48 Adoration Companion “He is here, in our midst…” Lord Jesus, you are here! And you, my brothers, my sisters, my friends. You are here, withme, in his presence! Lord, two thousand years ago, you willingly mounted the infamous Cross in order then to rise again and to remain forever with us, your brothers and sisters. And you, my brothers, my sisters, my friends. You willingly allow him to embrace you. We contemplate him. We adore him. We love him. We seek to grow in love for him. We contemplate him who, in the course of his Passover meal, gave his Body and Blood to his disciples, so as to be with them always, to the close of the age (Mt 28:20). We adore him who is the origin and goal of our faith, him without whom we would not be here, without whom we would not be at all, without whom there would be nothing, absolutely nothing! Him through whom all things were made (Jn 1:3), him in whom we were created, for all eternity, him who gave us his own Body and Blood—he is here, in our midst, for us to gaze upon. We love, and we seek to grow in love for him who is here, in our presence, for us to gaze upon, for us perhaps to question, for us to love. Whether we are walking or nailed to a bed of suffering; whether we are walking in joy or languishing in the wilderness of the soul: Lord, take us all into your Love; the infinite Love which is eternally the Love of the Father for the Son and the Son for the Father, the Love of the Father and the Son for the Spirit, and the Love of the Spirit for the Father and the Son.
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