“Do you realize that Jesus is there in the tabernacle expressly for you – for you alone? He burns with the desire to come into your heart…don’t listen to the demon, laugh at him, and go without fear to receive the Jesus of peace and love…

“Receive Communion often, very often…there you have the sole remedy, if you want to be cured. Jesus has not put this attraction in your heart for nothing…”

“The guest of our soul knows our misery; He comes to find an empty tent within us – that is all He asks.”

Poem by St Teresa of Lisieux, painting by Tristram Lansdowne.

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