Does Jesus suffer in the Blessed Sacrament?

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Hi! When I adore Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament I wonder if He is suffering while He is in the Tabernacle or in the Monstrance. When I adore Him I make a Spiritual Communion so He can come to me in a special way and hopefully be relieved a little from suffering in the Blessed Sacrament. (I don’t know if this gives Him any relief because I don’t think that my soul is a fitting place for Him, but I just do what I can.) Do any of you have any insight on this? Thank you!
 
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Hi! When I adore Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament I wonder if He is suffering while He is in the Tabernacle or in the Monstrance. When I adore Him I make a Spiritual Communion so He can come to me in a special way and hopefully be relieved a little from suffering in the Blessed Sacrament. (I don’t know if this gives Him any relief because I don’t think that my soul is a fitting place for Him, but I just do what I can.) Do any of you have any insight on this? Thank you!
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The Eucharist re-presents the one time sacrifice of Christ. I’ve considered the True Presence to be the resurrected body of Jesus. Glorified, not suffering.
 
Gods_Holy_Will said:
Hi! When I adore Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament I wonder if He is suffering while He is in the Tabernacle or in the Monstrance. When I adore Him I make a Spiritual Communion so He can come to me in a special way and hopefully be relieved a little from suffering in the Blessed Sacrament. (I don’t know if this gives Him any relief because I don’t think that my soul is a fitting place for Him, but I just do what I can.) Do any of you have any insight on this? Thank you!
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Jesus is eternal.

This came to me one Friday night at our weekly Adoration:
When we see Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament we are adoring Him as He is in the beginning, as He is hangs on the cross, as He sits on His throne in heaven …
There is no time for our Lord. I cannot find the words for it, but all the above is happening ‘at the same time’ in the way we understand time. (I’ve had difficulty describing this idea ever since it came to me.)

So, yes, He is suffering. But not just suffering.
He is suffering for us and sitting on His throne as He is with the Father at creation.
During Adoration we join our thoughts and prayers with the voices of the Cherubim and Seraphim.
Sanctus
Sanctus
Sanctus …
 
novusCatholic said:
The Eucharist re-presents the one time sacrifice of Christ. I’ve considered the True Presence to be the resurrected body of Jesus. Glorified, not suffering.
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I second it. The Glorious body do not suffer. We are not good enough to make Him suffer, whatever we do. Once, and only one upon the time He gave Himself to the hand of the people and suffered. We hurt ourselves by irreverence, separate ourselves from Him.
 
novusCatholic said:
The Eucharist re-presents the one time sacrifice of Christ. I’ve considered the True Presence to be the resurrected body of Jesus. Glorified, not suffering.
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laszlo said:
I second it. The Glorious body do not suffer. We are not good enough to make Him suffer, whatever we do. Once, and only one upon the time He gave Himself to the hand of the people and suffered. We hurt ourselves by irreverence, separate ourselves from Him.
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I’m glad to see these answers. I was beginning to worry that I misunderstood the Eucharist.
 
laszlo said:
I second it. The Glorious body do not suffer.** We are not good enough to make Him suffer, whatever we do.** Once, and only one upon the time He gave Himself to the hand of the people and suffered. We hurt ourselves by irreverence, separate ourselves from Him.
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I agree with you about the glorious body; but how could our “goodness” make Him suffer? (Assuming we had any)
 
Hi,

If I may take another view on this. I do not believe that he suffers per say in a bodily sense, but I believe that His heart suffers due to man’s sins and the lack of reverence that is shown to Him these days. Often when Mary appeared to visionaries she sometimes be weeping with sadness becuase of the many hurts and injuries done to Her Son in the Eucharist due to people not following God’s law. SO I would assume that Jesus suffers too in this way probably beyond my comprehension.

I also know when we suffer he suffers with us. Many times I have found that this thought to be consoling and comforting. I cannot tell you how many times I have sat in front of the Blessed Sacrament crying my eyes out and crying inside, but knowing that Jesus too was weeping with me.

St. Therse of Lisuix had a saying that I find most encouraging. She talked in her book about Jesus coming to reside in our hearts, which become His heaven or something to that effect. I will look for that quote and post it in this thread when I find it.

Little One0307
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Little One0307 - Thank you for sharing your insight! I look forward to that quote by St. Therese!
 
It is a mystery, you see, you shouldn’t question it with your intellect, but believe.

When St. Augustine was trying to comprehend the mystery of the Trinity at the seaside, there was this little boy, making a hole in the sand, and walk back and forth with his container to fill that hole with the sea water.

And St. Augustine asked this boy, what are you doing?

He said, I’m trying to move the seawater to this hole.

And St. Augustine said, it is impossible, how can seawater so vast be contained in this little hole?

And the boy answered, the same with you, how can you comprehend the trinity with your small mind?

And the boy dissapeared.

To understand more about the eucharist, you can see the eucharistic miracles around the globe. You have to be careful though, there are some fake eucharistic miracles those are not approved.

eucharisticmiracles.blogspot.com

And, in the eucharist, or in the blessed sacrament (in tabernacle, or monstrance, in adoration), it is Jesus himself. Whole Jesus. Body, blood, soul, and divinity. Just as when he walked around palestine, healing people. It’s full Jesus, not half Jesus, even though the host may be half.

So he’s with you there, and you can see him, and he sees you.

In the sacrament of eucharist, in the mass, the priest offers a sacrifice to God in atonement for his sins and our sins, that is the body, blood, soul, and divinity of Jesus Christ.

The Passion of Christ is relived in each and every mass, also, the resurrection of Christ.

So, it is a mystery.

Do not question it, just believe, and then, you will see.

The more you question, well, you’ll be blinded by that questioning. We have to be simple like little child, that’s the way to reach heaven

Here’s a book about the excellence of the holy sacrifice of the Mass, by St. Leonard of Port Maurice:

saintsworks.net/books/St.%20Leonard%20of%20Port%20Maurice%20-%20The%20Hidden%20Treasure%20or%20the%20Immense%20Excellence%20of%20the%20Holy%20Sacrifice%20of%20the%20Mass.pdf

And you can also read St. Therese of the Child Jesus book, if you want:

catholicplanet.com/ebooks/ThereseAutobiography.pdf

The imitation of Christ (a book that was read by St. Therese) has excellent section on the eucharist:

saintsworks.net/books/Thomas%20a%20Kempis%20-%20The%20Imitation%20of%20Christ.pdf

In the Diary of St. Faustina, we will see her devotion and love and faith in Jesus in the blessed sacrament, then we can take it from her examples of childlike trust and simplicity:🙂

saintsworks.net/books/St.%20Faustina%20Kowalska%20-%20Diary.pdf

Reading the lives of the saints gives spiritual food for our souls, it will greatly help our progress in perfection.

Because we are called to be saints. We are all called to holiness.

And the way to see eucharist better, is to go to confession before receiving it, even if you only have venial sins. Because Jesus is holy, and we must make ourself holy before receiving God the Most holy, truly present, body, blood, soul, divinity, in the each of the consecrated host. Before receiving the Holy Trinity, God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. When you go to confession before receiving the eucharist, it means that you revere Jesus so much, that you want to be holy before receiving Him. Thus he will give you light about His true presence, without words, but by his mercy and grace

There is this sin called sacrilege, that is if we receive Jesus in the eucharist in the state of mortal sin. That is why people in this state need to go to confession first before receiving the eucharist

We can offer each mass in atonement for our sins, and those of the whole world, for conversion of sinners and for the holy souls in purgatory.

I hope you will obtain light on the holy mass

Here you can see the beautiful Latin (Tridentine) Mass, before the second vatican council changed it to New Mass.

youtube.com/watch?v=enWiFcsBqIE

It had been conducted in Latin for 1900 years throughout the world. And it uses sacred music, gregorian chants.

I’ll say a little prayer for you,
Jesus, give your daughter a lively faith in your presence in the sacraments, especially the sacrament of eucharist. Where you are truly present, body, blood, soul, and divinity
Grant her faith, to see you in the blessed sacrament
Amen
saintsarefamily.blogspot.com
 
From my experience, if I did not go to confession before receiving communion (say, for a year), I do not know what I am receiving. And mass is such a burden for me, an obligation

But if I go weekly (or once every two weeks) to confession, mass becomes such a joy to me, that I long to receive Jesus in my heart, to unite myself with him. So that he may consume me, and transform me into himself.

For we are called to be like Jesus, don’t we?

That is where the eucharist comes in. It is Jesus, the source of Grace, coming to our hearts, gives us strength, refreshes us.

The same when we are in adoration, we meet Jesus, we greet Him, we pray to him, we love him, and we offer that adoration, in atonement for our sins, and the whole world. For conversion of sinners

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We can see Jesus! That’s amazing! He humbles himself in a form of a lowly bread. And no matter the condition of the priest (holy/sinful), once he said the words of consecration, the bread and wine, becomes the body and blood of Christ :eek:



http://www.miraclerosarymission.org/lancianobo.jpg

Photos taken from Eucharistic Miracles, Lanciano, Italy (700AD)

The host is still preserved in the church until now.

you can do some google research about it

Do not fear, God loves you
 
GEddie said:
I agree with you about the glorious body; but how could our “goodness” make Him suffer? (Assuming we had any)
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I used the word in a most generic sense: strong, powerful, effective, as the Satan himself is many times strong, powerful, effective. Our strength, power, effectiveness is not enough to make Him suffer, no matter of our intent.

If some spits out the Sacred Body and steps on it, it would hurt that person and does who let it done, not Jesus Christ Himself. This is part of the definition of His presence in the Eucharist.
 
Hi,

I found the quote that I was thinking of. When I remember this quote it helps.

“It is not, to remain in a golden ciborium that He comes to us each day from heaven; it’s to find another heaven, infinitely more dear to Him than the first: the heaven of our soul, made to His image, the living temple of the adorable Trinity.”

St. Therese of Lisiuex, Story of a soul [Page 104]

I love her writings, I am going to re-read that book.

And actually when the Eucharist is stepped on or desecreated, no you do not hurt Jesus bodily, but I believe that he feels pain in His heart. How can he not? I have read in some of the saints writings that some of the things that caused him much pain in the Garden of Gethsemane, was not mostly our sins even though these cause him much pain as for the fact that He loves us with a great love and wishes the Good for Us, namely Union with Him, but it was those sins of ingratititude that those of His Children would commit.

Jesus cried in life, he suffered with those he was with in thier moments of pain, he suffered pain from our sins and the atrocities of mankind. If he suffered in this way, then he suffers today in some mystical way that we cannot explain, though again not in a bodiliy way. Would you not rather have Jesus who has suffered and still suffers with us? than someone who is distant from our sufferings?, not I. And that is one of the reasons that makes Him so worthy of my love and worship, because He comes down to me to meet me in my sorrows and lifts me up by His Grace. I love Him. God be praised.

Little One0307
 
Little_One0307 said:
And actually when the Eucharist is stepped on or desecreated, no you do not hurt Jesus bodily, but I believe that he feels pain in His heart. How can he not? I have read in some of the saints writings that some of the things that caused him much pain in the Garden of Gethsemane, was not mostly our sins even though these cause him much pain as for the fact that He loves us with a great love and wishes the Good for Us, namely Union with Him, but it was those sins of ingratititude that those of His Children would commit.
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I like the Little Teresa too.

As for the hurt, there is no pain in the heaven, nor for the glorious body.

As for the Gethsemane I relay of the Bible, his pain there was the anicipation of the next day

Mark 14:35 And when he was gone forward a little, he fell flat on the ground; and he prayed, that if it might be, the hour might pass from him.
 
laszlo said:
I like the Little Teresa too.

As for the hurt, there is no pain in the heaven, nor for the glorious body.

As for the Gethsemane I relay of the Bible, his pain there was the anicipation of the next day

Mark 14:35 And when he was gone forward a little, he fell flat on the ground; and he prayed, that if it might be, the hour might pass from him.
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Are you telling me that God, and remember Jesus is GOD does not feel sorrow when he sees His little Ones falling into sin and their lives a wreck? Yes there is no pain in heaven, yes the glorious body does not suffer, but God feels our pain and the world’s pain. I do not understand why I am getting the comments I am getting to my posts, is it problematic for Jesus to feel pain at our sorrows? Somehow I cannot see how this is. Even the Blessed Virgin is sad at times when seeing how the world is progressing into depravity.

Little One0307
 
Let’s also consider the meditations for the Stations of the Cross that the former Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger wrote. In the Ninth Station, he writes that:
What can the third fall of Jesus under the Cross say to us? We have considered the fall of man in general, and the falling of many Christians away from Christ and into a godless secularism. **Should we not also think of how much Christ suffers in his own Church? How often is the holy sacrament of his Presence abused, how often must he enter empty and evil hearts! How often do we celebrate only ourselves, without even realizing that he is there! How often is his Word twisted and misused! What little faith is present behind so many theories, so many empty words! How much filth there is in the Church, and even among those who, in the priesthood, ought to belong entirely to him! How much pride, how much self-complacency! What little respect we pay to the Sacrament of Reconciliation, where he waits for us, ready to raise us up whenever we fall! **All this is present in his Passion. His betrayal by his disciples, their unworthy reception of his Body and Blood, is certainly the greatest suffering endured by the Redeemer; it pierces his heart. We can only call to him from the depths of our hearts: Kyrie eleison * Lord, save us (cf. Mt 8: 25).
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These words certainly ring true.
 
I just want to say it’s important to remember also that Jesus is not some teary-eyed, weeping Will.
 
Little One 0307 - Thank you for sharing that beautiful quote!!!
 
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