Tuesday, January 10, 2017

Sometimes in our trials and tribulations, we turn to prayer and we can't think of anything to say. In those moments, sometimes all we can blurt out (mentally or vocally) is "I trust" or "Please help me" or even the beautiful name of Our Savior.

This was the last word of many of the saints on their deathbed.

"Jesus".

"It is the sweetest word that is given to human lips to utter; it is the solace of the living, and the hope of the dying; it is the one Word wherewith the holy soul, surcharged with tenderness and love, can give expression to its ecstatic emotions; and in It, the poor sinner finds in the depths of his despair and degradation and misery the highest hope and confidence and courage. It animates the weak, it strengthens the strong, it comforts the sorrowful, it multiplies sevenfold the joys of God's elect: it bids the sinner hope, the just rejoice."
Sermons of P.A. Canon Sheehan, D.D. edited by M.J. Phelan, SJ, imprimatur 1920.

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