As I listened to all the testimonies in our recent retreats, I entered a profound and intense sorrow. In both groups, very few mentioned the hidden martyrdom of our community. I realized that they all received many graces, and they were very happy to leave with these blessings, yet, we, LC, would be forgotten. Our hidden lives as God’s victim souls will not be remembered and appreciated by these men and women.

Thinking that my community’s lives as victims will be forgotten moved me to enter the sorrow of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. I realized that this is how I, too, have lived my life with Christ and His sacrifice of Victim Love. I have lived receiving graces from Him and forgetting His sacrifice of love for me. I have not lived SOLELY to appreciate and REMEMBER, with my every breath, God’s martyrdom lived for me.

Most souls desire to receive something from Jesus, but very few souls live solely to remember and thank Him for His sacrifice of love that continues in the Eucharist. I touched and encountered this “suffering of solitude” in the Heart of my Lord. This was my gift!

My purpose in life is to live every moment of my life remembering and appreciating the love of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit! This is how I live as His COMPANION OF LOVE!

This experience also moved my heart to greater love and appreciation for the MOC and MC. I am also called to live every day thanking God for all the women and men of our LC Community and their hidden martyrdom of love.