Eucharistic Reflection - Adore, Give Thanks, Praise, Bless and Extol Him

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"With lively faith adore Jesus present in the Most Holy Sacrament, in the Divine Host you are soon to receive. Adore Him outwardly by the deeply reverent attitude of your body and by the guarded purity of your senses. Adore Him inwardly by a profound humility and by the homage of all the powers of your soul, crying out to Him with Saint Thomas in a transport of faith:' My Lord and my God'.

...Give thanks for so great a gift of love from Jesus, for this invitation which He gives to you in preference to so many others who are better and more worthy to receive Him.

Praise Him for the wisdom He manifested in inventing and instituting this wonderful Sacrament for you. Praise the wisdom that has guided this river of life to you, this stream that has flowed on from generation to generation, till at last it has reached you, as pure now as its source.

Bless His omnipotent goodness that He was able to triumph over every obstacle, that He recoiled from never a sacrifice or humiliation, in order to give Himself to you.

Extol the measureless love which, for your salvation, reduced Him in this Sacrament to the state of perpetual Victim, which made Him the divine sustenance of your life and so constant and tender a friend in your exile. Let the angels join with you; invite them to give praise with you to their God and their King."

(St. Peter Julian Eymard from Holy Communion)