When someone treats us with love — does something for us out of love — our hearts naturally respond with gratitude. Or at least they should.
Through His sacrifice, Christ has loved us in ways we cannot fully grasp. And more often than not, that involuntary feeling of love or gratitude is simply missing when we’re in His presence. The heart doesn’t cooperate the way we’d like it to.
But our faith is not a feeling. It’s taking what we profess to believe and living in accordance with it.
In the presence of the Blessed Sacrament, that means calling to mind what we know to be true — and responding accordingly. Praise. Adoration. Love.
What happens when we don’t feel it? The truth is, many times we won’t. But what we can control is our wills. We can use our intellects to acknowledge what is true, and then submit our wills to that truth.
That is faith.
Let us pray. May the heart of Jesus, in the Most Blessed Sacrament, be praised, adored, and loved with grateful affection, at every moment, in all the tabernacles of the world, even to the end of time. Amen.
Keep fighting the good fight. Our Lady of Victory, pray for us.
