Mary's Thoughts

Those who pray to Mary realize that their gaze cannot simply stop at the face of the Mother, for Mary is essentially oriented to her Son and only in relation to him does she come to play a role in Christian life. Mary's thoughts were filled with Jesus. If we are to penetrate her deepest desires and feelings, we must share in her attachment to the One she adored as her God, admired as the Savior of humanity and loved not only as her own son but as the Son of the eternal Father. ~Jean Galot, S.J.

Virgin turned toward your Son...

Virgin turned toward your Son,

You knew how to look at Jesus and to penetrate to the most intimate depths of his person.

Teach me to look at him: to look at him long and peacefully in his presence in the tabernacle.

Help my eyes to discover the invisible, and my heart to be borne toward the hidden presence of Christ.

Let me penetrate into the intimacy of this hearth ablaze with love, to grasp at what point Jesus offers himself to me, full of affection, of mercy, of comforting sympathy.

Teach me to hear in the silence the words that he addresses to me, and to tie with him a mysterious dialogue.

Let me glimpse the marvels which he desires to work in the secret place of souls, of my own soul.

Let me appreciate his ineffable nearness, with all the friendship that it contains.

Help me to respond to his love with the vigor of all my being, to lose myself entirely, like you, in a look of love fixed upon him.

~Jean Galot, S.J.

The Pierced Heart of Jesus

Lord, be the goal of my pilgrimage here upon the earth.

Let me cling to you with all the force of my longing.

Let me penetrate the very depth of your heart.

Let me breathe through you and let me live by the breath of your love.

Let me work for you, not shunning hardship and fatigue.

Let me rest in you, peacefully, in unending confidence and friendship.

Let me radiate, through you, your divine, loving kindness and apostolic zeal.

Let me remain in you forever, firmly rooted in your love.

~from Prayers to the Sacred Heart of Jesus by Rev. Jean Galot, S.J.