Eucharistic Reflection - Let God Not Find Our Souls Alone
“And since so few people now hear
the words, 'Come to Me, all you who labor and are burdened,' let each of us, when he approaches the Holy Table, look upon
himself as the delegate of all those he loves or has loved, living or dead. When God
makes His way into our souls, He does not find us alone. All those from whom we proceed
and who have gone to sleep before us may receive, in Purgatory, some benefit of
grace pervading us, their living children, when we pray for them. And all our friends
who are kept away from the Source of grace by sin, indifference, ignorance, and incredulity
- those who have helped us and those we have harmed - are present in our thoughts
in this ineffable instant."
Francois Mauriac, Catholic Nobel Prize laureate in Literature