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SUMMARY:Easter Weekday
DESCRIPTION:JESUS IN THE HOLY EUCHARIST\nFrom the Spiritual Autobiography of St Charles de Foucauld 3\n◊◊◊\nLord Jesus\, you are in the Holy Eucharist. You are there\, a yard away in the\ntabernacle. Your body\, your soul\, your human nature\, your divinity\, your whole\nbeing is there\, in its twofold nature. How close you are\, my God\, my Saviour\, my\nJesus\, my Brother\, my Spouse\, my Beloved! \nYou were not nearer to the Blessed Virgin during the nine months she\ncarried you in her womb than you are to me when you rest on my tongue at Holy\nCommunion. You were no closer to the Blessed Virgin and St. Joseph in the caves\nat Bethlehem or the house at Nazareth or during the flight into Egypt\, or at any\nmoment of that divine family life than you are to me at this moment – and so many\nothers – in the tabernacle. St. Mary Magdalene was no closer to you when she sat\nat your feet at Bethany than I am here at the foot of this altar. You were no nearer\nto your apostles when you were sitting in the midst of them than you are to me\nnow\, my God. How blessed I am! \nIt is wonderful\, my Lord\, to be alone in my cell and converse there with you\nin the silence of the night – and you are there as God\, and by your grace. But to\nstay in my cell when I could be before the Blessed Sacrament – why\, it would be as\nthough St. Mary Magdalene had left you on your own when you were at Bethany\nto go and think about you alone in her room! It is a precious and devout thing\, O\nGod\, to go and kiss the places you made holy during your life on earth – the stones\nof Gethsemane and Calvary\, the ground along the Way of Sorrows\, the waves of\nthe sea of Galilee – but to prefer it to your tabernacle would be to desert the Jesus\nliving beside me\, to leave him alone\, going away alone to venerate the dead stones\nin places where he is no longer. It would be to leave… the Jesus living at my side\nto go into another room to greet his portrait… \nWherever the sacred Host is to be found\, there is the living God\, there is your\nSaviour\, as really as when he was living and talking in Galilee and Judea\, as really\nas he now is in heaven. Never deliberately miss Holy Communion. Communion is\nmore than life\, more than all the good things of this world\, more than the whole\nuniverse: it is God himself… \n3 St Charles de Foucauld. Spiritual Autobiography of Charles de Foucauld. Ed. JeanFranҫois Six. Trans. J. Holland Smith. New York: P.J. Kenedy & Sons\, 1964. 98-99.
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