Eucharistic Reflection - Who Awaits Us?

“O Christ Jesus, really present on the altar, I prostrate myself at Your feet. May all adoration be rendered to You in the Sacrament You willed to leave to us in witness of the excess of your love, on the eve of Your Passion!

Again, we can express that reverence, that veneration, by going to visit Christ in the tabernacle. Is it not, indeed a failure of respect if we neglect this Divine Guest who awaits us? There in the tabernacle He remains, really present, this one who was present in the manger of Bethlehem, at Nazareth, on the hills of Judea, in the upper room, on the cross…

He is there present, the same Christ who cured lepers, calmed the angry waves and promised the good thief a place in His kingdom. There in the tabernacle we find our Savior, our friend, our elder brother, in the fullness of His divine omnipotence, and the ever-fruitful power of His mysteries, with the infinite superabundance of His merits and the ineffable mercy of His love.

He awaits us in the tabernacle, not only to receive our homage there, but to communicate His graces to us there also. If our faith in His words is not just vain sentiment, we shall go close to Him and put our soul into contact, through faith, with His sacred humanity. Be assured that ‘power will go forth from Him,’ as of old, to fill us with light, peace and joy.”

(From Christ In His Mysteries by Blessed Columba Marmion)