Twenty-Third Week of Ordinary Time September 8, 2024 Year of the Most Holy Eucharist Reflection #37
“For the Christian — not only for the contemplative, but for every Christian — the purpose of life is union with Christ.”
(Dom Hubert van Zeller, How to find God, p.3)
Twenty-Second Week of Ordinary Time September 1, 2024 Year of the Most Holy Eucharist Reflection #36
“No one has ever trusted in the Lord and been abandoned.”
(John A. Kane, Transforming Your Life through the Eucharist, p.38)
Twenty-First Week of Ordinary Time August 25, 2024 Year of the Most Holy Eucharist Reflection #35
“Man will never yield to, much less be inspired by, what is no better than himself.”
(John A. Kane, Transforming Your Life through the Eucharist, p.19)
Twentieth Week of Ordinary Time August 18, 2024 Year of the Most Holy Eucharist Reflection #34
“A holy soul is but a soul freely submitted to the divine will with the help of grace.” (Father J.P. de Caussade, S.J., Self-Abandonment to Divine Providence, p. 55)
Nineteenth Week of Ordinary Time August 11, 2024 Year of the Most Holy Eucharist Reflection #33
“The Holy Eucharist is, then, the flower of the Incarnation, the completion of all the mysteries of the Redeemer’s life as Man. The institution of the Blessed Sacrament was the consummation of the stupendous series of God’s merciful dispensations to His fallen creatures, for Christ came ‘to seek and to save that which was lost’ by giving Himself to man. The end of His Passion, death, and glorification in our nature was that He might forever dwell in His Mystical Body, and therefore in us, members of that Mystical Body, the Church.” (John A. Kane, Transforming Your Life through the Eucharist, p.6)
Eighteenth Week of Ordinary Time Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost (Latin Mass) August 4, 2024 Year of the Most Holy Eucharist Reflection #32
Saint Justin Martyr (100-165 AD) — The First Apology Chapters 65, 66, 67
Seventeenth Week of Ordinary Time July 28, 2024 Year of the Most Holy Eucharist Reflection #31
“Assemble on the Lord’s Day, and break bread and offer the Eucharist; but first make confession of your faults, so that your sacrifice may be a pure one.” (The Didache 50-100 AD) “Make certain, therefore, that you all observe one common Eucharist; for there is but one Body of our Lord Jesus Christ, and but one cup of union with His Blood, and one single altar of sacrifice – even as also there is but one bishop, with his clergy and my own fellow-servitors the deacons. This will insure that all your doings are in full accord with the will of God.” (Saint Ignatius of Antioch 35-107 AD)
Sixteenth Week of Ordinary Time July 21, 2024 Year of the Most Holy Eucharist Reflection #30
“And they continued stedfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.” (Acts of the Apostles 2:42 KJV)
“And they continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart,” (Acts of the Apostles 2:46 KJV)
“And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.”
(Acts of the Apostles 20:7 KJV)
Fifteenth Week of Ordinary Time July 14, 2024 Year of the Most Holy Eucharist Reflection #29
“For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread: And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord’s death till he come. Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body.”
(First Corinthians 11:23-29 KJV)
Fourteenth Week of Ordinary Time July 7, 2024 Year of the Most Holy Eucharist Reflection #28
“Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it? When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said to them, ‘Does this offend you? What and if you shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before? It is the spirit that vivifies; the flesh profits nothing: the words that I speak to you, they are spirit, and they are life. But there are some of you that believe not.’ For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him. And he said, Therefore said I to you, that no man can come to me, except it were given to him of my Father.’ From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him. Then said Jesus to the twelve, ‘Will you also go away?’ Then Simon Peter answered him, ‘Lord, to whom shall we go? you have the words of eternal life. And we believe and are sure that you are that Christ, the Son of the living God.’ Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?’ He spoke of Judas Iscariot the son of Simon: for he it was that should betray him, being one of the twelve.”
(John 6:60-71 American KJV)