What union can compare?...

"Our present time and the future of the world

are illuminated by Christ's Eucharistic presence and

are desperate for His action." - Bl James Alberione (+1971)

"Jesus is present and 
lives in our midst in the Eucharist. 

Let us listen to Him for He is truth.

Let us look at Him, 
for He is the face of the Father.

Let us love Him, 
for He is love giving Himself to His creatures.

He comes to our soul 
so that it may disappear in Him 
and become divine.

What union, however great, 
can compare to this?

St Teresa de Los Andes

(+1920)

A living smile...

"A soul united to Jesus is a living smile 
that radiates Him and gives Him."
St Elizabeth of the Trinity (Letters from Carmel)

“He gives Himself to thee, not merely to look upon, 

but even to touch, to eat, and to receive within…

Consider at Whose table thou eatest.  

For we are fed with that which the angels view 

with trepidation and which they cannot contemplate 

without fear because of its splendor.  

We become one with Him; 

we become one body and one flesh with Christ.”

St John Chrysostom

A living smile...

"A soul united to Jesus is a living smile 
that radiates Him and gives Him."
St Elizabeth of the Trinity (Letters from Carmel)

“He gives Himself to thee, not merely to look upon, 

but even to touch, to eat, and to receive within…

Consider at Whose table thou eatest.  

For we are fed with that which the angels view 

with trepidation and which they cannot contemplate 

without fear because of its splendor.  

We become one with Him; 

we become one body and one flesh with Christ.”

St John Chrysostom

More you...

"The grace flowing from this wellspring (Eucharist)

renews mankind, life and history."

 St John Paul II, Dies Domini, Pentecost Sunday, 31 May 1998

 

 

"The Blessed Sacrament

is the Sacrament of Unity; and when you receive it,

it does not merely produce in you more charity

toward your neighbor, more loyalty toward the Church,

more unselfishness in your human attachments.

It makes you more at unity with yourself;

it catches up our life into a rhythm that echoes the heavenly music...

It comes to you... full of that unifying love

which is the bond of the Blessed Trinity."

 

Msgr Ronald Knox

 

Painting above: Memoir Writing ~ August Muller

Joining hands, linking hearts...

He is the Head to which the whole Church is joined,

so that the Church is His Body, the completion of Him

who everywhere and in all things is complete.  - Eph 1:22-23

“The Eucharist is equally

sign and cause of the unity 

that binds together all members of the Lord's Mystical Body.

And this unity achieves in every Mass 

its perfect expression, 

because Christ’s far-flung members, together with Mary,

are conjoined with Him as offerer and offered alike.  

Each time, then, that ‘we break this bread and drink this cup,’ 

the saints in heaven and the souls in purgatory

join hands and link hearts with us in worshipping

the Eucharistic Lord.  And we have the privilege of co-worshipping

with such distinguished company because we are members of

that Church which is mothered by Our Lady of the Eucharist.”

Fr Richard Foley, S.J.

Mary and the Eucharist (pg. 115)

1419 Having passed from this world to the Father, Christ gives us in the Eucharist the pledge of glory with him. Participation in the Holy Sacrifice identifies us with his Heart, sustains our strength along the pilgrimage of this life, makes us long for eternal life, and unites us even now to the Church in heaven, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and all the saints.  (From CCC, Catechism of the Catholic Church)

One body, one bread...

My purpose is that they may be 
encouraged in heart and united in love... Col 2:2a

"Let us unite ourselves

to Jesus in the Eucharist,

and unite ourselves to so many brothers and sisters

who suffer the martyrdom of persecution,

of calumny and of murder

for being faithful

to the only bread that satisfies,

that is, Jesus."

Pope Francis

Homily ~ April 21, 2015

 

That day has arrived! 
My 'little ones' will receive their First Holy Communion today!
Join in prayer for: Alyvia, Athena, Brianna, Chiashee, Helen, Kalia, Lucia, Marisa
OH, day of JOY - on earth and in heaven!

Authentic unity: Christ is center

Third Sunday of Lent

 

 "...that they may be one as We are one: I in them and You in Me. 

May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know

that You sent Me and have loved them even as You have loved Me."

- John 17:22b,23

 

"Indeed, the charism of unity ... is strongly anchored in the Eucharist, which confers on it its Christian and ecclesial character.

Without the Eucharist, unity would lose its magnet of divine attraction and would be reduced to a sentiment and to a dynamic that is only human, psychological and sociological.

Instead, the Eucharist guarantees that Christ is the center, and that it is His Spirit, the Holy Spirit, that moves our steps and our initiatives of encounter and communion."

Pope Francis

Address to Bishops

4 March 2015 ~ Roma

The great Action...taking our part...

The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases, his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning... Lam 3:22-23   The Seven Sacraments:  Communion ~ Pietro Antonio Novelli (1729-1804)    

"I declare, to me nothing is so consoling, so piercing, so thrilling, so overcoming, as the Mass, said as it is among us. I could attend Masses forever and not be tired. It is not a mere form of words, it is a great ACTION - the greatest action that can be on earth.

...So we, all around, ... each in his place, with his own heart, with his own wants, with his own thoughts, with his own intentions, with his own prayers, separate but concordant, watching what is going on, watching its progress, uniting in its consummation; not painfully and hopelessly following a hard form of prayer from beginning to end, but like a concert of musical instruments, each differing but concurring in a sweet harmony, we take our part with God's priest, supporting him, yet guided by him.

There are little children there, and old men, and simple laborers, and students in seminaries, priests preparing for Mass, priests making their thanksgiving; there are innocent maidens, and there are penitent sinners; but out of these many minds rises one Eucharistic hymn, and the great Action is the measure and the scope of it."

Excerpt from Loss and Gain - Bl John Henry Newman's first novel