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This picture is hard for me to contemplate, but not as hard as it used to be.\u00c2\u00a0 What follows below is the answer to a question I once posed to the Lord when\u00c2\u00a0doing the\u00c2\u00a08-day silent Ignatian Spiritual Exercises.\u00c2\u00a0 We were supposed to be meditating on the Passion, but I just couldn’t stay with it.\u00c2\u00a0 I asked, “Lord, WHAT IS MY PROBLEM?”\u00c2\u00a0 This is what I heard in the depths of my heart.\u00c2\u00a0 I hope it speaks to your heart, as well.<\/p>\n

August 23, 2003, 6:45 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“My little lamb, the purpose of you meditating on my Passion is not to instill guilt in you.\u00c2\u00a0 It is for you to understand what lengths I was willing to go for love of you.\u00c2\u00a0 You’ve heard this many times before, but you’ve never fully grasped it.\u00c2\u00a0 The cross should first of all instill joy in you, because that is how much I love you!\u00c2\u00a0 No sacrifice was too great for me to have the possibility of having you with me forever in heaven.<\/em><\/div>\n
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“Once you grasp that love, once you really know me and know what I’m all about, then you might be led to compunction of heart.\u00c2\u00a0 But you were trying to go from guilt to love, and the heart just doesn’t work that way.\u00c2\u00a0 So doing your examination of conscience, going to confession — it’s always been a stumbling block for you because you were experiencing the\u00c2\u00a0shame of your sins without the foundation of my love to sustain you. <\/em><\/p>\n
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“You need to know that I would never do anything\u00c2\u00a0to hurt you.\u00c2\u00a0 I may allow you to experience the pain of the lance so that the deeper sickness and pain can be cured, and sometimes others may hurt you, but I always long to console you and to hold you close to my heart.\u00c2\u00a0 I never will the actual pain.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0In allowing Lazarus to die I wasn’t indifferent to his suffering and to the suffering of his family.\u00c2\u00a0 It broke my heart!\u00c2\u00a0 How much I wanted to heal him!\u00c2\u00a0 But I knew that his death was necessary for them to know the redemptive power I offer and for many, many souls to be saved.\u00c2\u00a0 Knowing what they know now, Lazarus would have died 1,000 deaths for the consolation he has in heaven over the fruit borne from that sacrifice.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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“You will not always understand the suffering in your life, but know that I will never leave you, forsake you, or trick you.\u00c2\u00a0 You are my beloved.\u00c2\u00a0 The cross is simply a reminder of my love, which will follow you wherever you go, whatever you do.\u00c2\u00a0 My love is real, it’s personal, it’s passionate, and it’s forever.”<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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