"Jesus, repair what I have done badly!"
Thank God Christ came to save sinners.
One day Therese counseled her sister Celine: "Your programme of life seems to be this: 'I will be kind to those who are kind, and be amiable with those who are amiable.' Then naturally you become agitated as soon as someone disagrees with you. In this you are like the pagans in the Gospel who our Lord tells us not to be like. Rather he tells us, 'love your enemies, do good to those who hate you and pray for those who persecute you.'" -My Sister St. Therese, Sr. Genevieve of the Holy Face
"Jesus, repair what I have done badly!"
"A notion which is not widespread and which, nevertheless, is very important is that Jesus, when we ask him with confidence, repairs not only the evil we have done in ourselves, but also the evil we have done around us.
Indeed, he has made all things right in me, but what about the evil I have done to others? The bad example I have set, the scandal I have given, the good I would have been able to do and did not do, the injustice I committed? I am set aright myself, but what about the others?
Say then, 'Jesus, from this evil also which I have wrought around me, draw forth good. Even, I dare to ask you, draw a greater good from it than if I had not done the evil... Jesus, make reparation in me and around me.'" - I Believe In Love, Pere Jean du Coeur de Jesus D'Elbee
Jesus, repair what I have done badly! St. Therese pray for us!
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