After Adoration tonight we celebrated the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass (Ordinary Form). My mind began to wander during the Prayer of Consecration. To help bring myself back to the reality of the miracle taking place right before me I began to picture our Lord spilling His blood as He hung on the cross.
OUR SOULS ARE WORTH THAT MUCH???
The love of God became especially real to me at that moment, as the priest consecrated the wine and it became the Blood of Jesus.
He suffered and died for us so that we may escape eternal suffering in hell. Our sins require that as a punishment, but God's love caused Him to pay the price for us.
Jesus also had to become God Incarnate so that He could remain present with us on the altars of the Church until the end of time.
And there I was about to receive His Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity!
I suddenly felt so "real", so in-tune with the reality of God's eternal presence.
God Himself was placed on my tongue. God not only entered my spiritually, as at Baptism, He also entered my physically. And not just me alone. Tonight He entered each individual assisting at Mass.
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Thank you Lord!
Eternal Father,
I offer Thee the Most Precious Blood of Thy Divine Son, Jesus, in union with the masses said throughout the world today, for all the holy souls in purgatory, for sinners everywhere, for sinners in the universal church, those in my own home and within my family.
Amen.
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