Making up for indifference is loving

The prayer taught at Fatima speaks of making reparation for "the outrages, sacrileges and indifference" by which God is offended. Making reparation isn't keeping a tally of offenses, but responding with love where love has been lacking. Indifference wounds silently. It doesn't visibly break anything: it simply leaves someone alone, passes by or treats a presence as if it didn't matter. Reparation begins by looking again and giving time. You can live it with Christ in the tabernacle and also with people. A visit, an apology, some time in adoration or listening to someone you've ignored are ways of putting concrete love into a real emptiness.