Friday, May 9 : Saint Teresa of Calcutta
How tenderly Jesus speaks when he gives himself to his own in Holy Communion. “My flesh is meat indeed and my blood is drink indeed. He that eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me and I in him.” Oh, what could my Jesus do more than give me his flesh for my food? No, not even God could do more nor show a greater love for me. Holy Communion, as the word itself implies, is the intimate union of Jesus and our soul and body. If we want to have life and have it more abundantly, we must live on the flesh of our Lord. The saints understood so well that they could spend hours in preparation and still more in thanksgiving. This needs no explanation, for who could explain “the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God?” “How incomprehensible are his judgments!” cried St. Paul, “And how unsearchable his ways, for who has known the mind of the Lord?” (Rm 11,33-34). When communicating with Christ in your heart after partaking of the Living, Bread, remember what our Lady must have felt when the Holy Spirit overpowered her, and she who was full of grace became full with the body of Christ (Lk 1,26f.). The Spirit in her was so strong that immediately she “rose in haste” (v.39) to go and serve.
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