Your heart: a living tabernacle...

Buona Domenica!
The Lord's Day is the lord of days,
but also remembering today...
 St Paul of the Cross

"How wonderful are the treasures 
which are enclosed in the divine Eucharist! 
I exhort you, even though you live in the world, 
to receive Communion often, but with piety. 
Holy Communion is the most efficacious 
means of uniting one's self to God.

Always prepare yourself well for this 
sacred banquet. Have a very pure heart, and 
watch over your tongue, for it is on the 
tongue that the Sacred Host is laid. 
 
Carry Our Lord home with you 
after your thanksgiving, and let your 
heart be a living tabernacle for Jesus.
Visit Him often in this interior tabernacle, 
offering Him your homage, and the sentiments of 
gratitude with which divine love will inspire you. 
Preserve carefully the sentiments of love 
with which you are filled after Communion."

St Paul of the Cross
Italy ~ 1694-1775
Priest, Mystic, powerful teacher/preacher
Founder - Passionist Order
To vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience they added a fourth: 
to spread devotion to Christ’s passion among the faithful.
Feast Day - October 20

Photo credit:  chuanpis/Shutterstock

When you are alone in your room, take up 

your crucifix, kiss its five wounds reverently, 

tell it to preach to you a little sermon, 

and then listen to the words of eternal life 

that it speaks to your heart; listen to the pleading 

of the thorns, the nails, the precious Blood.

Oh, what an eloquent sermon!" 

 St Paul of the Cross

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St Paul of the Cross (excellent resource)

Click here: St. Paul of the Cross - YouTube (10 mins)

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St Paul of the Cross, pray for us,
that we may embrace
our crosses with courage!