Ave Maria Meditations
I come to the foot of the tabernacle. I feel nothing. There is no enlightenment. Absolutely nothing impresses me that Jesus is present; neither my heart nor my soul feels anything near the tabernacle. Nevertheless I say: “Here you are, Jesus. I adore you.” And these words seem empty to me and I feel nothing; but in the depths of my heart I believe, I love, I adore. That is to live in the obscurity of faith.
From the Servant of God Archbishop Luis Maria Martinez
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Real devotion to the Blessed Sacrament is only to be gained by hard, grinding work of dry adoration before the hidden God. But such a treasure cannot be purchased at too great a cost, for once obtained, it makes of this life as near an approach to heaven as we can ever hope for.
The Servant of God Fr. Willie Doyle S. J.
