Making our souls monstrances...

For Christ's love compels us... II Cor 5:14

“It would seem impossible, did we not know it to be true, that God could abide with us always, in littleness and humility even more extreme than infancy. …Yet this is so.  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. …In the Host He is our Life on earth today. … The Host-life is not something new or different from the Christ-life that we know already.  It is the very core of it … the life which Christ Himself is living in the world now.  It is His choice of how to live His life among us today. … It alone can restore humanity to happiness … one thing only … supernatural life, beginning secretly in each individual heart; just as Incarnate Love began secretly on earth in the heart of Mary.  It is one thing only, the birth of the Infant Christ in us, Incarnate Love. …

Carry Christ everywhere in your hearts.  Make your souls monstrances, and go into places where Our Lord has never been adored in the Host, where the monstrance has never been lifted up.”

Caryll Houselander

The Passion of the Infant Christ

(Chapter Ten – The Host Life)

Mass: in a word...

  ...to gaze upon the beauty of the LORD and to seek him in his temple. - Psalm 27: 4c

 

“Do you know what Mass is?  In the Church it is what the sun

in our world is, it is the soul of our faith, the center of our religion,

the end and center of all the ceremonies, rites and sacraments. 

In a word it is the summary of all

that is beautiful and good in the Church of God.”

St. Leonard of Port Maurice (1676-1751) 

Source of all goodness...

 Out of the good treasure of His heart

He bringeth forth that which is good. ~ Luke 6:45

 

Fr Armand de Malleray FSSP

Benediction in Blackfriars, Oxford ~ May 15, 2010

"Every time I hear anyone speak of the Sacred Heart of Jesus or of the Blessed Sacrament I feel an indescribable joy. It is as if a wave of precious memories, sweet affections and joyful hopes swept over my poor person, making me tremble with happiness and filling my soul with tenderness. These are loving appeals from Jesus who wants me wholeheartedly there, at the source of all goodness, His Sacred Heart, throbbing mysteriously behind the Eucharistic veils... I love to repeat today 'Sweet Heart of my Jesus, make me love You more and more.'"  

Pope Bl John XXIII

Journal of the Soul

Worth remembering...

 

 

“Draw near to our Lord, thoroughly aware of

your own nothingness, and you may hope all things

from His Goodness and Mercy.

Never forget that Jesus Christ is no less generous

in the Blessed Sacrament

than He was during His mortal life on earth.”

St Mary Euphrasia Pelletier

France ~ 1796-1868

Foundress ~ Sisters of the Good Shepherd

FEAST DAY - April 24

 

 

"May your heart be an altar, from which the bright flame

of unending thanksgiving ascends to heaven." ~ St Mary Ephrasia

 

St Mary Euphrasia, ora pro nobis!