I WILL BE THE ONE!

 Aug. or Sept. 2019

 While praying the 33 day Consecration (33 Days to Morning Glory, Day 21), after reading something that was quoted by Mother Teresa and the Offertory verse (Psalm 68:21) for the Feast of the Sacred Heart, I seemed to understand what my mission was, Several years ago, I was told by Jesus during Adoration that I had a mission to accomplish (as we all do). Remembering an experience I had just after coming into the Catholic Church; I had stopped in the Adoration chapel just before Mass (St. Paul of the Cross, No. Palm Bch. FL) and as soon as I walked in the chapel door, my heart burst out with the words, “I live to console You!” This was not even in my thoughts, but the words just welled up in my heart and it was impossible to hold them in – there was no holding them back. All these years I have not understood what this “mission” could be until I read the words of Mother Teresa, “Be the one.” Be the one to console Jesus by satiating his burning thirst for love. She writes, “Tell Jesus, I will be the one. I will comfort, encourage and love Him...Try to be the one to share with Him, to comfort Him, to console Him. So, let us ask Our Lady to help us understand.” And the Psalm that day was, “My heart had expected reproach and misery. And I looked for one that would grieve together with me, and there was none: and I sought one that would console me, and I found none”. It goes on to say, “But what exactly does this mean? What does it mean to satiate the thirst of Jesus? Two things: to console Jesus the Head of his Mystical Body and to console him in the members of his body.” The prayer for that day was, “Come, Holy Spirit, living in Mary, Help me to ‘be the one’ to console Jesus with Mary"

Now, as I sit here in Adoration, I feel this is where I can console Jesus – in His Temple (the Church) and I, like Mary and Joseph go in search for Him and can always find him here – in his Temple. I feel like Mary Magdalene crying tears at his feet and Veronica wiping his Sacred Face. This is consoling the His Divine Heart. When I offer my acts united with his, offered through the Heart of Mary, I console Him. When I bring everyone, all of humanity, to the Mass and Adoration with me, I console him. When I pray the Hours of the Passion and read his words in the Book of Heaven, offering every word back to Him for the salvation of souls, I console Him. When I visit the sick and the dying, then do I console him. When Jesus says, “I thirst’, I console Him, Head of His Mystical Body, and I console Him in the members of His Body. I ask Our Lady to give me Her Heart to console the Heart of Her Son and tell her, “I will be the one!”