Can You Drink from My Chalice?

Date: July 31, 2016

Context: Date added – Original: July 2016

Psalm 126: “Those who sow in tears shall reap rejoicing.”

Matt 20:22: “Can you drink the chalice that I am going to drink?”

Matt 20:28: “The Son of Man came to give his life as a ransom for many.”

Jeremiah 14:17 “Let my eyes stream with tears day and night, without rest, over the great destruction which overwhelms the virgin daughter of my people, over her incurable wound.”

Jesus asks, “Can you drink the chalice that I am going to drink?” Then He goes on to tell His apostles what that chalice is: “The Son of Man came to give His life as a ransom for many.” (Matt 20:28) Jesus invites all His followers to drink from His chalice. At every Holy Communion, we drink from His chalice—His Blood. Yet, Love longs for His Bride to share completely in His life of pure love. Love waits for His Bride to respond and love as one with Him by laying her life down as a ransom for the salvation of many.

LC is not an elite community. God desires for our community to be overflowing with members whose desire is to be one with the Victim of Love. Yet, few continue to respond. But the mercy of God is SO GREAT that he uses the few, the ten, to bless and save the multitudes (Genesis 18:32).

VIOLENCE OF SORROWS

I feel called to greater stillness of heart, and recollection, to live in the cloister of my heart, the temple of my Bridegroom, suffering with Him His sorrows for a humanity that has gone astray. God permits me to enter the violence of sorrows through my own family. Because of my humanity, I need to suffer in the flesh the sorrows of the Two Hearts; therefore, I receive the intense piercing through the condition of the hearts closest to me. Silence is of the essence to allow the piercings to enter the depth of my heart, which is where my Lord dwells. These violent piercings thrust my heart INTO the Heart of my Lord, and it is in the union of sorrows that I live true marital intimacy with my Spouse.

Our vocation is to SUFFER WITH HIM, to REMAIN WITH HIM, accompanying Him in His agony. This is our vocation to LOVE! Interiorly, we must live more and more sowing in tears as our hearts receive the thorns, but exteriorly revealing the smile of a beautiful blossom.

References

Gen 18:32I beseech thee, saith he, be not angry, Lord, if I speak yet once more: What if ten should be found there? And he said: I will not destroy it for the sake of ten.

Jer 14:17And thou shalt speak this word to them: Let my eyes shed down tears night and day, and let them not cease, because the virgin daughter of my people is afflicted with a great affliction, with an exceeding grievous evil.

Matt 20:22And Jesus answering, said: You know not what you ask. Can you drink the chalice that I shall drink? They say to him: We can.

Matt 20:28Even as the Son of man is not come to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a redemption for many.

Back · Home