Eucharistic Reflection - Let Us Go To The Most Holy Sacrament

“There are three things which cast my small understanding into an abyss of astonishment. The first is that the times and moments of our lives, being given to us to trade for the blessedness of a sweet eternity - this is the least of our thoughts. Further, without reflection about the brevity of our days, we do not realize that upon leaving this life we will be required to give an account for our smallest vanities. What will the soul who has spent its life among creatures do at that meeting? O dreadful misfortune! 

 

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The second thing which astounds me is that we live, breathe, are moved, and act within and in God, and meanwhile we are not at all focused on His presence and we live the majority of the time as if there were no God, without respect, without love, and without fear of His Majesty which is present.

The third is that having Jesus Christ really and truly present in the Most Holy Sacrament and, where He is, all three divine Persons, we are so little moved by the mystery of His divine love, which He communicates to us in all its immensity, and this, without reserve. Is it not loving us truly [for Him] to desire to be converted into food for the sake of incorporating us into Himself? So that we may become completely one with Him in the most ineffable and comprehensible manner? We search for relics, we want to see saints…Let us go to the Most Holy Sacrament, let us consume this adorable Host. We have not just next relics, but the source of all sanctity, who sanctifies us. We have eternal goodness itself instead of the saints, and we converse with Jesus Christ! Oh! Awesome mystery! Who can comprehend or understand this holy mystery without being seized with amazement

Here are the three methods by which I am overcome, seeing the terrible blindness of Christians. Acknowledge with me, through your own experience, that the cause of so many evils come from the very poor use we make of our senses, a miserable use which deprives us of an infinite grace. Do we not have reason to weep over our blindness? Let a soul pierced with these truths suffer from sorrow to see her divine Master so little known and almost not loved at all.”

(From The Breviary of Fire – Letters by Mother Mectilde of the Blessed Sacrament)

 

Monday Musings - A Somber Reminder

 

Eucharistic Reflection -This Is What We Need

"The adorers share Mary's mission of prayer in the presence of the Most Blessed Sacrament. It is the most beautiful of all missions and moreover, is not fraught with dangers. It is also the holiest of missions, for it calls for the practice of all the virtues. It is the most necessary to the Church which has a still greater need of men of prayer than of preachers, of men of penance than of men of eloquence. 

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Today more than ever we need men who by self-immolation disarm the wrath of God angered by the ever-increasing crimes of nations; we need souls who by their earnest prayers reopen the treasures of grace which had been closed by a general indifference; we need true adorers, that is, men of fire and of sacrifice. When their numbers multiply around their divine Leader, God will be glorified. Jesus will be loved, society will again become Christian, won to Jesus Christ by the apostolate of Eucharistic prayer."

(St. Peter Julian Eymard from A Eucharistic Handbook)

 

 

Monday Musings - Are We Really Willing to Follow Him?

 It is not easy to be a true follower of Jesus Christ:

Pondering Tidbits of Truth - August 19, 2021

Pondering Tidbits of Truth is my simple and inadequate way of providing nuggets of spiritual wisdom for you to chew on from time to time.

 

 

 

St. Gemma Galgani

"Oh, my God! What would You wish to do, my compassionate Jesus? Would You wish to make all Your merits mine; apply to me everything that is Yours? And can there be a heart that will not let itself be taken over by so much charity? Can there be a soul that will not let itself be won over? Can there be a will that will not let itself be ravished by You?

Oh, my soul, how much longer do you wish to be so stingy with Jesus? Why so negligent towards Jesus who made You? Why so lazy towards Jesus who redeemed you? Who do you want to love, if you do not want to love Jesus?"

(From  https://www.stgemmagalgani.com/2008/09/words-and-quotes-of-st-gemma-galgani.html)

 

Mother Mectilde of the Blessed Sacrament

“Everything must be sacrificed to Jesus Christ: your husband, your children, and your friends. You must not become their owner.”

(From The “Breviary of Fire” – Letters by Mother Mectilde of the Blessed Sacrament)

 

 

 St. John Marie Vianney

"Take in one hand a sponge full of water, and in the other a little pebble; press them equally. Nothing will come out of the pebble, but out of the sponge will come abundance of water. The sponge is the soul filled with the Holy Spirit, and the stone is the cold and hard heart which is not inhabited by the Holy Spirit.” 

 (From The Blessed Curé of Ars in His Catechetical Instructions)