How Has The Holy Eucharist Changed Your Life And What Does It Mean To

[Guest]

Whats up pham ?
Just wondering how the eucharist has changed your life and what it means to you ?
I do not take it on a consisant basis and even when im fresh out of confession I dont feel worthy to accept christ most of the times.
Im working on it and I think once I stay out of sin more and become more and more faithfull to God I will be more at ease with recieving Christ.
It does scare me though sometimes thinking about recieving him all the time. Mabey its just bcasue I sin and fall alot.
So anyhow, how has the eucharist changed your life and what does it mean to you ?
Thanks for the imput pham.
Godbless

Edited November 18, 2008 by Guest

[eagle_eye222001]

[quote name='Delivery Boy' post='1703843' date='Nov 18 2008, 01:53 AM']Whats up pham ?
Just wondering how the eucharist has changed your life and what it means to you ?[/quote]

It has not really changed my life.........probably does not mean as much to me as it should.


Don't get me wrong. I would be the first one willing to debate against someone who thinks Jesus meant his Body and Blood to be symbolic in John 6.

I don't know. I guess I see some people's devotion to the Eucharist and mine seems to be woefully short.

It is something I seem to be questioning a lot recently. Is that really Jesus in the Eucharist at mass? I think of the Bible though and all the evidence for it and decide that yes I guess it must be Jesus or the Bible is wrong.

For some reason I seem to be struggling with this. I hope I resolve it soon.

[Archaeology cat]

It amazes me that my Creator and Saviour gives Himself to me so completely. I'm a convert, and once I came to see that the Real Presence is true, I couldn't wait to be confirmed in the Church. I don't always approach the Eucharist as I should, but when I think about this intimacy that we're allowed with Jesus, I'm awe-struck. I hate it if I cannot receive Him. This past week I found myself begging Him to allow me to receive Him (I hadn't been able to the previous week due to food poisoning). I should probably go to daily Mass more, and maybe I will after the move. But that's it in a nutshell.

[CatherineM]

The times in my life when I couldn't receive have made me realize how important it is to me. I remember my first communion, I remember receiving viaticum in anticipation of death, I remember receiving it standing up again for the time, and I especially remember receiving it for the first time together as a married couple. Each had a different feel, but all were special.

[Excelsior1027]

The Holy Eucharist is pretty much the means by which I converted to our Catholic faith. I was at a Catholic conference (and I wasn't Catholic at the time, long story, haha) and during Eucharistic adoration, I saw all around me people who really believed that that was Jesus, and not just a sign or symbol. Once I truly believed that the Eucharist was real, well, it didn't take me long to convert.

Edited November 18, 2008 by Excelsior1027

[fides quarens intellectum]

Great topic!! We were just talking about this at our young adult group last week!

[quote]Just wondering how the eucharist has changed your life and what it means to you ?[/quote]

Personally, i wouldn't be Catholic if not for the Eucharist.

[MissyP89]

I'm a cradle Catholic, but fell away for a while and ended up getting myself excommunicated latae sentiae--long story. When God started pulling me back to Himself, I realized I had this need in me nothing else could satisfy. I went to various different Protestant groups, belonged to forums, etc., but it all felt empty to me. It took a year and a half for me to realize it was the Eucharist that was missing, even if I was lukewarm at the time.

When I made the decision to come home, I had to wait a whole month before I could go to Confession. It was the longest month I've ever had to sweat through--I yearned for Him but couldn't have Him.

Now, there are times that Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament is the only thing keeping me going with the holy fight, without exaggeration. He's my lifeline.

[fides quarens intellectum]

[quote name='MissyP89' post='1704016' date='Nov 18 2008, 10:29 AM']Now, there are times that Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament is the only thing keeping me going with the holy fight, without exaggeration. He's my lifeline. [/quote]
Amen to that.

[Lil Red]

[quote name='Delivery Boy' post='1703843' date='Nov 17 2008, 11:53 PM']Whats up pham ?
Just wondering how the eucharist has changed your life and what it means to you ?
I do not take it on a consisant basis and even when im fresh out of confession I dont feel worthy to accept christ most of the times.
Im working on it and I think once I stay out of sin more and become more and more faithfull to God I will be more at ease with recieving Christ.
It does scare me though sometimes thinking about recieving him all the time. Mabey its just bcasue I sin and fall alot.
So anyhow, how has the eucharist changed your life and what does it mean to you ?
Thanks for the imput pham.
Godbless[/quote]
+J.M.J.+
two things that i am reminded of. a saint (I don't know which one) said: "My soul is dry within me because it forgets to feed on you."

and Pope John Paul II in [url="http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/encyclicals/documents/hf_jp-ii_enc_17042003_ecclesia-de-eucharistia_en.html"]Ecclesia de Eucharistia[/url] (a good and worthy read):
[quote]The path taken by the Church in these first years of the third millennium is also a path of renewed ecumenical commitment. The final decades of the second millennium, culminating in the Great Jubilee, have spurred us along this path and called for all the baptized to respond to the prayer of Jesus “ut unum sint ” (Jn 17:11). [b]The path itself is long and strewn with obstacles greater than our human resources alone can overcome, yet we have the Eucharist, and in its presence we can hear in the depths of our hearts, as if they were addressed to us, the same words heard by the Prophet Elijah: [u]“Arise and eat, else the journey will be too great for you”[/u] (1 Kg 19:7).[/b] The treasure of the Eucharist, which the Lord places before us, impels us towards the goal of full sharing with all our brothers and sisters to whom we are joined by our common Baptism. But if this treasure is not to be squandered, we need to respect the demands which derive from its being the sacrament of communion in faith and in apostolic succession.[/quote]

both these quotes remind me often that i must feed on Christ, if I am to have life within me. It is not a 'feeling' - it is a fact. and if I do not 'feel' Christ present does not lessen His Presence there.

[MissyP89]

As an afterthought, Adoration was the most humbling experience I've ever had.

[fides quarens intellectum]

[quote name='Lil Red' post='1704279' date='Nov 18 2008, 04:23 PM']and Pope John Paul II in [url="http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/encyclicals/documents/hf_jp-ii_enc_17042003_ecclesia-de-eucharistia_en.html"]Ecclesia de Eucharistia[/url] (a good and worthy read):[/quote]

ooh, yes - doesn't he call the Eucharist the "school of hte saints" in that one?

[Guest]

[quote name='eagle_eye222001' post='1703870' date='Nov 18 2008, 04:40 AM']It has not really changed my life.........probably does not mean as much to me as it should.


Don't get me wrong. I would be the first one willing to debate against someone who thinks Jesus meant his Body and Blood to be symbolic in John 6.

I don't know. I guess I see some people's devotion to the Eucharist and mine seems to be woefully short.

It is something I seem to be questioning a lot recently. Is that really Jesus in the Eucharist at mass? I think of the Bible though and all the evidence for it and decide that yes I guess it must be Jesus or the Bible is wrong.

For some reason I seem to be struggling with this. I hope I resolve it soon. [/quote]


[font="Arial Black"]Ya bro its really hard to grasp, I agree with ya. Its pretty amazing God loves us that much to literally give us his body and his blood. prayers man.[/font]



[quote name='Archaeology cat' post='1703885' date='Nov 18 2008, 05:13 AM']It amazes me that my Creator and Saviour gives Himself to me so completely. I'm a convert, and once I came to see that the Real Presence is true, I couldn't wait to be confirmed in the Church. I don't always approach the Eucharist as I should, but when I think about this intimacy that we're allowed with Jesus, I'm awe-struck. I hate it if I cannot receive Him. This past week I found myself begging Him to allow me to receive Him (I hadn't been able to the previous week due to food poisoning). I should probably go to daily Mass more, and maybe I will after the move. But that's it in a nutshell.[/quote]


[font="Arial Black"]Being able to be in such a state of grace you could recieve everyday would have to be life changing. Literally.[/font]


[quote name='CatherineM' post='1703946' date='Nov 18 2008, 11:04 AM']The times in my life when I couldn't receive have made me realize how important it is to me. I remember my first communion, I remember receiving viaticum in anticipation of death, I remember receiving it standing up again for the time, and I especially remember receiving it for the first time together as a married couple. Each had a different feel, but all were special.[/quote]

[font="Arial Black"]
wow, godbless you that is cool you can remember your first communion. seems so long ago, i cant remember it. [/font]

[quote name='Excelsior1027' post='1703963' date='Nov 18 2008, 11:50 AM']The Holy Eucharist is pretty much the means by which I converted to our Catholic faith. I was at a Catholic conference (and I wasn't Catholic at the time, long story, haha) and during Eucharistic adoration, I saw all around me people who really believed that that was Jesus, and not just a sign or symbol. Once I truly believed that the Eucharist was real, well, it didn't take me long to convert. [/quote]


[font="Arial Black"]Godbless !![/font]

[quote name='fides quarens intellectum' post='1704009' date='Nov 18 2008, 12:27 PM']Great topic!! We were just talking about this at our young adult group last week!


[font="Arial Black"]cool [/font]


Personally, i wouldn't be Catholic if not for the Eucharist.[/quote]


[font="Arial Black"]ya no doubt, i agree ![/font]


[quote name='MissyP89' post='1704016' date='Nov 18 2008, 12:29 PM']I'm a cradle Catholic, but fell away for a while and ended up getting myself excommunicated latae sentiae--long story. When God started pulling me back to Himself, I realized I had this need in me nothing else could satisfy. I went to various different Protestant groups, belonged to forums, etc., but it all felt empty to me. It took a year and a half for me to realize it was the Eucharist that was missing, even if I was lukewarm at the time.

When I made the decision to come home, I had to wait a whole month before I could go to Confession. It was the longest month I've ever had to sweat through--I yearned for Him but couldn't have Him.

Now, there are times that Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament is the only thing keeping me going with the holy fight, without exaggeration. He's my lifeline. [/quote]


[font="Arial Black"]Ya I fell away really bad to, Ive read your other post about being in the occult. That can really mess someone up and its hard to come back from that. Im glad you are doing good now. Godbless ![/font]




[quote name='Lil Red' post='1704279' date='Nov 18 2008, 06:23 PM']+J.M.J.+
two things that i am reminded of. a saint (I don't know which one) said: "My soul is dry within me because it forgets to feed on you."


[font="Arial Black"]that hits home to me[/font]


and Pope John Paul II in [url="http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/encyclicals/documents/hf_jp-ii_enc_17042003_ecclesia-de-eucharistia_en.html"]Ecclesia de Eucharistia[/url] (a good and worthy read):


both these quotes remind me often that i must feed on Christ, if I am to have life within me. It is not a 'feeling' - it is a fact. and if I do not 'feel' Christ present does not lessen His Presence there.[/quote]


[font="Arial Black"]i will check that out, thanks and godbless[/font]

Edited December 4, 2008 by Guest

[tinytherese]

This vid is flipping sweet.

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmjbM84Cw7E"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmjbM84Cw7E[/url]

[melporcristo]

JMJ

first, I experienced Adoration the first time.

Then, when I made a very in depth and honest confession and started going to Mass daily, my Eucharistic experience was being healed of self-mutilation and depression.
Praise Him!!

It wasn't what I asked the Lord of specifically, but He knows our needs very much!!

God bless your searching bro!

Edited December 4, 2008 by melporcristo

[BG45]

I started a reply last night, but found I was unable to write in as cogent a manner as I wanted to for something of such great importance as the body and blood of Jesus Christ.

The Eucharist is more or less why I am converting to Catholicism. There are plenty of other reasons, where Sacred Scripture has proven point after point in the favor of Catholicism. There have been novenas said for my conversion, I've read book after book, talked with many of you...but in the end, the entire Roman Catholic Church and its validity rests upon the holy Eucharist.

When I first went to Adoration, it was the first time I had truly come face to face with the Eucharist. Sure, I'd been to Mass once before, but that was it. I went, after Missy found the only PA Chapel in the state twenty minutes from my dorm room, to show myself how fake Catholicism was, to effectively go face to face with "that piece of bread" and prove to myself that Catholicism was wrong.

I went, in the dark, to a town I'd never set foot in in my life. I felt like vomiting I was so nervous as I entered the Perpetual Adoration Chapel. I sat there, I prayed, and I was so happy to finally have proven the Eucharist, and everything of Catholicism therefore with it to be utterly false. I was free of my obsession that had been consuming me...and then I looked up.

I stared for a moment and felt tears coming to my eyes, and with one part of me crushed, another part of me rejoiced that the Eucharist was real. The Eucharist was real! All of the quotes by Church Fathers, all of the Sacred Scripture that seemed to confirm the entire concept of it being Christ's body and blood...real. It was one thing to understand intellectually, another to be humbled before the Eucharist itself.

As I continued my final year of Undergraduate studies I found myself kneeling there weekly; something I would never have done had my life not been changed. When I discovered that my mother had cancer, my first thought was to go pray before the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist in that small chapel. When both of my cousins had high risk pregnancies, my first thought was to pray before the Eucharist in that chapel.

God willing, at Easter Vigil I'll be able to receive Him.