1. The last paragraph is a clear reference to Jesus in the Tabernacle.
Jesus gazes at us both in the picture and in the Tabernacle. So we
pray to Him thus, “We entrust ourselves in your loving care and gaze
now in life and death.”
2. This is basically a prayer for the salvation of persons but “we
entrust our total selves” in His “loving care and gaze” takes up all
the request which the petitioner would put before him.
3. There is a link between He who gazes from the portrait and
He who is concealed in the “Sacred throne” (His presence in the
tabernacle); it is the same living Jesus who is in the Eucharist on
the altar in the tabernacle and in the portrait. So as we adore Him in
the portrait we should at the same time see ourselves present before
Him who is invisibly seated on a throne in the tabernacle. Kneeling
before this portrait of the Adorable One we entrust ourselves in His
“loving care and gaze.”
Reverend Jude Mbukanma, O.P
