Sunday, June 7 : Saint John-Mary Vianney

Who among us, could ever have understood that Jesus Christ would have carried his love towards his creatures to the point of giving them his adorable Body and his precious Blood to serve as food for our souls, if it was not He himself who told us so? What! Friends, a soul feeds on its Savior!… and this as many times as it desires!… O abyss of goodness and love of a God for his creatures!… Saint Paul tells us, that the Savior, by taking on our flesh, hid his divinity and brought humiliation to the point of annihilation. But, by instituting the adorable sacrament of the Eucharist, he veiled his very humanity, he only revealed the depths of his mercy. See what the love of a God for his creatures is capable of!… No, friends, of all the sacraments, there is none that can be compared to that of the Eucharist. (…) Saint John tells us that Jesus Christ “having loved men to the end” (Jn 13:1), found the way to ascend to heaven without leaving earth: he took bread in his holy and venerable hands, blessed it and changed it into his Body; he took wine and changed it into his precious Blood, and gave to all the priests, in the person of his apostles, the power to perform the same miracle, whenever they pronounced the same words; so that, through this miracle of love, he could stay with us, serve us as food, comfort us and keep us company. (…) Oh ! what happiness for a Christian to aspire to such a great honor as to feed on the bread of angels!…If we understood the greatness of the happiness we have in receiving Jesus Christ, would we not continually work to deserve it?

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