What is more simple to understand than the need for reparation. A mother has been offended by one of her children, the others surround her and falling on their knees say, "Mother, do not pay any attention to our big brother who has hurt you. We little ones will love you twice as much."
God is insulted. Jesus is not loved. When we have grasped the full import of these words are we not impelled to make compensation? We know we must love Him since it is our duty, but we will double our love in order to offer some reparation for the insults and coldness of the other members of the Christian family as well as of the whole human race.
An authority on the doctrine of Reparation has said, "A soul dedicated to reparation is one who is sufficiently attentive to be aware of the evil in the world and sufficiently recollected to be always mindful of it; sufficiently sensitive to suffer for it habitually, and sufficiently generous to offer herself as a victim of expiation.
"She has meditated at the feet of Jesus Christ, she has contemplated Him on the Cross streaming with blood and has been convinced that there is a great difference, a great strife between God and the human race: on the part of God, a love of infinite depth, a love which inclines Him toward man with a passionate desire to help him, to save him, to make him happy; on the part of man, misused gifts, monstrous blindness, a weak, perverse will. A soul of reparation is instinctively drawn towards both Jesus and her brethren, manifesting a tender compassion to the One, and to the others, the support of her prayers and sacrifices."_________________
Adapted from Meditations for Religious
by Father Raoul Plus, S.J. (© 1939, Frederick Pustet Co.)
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