Eucharistic Reflection - Of Course, You Are Unworthy!
"Do you feel unworthy to Receive Holy Communion? You should. You are unworthy. We are all unworthy. Knowing your unworthiness is a sign that you have a healthy spiritual life and proper disposition for receiving Holy Communion... Though we are all unworthy of such a great gift, our Retreat Master [St. Peter Julian Eymard] is very clear that the only thing that should keep us from Holy Communion is mortal sin." (Excerpt from 30 Day Eucharistic Revival - A Retreat with St. Peter Julian Eymard by Father Donald H. Calloway, MIC)
On the front end, we shrink from all that is painful, inconvenient, tiresome, irritating - the list can go on and on. We'll never get to the back end, deep union with Christ, if we don't practice what the Church has always recommended: penance, sacrifice, self-denial in little ways every day. The little ways prepare us for the bigger, tougher pain we're going to endure as disciples of Our Lord.
ReplyDeleteNo one could have explained it any better or clearer than you. Thank you Barbara. Praying you are well.
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