Waiting For The Company of Even One Priest

Imagine the pain our Lord suffers every day because of those priests who ignore Him and flee from His company.

CANASTOTA, NY - No need to imagine.
 
Read, ponder and share the most recent post from Father Mark on Vultus Christi. These powerful words are taken from In Sinu Iesu, The Journal of a Priest, and are set forth below with his permission.

Have the courage to share this reflection with your pastor and priests. Pray for and support your priests!

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Waiting For the Company of Even One Priest

You are always welcome in My presence.I long to receive you and to keep you close to Me.This is your vocation, priest-adorer.Respond to the call of My Heart.
Adore Me for your brother priests
who forget that I wait for them in the Sacrament of My Love.Seek Me out for them and in their nameand I will bless both you and them.
 
My Eucharistic Heart overflows with love for My priests.
I would give to each of them the grace I gave Saint John, My beloved disciple:that of intimacy with My Heart 
and with the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of My Mother.I would renew the priesthood of My Church in this way.
I would make My priests resplendent with holiness.I would impart to their tongues and to their handsthe very graces that I poured out upon My Apostlesin the beginnings of My Church.

The reticence is not Mine.It is they, My priests, who flee My company.It is they who turn away from My Eucharistic Faceand leave My Eucharistic Heartwithout the consolation of their friendship.I look for consolers among My priests,and I find so few among them.
You, say, 'yes' to Me.
Be the priest-adorer of My Eucharistic Faceand of My Sacred Heart present in the Sacrament of My Loveand waiting for the company of even one priestwho loves Me and will offer himselfwith Me to the Father as a Victim of Reparation.

My Father, too, is grievedby the coldness and indifferencewith which I who am His Beloved Son,His Eternal Priest, His Immaculate Victimceaselessly offered in the sanctuary of heaven,am treated on earth.
This comes not from strangers,
but from My very own,from those whom I chose, out of love, to share in My priesthood,to abide in My presence,to nourish My people with the mysteries of My Body and Blood.

All heaven weeps over the sins of My priests.
For every sin there is mercy
in the Blood and Water that flow from My wounded Side,but the sins of My priests call for reparation.
Make reparation for your brother priests by adoring Me,
by remaining before My Eucharistic Face,by offering the love of your heart purified by My great mercy.

(From In Sinu Iesu, The Journal of a Priest)

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