The Host-life...

7th Sunday of Easter*
*(for Ascension reflection refer to last Thursday's Reflection)

"It is His will to rise from the dead in our lives and to come back 
to the world in His risen Host-life." - Caryll Houselander

"Every day, every hour, Christ is born on the altar

in the hands of the priest. Christ is lifted up and sacrificed;

Christ is buried in the tomb of the human heart

and Christ rises from the tomb to be the life of the world

through His Communion with men.

This is the Host-life.... Everything relates to the Host. ...


 

Living the Christ-life means that we are given the power

of Christ's love.  We are not only trustees of God's love for man,

entrusted to give it out second-hand, but miraculously,

our love IS His love!

"I have bestowed my love upon you, just as my father has bestowed

his love upon me; live on, then, in my love." (John XV.9.)

Caryll Houselander
Excerpt from The Passion of the Infant Christ
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TODAY: Day 3
Novena to the Holy Spirit

Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of Your faithful,

and enkindle in them the fire of Your love.

 Send forth Your Spirit, and they shall be created,
And You shall renew the face of the earth.

O God, Who by the light of the Holy Spirit, did instruct the hearts

of Your faithful, grant that by that same Holy Spirit,

we may be truly wise and ever rejoice

in His consolation, through Christ our Lord.  Amen.

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