Eucharistic Reflection - Every Day We Crucifiy Him

“Do any of us suffer as much as our dear Lord, who suffers shame and injury every day? If He were now able to suffer as He once was, He would suffer more now than He did when He was put to death. Countless times every day He is crucified again, by the horrible oaths that are sworn upon His death and His wounds, by the mortal sins which daily renew His Passion, reopen His wounds, and make His Precious Blood flow again.

What shameful things are inflicted on Him every day when His pure, precious, divine body is received into so many foul, stinking, devilish vessels? We are those vessels, made for Him, and we knowingly fill them with created things. If He were still capable of feeling the torments He knew on earth, it would hurt Him more to be received by such men than it once hurt to be received by Judas; for they have the faith. They know that He is their God and their Creator, which Judas did not. If those who love God could feel in their bodies the pain which they feel in their hearts for love of Him, it would half-kill them, heart and soul and body. They would gladly die to put an end to that state of affairs. Life means nothing to them while their dear God is receiving such injuries and dishonor."

 

(Johann Tauler, O.P. from Spiritual Conferences)