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To Sister Josefa Menendez, Jesus revealed:
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"Contemplate me in the prison where I spent the greater part of the night...
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"Compare the prison with the Tabernacle...
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"In the prison I spent only part of one night...but in the Tabernacle, how many days and nights?
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"In the prison I endured cold, sleeplessness, hunger and thirst, pain, shame, solitude, and desertion. And there passed before My mind's eye all the tabernacles where in the course of ages I should lack the shelter of love...
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"And how often should I wait for this or that other soul to visit Me in the Blessed Sacrament and receive Me into his heart...how many nights should I spend longing for his coming...but he would let business or carelessness or anxiety for his health get the better of him...and he would not come!
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"Gaze steadfastly upon Him during that night of pain and see that sorrow continued in the loneliness of countless tabernacles and the coldness of many hearts.
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"Comfort Me in My sorrow by keeping Me faithful company..."
Mary, Mother of Jesus Christ, Eternal High Priest, Mother of all priests, and our Mother, help us respond generously to the Holy Spirit's request, through the voice of His Church, to offer up to God Eucharistic adoration for priests. Amen.
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