Eucharistic Reflection - We Would Not Do It, But God Does!

"Who would agree to do what our Lord does?

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He institutes His Sacrament to be honored therein by man, and He is more insulted than honored; the bad Christians outnumber the good.

Our Lord is taking in only losses.

Why does He keep up this business? Who would want to run a business at a total loss?

Ah! The saints who see and understand so much love and abasement must be seized with holy anger and feel indignant at seeing us so ungrateful!

And the Father says to His Son: 'We must put a stop to this; You are getting nothing out of it. Your love is slighted; Your abasements are made nothing of. You are losing out on it; let us be done with it'.

But our Lord will not listen. He stays on, He hopes, He contents Himself with the adoration and love of a few good souls. Oh, We at least, let us not fail Him!

Does He not deserve by His abasements that we honor and love Him?"

(St. Peter Julian Eymard from The Real Presence)