Eucharistic Reflection - Adore Him From Where You Are!

" 'I would indeed make my adoration or visit, but I cannot come to the church during the day'. Do not let that stop you. Our Lord sees as far as your home; He listens to you from His tabernacle. He can see us from heaven; why could He not see us from the Sacred Host? Adore Him from where you are; you will make a good adoration of love, and our Lord will understand your desire.

It would indeed be unfortunate if we could be in touch with Jesus Eucharistic only in His churches. The light of the sun envelops and illumines us even when we do not stand directly beneath its rays. In the same way, from His Host our Lord will find the means to send some rays of His love into your home to bring you warmth and strength. There are currents in the supernatural  order as in the natural. Do you not at times feel unexpectedly recollected and transported with love? The reason is you have come upon a beneficent ray, a current of grace. Have confidence in these currents, in these relations that can be had with Jesus, even from a distance. It would be a sad thing were Jesus to receive adoration from us only when we come to visit Him in church. No, no! He sees everywhere, He blesses everywhere, He unites Himself everywhere to those who want to communicate with Him. Adore Him therefore from everywhere; turn in spirit toward His tabernacle."

(St. Peter Julian Eymard from The Real Presence)

Eucharistic Reflection - The Meekness, The Kindness, The Patience and The Mercy of God

What shall we say about the Eucharistic meekness of Jesus? How to express in words His kindness in receiving everybody; His affability in stooping to the level of everybody, the poor and the ignorant; His patience in listening to what everybody has to say and lending ear to the tale of all our troubles; His kindness in Communion in which He gives Himself according to the disposition of each one, and comes to all with joy, provided He finds  in them the life of grace and some little feeling of devotion, or a few good desires, and at least a minimum of respect! How express His generosity in giving every communicant the amount of grace he can carry and in paying for the soul's hospitality with His peace and love.

And what patient and merciful meekness towards those who forget Him! He waits for them.

He prays for those who spurn and offend Him; but He does not complain, nor does He threaten them. He does not punish at once those who outrage Him sacrilegiously, but tries to win them over to repentance by His meekness and kindness. 

The Eucharist is the triumph of the meekness of Jesus Christ.

(From The Real Presence by St. Peter Julian Eymard)

Eucharistic Reflection - He Loves, He Hopes and He Waits

"The persistency of the love of Jesus in the Most Blessed Sacrament is another undeniable proof that He loves us.

An almost incalculable number of Masses  are celebrated every day; they follow one another almost  without interruption. But how distressing it is for an understanding soul to realize that very often no one is present to hear or assist at these Masses in which Jesus offers Himself up for us! While Jesus is crying for mercy on this new Calvary, sinners are insulting God and His Christ.

Why then does our Lord renew His sacrifice so often, since men do not profit by it?

Why does our Lord remain day and night on so many altars to which no one comes to receive the graces He is offering so lavishly?

He loves, He hopes and He waits."

(St. Peter Julian Eymard from The Real Presence)

Eucharistic Reflection - We Would Not Do It, But God Does!

"Who would agree to do what our Lord does?

(Photo©Michael Seagriff)

He institutes His Sacrament to be honored therein by man, and He is more insulted than honored; the bad Christians outnumber the good.

Our Lord is taking in only losses.

Why does He keep up this business? Who would want to run a business at a total loss?

Ah! The saints who see and understand so much love and abasement must be seized with holy anger and feel indignant at seeing us so ungrateful!

And the Father says to His Son: 'We must put a stop to this; You are getting nothing out of it. Your love is slighted; Your abasements are made nothing of. You are losing out on it; let us be done with it'.

But our Lord will not listen. He stays on, He hopes, He contents Himself with the adoration and love of a few good souls. Oh, We at least, let us not fail Him!

Does He not deserve by His abasements that we honor and love Him?"

(St. Peter Julian Eymard from The Real Presence)

Eucharistic Reflection - Let Us Contemplate Love

What shall we say of the Eucharistic abasement of our Lord Jesus Christ?

To remain with us, Jesus Christ exposes Himself to ingratitude and insult. Nothing disheartens Him.

Let us contemplate this good Savior whom we ill-treat as we would no one else and Who nevertheless  persists in remaining with us.

(St. Peter Julian Eymard from The Real Presence)

Revisiting Wednesday - Eucharistic Reflection – He Is Whispering to Us

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Eucharistic Reflection – He Is Whispering to Us

(Originally posted on  January 15, 2014)

(Source: Wikimedia Commons)

"…to the humble man the rose is redder than to the ordinary man. I say with all humility, but with complete confidence, that to the devout believer in the Real Presence, the rose is redder than to other men, the sky is of a deeper blue, the meaning of life is more profound, the light on the path more intense, and the joy which is in the heart of things more easily apprehended. For God is not only in His heaven, not only present everywhere in the inscrutable immensity of His divine nature, but He is present in our midst in a way that grips our heart-strings, looking into our souls with His human eyes, assuaging our bruises with His human hands, loving us with His human heart, and whispering to us from the tabernacle where the little lamp glows before the Sacred Presence, “Come to Me and I will give you rest.”

(From The Real Presence by Eustace Boylan, S.J.)