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10/15/2018 10 Way to Fall in Love With the Eucharist

Father Ed Broom, OMV
https://catholicexchange.com/10-way-to-fall-in-love-with-the-eucharist

We should strive to grow in our love for Jesus, who is truly Present in the most Holy Eucharist and this should be a life-time pursuit !

Our conversion of heart, our sanctification, our interior peace and joy, our final perseverance in grace, depends on Jesus and He is truly and substantially present in the consecrated Host—in His Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity.

The following are concrete actions that we can take to fortify our love for the greatest of all lovers, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Eternal Father, the Son of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the Bread of Life!

1. Read John Chapter Six (and Learn It)

One of the most important chapters in the Bible that refers to the Presence of Jesus as the Bread of Life is the Gospel of Saint John, Chapter Six.  

Try to read, pray over, and meditate on this sublime chapter of the preaching and teaching of Jesus in the discourse titled:  The Bread of Life Discourse.


2. Spiritual Communions

Highly recommended by Saint Alphonsus Liguori and many other saints is the practice of making Spiritual Communions.  
https://www.catholic.org/prayers/prayer.php?p=35

They can be made in any time and any place, using many different words of expression.  

Your fundamental desire should be to receive Jesus, in a spiritual but profound way, into the depths of your heart, to be constantly united to the Lord Jesus, the Bread of Life.

 
3. Read Imitation of Christ, Chapter Four

One of the greatest classics ever written is The Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis.
https://www.ccel.org/ccel/kempis/imitation.html

It was one of the favorites of Saint Ignatius of Loyola and Saint Therese, and surely many other saints.

The book can be divided into four books.

The last book deals specifically with the Mass, Holy Communion, the Eucharist, the Priest, and many other topics pertinent to growing and falling in love with the Eucharist.  

Purchase it, read it, and love it!


4. Diary of Saint Faustina—Book Six

Another classic is that of the Diary: Divine Mercy in My Soul by Saint Faustina Kowalska, who was called the Secretary of Divine Mercy.
https://archive.org/stream/St.FaustinaKowalskaDiary/divine-mercy-in-my-soul_djvu.txt

This literary classic and masterpiece can be divided into six books.  

Like The Imitation of Christ, the last book of the Diary deals with the way that Saint Faustina would prepare her soul to receive the Eucharist, the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar.

This will profit you greatly in your own preparation and reception of this greatest of all Sacraments— the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Jesus!


5. Visit the Blessed Sacrament

Friends enjoy visiting with each other and as often as possible.  

If indeed Jesus is our Best of Friends, then we should long to make frequent visits.

Remember the short poem with respect to making Eucharistic visits in Catholic Churches: 

Whenever I see a church, I stop to make a visit; so that when I die, the Lord won’t say “Who is it?”

Stop what you are doing.  Enter the Church and greet the Lord. Thank the Lord Jesus and tell Him how much you love Him!


6. Fifteen Minutes with Jesus

There is a wonderful little booklet: Fifteen Minutes with Jesus. A short but impressive booklet, it can serve as a great platform to enter into dialogue and talk with Jesus as your Best Friend.  I

ndeed, Jesus wants to be your Best Friend.  He is waiting for you right now!


7. Holy Hour of Reparation

Given that we are all sinners, many souls are heading full-force toward the precipice.

The Church is going through a great state of turmoil.

Now, more than ever, we should make a concerted effort to be with the Lord praying for mercy, pardon, conversion, and salvation. 

The inhabitants of Nineveh were saved by the preaching of Jonah.


The King called for fasting and penance, and God, seeing the penitent hearts in the city, spared Nineveh from destruction.

Equally important for us in this time of Ecclesial storm is to make Holy Hours of Reparation, begging mercy for us and for the whole world!  

“For the sake of His Sorrowful Passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world.”


8. Novena of Masses for Various Intentions

One of the greatest gifts anybody can give, or for that matter receive, is that of prayer.

 By far, the greatest prayer that can be offered and received is the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. 

Indeed, it is the Offering of the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Jesus to the Eternal Father for the salvation of the entire world.

This is something you can do: go to Mass for nine consecutive days and offer the Mass and your reception of Holy Communion for a specific person, and even for a specific intention. 

The intentions are limitless!  

Examples: For the conversion of sinners; that your son might return to the practice of the faith; that your daughter might get married in the Church; that your husband might give up drinking; that your brother in jail might go to confession; that some young man might say Yes to a vocation to the priesthood!

The key is that for nine days in a row you attend Holy Mass and receive Jesus in Holy Communion, all offered for your specific intention. Innumerable graces can flow from this novena of Masses and Holy Communions.  

Why not start today?  God will bless you and others most abundantly!


9. The Genuflection

Even though it may be a small and almost inconspicuous gesture, the genuflection has immense importance and value. 

Bending your right knee and going all the way down to touch it to the ground, is a corporal gesture that is made when passing in front of the Blessed Sacrament.

Its meaning?

This was done in the Middle Ages as a gesture of homage or tribute to a King or Queen.  

In a parallel, but very real sense, Jesus is the Lord of Lords and King of Kings.

Therefore, even more should Jesus be honored and praised by a reverential genuflection!

The greater the person, the more, in justice, we owe him.

Consequently we owe Jesus the Lord the greatest dignity and respect by even our corporal postures and gestures.


10. Bring Wandering Sheep to the Eucharistic Lord:

Be a Eucharistic Apostle and bring a wandering sheep back to the fold by inviting this Prodigal Son/Daughter to Church.  

Go the whole nine yards!

Invite them to Church first to make a good Confession, and then to return once again to the reception of Jesus in Holy Communion!

My brothers and sisters, if one of you should wander from the truth and someone should bring that person back, remember this:

Whoever turns a sinner from the error of their way will save them from death and cover over a multitude of sins.
James 5: 19-20

Saint James reminds us that if we bring back a wandering soul, we save our own soul and expiate a multitude of sins.
James 5: 19-20 

We merit our own salvation and less time in Purgatory—Go for it!

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This is beautiful. Thank you. It reminds me when I participate taking the consecrated bread and wine of the Holy Eucharist. That makes me part of Christ. Take it as often as you can. It is the bread of life.

John 6:53
Jesus said to them, "Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.

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Amen, I believe, Let It Be So. Amen

The tempest storm is over I think, Praise God.

Amen, I believe, Let It Be So. Amen

Radiance3

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Sunday we will be with Him again.
This music makes me cry of joy because I love the Lord.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7y-NZocIwo

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Today is the feast of our Mother, Our Lady queen of heaven.

Say a rosary for her today.

Shubert's Ava Maria always gets me, and "Angus die" latin version

Psalm Ps 116:12-13, 17-18

To you, Lord, I will offer a sacrifice of praise.

How shall I make a return to the LORD for all the good he has done for me?

The cup of salvation I will take up, and I will call upon the name of the LORD.

To you, Lord, I will offer a sacrifice of praise.
To you will I offer sacrifice of thanksgiving, and I will call upon the name of the LORD.

My vows to the LORD I will pay in the presence of all his people.

To you, Lord, I will offer a sacrifice of praise.


Stabat Mater, Prayer to Mary.

At the cross her station keeping, Stood the mournful Mother weeping, Close to Jesus to the last.

Through her heart, his sorrow sharing, All his bitter anguish bearing, Now at length the sword had passed.

Oh, how sad and sore distressed Was that Mother highly blessed Of the sole begotten One!

Christ above in torment hangs, She beneath beholds the pangs Of her dying, glorious Son.

Is there one who would not weep, 'Whelmed in miseries so deep, Christ's dear Mother to behold?

Can the human heart refrain From partaking in her pain, In that mother's pain untold?

Bruised, derided, cursed, defiled, She beheld her tender Child, All with bloody scourges rent.

For the sins of his own nation Saw him hang in desolation Till his spirit forth he sent.

O sweet Mother! font of love, Touch my spirit from above, Make my heart with yours accord.

Make me feel as you have felt; Make my soul to glow and melt With the love of Christ, my Lord.

Holy Mother, pierce me through, In my heart each wound renew Of my Savior crucified.

Let me share with you his pain, Who for all our sins was slain, Who for me in torments died.

Let me mingle tears with you, Mourning him who mourned for me, All the days that I may live.

By the cross with you to stay, There with you to weep and pray, Is all I ask of you to give.

Virgin of all virgins blest! Listen to my fond request: Let me share your grief divine.

Let me to my latest breath, In my body bear the death Of that dying Son of yours.

Wounded with his every wound, Steep my soul till it has swooned In his very Blood away.

Be to me, O Virgin, nigh, Lest in flames I burn and die, In his awful judgment day.

Christ, when you shall call me hence, Be your Mother my defense, Be your cross my victory.

While my body here decays, May my soul your goodness praise, Safe in heaven eternally.

Amen.

Alleluia, alleluia.

Blessed are you, O Virgin Mary; without dying you won the Martyr's crown beneath the Cross of the Lord.

Alleluia, alleluia.

Gospel Jn 19:25-27
Standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.

When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple there whom he loved he said to his mother, "Woman, behold, your son."

Then he said to the disciple, "Behold, your mother."

And from that hour the disciple took her into his home.


or Lk 2:33-35
Jesus' father and mother were amazed at what was said about him; and Simeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother,

"Behold, this child is destined for the fall and rise of many in Israel,

And to be a sign that will be contradicted and you yourself a sword will pierce so that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed."

Amen.

Alleluia, alleluia.

Radiance3

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In honor of the Virgin Mary, mother of God.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAaJzTWX_Io

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cgyy8u3zcf8

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Thank you Connie,

A lot of time I listen to the Gregorian chants, the voices are a gift of god and are so unique that they sound so differently.

You can listen for for hours male and female choirs,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwp1CH5R-w4&frags=pl%2Cwn

Radiance3

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That is the best. That music made me cry again. I am sorry. I always cry when I hear all these songs.

Thank you Doc, I am glad you are posting all these. I hope it will reach the hearts of many, who may have wondered away from God. Then it will touch their hearts and worship Jesus again.

I think you an angel sent to OPP to touch the hearts of many, and bring them back to God.
Keep up the good works. I hope people will at least listen to the works of God. I pray you do more. Jesus loves that.