"We need to change the [current] culture that once Mass is over, we leave Church and are gone, that we don't linger [in our pews].
In the past tradition, it was understood that people would stay back after Mass to continue their thanksgiving with the Lord, to really receive the grace of Holy Communion because this is the most important moment of our life - the Lord has united us so amazingly to Himself. Our prayer is most powerful in these minutes after Mass.
So let us not lose the graces of prayer that is born from our Holy Communion with Jesus."
Linger. Pray. Don't rush to leave.
(From How To Be His - A 33-Day Dedication to Our Eucharistic Jesus, by Father J. Maingot, O.P. and Father Ignatius John Schweitzer, O.P. with Dan Burke).
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