Lord Jesus Christ, how is it possible that the spirit who comes to know you doesn’t think of you day and night? How is it possible that a person who loves truly doesn’t think of you, who are the sole object of the heart?
Therefore I think of you and my thought centres so easily and so quickly on your Divinity, because you are the only Man predestined to be the Son of the true and living God. You are God from God, light from light, true God from true God; and at the thought my spirit delights in you. Nourished by a true and strong faith, my spirit believes that you are almighty, existing from eternity and enduring forever, infinite, unchanging. You are all goodness, all knowing, all truth, life itself, all merciful and just.
Lord Jesus Christ, I think of you so vividly at the Last Supper surrounded by the twelve apostles, when you instituted the Holy Eucharist. My spirit desires eagerly and continually to enjoy you really and substantially by means of this Sacrament.
Lord Jesus Christ, I think of you so vividly in the Garden of Gethsemane, sweating blood all over, and my spirit understands the ugliness of sin which is the only enemy of your will.
Lord Jesus Christ, I think of you so vividly as you were nailed to the cross between two thieves and my spirit is fortified to endure patience and appreciate suffering.
I cannot help but think of you because everything lifts me up on to you.
If I see someone who is merciful, I think of you and silently I say: how much more merciful are you his creator!
If I see someone who is gentle and meek, I think of you and silently I say: how much more gentle and meek are you his creator!
If I see someone who is righteous, I think of you and silently I say: how much more righteous are you his creator!
Man is what he thinks: if he thinks of earthly things, says Saint Augustine, he is materialist; if he thinks of heavenly things, he is spiritual, a man of God.
Man is therefore alike to the object of his thought. Whatever man loves, that is the object of his thought, that is the god of his heart. “Where there is your treasure there is also your heart.”
How is it possible then that one has not put on Christ if he thinks about him day and night?
Our maker has commanded us to love him with all our mind: therefore let us keep his presence in our mind, and offer everything for his glory, doing everything with the intention of pleasing him and closely guarding ourselves in the observance of his law.
