Recollection before the Eucharist.

People learn religion by experience and through relationships.
As a rule, no catechesis, no sermons, and no teaching make any difference is going to make any difference, especially in our Catholic environment, where education is limited to the Sunday sermon. The only way to transform a parish is through tiny communities where God’s life is experienced, where God’s relationships are, and where there is also actual systematic teaching.
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Your Divinity is too blinding for me. That is why You come to me through my humanity so that I may come to Your Divinity through Your humanity.
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The resolution for today at the end of the meditation has its meaning. But not so much when it reads, “Today I will prove to at least one person that and this,” but rather a resolution to live this given day in attitudes and perspectives that contemplation and adoration have opened up for us. In this form, it is a crucial instrument for learning, internalizing, and over time, getting used to living what we
we have received from the Lord in contemplation and adoration.
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Nowhere are we more Christian and never more Church than when we celebrate the Eucharist. There we are drawn into the heart of Christ’s Mystery, into the Heart of the Bridegroom. Only in Heaven will we be more – and the Eucharist is the beginning of Heaven on Earth.
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Fasting doesn’t mean: denying yourself food. Fasting means: I build
a new me! It’s creating, building, not losing!
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“For whoever would save his life shall lose it, but whoever loses his life for shall save it.” (Luke 9:24)
“So neither can any of you, unless he gives up all that he has, be my disciple.” (Lk 14:33)
These are the laws of Heaven, of heavenly life: Love God as He loves
us and give ourselves to Him entirely and whole, without rest. And to trust Him so completely that we leave ourselves no “plan B,” no “back door,” no insurance, and no other security except Him. This is how the Trinity lives within itself. This is how the Communion of Saints lives in the Trinity.
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God’s gifts can only be received in one way – our giving of ourselves: ‘Give and they will give to you: a measure good, stretched, a measure shaken, they shall give you a measure in your bosom. With what measure ye mete,  so shall it be measured to you.” (Lk 6:38)
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The primary fruit of adoration is not new knowledge but new attitudes, a new being, and a new creation. What matters is becoming a new person, a man of God, not a theologian.
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To die and be born again… It’s like the music of Paradise! To be able to put off the older man with all the burden and weight that he carries on and with him and to rise again as a newborn – who else but God can give such a tremendous Gift?
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Without the faithful living Christ, without the true Life of God, without the Gift Holy Spirit, any attempt at any “depth” in Christianity ends in the awkward melodrama and empty philosophizing that he warns against already Scripture, “Beware lest any man deceive you with philosophy and empty deceit!” (Col 2:8)
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“The darkness is passing away, and the true light is already shining.
9 He who says he is in the light and hates his brother is still in darkness.
10 He who loves his brother remains is in the light, and is not a reproach to him.” (1 Jn 2:8-10) How important it is to understand and constantly keep in mind that it is not: If I love my brother, then I am in the light, but: if I am in the morning, then it will be manifested, inevitable its effect and consequence, self-evident and natural, that I love my brother. And if I do not, then it is an indication that no matter what I think or say, I am still in darkness, for “he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knows not whither he goeth, because the darkness hath blinded his eyes.” (1 Jn 2:11)