Caught up into a rhythm...

 "The grace flowing from this wellspring (Eucharist)

renews mankind, life and history."

 St John Paul II, Dies Domini, Pentecost Sunday, 31 May 1998

"The Blessed Sacrament is the 

Sacrament of Unity; and when you receive it, it 

does not merely produce in you more charity toward 

your neighbor, more loyalty toward the Church,

more unselfishness in your human attachments.

It makes you more at unity with yourself;

it catches up our life into a rhythm 

that echoes the heavenly music...

It comes to you... full of that unifying love

which is the bond of the Blessed Trinity."

Msgr Ronald Knox

Painting above: Memoir Writing ~ August Muller

Tidying up...

  "Speak for your servant is listening." 

 I Samuel 3:10b

"Above all, we must get to church early 

in order to 'tidy up' inwardly.  

We must have no illusions about our condition when 

we enter the church; we must frankly face our 

restlessness, confusion, disorder. To be exact, 

we do not yet really exist as persons - at least not as 

persons God can address, expecting a fitting response.  

We are bundles of feelings, fancies, thoughts, 

and plans all at cross-purposes with each other. 

The first thing to do, then, is to quiet and 

collect ourselves.  We must be able to say honestly:  

Now I am here.  I have only one thing to do - participate 

with my whole being in the only thing that counts, 

the sacred celebration. I am entirely ready."

Romano Guardini

Preparing Yourself for Mass

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What union can compare?...

   "Our present time and the future of the world

are illuminated by Christ's Eucharistic presence and

are desperate for His action." - Bl James Alberione 

"Jesus is present and 
lives in our midst in the Eucharist. 

Let us listen to Him for He is truth.

Let us look at Him, for He is the face of the Father.

Let us love Him, for He is love giving Himself 

to His creatures. He comes to our soul so that 

it may disappear in Him and become divine.

What union, however great, can compare to this?

St Teresa de Los Andes

(+1920)

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God has a good memory...

 The Lord's Day is the lord of days...

but also remembering today... 

St Jeanne Jugan

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 Save me, O God, for the waters have come up to my neck.

... I am worn out calling for help; my throat is parched.

My eyes fail, looking for my God.  - Psalm 69: 1, 3 

 

"Go and find Him when your patience and strength 

run out and you feel alone and helpless.  
Jesus is waiting for you in the chapel. 

Say to Him, 'Jesus, you know exactly what is going on.

You are all I have, and you know all things. 

Come to my help.' 

And then go, and don’t worry about how you 

are going to manage. That you have told God 

about it is enough.  He has a good memory."

St Jeanne Jugan

Sr Mary of the Cross

France ~ 1792 - 1879

Foundress - Little Sisters of the Poor

Feast Day - Aug 30

“God will help us; the work is His.” 

 St Jeanne Jugan
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"The Hail Mary will take us to heaven." 

 St Jeanne Jugan
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"Little, very little. Be very little before God." 

 St Jeanne Jugan

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Sayings of Jeanne Jugan - Little Sisters of the Poor

St Jeanne Jugan, pray for us!

...the never-ceasing silent appeal of the Tabernacle...

 In him and through faith in him we may approach God

with freedom and confidence. – Ephesians 3:12

J.R.R. Tolkien's personal piety was simple: Confession before Mass, Mass every day and Rosary before bed. The sole ultimate focus of his devotion was the Blessed Sacrament.

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Here is the conclusion of a very moving letter 

he wrote to his son, Michael, in 1941:

''Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament... There you will find romance, glory, honour, fidelity, and the true way of all your loves upon earth..." (The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, no. 43)

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In another moving letter, written 22 years later 
to the same son, Tolkien writes:

''But I fell in love with the Blessed Sacrament from the beginning - and by the mercy of God never have fallen out again: but alas! I indeed did not live up to it...Out of wickedness and sloth I almost ceased to practice my religion - especially at Leeds, and at 22 Northmoor Road. Not for me the Hound of Heaven, but the never-ceasing silent appeal of the Tabernacle, and the sense of starving hunger. I regret those days bitterly (and suffer for them with such patience as I can be given); most of all because I failed as a father.

Now I pray for you all, unceasingly, that the Healer (the Hælend as the Saviour was usually called in Old English) shall heal my defects, and that none of you shall  ever cease to cry Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini.'' (Ibid. no. 250).