{"id":5965,"date":"2023-04-27T17:59:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T15:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/predication.net\/?p=5965"},"modified":"2023-04-27T17:59:01","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T15:59:01","slug":"the-power-of-the-eucharist-to-know-and-live-with-the-eucharist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/predication.net\/?p=5965","title":{"rendered":"The power of the Eucharist. To know and live with the Eucharist."},"content":{"rendered":"
The church has a tabernacle. In it also dwells the eternal and holy and infinite God. And let us recall one more god-host. If you think from your heart, you are entering into my thoughts. God-Jesus Christ invites us to reflect on and embrace his words: “As the living Father sent me, and I live from the Father, so he who is me will live from me” (Jn 6:57).<\/h2>\n
Jesus speaks of a mystery that we would never have known if he had not taken the trouble to tell it himself. God explains to man the mystery of love that is in the Holy Trinity. The Father – the eternal, omnipresent, infinite, omniscient… In the fullness of time, God sends His Son to earth, who is equal to Him, and with the Holy Spirit they are one God. God comes to the world as a man. Human nature is to help mankind live according to God’s will. And when God the Son knows that the moment of going to the Father has come, when he has reminded and instructed men of all that God expects of men, at the Last Supper – when he dines with the twelve for the last time, Jesus takes the bread and wine, the daily food of man, in his hands and makes a wish. At the words: this is my body… and this is my blood, after these words been spoken by the priest, under the forms of bread and wine, God remains present among men until the end of time, when at the Last Judgment Jesus will come as Judge of the living and the dead. According to the Gospel, several walks away from Jesus in Capernaum when Jesus gives them the promise of his body and blood – as a strength for eternal life. They needed more faith, trust in the power of Jesus, and because they relied on and trusted their logic more than Jesus, they left disappointed.<\/h2>\n
We believe in the presence of the Lord Jesus from the moment of the transfiguration until then, as long as the ways of the bread and wine list. That is why we have tabernacles in our churches where, especially under the manner of bread, for practical reasons, we keep the Eucharist, that is, the living Lord Jesus. And yet even many Christians who know this, believe this, neglect it, and do not receive the Eucharist often. Why? For various reasons. It is to their shame, however, they ignore the necessary strengthening, especially for themselves. One can go for several days without water and a little more without food. Strangely, a believing Christian only needs to receive the Eucharistic Christ once or twice a year, and even then only because he is commanded to do so by a Church command. Another opposite and equally wrong approach to the Eucharist is that of those who also receive daily, or when they are present at Mass, but do not practice the Sacrament of Reconciliation; if they do, they do so only once a year as well.<\/h2>\n
For many, First Holy Communion is the beginning and end of friendship with Jesus. But there are also encouraging examples.<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"