Broken commandments

[theotikos]

Please pray for me that I follow the commandments of God. One big one is I take the communion almost daily but I take it in vain. Any light shed on this would be highly appreciated. This is horrible. I thank him but that’s not enough. I would surely be punished if I continue this. Thanks.

 

[Trishie]

Dear theotikos, it is no surprise that any of us could feel enormously unworthy of the great gift of Communion.
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We are all more or less deaf, dumb and blind before this great gift.
We do the best we can manage in our limited human way.
God knows that.
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**“He is the image of the unseen God, and the first-born of all creation, for in Him were created all things in heaven and on earth…Before anything was created, He existed, and He holds all things in unity. Now the Church is His body, He is its head. As He is the Beginning, He was the first to be born from the dead, so that He should be first in every way; because God wanted all perfection to be found in Him and all things to be reconciled through Him and for Him, everything in heaven and everything on earth, when He made peace by His death on the cross.” [Colossians 1:15-16, 17-20] “The One that offers Sacrifice is the same One who, after having sacrificed himself on the Cross…to obtain for us eternal redemption…offers Himself now by the ministry of the priest; there is no difference except in the manner of offering.” [Council of Trent, S. 22, c.2] “For in it Christ perpetuates in an unbloody manner the sacrifice offered on the Cross, offering Himself to the Father for the world’s salvation through the ministry of priests.” [Vatican 2 Documents.9:3]

Communion

Jesus, You who welcome me into Your loving presence, welcome to my heart! Deep in Your love I rest. All distance and time disappear in Your Sacramental presence. By Your extraordinary mercy, in each Communion I am with You in Heaven and on Earth, with Father, Holy Spirit, with the Angels, with communicants from past, present and future. Within each Communion I pray for everyone who ever lives.

I trustfully lean against Your breast, listening to Your seeming silence. I speak of everything in my heart, hope, and life for You, for everyone, for my dear ones, and for me. Trusting in Your mercy, I surrender my being and theirs, with our goodness, our sin and indifference. Jesus, as I dwell in You who dwell in me forever deep within Your love, please hold me close to Your heart along with each other person. Thank You for this gift of Communion.

 

[Trishie]

God’s gift of redemption and Jesus’ heart-gift

Jesus, although we are often complacent regarding this gift of Your highest creative imagination, the Eucharist is Your heart-gift to humanity throughout time. You grant it for our spiritual nourishment and for our intimate communion with God, with Catholics throughout the ages, and with all saints in Heaven.

You offer Yourself to God in reparation, thanksgiving, petition and praise on behalf of everyone who ever lives. I ask You, with the Holy Spirit, with the intercession of Your Mother, of all saints and angels, and of all souls, to offer the Mass for all persons in the highest way intended by God.

Thank You Jesus for this gift of Eucharist that is offered for everyone, even those who know nothing of this gift!The Eucharistic offering is never an isolated event or the prayer of any one person, but of all people. Therefore, in the Eucharist, I say ‘Amen’ to all Your hopes and dreams for everyone and everything that You intend in time and eternity.

The Mass is the only banquet to which one may invite countless souls from around the world throughout time. I invite the Angels of dear ones and of each other person living and in Purgatory, to share fully in the Eucharist as they proclaim ‘Amen’ to all the hopes and dreams that God has for each of these souls.

Jesus please make my life to be a celebration of this heart-gift of Jesus who loves us each so much. For Jesus, Bread of Life, You are my pearl beyond price. I offer this pearl to the Father for each soul entrusted to me, and for all persons.

A Mass offering

Jesus, during Mass I am sometimes distracted. Regardless I ask to be fully in Your presence. May the Holy Spirit, our Mother, all Saints and Angels, the souls in Purgatory, offer Mass with me, for sake of Your whole Mystical Body. Even at most aware, I feel deaf, dumb and blind regarding the Eucharist. Therefore, I surrender my being and life, and all persons for whom I pray, to Your ‘Amen’ within this Sacramental Sacrifice.

Jesus, as the Spirit transubstantiates bread into Your body, please also transform me into You! I feel ordinary and small, and others see me so. Yet I am full of the peace of knowing that in the presence of the Father, through the Holy Spirit, with the communion of Saints and Angels, You pray Your Eucharistic prayer of love, thanksgiving and salvation in us. Thank You Jesus for the gift of Eucharist, which is beyond human understanding and hope.

I seek Your Eucharistic presence in each instant of my life. I seek it for praise and thanksgiving to the Trinity—for all the wishes of Your Heart, and for the hopes of the whole Mystical Body. I seek it for the purification, expansion, holiness and unity of Your Church. I seek it for priests, religious and for the entire human family. I seek it for justice, love and peace; for souls in purgatory; for my own dear ones.

…Eternal God, look at me, see Your Son, and answer all the wishes of His loving heart in me and in those whom He longs to bless through me. Thank You for Him and for the Spirit who brings Him to me and me to Him. Thank You for giving me opportunity and faith to live a Eucharistic life—for others’ benefit, and mine. I want to respond wholeheartedly to this extraordinary gift of Eucharist and Communion.

 

[Trishie]

Of course you cannot be worthy of this great Sacrament, none of us can. We depend on God’s grace, God’s mercy.

I am made holy before You, Father. I am purified by the blood of God Incarnate, Jesus Your Son! I am made worthy by His love for me!
Behold Him Father! He becomes man for me! He suffers and dies for my sake! In Him You see me justified! You require now only my faith, love, and submission. Father please actualise this in me through Your Holy Spirit, that Your will is accomplished and I only exist in You eternally, Jesus’ promises complete.

As Saint Paul laments, frequently we fail to accomplish the good things that we intend. [Romans 7:19] Yet when he called upon You to free him of a care that plagued him, You answered “My grace is enough for you: my power is at its best in weakness.” For this reason Paul chose to make his weakness his “special boast” to retain Your power over him, saying, “it is when I am weak that I am strong.” [2Corinthians 12:7-10]

Therefore, Father, “I am no longer trying for perfection by my own efforts…but I only want the perfection that comes through faith in Christ, and is from God and based on faith.” [Philippians 3:9] “For Christ is the resurrection and if we believe in him who redeems us from our sinful nature, even though we die, we will live, and whoever lives and believes in Him will never die.” [John 11:26]

“By His divine power, He has given us all the things that we need for life and for true devotion,” bringing us to know You, our God, who have called us by Your own glory and goodness in Christ. In these gifts, Saint Peter tells us, we are guaranteed of “something very great and wonderful to come” and through them we “will be able to share the divine nature and to escape corruption in a world that is sunk in vice.” To attain this we “will have to do the utmost ourselves, adding goodness to our faith, understanding to our goodness, self-control to our understanding, patience to our self-control, true devotion to our patience, kindness towards our fellow men to our devotion, and, to this kindness, love.”

If we live these virtues, we will not remain ineffectual or barren, but will be lead to “to a real knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.” If we remain faithful in this knowledge, we will be “granted admittance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ.” [2Peter 1:3-8, 10-11]

“Glory to Him whose power, working in us, can do infinitely more than we can ask or imagine.” [Ephesians 3:20] “Our soul awaits the Lord, He is our help and our shield; our hearts rejoice in Him, we trust in His holy name. Lord God, let Your love rest on us, as our hope has rested in You.” [Psalm 33:20-22]

 

[truthsave]

our friend theoticos, feeling unworthy is just feeling really the way we are, whatever degree of cleaness our soul has. St. Francis a Catholic Saint that I profundly love even though I am Orthodox (Saints don’t have flags except God’s one) said of himself when he was talking to his closest monk (I guess was Brother Leon) that he was worthed of hell.

For you I pray our Holy Father to keep on struglying with this moatter if this struggle would help to simplify your thoughts, may purify your soul and make you simpler and humble, so that you could live our Saviour Jesus message deep in your heart, and not only in your brain and words. May our Father transform your heart in one capable of knowing him as it is possible for a human to know Him, and bless you and may forgive your weak nature, may He forgive your unworthy nature and bless your desire and may He makes feel deeply inside that when your heart comdems yourself that He is much bigger then your heart.
In Jesus name
amen

 

[Clarissa51]

The Lord will rescue me from every evil deed, and will bring me safely to His heavenly kingdom; to Him be the glory forever and ever. Amen. 2 Tim. 4:18

Dear God our Father, We raise up theotikos for your healing deliverance. Open his/her eyes to whatever help that You send him/her, and let him/her be encouraged to read your Word, consult with a priest or other spiritual counselor, and to pray for the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Thank you Father, in Jesus name, Amen.

 

[philial]

Please pray for me that I follow the commandments of God. One big one is I take the communion almost daily but I take it in vain. Any light shed on this would be highly appreciated. This is horrible. I thank him but that’s not enough. I would surely be punished if I continue this. Thanks.

I’m not sure what you actually mean by ‘in vain’ in this context - do you mean, simply, that you are unworthy? Well, yes, as am I and the rest of humanity (well, excluding the BVM, of course). If, however, by ‘in vain’ you mean as a pointless exercise, then you are very wrong indeed, since the Eucharistic Christ does not reply on us to be effective, but is a source of Grace for us, but inspite of us!

For Goodness sake, child of God - Christ came to liberate you with His very self. He knows you are unworthy, he doesn’t care that you are a leper - He reaches out to touch you, and draw your healed self closer to him - yet you shrink away!

Are you sure that you are not using your unworthiness as an excuse to avoid being drawn closer to Him? Is he asking for greater committment - maybe not of the body, but of your heart & mind - and you prefer to dwell on your unworthiness than surrender yourself entirely to him? YOU must diminish so that He might increase! Now, put Him, and not you, at the centre of this drama! Be that Child of God you are called to be!

 

[Mark1970]

Praying for your intentions.

 

[ready]

May you prepare to receive Jesus each day before Mass, and ask Mother Mary to receive Jesus in you at Holy Communion. May you ask Jesus and Mary to increase in you and ask yourself to decrease. Before receiving Jesus in communion say “Lord I am not worthy” three times: once to God the father for all the sins you have committed in thought; the second time to Jesus for the sins you have committed in speech; the third time to the Holy Spirit for the inspirations of the Holy Spirit you have neglected to act upon. May this prepration help you to receive our Lord with the right disposition; may God help you to keep faithful. Amen.