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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Prayer after Holy Communion...

Dear Jesus,
help me to spread Your fragrance wherever I go.
Flood my soul with Your spirit and life.
Penetrate and possess my whole being so utterly,
that my life may only be a radiance of Yours.
Shine through me and be so in me 
that every soul I come in contact with 
may feel Your presence in my soul.

Let them look up and see no longer me, but only Jesus!
Stay with me and then I will begin to shine as You shine,
so to shine as to be a light to others.

The light, O Jesus, will be all from You; none of it will be mine.
It will be You, shining on others through me.
Let me thus praise You in the way which You love best,
by shining on those around me.
Let me preach You without preaching,
not by words but by example, by the catching force,
the sympathetic influence of what I do, 
the evident fullness of the love my heart bears for You.  Amen.

Prayer of St John Henry Cardinal Newman (+1890)

TODAY: Day 2

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.  Amen.

So close...

Sixth Sunday of Easter

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"I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you."

- John 14:18 (Today's Gospel)

 

 

"Now as we ask the question:

'Where dost Thou dwell?'

He points to the tabernacle and says,

'Come and see.'

We should do ill not to love Him

when He brings Himself so close."

 

Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

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