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 In 17 th century France, while Jansenism was scaring everyone away from the Eucharist and poisoning people's image of Jesus, there came a time when even Jesus --- capable of bearing seemingly infinite suffering----couldn't take it anymore. He was overwhelmed.

Jesus who had been so neglected by the ones for whom he gave up his life, like a forgotten mother, napped. 

From his sorrow at being so misunderstood and abandoned, Jesus looked for someone who would take pity on his aching Heart. He cast his gaze out on all of France, searching for a true friend on whom he could unburden some of his heartache and through whom he might finally convince people to believe in his tender love and mercy. Eventually, he found a little nun named Margaret Mary.He released an ocean of anguish as he disclosed his divine Heart. He said to her in a voice full of sadness and grief:

There it is , that Heart so deeply in love with men, it spared no means of proof----wearing itself out until it was utterly spent! This meets with scant appreciation from most of them; all I get back is ingratitude----witness their irreverence, their sacrileges, their coldness and contempt for me in this Sacrament of Love.

On another occasion, the Lord appeared in front of the exposed Blessed Sacrament with a similar message. Margaret Mary describes the experience:

Jesus Christ, my kind Master, appeared to me. He was a blaze of glory---his five founds shining like five suns, flames issuing from all parts of his human form, especially from his divine breast which was like a furnace, and which he opened to disclose his utterly affectionate and loveable Heart, the living source of all those flames. It was at this moment that he revealed to me the indescrible wonders of his pure love for mankind: the extravagance to which he would been led for those who had nothing for him but ingratitude and indifference. " This hurts me more," He told me, " than everything I suffered in my passion. Even a little love from them in return--- and I should regard all that I have done for the, as next to nothing, and look for a way of doing still more. But no; all my eager efforts for their welfare meet with nothing but coldness and dislike. Do me kindness then--- you, at least---- of making up for all their ingratitude , as far as you can."