The following is my daily journal from September 1, 1995 until December 31, 1995. In these writings I talk about my Beloved Jesus.

SO TENDERLY HE LOVES US

Written on First Friday:

Such remorse for the irreverence I have given to Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament! He has given to me such graces and sharing into His precious love before the tabernacle and after Communion.

So many tender moments, I recall His tender love, such great gifts I have been given! I reminisce my closeness to Him, moments I share with Him, these special moments after Communion and in front of the tabernacle at the Center.

I am so ungrateful for His great gifts to me.

He is so alive and truly present with His deep love and how I offend Him and take His presence and His gifts for granted.

I want to cherish each and every moment of His tender love spent with me. I love Him so much. It is in realizing this that I love Him deeper.

How tenderly He loves us despite our indifference and ingratitude!

I realize His presence, my precious Love, and how dear these memories and moments are to me. They mean more to me than anything in my life and how ungrateful I am for these precious gifts from Him! He could take away the Eucharist, the availability of the tabernacle. I love You, my Savior. He gives me as I need.

He is treated so indifferently by so many. I see my indifference and ingratitude, and my heart is torn that I have offended my precious Lover.

I value every moment and every gift He is given me, more than the finest pearls, these are special gifts from our beloved Savior.

So tenderly He loves us. So ungratefully we treat Him!

Jesus is "…the Way…Truth and Life…" (Jn. 14:6) Jesus is our tender Lover. He wants us to love Him with a heart on fire. He wants us to talk about His love to the world. He suffered so much during the Passion for the indifference and disrespect given to Him this day in the Blessed Sacrament, the sacrament of His great love.

I did not realize how much these precious gifts mean to me. He is my life. He is my Love. He is Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

I love Him. I love Him. I love Him with my whole heart and my whole soul.

If I have Him, I have it all. I should never complain about anything. I am so ungrateful.

I love Him so much. To give up the tabernacle and the Eucharist would be such a loss, it is such a gift! We are so ungrateful. He continues to give us Himself, and He is ignored and forgotten. He continues to wait endless hours in the tabernacle.

What if we had to give up the Eucharist? What if we could not go to Mass? What if the priests were imprisoned and could not celebrate Mass?

Jesus gives the priest the power to change bread and wine into His Body and Blood. He gives the priest the power to baptize and forgive sins. The priest should be so reverent and filled with respect for Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. What an honor for the priest to be chosen by Jesus and given this great gift. The priest should sing with joy because he is anointed by God Who loves him so much.

I have an awareness of the great gifts given from our God - a piece of fresh fruit, a blue sky, a sunlit day. I am aware of the goodness of God, imprinted deeply in my being.

I can focus on the exposed Eucharist in the main chapel today, September 1, 1995 at Our Lady of the Holy Spirit Center. Flowers surround Jesus. How deeply He loves me. I feel my deep love for Him, reminiscing on all my close moments with Him.

I realize so much how He loves us. I have a great love affair with my precious God. I love His life.

I have treated Him so indifferently. I am not talking before the Blessed Sacrament ever again.

At His name all knees must bow and bend low to our Almighty God!

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