Eucharistic Reflection - Beware Of Discouragement

 "We must beware of discouragement, for the majority of souls fall into it saying: 'For such a long time I have attended Mass and offered my imperfections, and I still have them all and I am not dead to the least of them.' Others say: 'I have received Communion so many times and I am not at all transformed into Jesus Christ, which is the effect of Holy Communion; therefore, it is not necessary to receive Communion anymore.'

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No, no, there is something you must note: it is in order to have us hear Mass  often and receive Communion many times that Jesus Christ does not effect this complete death or total transformation. Instead He leaves us our imperfections so that we may make a continual sacrifice of them in combating them constantly for Him. This is why Our Lord does not cause this [transformation] all at once; these matters for battle He leaves for the sake of our fidelity."

(Mother Mectilde of the Blessed Sacrament from The Mystery of Incomprehensible Love)

 

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Mother Mectilde of The Blessed Sacrament

“We must be very surprised to see with what boldness people enter churches and we ourselves enter choir, which is a place sanctified by the Presence of God Oh! If we could see the posture of the angels and the saints before the adorable Eucharist, we would not be so bold as to enter without fear, without respect, and without amazement. It is here that we lack faith.”

(From The Mystery of Incomprehensible Love)

 

 

Father Jean Pierre de Caussade, S.J.

“To avoid the anxieties which may be caused by either regret for the past or fear of the future, here is the rule to follow: The past must be left to God’s measureless mercy, the future to his loving providence; and the present must be given wholly to his love through our fidelity to his grace.”

 (From Abandonment to Divine Providence)

 

Father Gabriele Amorth

 “Some years, a friend from Brescia, Father Faustino Negrini, was doing an exorcism near the small sanctuary of Our Lady of the Star and asked the demon: ‘Why do you have such a terror of the Virgin Mary?’ He heard his response through the demoniac: ‘Because she is the most humble of all, and I am the most proud; because she is the most obedient and I am the most rebellious (toward God); and because she is the most pure and I am the vilest’.”

(From The Devil Is Afraid Of Me)

 

 

Eucharistic Reflection - Far Too Greedy Is the Soul for Whom Jesus Christ Is Not Enough!

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"Let us try to recognize the excess of divine charity, and let this be our measure of our gratitude and of our love. What shall we give to God to pay Him for giving Himself to us? Let us not search outside of ourselves; it is ourselves that He asks for, it is our love that He purchases with His own. He gives Himself to us only so that we might give ourselves to Him. He asks for ourselves, not that we should be His happiness, but that He should be ours; because the felicity of the creature is found only in the possession of God.

Oh! Far too greedy is the soul for whom Jesus Christ is not enough! All of us, let us find our contentment in Him and leave Him all the rest! He wants to be our unique possession, to the exclusion of ourselves and of all that is created. My God, what more can we desire after having received You in our hearts? In giving Yourself to us, do You not give  all things with Yourself? No, no, the Holy Sacrament alone is enough for a true victim; she finds all in Him; she has no need of anything else to sanctify herself, to perfect herself; for her, all is contained in the sacred Eucharistic Bread. Jesus Christ sacrificed is all her science, all her love, all her treasure. She finds in Him the lights and knowledge she needs."

(Mother Mectilde of the Blessed Sacrament from The Mystery of Incomprehensible Love)

Eucharistic Reflection - The Most Magnificent Feast

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“My sisters, I regard the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass as the most magnificent feast, for in it we eat the flesh of the Son of God and we drink His Blood, so that the guests’ souls are completely filled with Jesus Christ. Consider we are filled with His divinity and His humanity, with His holy soul and all His infinite perfections and by concomitance, with the Farther and the Holy Spirit. This is what is offered in this precious mystery, which being too common is neglected and being so excellent is still understood only by a few…”

 

(Venerable Catherine Mectilde de Bar from The Mystery of Incomprehensible Love)