Ave Maria Meditations
O hidden God, I adore Thee.
O silent God, I adore Thee.
O utterly humble God, I adore Thee.
O ineffably obedient God, I adore Thee.
O God, faithful and constant, I adore Thee.
O piteously vulnerable God, I adore Thee.
O God delivered into the hands of sinful men,
I adore Thee.
O God held lightly in the hands of Thy priests,
I adore Thee.
O God most fragile in appearance,
I adore Thee.
O God, offering Thyself to be broken and consumed,
I adore Thee.
O God, ready to descend into the souls and bodies of poor sinners, I adore Thee.
O God, ignored by the multitudes, I adore Thee.
O God, whose real presence heretics deny, I adore Thee.
O God, grieved by the coldness, indifference, and irreverence
of too many of Thy priests, I adore Thee.
O God, denied to little children who would long to receive Thee,
I adore Thee.
O God, excluded from the rooms of the dying, I adore Thee.
O God, waiting to be carried to those who dwell in darkness and in the shadow of death, I adore Thee.
O God, surrounded by routine and unbelief, I adore Thee.
O God, waiting for the company of Thy priests, I adore Thee.
O God, forsaken in Thy tabernacles, I adore Thee.
O God, ignored in Thy churches, I adore Thee.
O God, unacknowledged in Thy sanctuaries, I adore Thee.
O God, forever adored by the Angelic Choirs, I adore Thee.
O God, who art Love, and all Love, and forever Love,
I adore Thee.
