Harvesting The Fruits of Contemplation

"Wherever the Sacred Host is to be found, there is the living God, there is your Savior, as really as when He was living and talking in Galilee and Judea, as really as He now is in heaven.  (Image source: Wikimedia Commons ) Never deliberately miss Holy Communion. Communion is more than life, more than all the good things of this world, more than the whole universe: it is God Himself, it is I, Jesus. Could you prefer anything to Me? Could you, if you love Me at all, however little, voluntarily lose the grace I give you in this way?  Love Me in all the breadth and simplicity of your heart." (Blessed Charles de Foucauld)

"Today, I have come to understand many of God's mysteries. I have come to know that Holy Communion remains in me until the next Holy Communion.  (Image source: Wikimedia Commons ) A vivid and clearly felt presence of God continues in my soul. The awareness of this plunges me into deep recollection, without the slightest effort on my part. My heart is a living tabernacle in which the living Host is reserved. I have never sought God in some far-off place, but within myself. It is in the depths of my own being that I commune with my God." (From Diary of St. Maria Faustina Kowalska)