Jesus Agonising is the Angel of great consolation. He consoles us by His condescension, by His trouble and fear, by each word of His Prayer, by its repetition, by the appearance of the Angel, by His Sweat of Blood. Moreover, He multiplies comforters for us. Every lawful consolation which we receive by means of human beings comes from the Agonising Heart of our Divine Master; every one who brings us comfort has received from Him the mission and the power to be a consoling angel to us. We have dwelt on these important truths in the Agony of Jesus…The afflicted may find…there …thoughts of comfort…
In this Agonising Heart..there is hope…”to dispel the dark clouds of mental sorrows and of external sufferings from the hearts of many of the Faithful, by leading them to find their consolation in consoling others, in converting the dying, in promoting the salvation of souls exposed to the greatest dangers.’
The ‘Spirit of the Lord Himself, which raises us to Heaven by resignation and prayer, and brings us back to earth by self-devotion and compassion. …How many hearts are in agony all through their life! They ought to be all the more ready to console their fellow-sufferers, and to succour the dying in their perilous agony…This Divine Sympathy for all human woe is an inexhaustible source of consolation for all sufferers,…This is to ‘be full of zeal for…the Agonising Heart of Jesus, for the consolation of the afflicted and the conversion of the dying…’
‘If the field of the whole Church, or all of humanity, should seem to you too vast…Is not your own family…full of thorns and briars?...Your friends? ….Your neighbors?’
~Bloy, The Agonising Heart of Jesus
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