Day 4 - Sunday

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Dear Brothers and Sisters,

Every Sunday is like a “little Easter” in which we are called to meet the Risen Jesus in Holy Communion. Alleluia!

However, we participate in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and in a marvelous way we are also participating in Calvary at every Consecration of the Mass. The One Sacrifice is made present for us, in a miraculous way when the priest utters the sacred words, “This is My Body”…“This is My Blood”… We are enabled by God’s Grace to offer ourselves with Jesus to the Father with Mary.

The Father then gives us the Bread (made Christ) from heaven in Holy Communion. We receive the Living Christ. St. Louis De Montfort encourages us to receive Jesus with Mary:
…Implore Mary to lend you her heart so that you may receive her Son with her dispositions. Remind her that her Son’s glory requires that he should not come into a heart so sullied and fickle as your own, which could not fail to diminish his glory and might cause him to leave. Tell her that if she will take up her abode in you to receive her Son - which she can do because of the sovereignty she has over all hearts - he will be received by her in a perfect manner without danger of being affronted or being forced to depart. “God is in the midst of her. She shall not be moved.”
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Tell her with confidence that all you have given her of your possessions is little enough to honour her, but that in Holy Communion you wish to give her the same gifts as the eternal Father gave her. Thus she will feel more honoured than if you gave her all the wealth in the world. Tell her, finally, that Jesus, whose love for her is unique, still wishes to take his delight and his repose in her even in your soul, even though it is poorer and less clean than the stable which he readily entered because she was there. Beg her to lend you her heart, saying, “O Mary, I take you for my all; give me your heart.”
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Paragraphs 266 - 273 in “True Devotion” can be very helpful. See HERE

Please let us continue to pray for one another as we journey together .
 
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