Sunday, March 29, 2020 –
Something amazing and beautiful happened at Adoration yesterday. It was truly the purest love of our Lord I have ever witnessed, and it was from a toddler who couldn’t have been more than two years old.
A mother came into the Church for a moment to pray. She had an infant in a carrier on one arm and a toddler in tow on the other. From the baptistry a squeal of delight erupted from the little boy as he looked through the open doors to the nave.
“Mama! Jesus!” he yelled.
Andrew and I smiled as we turned to see little feet hurriedly stomping, as only a toddler can, up the center aisle of the nave with utter joy on his tiny face. His mama quickly caught up to him and helped him to the front pew, just in front of the sanctuary.
He fell on his small, chubby legs and knelt before the Blessed Sacrament. When his mama tried to get him up, he begged her to stay with a, “no…mama…I sit!”
What was truly amazing about this—beyond this adorable, pure love for our Lord—was the fact that the Crucifix and statues are all veiled for Passiontide. This child’s love was for the Blessed Sacrament in the monstrance: the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
What wondrous love is this!? Oh! to have the childlike faith of that little boy.
Saint Nicholas, pray for us!
