Saturday, December 09, 2006

He prefers our nature over the angels...

I read this during eucharistic adoration last week and my mind has been going back to it constantly. I wanted to share it with everyone because I found it so meaningful.
The blessed sacrament is a magnet for souls. There is a mutual attraction between Jesus and the souls of men. Mary drew Him down from heaven. Our nature attracted Him rather than the nature of the angels. Our misery caused Him to stoop to our lowness. Even our sins had a sort of attraction for the abundance of His mercy and the predilection of His grace. Our repentance wins Him to us. Our love makes earth a paradise to Him; and our souls lure Him as gold lures a miser, with irresistible fascination.
~Fr. Frederick William Faber

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