Worth Revisiting - Sound and Timely Advice For the Rest of Us

Thank you Allison Gingras and Elizabeth Riordan for another opportunity to re-publish our favorite posts on Worth Revisiting.

Go there now and be nourished spiritually. Be sure to visit Allison at Reconciled to You and Elizabeth at Theology Is A Verb during the rest of the week. You will be glad you stopped by.

I trust you will find something of value in this post:

Sound and Timely Advice For the Rest of Us

(Originally published on November 16, 2011)

(Photo©Michael Seagriff)

As we pray for the sanctification of our priests, we should also pray and aspire for our own sanctification and that of our family and loved ones. Like our beloved priests, we lay members of Christ's Church must  also spend time in adoration before our loving and often abandoned Lord.

Picking up on a previous post and  melding it with the advice offered at a healing Mass that my wife and I were blessed to attend last week, may each of us consider offering the following prayer in the silence of our hearts every time we approach our Lord to receive His Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity:

O Lord that I may approach You as if this was my very first Holy Communion.

O Lord that I might approach You as if this was my only Holy Communion.

O Lord that I might approach You as if this my very last Holy Communion.

It is only through the Eucharist that any of us, priest, religious or lay, will ever become the saints God calls us to be. 

Thank you Lord for the holy priests, religious and lay men and women already in our midst. Make the rest of us holy and pleasing in Your sight as well.