Make holy, therefore, these gifts, we pray, by sending down
your Spirit upon them like the dewfall, so that they may
become for us the Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ.
(Prayers at the Epiclesis: "calling upon the Holy Spirit")
Someone once
asked the celebrated
biologist,
Sir
Frederick Grant Banting, why he cared so
much
about
daily Communion.
“Have you ever
reflected,” he answered, “what would
happen if the dew did not fall every night? No plant would develop. The grass
and flowers could not survive the evaporations and the dryness
that the day’s heat brings in one way or another. Their cycle of energies, their natural renewal, the balance of their lymphatic fluids, the very life of plants requires this dew...”
and flowers could not survive the evaporations and the dryness
that the day’s heat brings in one way or another. Their cycle of energies, their natural renewal, the balance of their lymphatic fluids, the very life of plants requires this dew...”
After a pause, he
continued: “Now my soul is like a little
plant. It is something rather frail that the
winds and heat do battle with every
day. So it is necessary that every
morning I go get my fresh stock of
spiritual dew, by going to Holy Communion.”
Excerpted
from Jesus Our Eucharistic
Love
Fr
Stefano M Manelli,
FFI
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