My child,give Me your heart!
“The smallest actions done out of love are the ones which charm His Heart.”
A Little Child has been given to us, but in Him dwells all the fullness of the Divine Nature. The Father has given us everything in His Son Jesus. From Him we learn that God is our Father and as a father loves his children, even more does our Father in Heaven love us. Just as Jesus depended on His Father for everything, He desires us to do the same.
We need not look for lofty ways, for the Divine Child Jesus offers us this “Little Way,” this way of realizing His Love and so imitating it by His Grace flowing from His Sacred Heart. In the Eucharist, we find the Heart of the Divine Child Jesus ever present to us and ever waiting for our return of Love to Him. We see His merciful love and deep humility in becoming for us One so small and vulnerable. Moved by this most perfect example of Love, we desire to become the same for love of Him, a small and vulnerable child.
“But as many as received Him,
He gave them power to become children of God.”
John 1:12
“Truly, I say to you,
that whoever does not receive
the Kingdom of Heaven as a child,
will not enter it.”
The Divine Child leads us joyfully to His Father by the little way of purity, simplicity, docility, confidence, and joy in accomplishing the will of our Heavenly Father. He offers us His Heart which not only burns with Divine Love for His Father and for souls but is even the very means by which we are transformed.
He offers us His Sacred Heart, asking for our love in return. To live in His Love and inherit eternal life, we must follow Him and become like little children with hearts burning for love of God and our neighbor. We cannot do it on our own, but in the Eucharist, He gives Himself to us totally, and we realize that He is all that we need. He asks only for our Love in response- not a shallow love of halves but the fiery Love of His own Heart which we can offer back to Him.
He teaches us that there are no limits to His Divine Love, no measure to His Humility, no equal to His Power hidden in One so small. Inflamed by such great confidence in this most Tender Lord, we learn that His generosity of Love extends to every need of our soul. If we desire to imitate His Love, we need only ask for His own. If we desire to become humble, we need only ask for His Humility to live in us. And this is the work of His Holy Spirit Whom He has given to each of us.
He is not looking for great souls who do magnificent things. He is looking for little souls who are willing to take His Hand, to take His Heart and to follow Him wherever He goes.
Jesus has chosen to show me the only way which leads to the Divine Furnace of Love; it is the way of childlike self-surrender, the way of a child who sleeps, afraid of nothing, in its father’s arms.
-St. Therese of the Child Jesus
Prayer Requests
Our Community is consecrated in a special way to the Divine Child Jesus under the title “Little King of Love” and every day we pray the chaplet of the Child Jesus and place in His Sacred Heart all the intentions that are given to us. If you have any intentions or prayer requests, please click on the button below.
Devotion to the Child Jesus
There are many saints known for their love of the Child Jesus, including St. Francis, St. Teresa of Avila, St. Therese of the Child Jesus, St. Anthony of Padua and St. Padre Pio. By pondering His Childhood, we learn how to become more loving children of our Heavenly Father. By meditating on Christ’s infancy and hidden life, we strive to imitate His childlike virtues and so be transformed day by day, from glory to glory, into the image of the One we reflect. As we meditate on those intimate hidden moments in the life of the Holy Family, it inspires also in us a greater love for the Blessed Virgin Mary and a deeper desire for true familial charity in our own community.
Devotion to the Divine Child Jesus, who is Love, casts out all of our fear. He knows the weakness of man and so appears to us as a Child, that we may not fear to approach Him. Who could be afraid of a little child?
Seraphic Adorers of the Child Jesus (SACJ) is a contemplative community of adoration in the Diocese of La Crosse Wisconsin.
