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To Whom Shall We Go?

  • FATHER TADEUSZ DAJCZER

Even the important matter of winning souls for you is contaminated. 


peter2Yet the fact that you show me this contamination should be a great light and grace for me.  Because then my crying out for you, God in the Eucharist, becomes stronger and stronger, and my need to cling to you gets stronger too.  The nearness of your merciful love will, I believe, save me.  Moreover, I see that the problem of the background is beginning to show itself differently.  What I used to see as background was all confusion, immersed in my ego.  I now clearly see that no one can help me.  I only have you.  The more dangerously confused I am, the more your Eucharistic mercy spills into me because you are love itself.

I need you, my God, I need you so very much in your Eucharistic mercy.  You want to forgive me all this.  You want to save me.  You want to sanctify me.  Despite my confused obstinacy, despite my immersion in egocentric desires, you are in love with me.  You are overlooking my selfishness.  The more you can grant me your forgiveness, the greater your glory.

In your love, you only need my contrition and increasing faith.

God, working in the Eucharist by the power of the Holy Spirit, immerse my poor soul in the waters of contrition.  Show me it is really not worth focusing on myself, because I was your special choice even before you made me.

You have made the whole world for me.  When you are speaking to me from the altar, I shall know better and better to open myself to your love that wants to revive and transform me.  Transform me to the point where the world is in the background so that you become the center of my life.  According to the faith I receive in and through our Church, I want the Eucharist to be the source and the sense of my spiritual life.  I want you to lead me by my faith.  I want to be led to sanctity.

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Acknowledgement

dajczer Father Tadeusz Dajczer, "To Whom Shall We Go?" from The Mystery of Faith (Brewster, MA: Paraclete Press, 2010).

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The Author

daj daj1 Fr. Tadeusz Dajczer (†2009) was ordained to the Priesthood in 1955 in Warsaw, Poland. In the life of Fr. Dajczer, a decisive moment took place during his confession with St. Padre Pio. St. Padre Pio asked his penitent, with astonishment and great force, why he did not want to go toward God to the end. For Fr. Dajczer it was a shocking experience and at the same time, the beginning of a search for sanctity both for himself and for his penitents. He is the author of The Mystery of Faith: Meditations on the Eucharist, and The Gift of Faith, which has been translated into 26 languages. He is the co-founder of the Families of Nazareth Movement, which is currently present in 40 countries.

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