“SPIRITUAL
DIALYSIS” is how I have been considering
my daily visit to JESUS CHRIST in the BLESSED SACRAMENT at the ADORATION CHAPEL
of Metropolitan Cathedral of Tuguegarao City.
This concept
has dawned on me when I witnessed some people being brought to a DIALYSIS
CENTER. I was informed that ‘DIALYSIS’
is now the modern way of cleaning one’s kidney.
To undergo this kind of treatment one has expose himself to some kind of
a ‘purifying process’ that would last for several hours depending on the
patient’s condition. This is done not
only once but several times at regular intervals. It is a treatment that may take a life time.
When our
Parish Priest, Rev. Fr. Gerard Ariston Perez, was informed of the desire of
some parishioners in Cluster III, consisting of church lay leaders in Barangays
Larion Alto, Larion Bajo, Capatan, Centro 07, Centro 08, and Centro 09, to start
to have a regular Time Schedule in Adoring the Lord Jesus Christ at the Blessed
Sacrament, he gave an ‘Orientation’ to us on the ‘SIGNIFICANCE of the BLESSED
SACRAMENT ADORATION’. Among other things,
he compared the SACRED HOST in the Blessed Sacrament as the Sun giving out its rays to people who
expose themselves to some kind of ‘sun-bathing’. Hence, he said that in adoring the Blessed
Sacrament there is even no need of reciting some prayers. All that one has to
do is to put oneself in the Presence of God and let God do whatever He deems good for each one.
At our SERRA
Convention in Singapore, two years ago, one of the speakers said that
in one of her visits to the
Blessed Sacrament she was enlightened that what matters most is not what one
does in adoring the Lord Jesus, but what
the Lord does to the one who visits.
Reflecting
on what Father Gerry and the Speaker in Singapore said, I realize that in
visiting the Lord Jesus Christ in the Blessed Sacrament, it is actually having
an audience with God, the Supreme Being, the Creator of this world, Who is all
knowing and all powerful. Hence, as one
puts himself in His presence, he submits
himself to whatever God pleases. God,
in His infinite goodness, would certainly pour on him His blessings, one of
which is the grace of being cleansed of one’s sinfulness – a kind of ‘Spiritual
Dialysis’.
by: Buddy Cagurangan
January 25, 2013
