“Called to Console!” It’s 5:32 am as I begin to write this blog! Yes…it’s pretty early here on the East Coast but it seems Jesus wanted me at the keyboard – so this is where I find myself this morning at the crack of dawn.
This Friday, March 13, 2026 we find ourselves three weeks past from Ash Wednesday. In three weeks from today it will be Good Friday!
It seems like we were just preparing for Christmas of 2025. . .doesn’t it? Are we now prepared for the Easter Triduum of 2026?
There is a “calling” I awoke to earlier this morning . . .“a calling to console.” I invite you now to this “calling” and to console the Heart of Jesus Christ for the next three weeks.
In St. Faustina’s Diary – Notebook VI – Passage 1718…we read the following words:
“To stay at Your feet, O hidden God, is the delight and paradise of my soul. Here, You give me to know You, O incomprehensible One. And You speak to me sweetly:
“Give Me, give Me your heart.”
Silent conversation, alone with You, is to experience what heavenly beings enjoy, and to say to God,
“I will, I will give You my heart, O Lord.”
While You, O great and incomprehensible One, accept it graciously.
It seems it is always about “time” that keeps us from being with Jesus in the solitude of love. Maybe that is why He awakes us in the early morning hours when cell phones aren’t in our hands. In the silence of “stillness” our minds are at peace and not distracted by a million and one things that call us into busyness.
St. Faustina gives us our first clue today about what “frittering away our time” truly means.
“During Holy Mass, I came to know that a certain priest does not affect much in souls because he thinks about himself and so is alone. God’s grace takes flight: he relies on trifling external things, which have no importance in the eyes of God; and being proud, he fritters away his time, wearing himself out to no purpose.”
That question was posed to my own heart one early morning upon awakening. Well, yes Lord… I know who I am. At least I think I know! I am a child of God..loved by Him so much that He died on the Cross for me. How many times do we hear if it was only just us as a single person….He would have made that ultimate sacrifice for us alone. Do we get that? Love can only be repaid by giving love…by consoling and every little movement and action that we make . . . be done in love.
So how do we console the God of the Universe during the following weeks leading up to the Easter Triduum?
Some years ago I had an experience of deep sorrow and tears. I didn’t understand it for it related to the Blessed Mother and for some reason I was feeling Her deep sorrow. I did not know what to do and so I called our Pastor. He came to visit me and listened as tears rolled down my face. His response to my heart was that Our Blessed Mother was calling me to console Her by just sitting beside Her. He lovingly said, “Anita, how many go to the Blessed Mother asking for this or asking for that. . .but today she is calling you to be Her friend. . .to sit beside Her in love.” I remember he said you don’t need to “blog” or even share this with anyone else. Just be with Her!
So it is now with Jesus – isn’t it? And possibly with the Mother of Sorrows. To just be at Their side – consoling and loving Them.
Where To Meet HimIn “He and I”….Jesus tells Gabrielle of His solitude in the Churches for His Eucharist. He speaks of the souls who forget Him after receiving Communion.
“Oh, may the warm and faithful thoughts of My friends come unceasingly to comfort Me! And I shall comfort them when they fall asleep to awaken in that other Life.”
Jesus explains further to not only Gabrielle but to us – today – this morning or whenever you read this posting:
“It’s a strange thing, isn’t it, that a creature can comfort his God. And yet this is a fact. My love reverses the roles, inventing a new way for people to reach Me, by allowing them to give Me a protecting tenderness. So great is My need of all your ways of loving, all your ways of being tender.”
The picture above speaks for itself. To enter into it – one sees the display of compassion and love – a reaching out of hearts to each other.
In the passage above that Jesus speaks to Gabrielle – He also asks her the following:
“have you ever known the desert – the forty days, the nights when I escaped from everyone to pray before My Father? And among the crowds have you known the vast solitude of not being understood, of hostility, of hate, of rejected friendship?
It was all for My children – for you, My child.”
I began this week of waking up to the question in my soul of “Do you know who you are?” This morning I believe Jesus ended the week off on this Friday the 13th clarifying who I am . . .who “you are” to Him.
Can you imagine the “Love” that He holds for each of us? The love of the Blessed Mother for us as well?
Doesn’t the Mother of God tell us in Medugorje. . .“if we knew how much She loved us – we would cry for joy!”
It’s mind boggling to think of this love and places us in a position of how do we give that “love” back to them during this Lenten journey and honestly – for the rest of our pilgrimage here on earth?
How do we do that? Well – one way would be “not to be like the priest frittering away his time” described by St. Faustina above.
Jesus tells Gabrielle – to pray the following prayer…..a simple prayer…
“Lord, deliver me from anxiety about trifles!”
When we do this – when we pray this prayer – Jesus is telling us that in this surrender – He will give us His love and the “blessed and all victorious wings of light.” That is truly the “flight of good” …..escaping from our mind boggling thoughts that take us away from truly loving and consoling His heart right now.
In gazing at the image above one might think “what is Jesus pondering” in the gazing of the wheat held in His hand?
In the words of Scripture below – we might get a hint of how to console His Heart:
“Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds.” John 12:24
We have just three weeks before Easter Sunday! How will we love Him more? How will we console Him?
For each of us that will surely be an individual experience . . .a “divine experience” of having the opportunity to console the God of the Universe. Surely it is something to reflect upon today and to work out some kind of plan! Let us make it a “Valentine’s Day” everyday for Jesus. . .not just for the Lenten journey but for everyday of our lives.
Doesn’t He do the same for us?
©2026 Anita Guariglia
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Quotes from Divine Mercy in My Soul/ St. Faustina
Passages from He and I – Gabrielle Bossis
September 19, 1940 and September 21, 1940
Scripture from John 12:24
6 Responses
Appreciate your guidance in this beautiful meditation to console the Heart of Jesus – a focus on HIS needs, by dying to self. What greater gift may we offer Jesus and our Blessed Mother this Lent than surrendering our heart and time – lovingly acknowledging Their utmost worthiness, deep sorrows, and unconditional love – aligning Their needs and the Divine Will with our own – and offering ourselves to those in need of our time. Surely you touched many hearts today with this message, which I will carry with me this Lent.
Thank you for sharing your own thoughts and understanding of what was written with the words of this blog – the word written and the word in the heart! You saw through the empty spaces between those words! God Bless You, Anita
We seek consolation constantly…we turn to Jesus and Our Blessed Mother for our needs, wants and concerns…but thank you for showing us that we need to console their hearts…the hearts that love us more than we could ever know.
What touched my heart was that Jesus said to Gabrielle “ So great is My need of all your ways of loving, all your ways of being tender”…and the prayer, “Lord, deliver me from anxiety about trifles.” This brought to mind the trifles and anxiety in my life that need to go and the ways I need to love…is there “tenderness “ in my love?
In this world with so much hate, cruelty and injustice, I can give them a place to dwell in my heart by loving all with the tenderness of Their hearts and the love that comes from God. Loving others with “tenderness “ consoles the Hearts of Jesus and Mary.
Thank you, Anita.
Ever grateful for your reading, absorbing and commenting always on my blogs posted on Queen of Peace.
God Bless You dear “C” and your family, Anita
Thank you Anita for reminding us that we can also console the Heart of our Jesus the way we do our Blessed Mother on First Saturdays.
Thank you very much Theresa….yes…ongoing consolation and love always for the Two Hearts.
God Bless You, Anita