Cleansing our Temple

from the *meditation of the day* from 27 May 2005 - Magnificat

It seems to me that notwithstanding what I am, I desire with all my heart and soul and strength to be united to Jesus Christ, and that I am willing no matter how much nature might cry out to make any sacrifice to that end... "This is all my desire, to live in you." It is so, though there is so little indication of it. I have looked well and cannot find that I have any other desire but to love and serve God, but I grieve that I have loved him so little and served him so badly...

I am jealousy, sensuality, pride, vanity, self-love, uncharitableness, irritability, and even anger. These are the wounds of my soul. How can they be united to Christ? It is true, some of them are healed and others are healing, but sometimes there is a pain there as from an old wound, and there is always danger they may break out again.

These thoughts were in my heart during Mass this morning till I heard the priest say "Ecce Agnus Dei," and the words went to my soul. Yes, behold him to takes away the sins of the world, even mine.

"Now to be yours, yes, yours alone, O Lamb of God, I come."

~ Mother Mary Veronica, R.D.C.