Victim loveBe Victim Souls (MOC), Saints, Priesthood, suffering, cross
Victim Souls, a Response of love - Lourdes Pinto Christ offered Himself to God -Cantalamessa. The priest offers self with Father to Christ. -Ref. to Conchita Jesus Priest and Victim -Mons Arthur Calkins Jesus Priest and victim -Origen
Padre Pío, priest and victim -Mons Arthur Calkins Alter-christus-imitamini-quod I want victims of my love - Jesus to Mother Theresa of Calcutta St. Josemaria Escriba on being a victim soul -Sandy Cremer Priest and Victim, Fr. Jordi Rivero, 2011 
Priest and Victim
The participation of lay people in Christ's priestly office
901 Hence the laity, dedicated as they are to Christ and anointed by the Holy Spirit, are marvelously called and prepared so that even richer fruits of the Spirit maybe produced in them. For all their works, prayers, and apostolic undertakings, family and married life, daily work, relaxation of mind and body, if they are accomplished in the Spirit - indeed even the hardships of life if patiently born - all these become spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. In the celebration of the Eucharist these may most fittingly be offered to the Father along with the body of the Lord.
902 In a very special way, parents share in the office of sanctifying "by leading a conjugal life in the Christian spirit and by seeing to the Christian education of their children." can. 835 # 4.
EXEMPLARS OF VICTIM OFFERING:
Jesus to Ven. Conchita: "Offer yourself as a victim for my priests. Unite yourself to My sacrifice for gaining them graces." -Diary, page 103 .
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St. Therese of Lisieux
Victim of Divine Love
To offer oneself as a victim to Divine Love is not to offer oneself to sweetness - to consolation; but to every anguish, every bitterness, for Love lives only by sacrifice; and the more a soul wills to be surrendered to Love, the more must she be surrendered to suffering.
St Faustina
This is an excerpt of the second day of a three day retreat preceding Pentecost, given to St. Faustina by Jesus.
My Daughter, I want to instruct you on how you are to rescue souls through sacrifice and prayer. You will save more souls through prayer and suffering than will a missionary through his teachings and sermons alone. I want to see you as a sacrifice of living love, which only then carries weight before Me. You must be annihilated, destroyed, living as if you were dead in the most secret depths of your being. You must be destroyed in that secret depth where the human eye has never penetrated; then will I find in you a pleasing sacrifice, a holocaust full of sweetness and fragrance. And great will be your power for whomever you intercede. Outwardly, your sacrifice must look like this: silent, hidden, permeated with love, imbued with prayer. I demand, My daughter, that your sacrifice be pure and full of humility, that I may find pleasure in it. I will not spare My grace, that you may be able to fufill what I demand of you. Diary #1752
I will now instruct you on what your holocaust shall consist of, in everyday life, so as to preserve you from illusions. You shall accept all sufferings with love. Do not be afflicted if your heart often experiences repugnance and dislike for sacrifice. All its power rests in the will, and so these contrary feelings, far from lowering the value of the sacrifice in my eyes, will enhance it. Know that your body and soul will often be in the midst of fire. Although you will not feel my presence on some occasions, I will always be with you. Do not fear; My grace will be with you... #1767
Blessed John Paul II: United with Christ, Priest and Victim, I offer my sufferings for the Church and for the world. To you, Mary, I repeat: 'Totus tuus ergo sum.'" (I am all yours).
We are a precious offering to God
The meaning and the purpose of human existence become clear when we present ourselves to God as a pure and holy sacrifice. For what reason, in fact, did God give us the gift of life and of existence if not so that we would have something precious to offer Him, which we could return to Him as a gift?
The same dynamic occurs in the Eucharist: We offer back to God the sacrifice of bread that we have received through His bounty. In the Offertory we say, "Through your goodness we have this bread to offer." We are each consecrated as a priest to return our life to God as a gift, " "burning it" before Him as sweet-smelling incense."
-Sober Intoxication of the Spirit by Raniero Cantalamessa, page 88.
Jesus to Mother Teresa of Calcutta:
I want victims of My love
"Wilt thou refuse? When there was a question of thy soul I did not think of Myself but gave Myself freely for thee on the cross and what about thee? Wilt thou refuse? I want Indian nuns victims of My love, who would be Mary and Martha, who would be so very united to Me as to radiate My love on souls. I want free nuns covered with My poverty of the Cross. - I want obedient nuns covered with My obedience on the Cross. I want full of love nuns covered with My charity of the cross. - Wilt thou refuse to do this for me?"
"You have become My Spouse for My love - you have come to India for me. The thirst you had for souls brought you so far. - Are you afraid now to take one more step for your Spouse - for Me - for souls? Is your generosity grown cold? Am I a second to you? You did not die for souls - that is why you don't care what happens to them. - Your heart was never drowned in sorrow as was My Mother's. - we both gave our all for souls - and you? You are afraid, that you will lose your vocation - you will be wanting in perseverance. No - your vocation is to love and suffer and save souls and by taking the step you will fulfill My Heart's desire for you."
