These words ring true in America today.  What answer can we give to  
this ardent plea from the Heart of God?  
  

THE ANSWER - LIVING MONUMENTS OF REPARATION  
"Little People Loving God in a Big Way"  
Michelangelo once said of an ugly block of stone, "I see an angel in that  
marble."  With his chisel he carved, one chip at a time, a masterpiece.  Sin,  
original and personal, makes our hearts selfish and stone-like.  But acts of  
charity and of self-denial in reparation are like chisel removing chip after  
chip of self, forming our hearts into living monuments.  

The answer to sin in America is the spiritual force of millions sculpturing  
Christ-like hearts -- a movement of little people loving God in a powerful  
way.  Here are some examples (others in all walks of life could be listed)  
of living monuments of reparation:  

The poor: bearing their privations patiently.  
Prisoners: making their lives useful by freely offering their captivity to God.  
Catholics: repairing the Mystical Body.  
Old people, the sick, invalids, orphans, the divorced, addicts, etc.:  
accepting cheerfully their feelings of loneliness and abandonment in  
imitation of Christ on the Cross.  
Parents: offering to God their agonizing over their children's exposure  
and submission to today's paganism, secularistic humanism, and false values.  
The single: loving God first by chastity for the glory and service of God.  
Priests and religious: finding fulfillment in total commitment to the Church.  
Families: enthroning the Sacred Heart as the center of their lives and homes  
Firm believers: responding to the coldness and ingratitude given to  
Christ in the Eucharist with ardent hours of adoration before the  
Blessed Sacrament  
All of us: truly devoted to the Sacred Heart, living out our daily  
consecration by treating others the way we like to be treated.  

Your answer to Christ is to chip away at selfishness by cheerfully offering up  
the splinters of your daily cross -- headaches, disappointments, rejections,  
poor health, heat, cold, etc. Such acts of reparation are excellent preparations  
for your frequent reception of Holy Communion, enabling Christ to make the  
heart within you, a Christ-like monument.