Eucharist 1: The Love of God is the Eucharist

Published: June 22, 2017, 1 p.m.

Cenacle teaching, Lourdes Pinto, 6/22/17 From The Simple Path; The Eucharist, 3-C-5 Messages #49, p.162 & #50, p.163 explain how Jesus continues to live His sacrifice, His martyrdom of love, in the Eucharist.  Message 49: I Give Myself to the Good and the Bad, Diary of a MOC The Eucharist is the power of God in the world. The love of God is the Eucharist and is transmitted through the Eucharist.Catechism  CCC 1323 “At the Last Supper, on the night he was betrayed, our Savior instituted the Eucharistic sacrifice of his Body and Blood. This he did in order to perpetuate the sacrifice of the cross… CCC-1324 The Eucharist is “the source and summit of the Christian life. Has the Eucharist become the source and summit of your life? If not, why? CCC-1367 The sacrifice of Christ and the sacrifice of the Eucharist are one single sacrifice: “The victim is one and the same: the same now offers through the ministry of priests, who then offered himself on the cross; only the manner of offering is different.” “And since in this divine sacrifice which is celebrated in the Mass, the same Christ who offered himself once in a bloody manner on the altar of the cross is contained and is offered in an unbloody manner. . . this sacrifice is truly propitiatory.” Message 49 cont. Learn about the hidden life by contemplating My Eucharistic life. I am hidden from your human eye but completely present. I am verbally silent, yet My soul speaks to your soul. I am humble, pure, simple, silent, generous, forgiving, merciful, patient, and tender. Ask yourself 1.     How have I grown in humility? How am I still lacking humility? 2.     How have I grown in purity of body, mind, heart, intentions?  3.     Specifically, in what area of purity do I need further purification? 4.     How have I grown in simplicity? In what areas do I need to grow in further simplicity? 5.     Am I able to enter the silence of my heart to suffer in greater intensity and intimacy with Jesus? 6.     Am I generous with my time and attention to the souls the Lord has placed in my life? 7.     Am I also generous with those that are difficult for me to love and get along with? 8.     Have I entered my core wounds and forgiven FROM THE HEART those that inflicted those wounds?  9.     Have I come to recognize hidden resentment within my heart? 10.  In what situations and with what persons is my patience most tried?  11.  How have I grown in patience? 12.  Am I tender with the people I live closest to — spouse, children, family…? 13.  Do I now notice when the hardness of my heart reacts, and do I recognize it and strive to correct it by CHOOSING to be tender with my words, hands, and gaze?   Mathew 5:43-48:  You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your heavenly Father, for he makes his sun rise on the bad and the good, and causes rain to fall on the just and the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what recompense will you have? Do not the tax collectors do the same?  And if you greet your brothers only, what is unusual about that? Do not the pagans do the same? So be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect. CCC 1327 In brief, the Eucharist is the sum and summary of our faith: “Our way of thinking is attuned to the Eucharist, and the Eucharist in turn confirms our way of thinking.” St Irenaeus   Message 49, cont. I give Myself fully to the good and the bad, to the deserving and the undeserving,...