Tag: Blessed Sacrament
The Sacrament of Love and the Sacred Heart
“As [St. Margaret Mary] was constantly afraid of illusion, Our Lord once told her by which signs to recognize Him. His graces, He said, would always be accompanied by some humiliation or contradiction; they would be followed by confusion and a feeling of annihilation; moreover, they would never cause her to despise others, nor would they prevent her from following her Rule. Finally, they would result in a great love of Himself, in a perfect imitation of His example, in the desire to suffer for His sake, but to suffer unobserved, and in an unquenchable thirst for Holy Communion and for being near the Blessed Sacrament.
Margaret Mary spent almost every free moment before the Tabernacle. For devotion to the Sacred Heart seems to be inseparably linked to an ardent love for the Blessed Sacrament.”
(From The Way of Mystics by H.C. Greef)
Wherever We Go
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“What does it matter where we go? Wherever we go, won’t we be serving God there? And wherever we go, won’t we have Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament with us? Isn’t that enough to make us happy?”
Blessed Father Solanus Casey
He Thirsts!
On the Cross Jesus said “I thirst”. From the Blessed Sacrament Jesus continues to say to each of us “I thirst”. He thirsts for our personal love, our intimacy, our union with Him in the Blessed Sacrament.
St. Teresa of Calcutta
Ask Him!
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Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament has His hands full of graces, and He is Ready to bestow them on anyone who asks for them.
St. Peter of Alcantara
Jesus Waits For His Priests
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“I long for the adoration of My priests. I see other adorers before My Face and I rejoice in their presence, and I bless them with the tenderness of My Eucharistic Heart. But I look for My priests. Where are they? Why are they not the first to seek Me out in the Sacrament of My love and the last to leave Me at the close of the day? Even in the night I wait for for them. In the night hours it is possible to have an intimacy with Me that one cannot experience at other times. I wait for My priests. …I want My priests to come to Me, and I will draw them, one by one, into the radiance of My Eucharistic face. There I will refresh them and give them the choices gifts of My Heart.”
(From In Senu Jesu – When Heart Speaks to Heart – The Journal of a Priest at Prayer)
Proof of His Ardent Love
“When you see [the Body of Christ] exposed, say to yourself: It is on account of this Body that I am no longer earth and ashes, no longer captive, but free.
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This Body gives me hope of heaven and the treasures there laid up for me: life without end, the company of the angels, familiar intercourse with Christ.
This Body was pierced by nails, torn with scourges, yet was drenched with blood, pierced by the lance; the Body from which two springs of salvation gushed forth, one of blood and one of water.
This Body He has given us to hold an to eat – a proof of His ardent love.”
(St. John Chrysostom quoted in Mediator Dei)
Lay Them Down At His Feet
“Lay the tired brain, the strained muscles, the aching head – lay them all down at His feet without a word, just for His eye to rest on and His Heart to help and heal.”
(Mother Mary Loyola from Coram Sanctissimo)
Most Noble, Most Profitable and the Sweetest
“The devotion to the Eucharist is the most noble, because it has God as its object; it is the most profitable for salvation, because it gives us the Author of Grace; it is the sweetest, because the Lord is Sweetness Itself.”
Pope St. Pius X
The Presence of God
It cannot be over stressed that the presence of God in the soul by grace is a real and substantial presence. God is present in the tabernacle of the heart as really and truly and substantially as He is present in the tabernacle of the altar, although in a different manner.
Christ’s Real Presence in the Blessed Sacrament is a priceless gift, a pledge and prelude of that glorious presence of the Incarnate Word which will be ours eternally in Heaven. But the external presence is meant to lead us to and be fused with the presence of the Word of God within our souls. So it will be in Heaven. The Son of God will be present outside us in the reality of the human nature He has assumed, the peak and glory of creation; yet that same Son of God will dwell substantially within us according to His divine nature. One presence is not opposed to the other, but complements it. That will be self-evident in Heaven. But here too devotion to the Incarnate Word present on the altar is not a hindrance to devotion to the Word of God within me; quite the reverse. All Christian experience goes to show that it nourishes it as nothing else can do. On the other hand, devotion to the Second Divine Person within me will urge me to seek Him also in the human nature which makes Him my brother and which faith tells me is truly present in the tabernacle.
I Thirst for Your Love! 
