Divine Appeal Reflection - 236
Today, consider in Divine Appeal 236: "So many human lives thrown down the drains that cry for vengeance before My Eternal Father!"
The voice of Heaven thunders through these words—unmistakable, piercing, and full of sorrow. This is not simply a cry of grief from our Adorable Jesus; it is a divine outpouring of heartbreak over a world that has forgotten the value of life. In Divine Appeal 236, Christ lays bare the cost of our indifference: countless human lives discarded, silenced, or ignored. These lives are not lost in the shadows—they ascend as a cry before the throne of the Eternal Father, a cry for justice, a cry that calls down divine response. Heaven is not unmoved. God sees. God hears.
Our generation has been called to a fierce love in a wounded world. In the chaos of modern life, lives are thrown away not only in abortion clinics and war zones, but in the coldness of our homes, the apathy in our streets, and the selfish choices made behind closed doors. In Christ's Body, every life that is rejected, abandoned, or oppressed is a wound. All human life is sacred and should be safeguarded from conception to natural death, according to the Catholic Catechism (cf. CCC 2270). Yet how many are thrown into the drains of violence, exploitation, and despair? These cries will not go unheard by the Eternal Father.
The saints knew how to stand between the world’s cruelty and Heaven’s justice. St. Teresa of Calcutta held the dying in her arms so they would know they were loved. St. Maximilian Kolbe gave his life to save another in a death camp where lives were treated like waste. St. Josephine Bakhita, once a slave, forgave her captors and showed the world the face of merciful strength. Their lives were answers to the cry. They responded not with anger, but with fierce compassion. They didn’t ignore the suffering—they bore it, redeemed it, transformed it. And so must we.
This Divine Appeal is not meant to terrify us, but to stir us. It is a summons to action, to repentance, to deep prayer. It is a call to take responsibility for the ways we’ve been silent or blind. Our Adorable Jesus is not looking for spectators—He’s looking for lovers, defenders, and repairers of what is broken. We are invited to love as He loves and see what He sees. Let our lives rise, not as laments but as living sacrifices of justice, kindness, and hope, just as the screams of wasted souls ascend to Heaven like incense.
Prayer
O our Adorable Jesus, awaken our hearts to the cries that rise to Your Father. Let our hands defend, our prayers atone, and our lives console the wounds of the forgotten. With the saints as our guide, may we restore what the world has discarded. In Your mercy, and in Your fire, we walk with You.
Sr. Anna Ali of the Most Holy Eucharist, intercede for us.
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