Eucharistic Reflection - The Paten Of My Hands
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The night before [Jesus] died He said “This is my
body – This is my blood.” Every day that we live, we are to hold out on the paten
of our hands our hearts, and minds, and wills, our all, and say: "This is
my body - this is my blood. Take them. And what You do with wheat and wine and
these awe-filled words, do with me! Let the outward appearances remain; my
face, figure, height, and breadth; but the inner substance, change! Change it
so that it will no longer be mine, but Thine. Change it so that I will always
be what transubstantiated Wheat and Wine ever remain - Thee!"
(From God, A Woman and The Way
by Rev. M. Raymond, O.C.S.O.)