Eucharistic Reflection - He Allows Himself To Be Found

"God is not the great unknown, whom we can but dimly conceive. We need not fear, as heathens do, that He might be capricious and bloodthirsty or too far away and too great to hear men. He is there [in the Eucharist], and we always know where we can find Him, where He allows himself to be found and is waiting for us.

 

Today this should once more sink into our hearts: God is near. God knows us. God is waiting for us in Jesus Christ in the Blessed Sacrament. Let us not leave Him waiting in vain! Let us not, through distraction and lethargy, pass by the greatest and most important thing life offers us...Let us not pass it heedlessly by. Let us take time, in the course of the week, in passing, to go in and spend a moment with the Lord Who is near. During the day our churches should not be allowed to be dead houses, standing empty and seemingly useless. Jesus Christ's invitation is always proffered from them. This sacred proximity to us is always alive in them. It is always calling us and inviting us in. This is what is lovely about Catholic churches, that within them there is, as it were, always worship, because the Eucharistic presence of the Lord dwells always within them.

(Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI from God Is Near Us)