Eucharistic Reflection - Be Aware, Deeply Aware


“Receive Communion…and be deeply aware of the One who visits you, infinite love, divine madness; of One who not only became man like ourselves, but who became bread. After you receive Communion, ask Jesus, the God you hold prisoner in your soul, to stay with you throughout the day so that you may love Him and give Him thanks.”

 (St. Teresa of the Andes , excerpt from Letters of Saint Teresa of the Andes, Michael D. Griffin, o.c.d., tr.)

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