"O Love, how little are You known"..."Love is not loved"

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  1. Further, He loved us so much that instead of shortening His sufferings He chose to prolong them and to suffer even more. That is why when He was hanging on the cross, covered with opprobrium and plunged deep in sorrow, as if not suffering enough, He cried out, “I thirst.” For what was He thirsting? St. Laurence Justinian gives us the answer. "His thirst arose from the ardor of His love, from the depth and abundance of His charity. He was thirsting for us, thirsting to give Himself to us and suffer for us."
  2. Knowing all this are we not right in exclaiming with St. Francis of Paula, "O God who is love, what excesses of love You have shown us in suffering and in dying!" Or with St. Mary Magdalene of Pazzi, kissing the crucifix, “O Love, how little are You known!” Or St. Francis of Assisi, trudging along the dusty streets, “Jesus, my crucified Love, is not loved.” Holy Church makes us repeat every day, “The world does not know Jesus Christ,” (Jn 1.10) incarnate Wisdom; and in truth, to know what our Lord has endured for us, and yet like the world not to love Him ardently, is morally impossible.
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Dear Brothers and Sisters,

How well the saints expressed their love for Christ in the quotes above! St. Louis de Montfort in his life pondered the Word of God and also learned from the writings of the saints, and above all He learned to love through Mary our Mother, by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Today we have concluded Chapter 13 in St. Louis de Montfort’s book, “The Love of Eternal Wisdom” and God willing to morrow we will begin Chapter 14 on The Triumph of Eternal Wisdom in and by the Cross

Come Holy Spirit, kindle in us the Fire of Your Love. Jesus we trust in You! Mary, Mother of the Church pray for us that we may remain in Jesus and in His Love and in His Word as you did, that we may stand with you in sorrow and in joy with our eyes fixed on Him.
 
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Dear Greenfields,

Thanks again for your “heart” which lets me know you read and appreciated St. Louis de Montfort’s words describing the Love of Jesus and the Sufferings Jesus endured because of His Love for His Father and for us. Ah, the wisdom of the saints who like our Mother, pondered all He said and did – for they like our Mother came closer and closer to Him throughout their lives on this earth and now are eternally happy with Him! 🙂
 
Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta

I Thirst for You - A Prayer based on words by Our Lord Jesus Christ to Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta

It is true. I stand at the door of your heart, day and night. Even when you are not listening, even when you doubt it could be Me, I am there: waiting for even the smallest signal of your response, even the smallest suggestion of an invitation that will permit Me to enter.

I want you to know that each time you invite Me, I do come always, without fail. Silent and invisible I come, yet with a power and a love most infinite, bringing the many gifts of My Spirit. I come with My mercy, with My desire to forgive and heal you, with a love for you that goes beyond your comprehension. A love in each detail, so grand like the love I have received from My Father “I have loved all of you as the Father has loved me…" John 15:10

I come longing to console you and give you strength, to lift you up and bind all your wounds. I bring you My light, to dispel your darkness and all your doubts. I come with My power, that allows me to carry you: with My grace, to touch your heart and transform your life. I come with My peace, to calm your soul.

I know you like the palm of my hand. I know everything about you. Even the hairs of your head I have counted. Nothing in your life is unimportant to Me. I have followed you through the years and I have always loved you even when you have strayed. I know every one of your problems. I know your needs and your worries and yes, I know all your sins. But I tell you again that I love you, not for what you have or ceased to do, I love you for you, for the beauty and the dignity My Father gave you by creating you in His own image. It is a dignity you have often forgotten, a beauty you have tarnished by sin. But I love you as you are, and I have shed My Blood to rescue you.

If you only ask Me with faith, My grace will touch all that needs changing in your life: I will give you the strength to free yourself from sin and from all its destructive power. I know what is in your heart, I know your loneliness and all your wounds, the rejections, the judgments, the humiliations, I carried it all before you. And I carried it all for you, so you could share My strength and My victory.

I know, above all, your need for love, how much you are thirsting for love and tenderness. Yet, how many times have you desired to satisfy your thirst in vain, seeking that love with selfishness, trying to fill the void within you with passing pleasures, with the even greater emptiness of sin. Do you thirst for love? "Come to Me all you who thirst …” (John 7:37). I will satisfy you and fill you. Do you thirst to be loved? I love you more than you can imagine … to the point of dying on a cross for you
 
I THIRST FOR YOU. Yes, that is the only way to even begin to describe My love for you. I THIRST FOR YOU. I thirst to love you and to be loved by you. So precious are you to Me that I THIRST FOR YOU.
Come to Me, and I will fill your heart and heal your wounds. I will make you a new creation and give you peace even in your trials.
I THIRST FOR YOU.
You must never doubt My mercy, My desire to forgive, My longing to bless you and live My life in you, and that I accept you no matter what you have done.
I THIRST FOR YOU.
If you feel of little value before the eyes of the world, it doesn’t matter. There is no one that interests me in the whole world than you.
I THIRST FOR YOU.
Open up to Me, come to Me, thirst for Me, give me your life. I will prove to you how important you are for My Heart. Don’t you realize that My Father already has a perfect plan to transform your life, beginning from this moment? Trust in Me. Ask Me every day to enter and take charge of your life and I will. I promise you before My Father in Heaven that I will work miracles in your life. Why would I do this?
Because I THIRST FOR YOU.
All I ask of you is that you entrust yourself to Me completely. I will do all the rest. From this moment, now, I behold the place My Father has prepared for you in My Kingdom. Remember that you are a pilgrim in this life travelling back home. Sin can never satisfy you, or bring the peace you seek. All that you have sought outside of Me has only left you more empty, so do not tie yourself to the things of this world; above all, do not run from Me when you fall.
Come to Me without delay because, when you give Me your sins, you give Me the joy of being your Savior. There is nothing I cannot forgive and heal; so come now, and unburden your soul. No matter how far you have strayed without a destination, no matter how often you have forgotten Me, no matter how many crosses you bear in this life; I want you to always remember, one thing that will never change.
I THIRST FOR YOU - just you, as you are.
You don’t need to change to believe in My love, for it will be your confidence in that love that will make you change. You forget Me, and yet I am seeking you every moment of the day – standing before the doors of your heart and calling. Do you find this difficult to believe?
If so, look at the Cross, look at My Heart that was pierced for you. Have you not understood My Cross? Then listen again to the words I spoke there, for they tell you clearly why I endured all this for you:
“…I THIRST” (John 19: 28)

YES, I THIRST FOR YOU.
As the rest of the psalm I was praying says of Me: “… I waited uselessly for compassion, I waited for someone to console me and I did not find it.” (Psalm 69: 20). All your life I have been desiring your love. I’ve never ceased searching for your love and longing to be loved by you in return. You have tried many things in your goal to be happy. Why not try opening up for Me you heart, right now, more than you ever have before?
 
When you finally open the doors of your heart and you finally come close enough, you will then hear Me say again and again, not in mere human words but in spirit: "No matter what you have done, I love you for your own sake. Come to Me with your misery and your sins, with your problems and needs, and with all your desire to be loved. I stand at the door of your heart and call… Open to Me, for I THIRST FOR YOU… "
"Jesus is God, therefore His Love and His Thirst are infinite. He, the Creator of the universe, asked for the love of his creatures. He has thirst for our love … These words: “I THIRST” … Do they echo in our soul?
 
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I Thirst for You - A Prayer based on words by Our Lord Jesus Christ to Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta
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Dear hazcompat,

Reading your three replies as “A Prayer based on words by Our Lord Jesus Christ to Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta”, it is not clear to me if St. Mother Teresa of Calcutta actually wrote the words or if you or someone else wrote the prayer based on what you heard or read about Mother Teresa’s hearing those words spoken to her by Jesus. Could you clarify that for me, I’d be grateful.

Searching the internet, I found a few similar versions of the prayer you posted , but none were exactly the same, which makes me wonder about the authenticity of any one of them or if they may be combinations of things she wrote about in her letters?

I’ve read two excellent books on Mother Teresa by two of her Missionary of Charity priests. The first one I read was : “Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light: The Private Writings of the Saint of Calcutta” edited by Fr. Brian Kolodiejchuk, MC Chapter 8 in this book is entitled: “The Thirst of Jesus Crucified”, I went back to look at that chapter but found no reference to the prayer you posted.

The second book was “Mother Teresa: In the Shadow of Our Lady” by Fr. Joseph Langford, MC Both were excellent, but I do not recall either of the authors including the prayer you posted. So I’d be grateful to know the source from which yours came. Thanks cery much. I’ve admired St. Mother Teresa of Calcutta from the first time I saw her picture on the Cover of a Magazine – there was something about her face that spoke “holiness” from God to me, and I have loved her ever since! 🙂
 
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Dear Camehome4john6, Asonglaw, patricius, and OScarlett,

Thanks you all for your “hearts” to let me know you read and appreciated the words quoted by St. Louis de Monfort, as well as His own words in Chapter 13 in his book on “The Love of Eternal Wisdom.” The words of St. Francis of Assisi, “Love is not loved” I had read before and in the book I read the author added that Francis would go through the streets weeping as He repeated those words. How truly all of us might weep when we open our hearts completely to God and ponder as deeply as Mary and the saints did all Jesus suffered for love of us — and how little we give in return!
 
Dear adgloriam,

Thanks for your “heart” letting me know you read the words from St. Louis de Montfort’s book on"The Love of Eternal Wisdom". and appreciated them. May the Lord Jesus and His dear Mother Mary help all of us to grow in His Love.
 
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