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

[the lords sheep]

Sometimes I really struggle with the Eucharist, but it's usually at those times that I'm just struggling with faith in general...

My only other comment is this thought: it's a good thing you feel unworthy to receive communion. You are. I am too. We aren't ever worthy to receive communion. Not a single one of us. And nothing we can do can change that. Nothing at all.
My confessor told me once, "Never, EVER, unless you are in the state of mortal sin, refuse to accept the gift God our Lord has offered you! If you wait until you are truly worthy, you will wait forever. What in our fallen, feeble nature makes us worthy to be united so intimately and lovingly with our Lord? [u]Nothing![/u] But your unworthiness is overshadowed by His love for you. Jesus offers Himself in Mercy to us to give us the grace to work a little harder and walk a little closer to Him."

In Christ,
Lauren

Edited December 5, 2008 by the lords sheep

[Brigid]

The last year has been the worst and the hardest of my life by far. I've had a really difficult time letting go and trusting Him with the most important parts of my life. As time goes on, I'm healing and praying more. I'm fitting my life into God, instead of fitting God into my life. Without weekly Adoration and Mass, I wouldn't be close to that. That hour in His presence every week at Adoration resets my focus if it's drifted off of Him, and if it hasn't drifted, the hour just brings us closer. Mass - receiving the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of my Savior! - not only brings me as close to Him as I can possibly be on Earth, but it gives me the strength to start the week. Without it... I wouldn't pray. I would forget to care. I honestly can't imagine my life without the Eucharist. He's my life, my love, and my reason for living.

In the most difficult and painful times, I would go to Him in the Eucharist and fall on my knees and just let Him hold me. It didn't solve all my problems and I can't really say it dulled the pain any, but it helped me remember that Someone loved me and would always be there for me. He would always wait for me, watch over me, and give me all the graces He possibly could.

[Guest]

[quote name='tinytherese' post='1718535' date='Dec 4 2008, 02:13 AM']This vid is flipping sweet.

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thanks !


[quote name='melporcristo' post='1718588' date='Dec 4 2008, 03:31 AM']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![/quote]


thanks godbless !


[quote name='BG45' post='1718864' date='Dec 4 2008, 05:16 PM']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.[/quote]

thank you for taking the time to write this and godbless you, its very inspirational.



[quote name='the lords sheep' post='1719153' date='Dec 4 2008, 08:43 PM']Sometimes I really struggle with the Eucharist, but it's usually at those times that I'm just struggling with faith in general...

My only other comment is this thought: it's a good thing you feel unworthy to receive communion. You are. I am too. We aren't ever worthy to receive communion. Not a single one of us. And nothing we can do can change that. Nothing at all.
My confessor told me once, "Never, EVER, unless you are in the state of mortal sin, refuse to accept the gift God our Lord has offered you! If you wait until you are truly worthy, you will wait forever. What in our fallen, feeble nature makes us worthy to be united so intimately and lovingly with our Lord? [u]Nothing![/u] But your unworthiness is overshadowed by His love for you. Jesus offers Himself in Mercy to us to give us the grace to work a little harder and walk a little closer to Him."

In Christ,
Lauren[/quote]

whats up lauren, what you say makes alot of sence, godbless


[quote name='Brigid' post='1719539' date='Dec 5 2008, 12:58 AM']The last year has been the worst and the hardest of my life by far. I've had a really difficult time letting go and trusting Him with the most important parts of my life. As time goes on, I'm healing and praying more. I'm fitting my life into God, instead of fitting God into my life. Without weekly Adoration and Mass, I wouldn't be close to that. That hour in His presence every week at Adoration resets my focus if it's drifted off of Him, and if it hasn't drifted, the hour just brings us closer. Mass - receiving the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of my Savior! - not only brings me as close to Him as I can possibly be on Earth, but it gives me the strength to start the week. Without it... I wouldn't pray. I would forget to care. I honestly can't imagine my life without the Eucharist. He's my life, my love, and my reason for living.

In the most difficult and painful times, I would go to Him in the Eucharist and fall on my knees and just let Him hold me. It didn't solve all my problems and I can't really say it dulled the pain any, but it helped me remember that Someone loved me and would always be there for me. He would always wait for me, watch over me, and give me all the graces He possibly could.[/quote]


wow that is deep, gobless you bigtime. i look up to people like you.

[doe-jo]

Without the Eucharist, I'd be nothing.

[Guest]

[quote name='doe-jo' post='1726361' date='Dec 12 2008, 03:16 AM']Without the Eucharist, I'd be nothing.[/quote]

ahh blunt and truthfull
im hoping if i ever do start recieving all the time i will be able to look back and really be able to tell the difference since nothingness is a feeling ive felt before.

[Guest]

recieved today
God is good

Edited December 14, 2008 by Guest

[Lil Red]

+J.M.J.+
i need to go to confession, so i didn't receive this weekend.