Spiritually Thirsty Thursday

I'm not exactly sure when the tradition started since I was only involved in our Newman Center for a year, but every Thursday night, there would be mass at 9 followed by fellowship and food. And as you've surely guessed, it was called spiritually thirsty Thursday. I figured it could be a fun thing to incorporate into my blog (minus the Mass...and the food....) Hahaha we'll see how it goes.

This quote seemed pretty fitting since Christmas is only 5 days away!!!

"I am the Mother of adoration and reparation. Beside every tabernacle of the earth there is always my motherly presence. It forms a new and loving tabernacle for the solitary presence of my Son Jesus; it builds a garden of love for his permanent residence among you; it forms a celestial harmony which surrounds Him with all the enchantment of paradise in the adoring choirs of angels, in the blessed prayer of the saints, in the painful aspiration of the many souls who are being purified in purgatory. In my Immaculate Heart all form a concert of perennial adoration, of unceasing prayer and of profound love for Jesus, really present in every tabernacle on earth.

Today my motherly heart is saddened and is deeply wounded because I see that, about the divine presence of Jesus in the Eucharist, there is so much emptiness, so much abandonment, so much neglect, so much silence.

O Church, pilgrim and suffering, of which I am the Mother, Church who are the family of all my children, ark of the new alliance, people of God, you must understand that the center of your life, the font of your grace, the source of your light, the beginning of your apostolic action is found only here in the tabernacle where Jesus is truly kept. And Jesus is present to teach you how to grow, to help you walk, to strengthen you in giving witness, to give you courage in evangelizing, to be a support for all your sufferings." 

Words of Our Lady, August 21 1987

I pray Jesus continues to bless us with all of these gifts, but also that we remember to ask for them and recognize that we need them. He wants to give us all of this and more. What are we willing to give to Him?