Reparation

When you love a person very much you are always sorry when he suffers or is treated badly, and if you love Our Lord very much you must be sorry to see how ungratefully He is treated. You will try to make up for it by greater love. This is called reparation.
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How am I to obtain devotion to the Sacred Heart? Only by the remembrance of the "nimia delectio qua dilexit nos"; that He loved me so much that He died for me, and in having died for me, He lives for me, and in living for me, longs for me; dwelling on it, that He does long for me, that He is always living to make intercession for me, and then from this to say, "And what can I do for Him? How can I love Him?"

-- Father Dignam, SJ