I am all and that all else is nought. When Saint Francis repeated during the hours of the night, “My God and My all!” he was offering Me the adoration in spirit and in truth that My Father desires. His prayer ascended through Me even into the presence of the Father.
So it is with every prayer addressed to Me. All who would reach the Father must pass through Me. For this reason was My Side opened by the soldier’s lance. It is the way to My Father. If you would speak to My Father, speak to Me. If you would see My Father, fix your gaze upon My Eucharistic Face. If you would serve My Father, serve Me, especially in the weakest and poorest members of My Mystical Body. Whatsoever you do unto them, you do unto Me, and what is done unto Me becomes an offering pleasing in My Father’s sight.
It is enough to begin by seeking Me out in the Sacrament of My Love as often as possible. That is how every true friendship begins — by seeking out the presence and the company of the loved one. Then, allow Me to love you in return, to speak to your heart, to touch you by means of the operations of My Holy Spirit in your soul.
The way to holiness is the path of My Friendship. There are many who complicate the way to holiness and who make it seem forbidding and unattainable to others. It is enough to accept My gift of Friendship. It is this that leaves Me free to act upon you, and with you, and through you.
(From In Sinu Iesu, The Journal of a Priest)