Flower of Devotion

One Friday, when St. Gertrude looked at the image of the Crucified One, she said to God, overwhelmed with grief: “O most beloved Saviour, what sufferings You have endured this day for my sake, and how wicked I am that I have forgotten this among other occupations. Instead of continually pondering what You suffered for me every moment, You, O source of my eternal salvation, wanted to die from the excess of Your love for me.” To this the Lord answered, “I have made amends for your negligence; for every moment I gather in My Heart what you were meant to store up in your heart. It is the abundance of My love, so full that I await with the greatest longing the hour when you were to return this prayer of yours to Me. That I, in union with her, may offer to My Divine Father all that I have done for you in the course of this day, and without which all this would not have been so useful for your salvation.”
From this we can know the most faithful love of the Saviour for men, because by a single movement of sorrow which He aroused in the heart of the saint because of her neglect, He satisfies the heavenly Father. And he makes up for inaccuracies in such a sublime and illustrious way that he deserves to be praised by every man for it.