For you, LORD, have never
foresaken those who seek you. - Psalm 9:10
b
“How do I prepare
myself to receive the Host? I
draw near with my soul, from the moment when I wake up. I call out for it with my lips, I
attract it with my sighs, I long for it, I love it, and with a thousand acts of
discipline, I prepare… for it.
My chalice is full
to the brim with this lowly blood, drawn and extracted out of love to mingle with His blood
on the altar, my Immaculate Lamb, and together they are offered up to God’s
throne, asking for grace.
Is it not an undeserved happiness and favor to have an altar within and the freedom to be able to do this for my Jesus without anybody knowing? My soul’s blood, its life fluid, is also for Jesus. Power, feelings, and my life, I place them all at the foot of the tabernacle.”
Venerable Conception Cabrera de Armida (+1937)
Excerpt: Irresistibly Drawn to the Eucharist: Conchita Cabrera de Armida’s
Most Beautiful
Writings on the Eucharist, Fr Juan Gonzalez Gutierrez, M.Sp.S.,
Society of
St Paul, Staten Island , New York
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