Eucharistic Reflection - Where Could We Find Him?

Were our Savior not present in His Adorable Sacrament, where could we find Him? In His Holy Scriptures? Yes, but in these He speaks from afar, and the past cannot satisfy us. Contemplating Him in His glory in Heaven would but increase our longing. We cannot live on meditation and desires alone. But, oh, mercy and love of our Savior! He foresaw all this and for that reason instituted this Miracle of Love, the Holy Eucharist.

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When Jesus gives Himself to us in this Sacrament, we possess Him as holy Simeon did when he held Him as an infant in his arms; as Magdalen did when she caressed and kissed His feet; as St. John did when he reposed on His Heart. Jesus has unweariedly followed us from the Crib to Calvary; from Calvary to the Tabernacle; from the Tabernacle to the hands of the priest; from the hands of the pries to our heart.

(Father Lukas Etlin, O.S.B. from The Holy Eucharist - Our All)