Meditation Minute

My Dearest Brothers and Sisters in Christ:

Book 4 Chapter 2: On the Great Goodness of God Shown Human Beings in the Blessed Sacrament

“O sweetness and kindest Jesus, how great must be your reverence, the thanks and unending praise shown to You for this great gift of receiving Your sacred Body, whose dignity no human can express in words!”

My mission in life should always be to move closer to Jesus Christ.  He is all I should seek in this world.  Yet in all my unworthiness; in all my sinfulness, He is always approaching me. While I forget Him at times, He never forgets me with His unlimited love. He has poured out everything for me.  When I think of this, I am awed by the love God Christ has shown for me in the Blessed Sacrament of the Eucharist.  When I think of His greatness, my soul is humbled “forever praising His infinite goodness to me.”  While Christ is the King of all the Saints, He still bows Himself down to wash my feet, the lowest of all sinners.  It is through His eternal grace and love for us that He provides the Bread of Angels (Psalm 78:25) to give life to this world and to free us from the darkness.  Christ, the Bread of Life broken for us, is the source of all love.  If it does not originate in God, it cannot be love. How great ought to be our praises for Him who gave up everything to become Man so He could come to us in person.  What a wonderful thing the Sacrament of the Eucharist.  This great mystery is far beyond human understanding “that You, my Lord and my God, true God and True Man, are wholly contained beneath the form of bread and wine, eaten yet not consumed, by whoever receives You”. It is because of this that you should strive to keep yourself free of sin with a “happy and clean conscience”.  I should pray that I come to you as worthily as I can realizing that I am unworthy to receive this eternal gift.  You should rejoice and thank God for such a precious gift that He gave us to help us through “this valley of tears”.  We must realize that Christ’s love for us is never diminished “nor is the greatness of His atonement ever consumed.”  This is why whenever you participate in the celebration of the Mass, “it should seem to you as great, as new, and as joyful, as if Christ that same day had first come down into the womb of the Virgin Mary and became Man; or as if He that same day – hanging on the cross – suffered and died for our salvation.”

A Simple Prayer

Lord Jesus Christ, the source of all love,

You poured yourself out for me, the lowest of all sinners.

Give me the strength to come to you and worthily praise your name

So I can share the treasures of your bounty.

Yours in Christ

Michael Marcon