The Eucharist

[Livin_the_MASS]

Let us defend the central core of our Catholic Faith. The Holy Eucharist, were Christ is Truly Present. The Devil attacks Christ mostly in His Precious True Presence in the Eucharist. John ch. 6:66 (Look at the number). " As a result of this, many of His disciples returned to their former way of life and no longer accompanied him." We have to defend the heart of our faith The Sacred Heart of Jesus Present in the Eucharist. He waits for us all, some say " I wish I lived in the time of our Lord." They don't have to, He is in the nearest Tabernacle in a Catholic Church waiting under a veil of a sacrament. So that we might approach Him with humility and without fear, for if He showed His Glory we would tremble!!

[Dave]

Amen, brother!

[Jericho923]

have you read book called "Letters fron the Desert"? If you can find it read it.
here are some words from chapter 3:

"Thus , for week on eremains alone with the Eucharist exposed all day and night. Silence in the desert, silence in the cave, silence in the Eucharist. One's whole natural strength rebels against it.
ONe would prefer to carry stones in the sun. The senses, memory, imagination, all are repressed. Faith alone triumphs, and faith is hard, dark, stark...To place oneself before what seems to be bread and to say, 'Christ is there living and true' is pure faith.
But nothing is more nourishing than pure faith, and prayer in faith is real prayer.
'There is no pleasure in adoring the Eucharist,' one novice used to say to me. But it is precisely this renunciation of all desire to satisfy the senses that makes prayer strong and real. Onemeets God beyond the senses, beyond the inamgination, beyond nature."

True and real presence...imagine living our lives as if we were always in the presence of His real presence!

[Livin_the_MASS]

One of my favorite prayers is by St. Thomas Aquinas.
Devoutly I adore You, hidden Deity, Under these appearances concealed.
To You my heart surrenders self For seeing You, all else must yield.
Sight and touch and taste here fail; Hearing only can be believed. I trust what
God's own Son has said. Truth from truth is best received.
Divinity, on the Cross, was hid; Humanity here comes not to thought. Believing
and confessing both, I seek out what the Good Thief sought. I see no wound as Thomas did, but I profess God above. Draw me deeply into faith, Into Your hope into Your love. O memorial of the Lord's sad death. Show life unto man, O living Bread. Grant that my soul may live through You, By Your sweet savor ever fed.
Jesus Lord, my Pelicon devout, With Your Blood my sins dismiss. One single drop could surely save from sin this world's dark edifice.
Jesus, Whom now I see enveiled, what I desire, when will it be? Beholding Your fair face revealed, Your glory shall I be blessed to see.
Amen. Edited March 14, 2004 by Jason

[cathgirl]

I read a book one time that said you should pray to Jesus in the tabernacle b/c He gets lonely.


That's a cool prayer Jason!

[Rebirth flame]

Devotion to the Eucharist is Awesome!!!!
i feel that the Eucharist is the biggest part of my faith next to Confession. [u]Catholicism and Fundamentalism[/u], a book by Karl Keating has a pretty good section on the Eucharist. It offers a good Biblical defence for the Eucharist!!!

[God Conquers]

Amen Amen! In Flesh and Blood He comes to us!