In How To Be His - A 33-Day Dedication to our Eucharistic Jesus, Father Jesse J. Maingot, O.P. shares the wisdom and insight of St. Peter Julian Eymard; here are two brief samples:
"Few persons think of the virtues, the life, the state of our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament. We treat Him like a statute; we think He is there merely to forgive our sins and to listen to our prayers. That is a wrong viewpoint. Our Lord lives and acts in the Eucharist. Look at Him, study and imitate Him!...Observe Him practicing virtue and you shall know what you have to do."
(St. Peter Julian Eymard)
Father reminds us: that our Lord is patient and quiet; that He's waiting for us; that He's so available, so generous - anyone can come and talk to Him; that He looks at His humanity and humbles Himself to look like bread, but it's really Him!
We should contemplate the humility of Jesus in the Eucharist. He has veiled His Glory so that we would not be afraid to get close to Him! Let our Eucharistic Lord teach us to be humble, available, patient, kind and ever courageous...
"Eucharistic Adoration is the most necessary mission to the Church, which has even more need of prayerful people than preachers of men and eloquence..."
(St. Peter Julian Eymard)
We need to be courageous, Father Maingot tells us, to fight so many temptations that distract us from our time of prayer.
We must persevere in Adoration.
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