We have been praying the 40 hours for a long time now, and this thought always comes to my mind that can help us in those moments when we are praying and Jesus is waiting to give us so much.
The Lord wants to hear our prayers and then give us so much more than we expect.
And this thought is from the words of Jesus to St. Faustina when he tells her: Take care of my “precious pearls”, which are the souls of the priests and the souls of the religious.
And as the “precious pearls” of Jesus, whom he loves so much, today they are so persecuted, so attacked, so confused, with so many crises, so many priests who leave their priesthood, so many religious who, being Spouses of Christ, follow the fashions of the world.
I wonder how the Heart of Jesus, with what tears he says the same thing to us, the women of the 40 hours? The Lord tells us every month: look at my “precious pearls” which are the priests and the religious, how they are lost!
Then, together with this other thought, that also, the Heart of Jesus in a pact that He made with St. Margaret says to her: Take care of my things (and it reminds me of: take care of my “precious pearls” that He says to St. Faustina) and then He adds: I will take care of yours, I see so clearly that the more we implore for the “precious pearls”, the more we take care of His things, the more blessings we will attract to our things, the more special graces our own will have.
Our 40-hour prayers will be a constant raising of prayers of intercession for priests and nuns and a descent of blessings for them and also for ours. This widens our hearts, makes our prayer more fervent, because at the same time that we console Jesus, at the same time that we intercede for His “precious pearls”, He consoles us by taking care of ours.
May this thought, of this month of August, be for all the women of the 40 hours of so much joy!