Eucharistic Reflection - We Are Surrounded and Enveloped by God

“We live in God as children live in the womb of their mother: they are in her and are surrounded by her; they received nourishment and life from her; they depend on her and receive everything from her; they do nothing of themselves and are almost less than nothing; they have eyes and ears and they neither see nor hear their mother; they have a mouth but it is dumb; they have hands and arms and they can neither embrace or caress their mother.

We are like that in God: we are surrounded and enveloped by Him; at each moment, He communicates nourishment and life through our body and our soul; we depend on Him in everything -‘without Him we can do nothing’ - and, if it is true that by the fact of our creation we have come from nothingness, it is also true that if it pleased God, we might return immediately to it.


We have eyes and we cannot see God; ears, and in ordinary circumstances, we do not hear His voice; we have hands and we can neither take hold of Him or touch Him The day of our death will be the day on which we shall be born to life; if our birth is happy, then we shall see God,  we shall hear His divine word; our tongue being loose, we shall mingle our praises with the angelic concerts; we shall truly take hold of God and press Him to our bosom in an ineffable embrace; we shall no longer receive the nourishment of our souls by the channel of grace alone, but by applying our lips to the very source of the Divinity, we shall drink with avidity the most pure milk of heavenly consolations.

As a little infant remains for a time hidden in his mother's womb, let us during this life remain hidden in God, living by Him, and truly dependent on Him; let us receive each day, by the sacred channel of grace, the nourishment which should make our souls grow, and form them for life in Him, life in its plentitude, life without weakness and without death.”

(From The Book of InfiniteLove - the Needs of Our Time A Little Treatise of Infinite Love by Mother Louise Margaret Claret de la Touche)

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