{"id":8656,"date":"2025-06-14T22:48:04","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T20:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/predication.net\/?p=8656"},"modified":"2025-06-14T22:48:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T20:48:05","slug":"the-silence-and-closeness-of-jesus-in-the-eucharist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/predication.net\/?p=8656","title":{"rendered":"The silence and closeness of Jesus in the Eucharist."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Let our silence express openness towards Jesus, the Eucharist, and the Holy Spirit. Illustration image: unsplash.com\/Vignesh Chandra<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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Let’s now remove disturbing sounds and images from our surroundings and leave the activity for a few minutes. Let’s rest on a chair and perceive God’s presence. Let us bless ourselves and ask the Holy Spirit for guidance and the gift of silence of the heart.<\/h2>\n

SILENCE IS A GIFT<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201eSilence, please! We tend to say this if the flood of words and sounds has exceeded the importance of the present moment. Silence is the presence of God. Silence is himself,\u201cwritten in the Diocese of Spies Eucharist meditation material, <\/em><\/span>and Silence<\/em>.<\/h2>\n

God is humble, and humility does not like noise, showing off, or drawing attention to oneself. Our soul also likes silence. Let’s give her space and open ourselves to prayer.<\/h2>\n

Pope Leo XIV recently said that prayer and a sustained effort at conversion are essential for opening oneself to the Holy Spirit and his promptings. He emphasized that in the current tension, we can open ourselves to the Holy Spirit and perceive him. Therefore, creating an environment for prayer born from silence is essential.<\/h2>\n

Material\u00a0Eucharist and Silence, <\/em>he directs us to the fact that the most significant events of salvation took place in silence.<\/h2>\n

\u201e In the silence of the night, the beloved Son of God entered this earth. In the silence of the night, Gethsemane accepted an indescribable agony. He gave himself to us in the sacred silence of the Jerusalem supper room forever. And so it is to this day. In the silence of unspeakable pains and sufferings, he gave his soul to the Father on Golgotha and completed the work of human redemption. God comes in silence. Touches our lives in silence.\u201c<\/h2>\n

IN THE SIGN OF SMELL<\/strong><\/p>\n

Let’s watch an event from Jesus’ life, a feast in Lazarus’ house. Let’s imagine the atmosphere of a silent reaction of fellow diners, when under the influence of the smell of nard oil, which filled the house, a silence is born that opens the hearts of everyone to think about the meaning of the sign of this smell.<\/h2>\n

\u201e Six days before Easter, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus lived, whom he raised from the dead. They prepared a feast for him there. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those who dined with him. Mary took a pound of true precious nard oil, anointed Jesus’ feet with it, and wiped them with her hair; and the house was filled with the fragrance of oil. Here one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, who was to betray him, said: ‘Why didn’t they sell this oil for three hundred denarii and give it to the poor?\u2018 But he didn’t say that because he was concerned with the poor, but because he was a thief. He had a bag and carried what was in it. Jesus said: ‘Leave her, let her keep it for the day of my funeral! After all, you always have the poor among you, but you don’t always have me.\u2018 Many Jews learned that he was there and came not only for Jesus, but to see Lazarus, whom he raised from the dead\u201c (Jn\u00a0<\/em>12, 1 \u2013 17).<\/h2>\n

According to the evangelist John’s description, everything takes place in silence until a certain moment. These were the days after Lazarus’ resurrection, which definitively oriented the high priests to silence Jesus. They were hindered by the attraction of his words and actions to the people who began to gather in Jerusalem for the Easter holidays.<\/h2>\n

Before this feast, Caiaphas said it was better if one died for the people. Lazarus’ resurrection from the grave and Jesus’ presence, people’s questions \u201eWhat do you think, will come to the holidays?\u201c \u2013 may still have faded in the ears of those in Bethany.<\/h2>\n

And suddenly, the smell of free respect and love seemed to highlight Jesus’ goodness and power, which were manifested in the resurrection of Lazarus.<\/h2>\n

THANKING JESUS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Judas, present at the feast in Bethany, cannot bear the silence because he cannot receive free love. He breaks the silence and drowns it out with empty words.<\/h2>\n

\u201eHe who feels loved naturally seeks silence. Mary felt the love of Christ, also for Lazarus, Martha, for everyone. Nard oil gave her the opportunity to quietly show love for Jesus and show openness to his presence and the word,\u201c, consider again the words of meditation Eucharist and silence.<\/h2>\n

\u201e Let our silence be a thank you to Jesus for his mercy and an expression of openness towards him, the Eucharist and the Spirit he gave us.\u201c<\/h2>\n

The Eucharist is a gift of the Holy Spirit. \u201e It is love that is sacrificed up to complete humiliation. A love that loves without words, but all the more eloquently. Silence of sacrifice on the altar.\u201c This is the smell of silence and Christ’s love. Let’s return it with \u201enard oil\u201c silence of one’s heart.<\/h2>\n
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Questions to think about<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Can I calm the storms inside me, in my family, relationships, work, or parish with the word of Jesus I receive in silence?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Can I be with Jesus in daily prayer?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

When was the last time I experienced the silence of my own heart?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Do I wear it quietly into my everyday life?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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