Jesus Christ: Stop receiving My Body with Your Hands! It is the Gravest ...

Christ gave us His REAL BODY AND BLOOD to eat.

Aurelius Ambrosius,
better known in English
as Saint Ambrose

From the treatise 

On the Mysteries 

by Saint Ambrose, 

bishop 337 AD – 397AD

To the newly baptized on the Eucharist

Fresh from the waters and resplendent in these garments, God’s holy people hasten to the altar of Christ saying: I will go in to the altar of God, to God who gives joy to my youth.  

They have sloughed off the old skin of error, their youth renewed like an eagle’s, and they make haste to approach that heavenly banquet.  They come and, seeing the sacred altar prepared, cry out:  You have prepared a table in my sight.  

David puts these words into their mouths: The Lord is my shepherd and nothing will be lacking to me. He has set me down there in a place of pasture.  He has brought me beside refreshing water.  Further on, we read:  For he has set me beside refreshing water.  Further on, we read: For though I should walk in the midst of the shadow of death, I shall not be afraid of evils, for you are with me.  Your rod and your staff have given me comfort.  You have prepared in my sight a table against those who afflict me.  You have made my head rich in oil, and your cup, which exhilarates, how excellent it is.

It is wonderful that God rained manna on our fathers and they were fed with daily food from heaven.  And so it is written: Man ate the bread of angels.  Yet those who ate that bread all died in the desert.

But the food that you receive, 

that living bread which came down from heaven, 

supplies the very substance of eternal life, 

and whoever will eat it will never die, 

for it is the Body of Christ.

The REALITY of the True Presence of Christ in the Eucharist

Consider now which is the more excellent: the bread of angels or the flesh of Christ, which is indeed that body that gives life.  

The first was manna from heaven, the second is above the heavens.  One was of heaven, the other is of the Lord of the heavens; one subject to corruption if it was kept till the morrow, the other free from all corruption, 

for if anyone tastes of it with reverence 

he will be incapable of corruption. 

Communion taken with reverence

For our fathers, water flowed from the rock; for you, blood flows from Christ.  Water satisfied their thirst for a time; blood cleanses you for ever.  The Jew drinks and still thirsts, but when you drink you will be incapable of thirst.  

What happened in symbol 

is now fulfilled in reality.

If what we marvel at is a shadow, how great is the reality whose very shadow you marvel at.  

Listen to this, which shows that what happened in the time of our fathers was but a shadow.  They drank, it is written, from the rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.  All this took place as a symbol for us.  

You know now what is more excellent: 

LIGHT is preferable to its shadow, 

REALITY to its symbol, 

the BODY OF THE GIVER

 to the manna 

He gave them from heaven.

MIRACULOUS IMAGE OF THE CHILD JESUS

Miraculous Image of the Child Jesus

Miraculous image of the Child Jesus —

A monk on the desert is reported to have taken a picture of the Holy Eucharist while exposed. Upon developing the film, this image of the child Jesus appeared. Sometime later, Jesus told this same monk that He would “”I promise to send my blessings and my peace to each home where this image is found.”

Look at that sweet face! 

Jesus I Love You 

and 

place my Trust in YOU!

Prayer To Jesus Abandoned

He's Abandoned In the Blessed Sacrament

With Mary Immaculate, let us adore, thank, implore and console, the Most Beloved and Sacred Heart of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.

O Divine Jesus, lonely tonight in so many Tabernacles, without visitor or worshipper I offer Thee my poor Heart.  May its every throb be an act of love for Thee.  

Thou are always watching beneath the Sacramental Veils; in Thy Love Thou dost never sleep and Thou art never weary of Thy vigil for sinners.  

O lonely Jesus, may the flame of my heart burn and beam always in company with Thee.

O Sacrament Most Holy, 

O Sacrament Divine, 

All praise and all thanksgiving 

be every moment Thine!

Could you not spend one hour with Me?

Matthew 26:40

Holy Eucharist Prayer

Jesus in the Holy Sacrament -- We adore You

To Jesus Abandoned

With Mary Immaculate, let us adore, thank, implore and console, the Most Beloved and Sacred Heart of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.

O Divine Jesus, lonely tonight in so many Tabernacles, without visitor or worshiper I offer Thee my poor heart.  

May its every throb be an act of love for Thee.  

Thou art always watching beneath the Sacramental Veils; in Thy Love Thou dost never sleep and Thou art never weary of Thy vigil for sinners.  

O lonely Jesus, may the flame of my heart burn and beam always in company with Thee.

O Sacrament Most Holy, O Sacrament Divine!

All praise and all thanksgiving 

Be every moment Thine!

Taken from the book – Hour of Reparation, copyright 1945