February 5 First Friday of the month dedicated to the Sacred Heart: what you have to do

meditation today: Faith.

Here I am, my Jesus, on the Friday of the second month, the day that reminds me of the martyrdom you underwent to reopen the gates of Heaven and escape from the bondage of the devil

This thought should be enough to understand how great your love for me is. Instead I am so late in mind and so hard in heart that I have always found it hard to understand and answer you. You are close to me and I feel You far away, because I believe in You, but with a faith so weak and so clouded by so much ignorance and by so much attachment to myself, that I cannot feel Your loving presence.

Then I beg you, O my Jesus: increase my faith, annihilate in me what you don't like and prevent me from seeing Your features of Father, Redeemer, Friend.

Give me a living faith that makes me attentive to Your word and makes me love it like the good seed that You throw in the soil of my soul. Nothing can disturb the faith that I have in You: neither doubt, nor temptation, nor sin, nor scandal.

Make my faith pure and crystalline, without the weight of my personal interests, without the conditioning of life's problems. Let me believe only because it is you who speak. And you alone have words of eternal life.

THE PROMISE OF OUR LORD FOR THE DEVOTED OF HIS SACRED HEART
The monthly Holy Communion constitutes a good frequency for the participation of the divine mysteries. The advantage and the taste that the soul draws from it, perhaps will gently induce to decrease the distance between an encounter and the other with the divine Master, even up to daily Communion, according to the most lively desire of the Lord and the Holy Church.

But this monthly meeting must be preceded, accompanied and followed by such sincerity of dispositions that the soul truly comes out refreshed.

The most certain sign of the fruit obtained will be the observation of the progressive improvement of our conduct, that is, of the greater resemblance of our heart to the Heart of Jesus, through faithful and loving observance of the ten commandments.

"Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life" (Jn 6,54:XNUMX)