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How to Be His: A 33-Day Dedication to Our Eucharistic Jesus
This thirty-three-day dedication is a powerhouse of grace to help you grow in loving union with Jesus in the Holy Eucharist to experience and foster an ongoing Eucharistic revival.
Taste the richness of the Church’s teaching on the Real Presence.
As you grow in Eucharistic wisdom and amazement, you will savor the writings of saints who were great lovers of the Blessed Sacrament—including John Paul II, Charles de Foucauld, Peter Julian Eymard, John of the Cross, Pier Giorgio Frassati, Teresa of Calcutta, Manuel Garcia Gonzalez, and Catherine of Siena—and absorb fresh insights through penetrating reflections about them.
Additionally, you will meditate on the mystery of God’s Word and thereby drink at the source of divine revelation to ignite your interior life.
As you let the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus transform you, you will
How to fall in love with our Eucharistic Lord and “waste time” with HimThe secret to releasing God’s healing power and grace in your life and in the worldHow Holy Communion and Eucharistic Adoration will help you grow from virtue to virtueWays obedience to God’s Word opens your heart to a flood of Eucharistic gracesThe connection between Eucharistic devotion, love of the poor, and charitable worksThis must-read book includes short reflection questions at the end of each chapter, a sample dedication prayer, and potent Eucharistic prayers and is ideal for parish, small-group, and personal enrichment. The profound meditations in its pages will inspire you to give Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament the time, reverence, love, and adoration that He deserves from you. They will urge you to more fruitful preparation for Mass and thanksgiving after Mass and, above all, will guide you in deepening your personal relationship with Jesus and stirring you to become intentional about promoting Eucharistic Adoration.
Taste the richness of the Church’s teaching on the Real Presence.
As you grow in Eucharistic wisdom and amazement, you will savor the writings of saints who were great lovers of the Blessed Sacrament—including John Paul II, Charles de Foucauld, Peter Julian Eymard, John of the Cross, Pier Giorgio Frassati, Teresa of Calcutta, Manuel Garcia Gonzalez, and Catherine of Siena—and absorb fresh insights through penetrating reflections about them.
Additionally, you will meditate on the mystery of God’s Word and thereby drink at the source of divine revelation to ignite your interior life.
As you let the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus transform you, you will
How to fall in love with our Eucharistic Lord and “waste time” with HimThe secret to releasing God’s healing power and grace in your life and in the worldHow Holy Communion and Eucharistic Adoration will help you grow from virtue to virtueWays obedience to God’s Word opens your heart to a flood of Eucharistic gracesThe connection between Eucharistic devotion, love of the poor, and charitable worksThis must-read book includes short reflection questions at the end of each chapter, a sample dedication prayer, and potent Eucharistic prayers and is ideal for parish, small-group, and personal enrichment. The profound meditations in its pages will inspire you to give Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament the time, reverence, love, and adoration that He deserves from you. They will urge you to more fruitful preparation for Mass and thanksgiving after Mass and, above all, will guide you in deepening your personal relationship with Jesus and stirring you to become intentional about promoting Eucharistic Adoration.
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God is present and working in and through every circumstance. embrace and receive Him in and through every circumstance.
Sacred time is that time that you strive eagerly to give to God alone. when we make time sacred—set aside only for God—we invite God into this time. This is an invitation God never refuses.
a place that is conducive to helping you draw near to God—that is, a sacred space that is dedicated to prayer and the worship of God.
Regardless of which sacred space you prefer, be sure it is a space clearly dedicated to God’s presence and used for nothing else. If you treat sacred ideas like banal ideas, they will become, to you, banal.
Read with the desire to meet God—slowly, attentively, and prayerfully.
When you come to a passage in this book that causes something to move in you, stop reading and rest. This stage is extremely important. When God moves, you must yield and allow Him to move in you. Allow yourself to rest and remain absorbed in the wisdom and presence of God, allowing or inviting the Holy Spirit to draw you more deeply into His presence through what you’ve read. Don’t grasp at the experience, just let it come. If it brings tears, let them flow. Whatever the experience, just allow it to play out in you. Once it fades, return to the passage that impacted you and reread it. Do this over and over until there is no longer any movement.
draw near to God, He will draw near to you. This passage is both a command and a promise.
sitting in front of the tabernacle or monstrance changes the soul simply by being there. Jesus shines forth His grace and life, making the soul radiant with light. My friend said it was like sitting in the sun and receiving a tan. You simply have to put yourself there, and the sun does all the work.
the antidote to our problems is to simply be with Christ. being with Jesus’ true presence is the most practical thing we can do for changing the world. It is how we become vessels of grace for the salvation of souls.
Adoration touches everyone and everything in the world because it touches the Creator, who touches everything and everyone in the world
Adoration is more powerful for construction than nuclear bombs for destruction.
Adoration releases power from on high. It is the most constructive activity we can partake in for the Kingdom.
sitting before Jesus was the sole source of her strength to deal with the sick in the hospital all day. It made her alert and filled her with hope and love.
We are not meant only to imitate Jesus’ life; we are called to grow in union with Him more and more.
Our dedication is an intentional holy resolution to reform our lives in view of the Eucharist. It is a commitment to endeavor to grow in love of Holy Mass and to learn to “waste time” with the Lord in adoration of the Host, giving our Eucharistic Lord more and more of our free time. Believing in how constructive and efficacious adoration is for the world, within Mass and outside of Mass we dedicate ourselves to become agents of great grace for the salvation of souls and the transformation of the world.
knowledge is indispensable for love. We cannot love what we do not know.
May God’s radiant word pierce our hearts with greater longing to belong to the Eucharistic Lord.
if we spend a long time on one mystery-truth from many angles, such a truth has a greater chance of becoming real in our hearts.
It is one thing for us to know doctrine and truths of our faith and another for them to be deeply felt truths alive in us.
Prayerful meditation gives birth to conviction, and conviction brings depth and interiority. It brings passion and zeal.
What the Church needs above all is a contemplative revolution around the Eucharistic Jesus which brings about true experiential knowledge of Jesus.
I am convinced that Eucharistic devotion and sanctity will renew the Church and that such renewal of holiness is our greatest evangelization.
St. Thomas Aquinas says of the Eucharist, “Faith alone sees his face.”
the Holy Eucharist is an answer to the question: “How to be His?”
prayer is the encounter of God’s thirst with ours. God thirsts that we may thirst for him. (no. 2560)
The Cross reveals to us the great thirst of God. This is the same as saying we are pursued by God.
The Eucharistic Jesus waits to give us every blessing and grace to make us more closely united with Him. He waits in the Eucharist to burn into our hearts a deeper love for the Holy Trinity. Jesus is the door that opens us into the heavenly realms of grace beyond our wildest imagination and senses.
we come close to Jesus we come close to the Father because They are one.
learning how to let ourselves be captured more and more by the Lord. To do this we have first to be convinced that He desires us.
your deep desire for the Lord is really His desire for you.
Our love for Him is always His love poured out in our hearts first. Our pursuit of Him is really His pursuit of us. Your deepening desire for Jesus could only ever be a grace from Him.
His love is the true key to unlock untold depths in our own heart.
it is principally through the Eucharist that Jesus makes us His own more and more.
a Christian is one who is caught and transformed in divine love.
Dom Paul Delatte, an abbot of the famous Solesmes monastery in France, said that all our Christian life can be summed up in these words: “how to inherit.” Those words have always stayed with me. They have made me see my faith from a different perspective. We are inheritors of the very intimate life of the Holy Trinity which comes to us through Christ. It can only be Christ, because He is the eternal inheritor of everything that the Father is and gives.
Christianity is more than just an imitation of Christ; it is about Jesus reproducing His life in us. It is about Christ being the very life of our souls.
Jesus wants to renew his whole life though you and me. How does Jesus renew and deepen His whole mysterious life in us? It is primarily by the Holy Mass and consuming and adoring the Eucharistic Jesus. The life of Jesus which begins in us in Baptism must be nurtured and deepened by partaking of the Eucharistic Jesus. Jesus instituted the Eucharist as a way of giving Himself as food for the journey to Heaven. When we receive Jesus in Holy Communion, He comes with power to transform us into Himself.
when we adore Jesus in the Eucharist outside of Mass (in the tabernacle or monstrance), we are drawn more deeply into the heart of Christ.
in Eucharistic Adoration, the Eucharistic Jesus helps uncover our truest and most noble desires. When we are before His sacred presence, He declutters our hearts from so many lies. All that is not true collapses under His light. The truth of who we are in Him surfaces.
St Elizabeth of the Trinity says it like this: “We shall not be purified by looking at our miseries, but by gazing on Him who is all purity and holiness.” It is by gazing at Jesus that our hearts become pure and true. We become His.
Lord, help me become aware that Christ has no body on earth but mine, no hands, no feet on earth but mine. Jesus, use my eyes to look with compassion upon others. May my feet be your feet, bringing good news. Use my hands to bless the world. Lord, increase in me a desire to be docile to your voice. Transform me into you more and more. (Adapted from the prayer attributed to St. Teresa of Avila.)
the Lord longs for us with a passionate love. We have seen that this longing for us is so intense that the Lord wants to make us part of Him. This is because God is love and love seeks union always with the one being loved.
Fr. Marie Vincent Bernadot, O.P., a renowned French Dominican preacher and retreat master, comments that at Communion time we have “within us the incarnate Word, with all He is and with all He does. We have Jesus-both God and man, all the treasures of His divinity, and all the graces of His humanity. In our possession are, in St. Paul’s terms, ‘the unsearchable riches of Christ’ (Eph. 3: 8).” 8 These unsearchable riches of Christ flow from Jesus’ divinity into His sacred humanity. Therefore, contact with Jesus’ flesh is a mysterious contact with His divinity.
“The most holy Eucharist contains the Church’s entire spiritual wealth: Christ himself,
St. Augustine says that when we chew on the risen, glorious flesh of Christ, we become part of Him, such is the incredible union brought about by receiving the Body of the Lord.
Around the moment we receive Communion, Jesus fills our hearts and our souls so completely that our thoughts and feelings may be said to be His as well. . . . Together we adore, love and give thanks. Together, we give ourselves to our Father in Heaven. His love and ours, His thoughts and ours, intermingle. Like two grains of incense burned together in the same thurible, they emit one single fragrance towards heaven.
through the Eucharist: We become more deeply “one mystical person” in Christ.
When we frequently receive Holy Communion, our abiding in Jesus grows and we are drawn ever more deeply into the Father’s heart.
frequent partaking in the Eucharist effects in us a greater possession of our souls by the Lord.
Catechism: “What material food produces in our bodily life, Holy Communion wonderfully achieves in our spiritual life. Communion with the flesh of the risen Christ . . . preserves, increases, and renews the life of grace received at Baptism” (no. 1392)
Help me to hunger for an ever-deeper union with You. Transform my life as a living icon of You.
the principal fruit of the Eucharist is to transform you into Christ.
Eve came forth from the rib of Adam. Adam then became a bridegroom. The Church, the Bride of Christ, comes forth from her Bridegroom’s side that was pierced upon the Cross.
The activity of the Church is the activity of Christ, who wants to bring all things into Himself.
The Eucharist is the most important sacrament because it is the Lord Himself. He is the entire treasury of all the graces that makes the Church.
We must stretch our minds to think with faith when we think of the true nature of the Church. Her nature will not be revealed to us by reason alone. It calls for the awe and wonder of faith-knowledge.
Christ has created her to be His very body and presence on earth.
The Eucharist strengthens our bond as brothers and sisters in Christ.
Those who receive the Eucharist are united more closely to Christ. Through it Christ unites them to all the faithful in one body—the Church. Communion renews, strengthens, and deepens this incorporation into the Church, already achieved by Baptism.
The more the Holy Mass is celebrated, the greater the spiritual growth of the Church.
St. Padre Pio said that the earth can last longer without the sun than it can without the celebration of the Holy Mass.
the Eucharist makes the Church.
Next time you go to Communion, try to be aware of how you are being bonded more deeply with all your brothers and sisters in Christ.
I know I would not be able to work one week if it were not for that continual force coming from Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.—St. Teresa of Calcutta
The Eucharist is the Bread of Life for our journey to Heaven. It energizes and assists us to live the commandments of Jesus, especially the command to love. Love is the hallmark of the Christian life.
If Christianity has a brand name, it is love.
Jesus always gives grace for things He asks of us.
the Eucharist strengthens our charity, which tends to be weakened in daily life.
This renewed love is meant for us to transform the world with love.
St. Mother Teresa of Calcutta was convicted of this dynamic effect of the Eucharist. She attributed all her charity missions and the source of her love to the Eucharistic Lord coming to her in Holy Mass and Eucharistic Adoration.
St. John Paul II often expressed that he was only able to accomplish his demanding work because of sharing in the Eucharistic banquet and his habit of long prayer before the tabernacle.
Receiving Jesus with an open heart restores peace, helps us forgive, and aids us in our commitment to love those we find difficult.
We should prepare well for Holy Communion if we are to receive the full effects of our Eucharistic Lord.
we ought to love who and what Jesus loves.
When we are really united to Jesus, He lives His life in us and we start to think His thoughts and do His actions. He prompts us to act and think in these ways by the Holy Spirit.
the Church has three main treasures: the Eucharist, Our Blessed Mother Mary, and the poor.
One of the fruits of the Eucharist, whether it is from Holy Communion or from adoring Jesus in the tabernacle or monstrance, is to develop a sensitive love for the poor.
the Eucharist is meant to overflow in good works toward the poor.
Mother describes her conviction: “The Holy Hour before the Eucharist must lead us to the holy hour with the poor, with those who will never have human accomplishments and for whom the sole consolations will be Jesus. Our Eucharist is incomplete if it does not lead us to the service and love of the poor.”
For Mother it was the habit of adoration that allowed her to discover Jesus in the distressing disguise of the poor.
Adoration leads to an increased sensitivity of seeing Christ in the needs of others.
He believed with a deep intuition that by simply adoring Jesus in the Eucharist in the midst of the Tuareg people of Algeria, many great graces would flow to the community he served.
Jesus, give me the graces in Holy Communion that help me grow in love for the least fortunate in my life.
The more we share the life of Christ and progress in his friendship, the more difficult it is to break away from him by mortal sin.—Catechism of the Catholic Church, no. 1395
To receive the Eucharistic Jesus is not only a holy thing to do, it makes us holy, it changes us.
Holiness is our union with the life of grace; that is, the life of Christ Himself.
Divinization. It means having the mind of Christ whereby Christ is alive in our thoughts, thinking through us. It means that Jesus is so alive in us that our actions become His actions. Holiness is a union of hearts between Jesus’ heart and our own.
the greatest enemy to holiness is sin.
The priest says, “Let us acknowledge our sins so to prepare ourselves to celebrate the sacred mysteries.” We prepare ourselves by confessing in order to receive the purifying action of Christ whereby we are cleansed of sin and united more deeply with Him.
The Catechism goes on to say that the Eucharist not only protects us from venial sin but also “preserves us from future mortal sins.” It says that the “more we share the life of Christ and progress in his friendship, the more difficult it is to break away from him by mortal sin” (no. 1395).
never underestimate the influence sin has on our hearts and minds to pull us away from the Lord, even to the point of being eternally separated from His love.
He destroys sin in us through the sacrament of Confession and shields us from it in the Eucharist. When we receive Him in the Eucharist, we receive an abundant supply of grace to help us overcome our sinful ways.
Many saints like St. Bernard counsel people to frequent Communion in order to overcome addictions and habitual sin.
As a priest, I have met countless people who have told me about the strength and power they receive through frequent Communion and especially from much time in Eucharistic Adoration.
sanctifying grace is something of God’s own life planted in the depths of our souls. . . . Flowing from sanctifying grace are all the infused virtues as well as the gifts and fruits of the Holy Spirit. According to the traditional list, the infused virtues are faith, hope, love, prudence, justice, temperance, and fortitude. The gifts of the Spirit are understanding, knowledge, wisdom, counsel, piety, fortitude, and fear of the Lord. The fruits of the Spirit are love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, generosity, gentleness, faithfulness, modesty, self-control, and chastity.
when God is shielding us from sin through these graces in the Eucharist, He is really enabling us to respond more and more to the gift of Himself in our lives. He is fortifying us to become His more and more.
Turn everything for Your greater glory and my growth in holiness. Let me regret nothing because of Your merciful love.
the effects of Holy Communion with Jesus depend on the disposition of our hearts.
I often think of these three virtues like the three prongs of a plug that are placed in the “divine electricity socket” of grace. When we approach the altar, our faith, hope, and love draw power from the Eucharistic heart of Jesus. The greater these virtues in our soul, the greater our capacity to receive the unimaginable light and life that Jesus Christ is communicating to us in Holy Communion and in Eucharistic Adoration.
our hope and love draw power from the degree of our faith.
Faith is a grace that allows us to have a real living contact with God. It is not just trust and belief; it is a grace given to us by which
God draws us to acknowledge with our hearts and minds that He is true and real.
by infusing faith into a soul, the Lord reveals Himself in the innermost sanctuary of the heart and mind as Truth.
faith brings about a real contact with God.
Thinking of Him in faith makes us touch Him, and in touching Him we are sanctified and made to grow in holiness.
Eucharistic Adoration is a form of spiritual communion with Jesus.
Faith makes us have a real touch on Jesus in adoration. Touching Him, faith draws power from Him beyond our wildest imaginations.
Sometimes, paradoxically, this mystery so poor and confusing in appearances gives us moments of fullness and happiness surpassing anything earth can bestow.”
Sitting before the Blessed Sacrament in Adoration St. John of the Cross says: “The soul obtains from God as much as it hopes from him.”
Our weakness refines our faith and hope because it causes us to make a greater act of faith and hope in God’s loving goodness when we are faced with our failures.
When we come with hope before the Eucharistic Lord, great things happen in our souls and in the world! He is attracted by our hope.
What faith tells us is real, hope drives us to obtain, and love experiences and obtains.
the greater our love for Jesus, the greater our union with Him
there is no boundary to what the Lord wants to give us through the Eucharist. It is us who place the limit.
When one grows in love, it attracts even more love. The more we love the heart of Jesus, the more He will give us Himself in love. Our ability to experience the love of Jesus in Holy Communion and in Eucharistic Adoration depends on the extent we too are willing to lay down our life in love for the Lord.
The more we make acts of fa
Sacred time is that time that you strive eagerly to give to God alone. when we make time sacred—set aside only for God—we invite God into this time. This is an invitation God never refuses.
a place that is conducive to helping you draw near to God—that is, a sacred space that is dedicated to prayer and the worship of God.
Regardless of which sacred space you prefer, be sure it is a space clearly dedicated to God’s presence and used for nothing else. If you treat sacred ideas like banal ideas, they will become, to you, banal.
Read with the desire to meet God—slowly, attentively, and prayerfully.
When you come to a passage in this book that causes something to move in you, stop reading and rest. This stage is extremely important. When God moves, you must yield and allow Him to move in you. Allow yourself to rest and remain absorbed in the wisdom and presence of God, allowing or inviting the Holy Spirit to draw you more deeply into His presence through what you’ve read. Don’t grasp at the experience, just let it come. If it brings tears, let them flow. Whatever the experience, just allow it to play out in you. Once it fades, return to the passage that impacted you and reread it. Do this over and over until there is no longer any movement.
draw near to God, He will draw near to you. This passage is both a command and a promise.
sitting in front of the tabernacle or monstrance changes the soul simply by being there. Jesus shines forth His grace and life, making the soul radiant with light. My friend said it was like sitting in the sun and receiving a tan. You simply have to put yourself there, and the sun does all the work.
the antidote to our problems is to simply be with Christ. being with Jesus’ true presence is the most practical thing we can do for changing the world. It is how we become vessels of grace for the salvation of souls.
Adoration touches everyone and everything in the world because it touches the Creator, who touches everything and everyone in the world
Adoration is more powerful for construction than nuclear bombs for destruction.
Adoration releases power from on high. It is the most constructive activity we can partake in for the Kingdom.
sitting before Jesus was the sole source of her strength to deal with the sick in the hospital all day. It made her alert and filled her with hope and love.
We are not meant only to imitate Jesus’ life; we are called to grow in union with Him more and more.
Our dedication is an intentional holy resolution to reform our lives in view of the Eucharist. It is a commitment to endeavor to grow in love of Holy Mass and to learn to “waste time” with the Lord in adoration of the Host, giving our Eucharistic Lord more and more of our free time. Believing in how constructive and efficacious adoration is for the world, within Mass and outside of Mass we dedicate ourselves to become agents of great grace for the salvation of souls and the transformation of the world.
knowledge is indispensable for love. We cannot love what we do not know.
May God’s radiant word pierce our hearts with greater longing to belong to the Eucharistic Lord.
if we spend a long time on one mystery-truth from many angles, such a truth has a greater chance of becoming real in our hearts.
It is one thing for us to know doctrine and truths of our faith and another for them to be deeply felt truths alive in us.
Prayerful meditation gives birth to conviction, and conviction brings depth and interiority. It brings passion and zeal.
What the Church needs above all is a contemplative revolution around the Eucharistic Jesus which brings about true experiential knowledge of Jesus.
I am convinced that Eucharistic devotion and sanctity will renew the Church and that such renewal of holiness is our greatest evangelization.
St. Thomas Aquinas says of the Eucharist, “Faith alone sees his face.”
the Holy Eucharist is an answer to the question: “How to be His?”
prayer is the encounter of God’s thirst with ours. God thirsts that we may thirst for him. (no. 2560)
The Cross reveals to us the great thirst of God. This is the same as saying we are pursued by God.
The Eucharistic Jesus waits to give us every blessing and grace to make us more closely united with Him. He waits in the Eucharist to burn into our hearts a deeper love for the Holy Trinity. Jesus is the door that opens us into the heavenly realms of grace beyond our wildest imagination and senses.
we come close to Jesus we come close to the Father because They are one.
learning how to let ourselves be captured more and more by the Lord. To do this we have first to be convinced that He desires us.
your deep desire for the Lord is really His desire for you.
Our love for Him is always His love poured out in our hearts first. Our pursuit of Him is really His pursuit of us. Your deepening desire for Jesus could only ever be a grace from Him.
His love is the true key to unlock untold depths in our own heart.
it is principally through the Eucharist that Jesus makes us His own more and more.
a Christian is one who is caught and transformed in divine love.
Dom Paul Delatte, an abbot of the famous Solesmes monastery in France, said that all our Christian life can be summed up in these words: “how to inherit.” Those words have always stayed with me. They have made me see my faith from a different perspective. We are inheritors of the very intimate life of the Holy Trinity which comes to us through Christ. It can only be Christ, because He is the eternal inheritor of everything that the Father is and gives.
Christianity is more than just an imitation of Christ; it is about Jesus reproducing His life in us. It is about Christ being the very life of our souls.
Jesus wants to renew his whole life though you and me. How does Jesus renew and deepen His whole mysterious life in us? It is primarily by the Holy Mass and consuming and adoring the Eucharistic Jesus. The life of Jesus which begins in us in Baptism must be nurtured and deepened by partaking of the Eucharistic Jesus. Jesus instituted the Eucharist as a way of giving Himself as food for the journey to Heaven. When we receive Jesus in Holy Communion, He comes with power to transform us into Himself.
when we adore Jesus in the Eucharist outside of Mass (in the tabernacle or monstrance), we are drawn more deeply into the heart of Christ.
in Eucharistic Adoration, the Eucharistic Jesus helps uncover our truest and most noble desires. When we are before His sacred presence, He declutters our hearts from so many lies. All that is not true collapses under His light. The truth of who we are in Him surfaces.
St Elizabeth of the Trinity says it like this: “We shall not be purified by looking at our miseries, but by gazing on Him who is all purity and holiness.” It is by gazing at Jesus that our hearts become pure and true. We become His.
Lord, help me become aware that Christ has no body on earth but mine, no hands, no feet on earth but mine. Jesus, use my eyes to look with compassion upon others. May my feet be your feet, bringing good news. Use my hands to bless the world. Lord, increase in me a desire to be docile to your voice. Transform me into you more and more. (Adapted from the prayer attributed to St. Teresa of Avila.)
the Lord longs for us with a passionate love. We have seen that this longing for us is so intense that the Lord wants to make us part of Him. This is because God is love and love seeks union always with the one being loved.
Fr. Marie Vincent Bernadot, O.P., a renowned French Dominican preacher and retreat master, comments that at Communion time we have “within us the incarnate Word, with all He is and with all He does. We have Jesus-both God and man, all the treasures of His divinity, and all the graces of His humanity. In our possession are, in St. Paul’s terms, ‘the unsearchable riches of Christ’ (Eph. 3: 8).” 8 These unsearchable riches of Christ flow from Jesus’ divinity into His sacred humanity. Therefore, contact with Jesus’ flesh is a mysterious contact with His divinity.
“The most holy Eucharist contains the Church’s entire spiritual wealth: Christ himself,
St. Augustine says that when we chew on the risen, glorious flesh of Christ, we become part of Him, such is the incredible union brought about by receiving the Body of the Lord.
Around the moment we receive Communion, Jesus fills our hearts and our souls so completely that our thoughts and feelings may be said to be His as well. . . . Together we adore, love and give thanks. Together, we give ourselves to our Father in Heaven. His love and ours, His thoughts and ours, intermingle. Like two grains of incense burned together in the same thurible, they emit one single fragrance towards heaven.
through the Eucharist: We become more deeply “one mystical person” in Christ.
When we frequently receive Holy Communion, our abiding in Jesus grows and we are drawn ever more deeply into the Father’s heart.
frequent partaking in the Eucharist effects in us a greater possession of our souls by the Lord.
Catechism: “What material food produces in our bodily life, Holy Communion wonderfully achieves in our spiritual life. Communion with the flesh of the risen Christ . . . preserves, increases, and renews the life of grace received at Baptism” (no. 1392)
Help me to hunger for an ever-deeper union with You. Transform my life as a living icon of You.
the principal fruit of the Eucharist is to transform you into Christ.
Eve came forth from the rib of Adam. Adam then became a bridegroom. The Church, the Bride of Christ, comes forth from her Bridegroom’s side that was pierced upon the Cross.
The activity of the Church is the activity of Christ, who wants to bring all things into Himself.
The Eucharist is the most important sacrament because it is the Lord Himself. He is the entire treasury of all the graces that makes the Church.
We must stretch our minds to think with faith when we think of the true nature of the Church. Her nature will not be revealed to us by reason alone. It calls for the awe and wonder of faith-knowledge.
Christ has created her to be His very body and presence on earth.
The Eucharist strengthens our bond as brothers and sisters in Christ.
Those who receive the Eucharist are united more closely to Christ. Through it Christ unites them to all the faithful in one body—the Church. Communion renews, strengthens, and deepens this incorporation into the Church, already achieved by Baptism.
The more the Holy Mass is celebrated, the greater the spiritual growth of the Church.
St. Padre Pio said that the earth can last longer without the sun than it can without the celebration of the Holy Mass.
the Eucharist makes the Church.
Next time you go to Communion, try to be aware of how you are being bonded more deeply with all your brothers and sisters in Christ.
I know I would not be able to work one week if it were not for that continual force coming from Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.—St. Teresa of Calcutta
The Eucharist is the Bread of Life for our journey to Heaven. It energizes and assists us to live the commandments of Jesus, especially the command to love. Love is the hallmark of the Christian life.
If Christianity has a brand name, it is love.
Jesus always gives grace for things He asks of us.
the Eucharist strengthens our charity, which tends to be weakened in daily life.
This renewed love is meant for us to transform the world with love.
St. Mother Teresa of Calcutta was convicted of this dynamic effect of the Eucharist. She attributed all her charity missions and the source of her love to the Eucharistic Lord coming to her in Holy Mass and Eucharistic Adoration.
St. John Paul II often expressed that he was only able to accomplish his demanding work because of sharing in the Eucharistic banquet and his habit of long prayer before the tabernacle.
Receiving Jesus with an open heart restores peace, helps us forgive, and aids us in our commitment to love those we find difficult.
We should prepare well for Holy Communion if we are to receive the full effects of our Eucharistic Lord.
we ought to love who and what Jesus loves.
When we are really united to Jesus, He lives His life in us and we start to think His thoughts and do His actions. He prompts us to act and think in these ways by the Holy Spirit.
the Church has three main treasures: the Eucharist, Our Blessed Mother Mary, and the poor.
One of the fruits of the Eucharist, whether it is from Holy Communion or from adoring Jesus in the tabernacle or monstrance, is to develop a sensitive love for the poor.
the Eucharist is meant to overflow in good works toward the poor.
Mother describes her conviction: “The Holy Hour before the Eucharist must lead us to the holy hour with the poor, with those who will never have human accomplishments and for whom the sole consolations will be Jesus. Our Eucharist is incomplete if it does not lead us to the service and love of the poor.”
For Mother it was the habit of adoration that allowed her to discover Jesus in the distressing disguise of the poor.
Adoration leads to an increased sensitivity of seeing Christ in the needs of others.
He believed with a deep intuition that by simply adoring Jesus in the Eucharist in the midst of the Tuareg people of Algeria, many great graces would flow to the community he served.
Jesus, give me the graces in Holy Communion that help me grow in love for the least fortunate in my life.
The more we share the life of Christ and progress in his friendship, the more difficult it is to break away from him by mortal sin.—Catechism of the Catholic Church, no. 1395
To receive the Eucharistic Jesus is not only a holy thing to do, it makes us holy, it changes us.
Holiness is our union with the life of grace; that is, the life of Christ Himself.
Divinization. It means having the mind of Christ whereby Christ is alive in our thoughts, thinking through us. It means that Jesus is so alive in us that our actions become His actions. Holiness is a union of hearts between Jesus’ heart and our own.
the greatest enemy to holiness is sin.
The priest says, “Let us acknowledge our sins so to prepare ourselves to celebrate the sacred mysteries.” We prepare ourselves by confessing in order to receive the purifying action of Christ whereby we are cleansed of sin and united more deeply with Him.
The Catechism goes on to say that the Eucharist not only protects us from venial sin but also “preserves us from future mortal sins.” It says that the “more we share the life of Christ and progress in his friendship, the more difficult it is to break away from him by mortal sin” (no. 1395).
never underestimate the influence sin has on our hearts and minds to pull us away from the Lord, even to the point of being eternally separated from His love.
He destroys sin in us through the sacrament of Confession and shields us from it in the Eucharist. When we receive Him in the Eucharist, we receive an abundant supply of grace to help us overcome our sinful ways.
Many saints like St. Bernard counsel people to frequent Communion in order to overcome addictions and habitual sin.
As a priest, I have met countless people who have told me about the strength and power they receive through frequent Communion and especially from much time in Eucharistic Adoration.
sanctifying grace is something of God’s own life planted in the depths of our souls. . . . Flowing from sanctifying grace are all the infused virtues as well as the gifts and fruits of the Holy Spirit. According to the traditional list, the infused virtues are faith, hope, love, prudence, justice, temperance, and fortitude. The gifts of the Spirit are understanding, knowledge, wisdom, counsel, piety, fortitude, and fear of the Lord. The fruits of the Spirit are love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, generosity, gentleness, faithfulness, modesty, self-control, and chastity.
when God is shielding us from sin through these graces in the Eucharist, He is really enabling us to respond more and more to the gift of Himself in our lives. He is fortifying us to become His more and more.
Turn everything for Your greater glory and my growth in holiness. Let me regret nothing because of Your merciful love.
the effects of Holy Communion with Jesus depend on the disposition of our hearts.
I often think of these three virtues like the three prongs of a plug that are placed in the “divine electricity socket” of grace. When we approach the altar, our faith, hope, and love draw power from the Eucharistic heart of Jesus. The greater these virtues in our soul, the greater our capacity to receive the unimaginable light and life that Jesus Christ is communicating to us in Holy Communion and in Eucharistic Adoration.
our hope and love draw power from the degree of our faith.
Faith is a grace that allows us to have a real living contact with God. It is not just trust and belief; it is a grace given to us by which
God draws us to acknowledge with our hearts and minds that He is true and real.
by infusing faith into a soul, the Lord reveals Himself in the innermost sanctuary of the heart and mind as Truth.
faith brings about a real contact with God.
Thinking of Him in faith makes us touch Him, and in touching Him we are sanctified and made to grow in holiness.
Eucharistic Adoration is a form of spiritual communion with Jesus.
Faith makes us have a real touch on Jesus in adoration. Touching Him, faith draws power from Him beyond our wildest imaginations.
Sometimes, paradoxically, this mystery so poor and confusing in appearances gives us moments of fullness and happiness surpassing anything earth can bestow.”
Sitting before the Blessed Sacrament in Adoration St. John of the Cross says: “The soul obtains from God as much as it hopes from him.”
Our weakness refines our faith and hope because it causes us to make a greater act of faith and hope in God’s loving goodness when we are faced with our failures.
When we come with hope before the Eucharistic Lord, great things happen in our souls and in the world! He is attracted by our hope.
What faith tells us is real, hope drives us to obtain, and love experiences and obtains.
the greater our love for Jesus, the greater our union with Him
there is no boundary to what the Lord wants to give us through the Eucharist. It is us who place the limit.
When one grows in love, it attracts even more love. The more we love the heart of Jesus, the more He will give us Himself in love. Our ability to experience the love of Jesus in Holy Communion and in Eucharistic Adoration depends on the extent we too are willing to lay down our life in love for the Lord.
The more we make acts of fa
December 25, 2025
Excellent preparation for Christmas, but could be used anytime for drawing closer to the Lord in the Holy Eucharist.
January 1, 2026
Excellent ..I hope to come back to this book again !
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