Eucharistic Reflection - Adore Quite Simply With Your Heart

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“Let your love be your science of adoration. When you go to adore, do not begin with books. Think for yourself; ask your divine Master to instruct you. You may be sure that an adoration made in your own weakness with all your wretchedness is worth more than all you will borrow from books, because it is yours.

Books are excellent for aiding us when the mind is so distracted or so weak that one can draw nothing out of it. But ordinarily do not have recourse to this means so easily. Most of the time we take up a book because we have not the courage to put up with dryness or distaste in prayer.

Adore quite simply with your heart and know that love is the true science of adoration.

You will notice that God often renders the mind incapable of reasoning and reflecting. Why? Because we are by nature great prattlers; We would like to speak with him continually; the good God closes our mind it seems to say: put yourself in your heart.

If then, instead of reasoning, of searching for means and explanations in our mind, we simply say: ‘My God, I offer you my misery, my dryness, finally, everything that I am, an abyss of wretchedness,’ how we touched the heart of God! He will say: ‘Here is a soul that loves Me more than its pleasure and the sweetness of My graces.

Love then and think: that is the whole of the interior life. If you learn to think, if you have the courage to think of our Lord with perseverance and to converse with Him, not only on the prie-dieu but in your work and in your room, you have made a unique experience. Then we even dream of God; we love Him everywhere and in everything. Our soul raises itself to God in repose, without effort, because our thoughts are always fixed on Him: it seems to soar.”

 

(St. Peter Julian Eymard from The Eucharist and Christian Perfection Part I)