What a prayer of the heart Thursday of the third week of Easter, Oh,
Holy Spirit Love of the father and son, inspire me what I must
think, what I must say, how I must say, what I must
silence, how I must act, what I must do for the Glory of
God, well of the Souls and my own sanctification. Holy Spirit Give me.
Ability to understand, ability to retain everything and faculty to learn, Subtleness
to interpret, grace and effectiveness to speak. I am not right to begin
direction, to progress and perfect the end amen. Today we celebrate Saint Perfect,
Perpitro and Martyr in Cordoba the Gospel of Saint John, chapter six verses,
forty- four or fifty- one. At that time Jesus said to
the crowd. No one can come to me if he doesn' t attract
him to ra. The father who sent me and I will challenge him on
the last day is written in the prophets. They will all be disciples of
God. Everyone who listens to the father and learns comes to me. It
is not that someone has seen the father unless the one standing next to God
has seen the father in truth. Verily I say unto you, He that
believeth in me hath everlasting life. I am the bread of life Your fathers
ate from the desert of manna and died. This is the bread that comes
down from heaven, that man may be like him, and not die.
I' m the living bread that goes down the sky. Whoever eats this
bread will live forever. And the bread that I will give is my flesh
for the life of the world. It is necessary to keep in mind always,
that Eucharist is not something that we do, It is not a commemoration
of not ours of what Jesus has said. It is not precisely an action
of Christ. It is Christ who acts there, who is on the altar,
and Christ is the Lord, he is a gift of Christ, who
becomes present and gathers us around in this way to nourish us with his word
and with his life. This means that the mission and the very identity of
the Church arise from there, from the Eucharist, from there always take form
a celebration can also be impeccable from the very beautiful external point of view.
But if it does not lead us to the encounter with Jesus Christ, it
risks not bringing any food into our heart and life, through the Eucharist.
Instead, Christ wants to enter into our existence and permeate it with His grace.
For what in every Christian community there is coherence between iturg and life.
The heart is filled with trust and sns, thinking of the words of Jesus
gathered in the Gospel. Egoe my carri and my blood comes. He has
eternal life and I will resurrect him on the last day. Let us live
the Eucharist in the spirit of faith, prayer, forgiveness, penance, community
joy, concern for the needy and for the anxieties of so many brothers and
sisters, with the certainty that the Lord will accomplish what he has promised us.
Eternal life. We hunger, hunger for God, we need the bread
of eternal way. Perhaps we have tasted other banquets and discovered that it makes
us fully to our desire. But Christ reveals himself as the food we need,
the only one who cannot calm our needs and give us the strength for
the way. The catechism of the Catholic Church teaches us that in Communion we
receive the bread of heaven and the chalice of salvation, the body and blood
of Christ that I know was ntrended for the life of the world said in
a very beautiful way, Saint Justin. We call in his apology, we
call this food Christia and Nane can take part in it. If you do
not believe in the truth of what is taught among us, if you have
not received the bath for the forgiveness of sins and the new birth, if
you do not live according to the precepts of Christ, as the body is
sustained by food. Thus we are in need of soul, the ocaristia,
that this comes down from heaven to the altar by the priest' s hand,
comes to us and hopes that we too will go to him, that
we will often seek him to receive him with the soul. Clean himself in
sin to visit him. The tabernacle is bread of eternal life, according to
its promise, that everyone who sees the son and believes in him should have
eternal life. Whoever lives supported by locoristia, grows progressively in union with God
and seeing him from this world, in this world, under the veil of
the kind of pruning, wine, we prepare to contemplate myself face to face
in future life. Perhaps this prayer of Padre Pio can serve you after communion
that will help you to value more the gift of the Manna Eucharist for eternal
life. It says so. Stay with me, sir, because it is
necessary to keep you in mind so as not to forget you. You know
how easily I leave you. Stay with me, sir, because I am
weak and I need your strength not to fall so many times. Stay with
me, sir, because you are my life and without you diminish my fervor.
Stay with me, sir, to show me your will. Stay,
sir, with me so I can hear your voice and follow it. Stay,
sir, with me, so that because I want to love you very
much and be or turn company. Stay with me, sir, if you
want me to be faithful to you? Stay with me, sir, because
even if my soul is so poor, you wish to be a place of
rest, a nest of love. Stay, jesus, with me, for
it is late and the day declines, that is, it approaches death,
the judgment of eternity. Stay with me, I need to redouble my strength
in order not to faint along the way, and for this I need you.
It' s getting late and death is coming. I am troubled by
the darkness, the temptations, the aides, the crosses, the sorrows.
How much need I have for you, make me know you as the disciples
at the breaking of the bread, that is, that the light that dissipates
in the darkness, the strength that sustains me, and the only joy of
my Gersa heart, may I sit down. Stay with me, sir,
because when death comes. I want to be united with You, if not
really by Holy Communion, at least by the grace of love. Stay to
Jesus with me, I do not ask you for a divine consolation, because
I do not deserve it, but the gift of your most holy presence,
yes, I do not ask you to stay, Lord with me, I
seek from you only your love, your grace, your will, your heart,
your spirit, because I love you and I want no reward other than
to love. I want a favor, a fervent and deep love. I
want to love you with all my heart here on earth, to continue loving
you perfectly for all eternity. So be it, so far. The prayer
of my father, Lord Jesus, you give me the bread I need in
order to live fully in vocation. I really benefit from this sacrament. I
am aware that Christias is not a symbol that you are a living god made
a host that I will receive within me. I beg of you that this
meditation leads me to contemplate you in the dearest and never allow me to be
made a habit, a rite or a senseless habit. You of the blessing,
may the goodness and mercy of God, Father, trimate the heart,
may the gaze of the love of God, son, perish in your soul
and purify you from any uneasiness and lack that can separate you from God,
may the love of a holy spirit grant you capable, that you need the
tenderness of Mary, mother of God and our mother, caress and protect you,
and may the strength and sencilitate of that Joseph, our Father, Lord,
lead the elder and the blessing of God, father, son and holy
spirit saying about you and remain always amen