Divine Appeal Reflection - 38
Today, consider in Divine Appeal 38: Prayer to the Adorable Jesus
“Oh Jesus, most humble, adorable, present in the Blessed Sacrament of Your Divine Love…”
This opening does not address a doctrine; it touches a Person. The Eucharist is not Christ remembered but Christ abiding (cf. Jn 15:4). Divine Love here has taken form. As the Word (cf. Jn 1:14) became flesh , now Flesh becomes sacramental, so that love may be consumed. This is the humility of God: He hides His infinite fire beneath fragile species (cf. Ex 33:20; Heb 12:29) so that the soul may draw near without terror .
In this hiddenness, Christ repeats Bethlehem—God veiled in poverty—and Calvary—God veiled in suffering. The Eucharist (CCC 1374) is therefore not a symbol but a continuation of the Incarnation . Divine Love does not withdraw after the Ascension; it remains, imprisoned by its own mercy.
“Here on Your concealed Sacred throne, I prostrate my soul and whole self before You.”
The tabernacle (cf. Gen 28:17) is heaven folded into earth . Christ reigns there, not with thunder, but with silence. His throne is concealed because His kingdom is cruciform (cf. Jn 18:36). To prostrate oneself is to enter into the truth of creaturehood before uncreated Light.
Like Isaiah before the Throne (cf. Is 6:1-5), the soul collapses under holiness. Like the elders of heaven (cf. Rev 4:10), it lays down its crowns—its achievements, identity, will—before the Lamb. Eucharistic adoration is thus the undoing of pride and the rebirth of the soul in divine order (CCC 1378).
“Out of my nothingness and sins…”
Near the Eucharist, the soul experiences holy poverty. Light reveals dust (cf. Job 42:5-6). This is not despair but grace. True repentance is born when the soul sees itself in God’s gaze (CCC 1431). The closer the soul comes to Jesus, the more it feels its distance—yet also its being drawn.
Acts of reparation flow from mystical union. When Christ is profaned, the Body suffers. The Church’s hidden adorers become His Veronicas and Simons, wiping and carrying His wounded Eucharistic Face (cf. Col 1:24).
“To quench Your thirst for souls…”
“I thirst” (cf. Jn 19:28) is the cry of Divine Love unfulfilled. In the Eucharist, this thirst remains. Christ burns for the sinner, the lukewarm, the forgotten. Every Holy Hour gives Him one more heart.
In the Mass and in adoration, we enter His redemptive offering (CCC 1368), standing mystically beneath the Cross as Mary and John (cf. Jn 19:25).
“You veil Yourself…”
God hides because love cannot be forced. The Host (cf. Mt 27:51) is a veil thinner than the Temple curtain . Those who pierce it with faith behold Glory.
“The everlasting ages belong to You…”
To adore is to surrender one’s eternity. The One who waits in the Host already holds our resurrection (cf. Jn 6:54; Phil 1:23).
The Eucharist is not bread waiting for man— it is God waiting for love.
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