No longer imaginary, but real...

 "O Jesus, here present in the holy Eucharist,

Your heart is all aglow with love for me!

You call me, You urge me to come You." 

St Ildephonsus

 

 

"Exercise your ordinary imagination, picturing the 

Savior to yourself in His sacred humanity as if He were 

beside you just as we are wont to think of our friends,

and imagine that we see or hear them at our side.

But when the Blessed Sacrament of the Altar is there,

then this Presence is no longer imaginary, 

but most real; and the sacred species are 

but a veil from behind which the 

present Savior beholds and considers us,

although we cannot see Him as He is."

St. Francis de Sales

 

Christ with the Host, Paolo da San Leocadio, 1520

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Day 9 - Final day

Novena to the Holy Spirit
GOODNESS