We meditate on the fact that God is there in the Eucharist with all the goodness of his forgiveness.
Meditations read in front of the exposed Blessed Sacrament for our Daily Holy Hour at our Bloomington, Indiana friary from the two books: Real Presence by St Peter Julian Eymard and A Month with Mary by Fr. Dolindo Ruotolo
Ave Maria!
Day #28: The Goodness of God in Forgiveness
MARY: Do you want to give yourself an idea of the goodness of God and the hardness of creatures?Consider how God acts when he is offended and how men act! Oh how slight is human mercy, even nonexistent! Man pretends to pardon, but in reality does nothing but treat his offender harshly while always remembering the offense. He forgives when he no longer feels the impact and the anger; he forgives with difficulty. Yet the offender is a being like him, perhaps better than him.
Look at how inflexible man is when he punishes: the guilty person repents, begs, weeps, but the law strikes him, obliterates him,
