Eucharistic Reflection - Ask This of Our Lord

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“Why does our Lord come to us in Communion? To visit us, certainly; but since He remains within us, He still has something else to do there. He comes to implant His virtues in our soul and make them grow, to form Himself in us, to mold us in His image. He comes to accomplish our education in the divine life within us, in such a way that He increases in us as we increase in Him, until we have reached full growth in the perfect man, that is Himself, Jesus Christ.


Consider the state of Jesus in the Most Blessed Sacrament. Do you see Him there? Yet, He is there. Only the angels see His outward life, however. We see nothing of it, and nevertheless we believe. He does live there, as we believe in the sun even when clouds hid it from us, as we believe in the labor of nature though it is entirely imperceptible to our senses. All this is evidence to us that the external life is not the only one, but that there is also an invisible life, a life which is wholly interior, yet very real.


When you receive Communion, therefore, ask our Lord to live in you and let you live in Him. That is something that is entirely spiritual. It is not what most Christians ask. They receive Communion, but their mind, their will and intention, all are abroad seeking external things, so that Jesus finds no one within to entertain Him.”

(St. Peter Julian Eymard from Holy Communion)

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