At first when I started thinking of a Lenten grace to
write about I could not think of anything.
After all, I have not had any visions, been healed of a disease or
worked any miracles! But then I thought
about the greatest grace imaginable, the grace of falling deeper in love with the
One Who has called me to be His. This
has been His gift to me this Lent; the gift of knowing in a deeper way that I
am His and He is mine. The gift of
falling more in love with our Eucharistic God, Who even as I write this and you
read this, is waiting for us, waiting to shower His love on us. Not in some generic spring shower way, but a
torrential downpour on each of our souls.
This Lent Jesus has let me experience, even if it was just a little, His
presence in the Holy Eucharist. His gift
to me has been Himself and now I am trying to give Him in return what He is
longing for: my whole being. I pray that all of us will come to see the
immense gift of the Eucharist, to experience in an even deeper way the reality
of our total dependence on the Eucharist and Jesus’ great longing to unite each
of us totally with Himself for all eternity!
In the words of St. Peter Julian Eymard, “We have the Eucharist, what
more could we want!”
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