They're waiting for us!

Today is the feast of St. Gertrude. I think one of the reasons that I love reading the lives of the saints, and their words and writings, is that I look forward with great joy to meeting them all someday. These are our heavenly friends, and not only do we long to meet them in person, but they long to meet us too!

"Oh, if we knew how, from His throne above, Jesus longs for us! If we knew how all the Saints, sharing His desires, await with impatience -- as He said to St. Gertrude -- the moment when we shall go to increase their number, how we should despise this earth! How our thoughts would rise to Heaven, and our hearts and desires be fixed on high, where all our treasure is! But while awaiting the time when it may be given us to possess Jesus in Heaven, let us desire to do His will, to gain His Heart, to unite ourselves to His Cross."

~Very Rev. Andre Prevot, Love, Peace and Joy: Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus according to St. Gertrude, imprimatur 1911.