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 My Saviour grieves even now about my sins. My Saviour cannot rejoice as long as I remain in perversion. Why cannot He do this? Because He Himself is " an intercessor for our sins with the Father."...

How can He, who is an intercessor for my sins, drink the " wine" of joy, when I grieve Him with my sins? How can He ,who " approaches the altar" in order to atone for me a sinner, be joyful when the sadness of sin rises up to Him ceaselessly? " With you," He says, " I will drink in the Kingdom of my Father." As long as we do not act in such a way that we can mount up to the Kingdom , He cannot drink alone that wine which He promised to drink with us... Thus it is that He waits until we should be converted , in order that we may follow in his footsteps and He rejoice " with us " and " drink wine with us in the Kingdom of His Father."...We are the ones who delay His joy by our negligence toward our lives.

But the apostles too have not yet received their joy: they likewise are waiting for me to participate in their joy. So it is that the saints who depart from here do not immediately receive the full reward of their merits, but wait for us,even if we delay, even if we remain sluggish. They cannot know perfect joy as long as they grieve over our trangressions and weep for our sins.

You will have joy when you depart from this life if you are a saint. But your joy will be complete only when no member of your body is lacking to you. For you too will wait, just as you are awaited. But if you, who are a member, do not have perfect joy as long as a member is missing, how much more must our Lord and Saviour , who is the head and origin of this body, consider it an incomplete joy if He is still lacking certain of His members?...Thus He doesn't want to receive His perfect glory without you: that means, not without his people which is " His body " and " His members".

Love cannot , then, close itself against others or be without them so long as time, and with it suffering, is real. No one as formulated this insight more finely than St Therese of Lisieux with her idea of Heaven as the showering down of love towards all. But even in ordinary human terms we can say

" How could a mother be completely and unreservedly happy so long as one of her children is suffering?"

How could Jesus Christ, who loves us with an even greater love than that of a mother, be completely happy in heaven while the members of His body are 

suffering? It seems He can't be. He does suffer, he desires that we console Him.

Mary, whom we know is bodily in heaven, must also suffer with her Son on account of us. Mary revealed the deep sorrow her Immaculate Heart feels at seeing the suffering of her children on earth.

Jesus 's longing is not a sign of weakness. He is not emotionally needy or self-pitying as if He were some immature man. Christ chose to put into His Heart such a burning longing for our love and that He did so because He loves us.

Jesus is God. He does not need us.But he made himself vulnerable .He made Himself " need"our love. He allows Himself to be in need of mercy from us.

In Christ Jesus. God no longer calls us slaves but friends. Christ humbled Himself and accepted to feel a burning thirst need for our love, so we might enter into genuine friendship with Him. 

His need for our love comes from His own great love for us, a love that can't stand to see us perish, which is what will happen if we don't love Him.

The burning desire for us that He chose to have in His Heart is that we go to Him and love Him and thus receive His life and love and spread it to others.It is in this sense that we ought to understand Christ's need for our love.

Jesus 's need for our love is because He knows how deperately we need His love---- He knows that, for us, it is a matter of life and death.