Question for converts about Eucharist

[RomanRyan1088]

This question is for converts. I myself, being a Cradle Catholic, have often wondered what it was like for ya’ll to take the Eucharist for the 1st time. I often think that some Cradle Catholics take the Eucharist for granted.

 

[joshua1]

RomanRyan1088:

This question is for converts. I myself, being a Cradle Catholic, have often wondered what it was like for ya’ll to take the Eucharist for the 1st time. I often think that some Cradle Catholics take the Eucharist for granted.

I Converted July of 1985, that was nineteen years ago. I can remember it as it was yesterday. I remember the extraordinary minister that served that night. I remember most, however, the chills and the electrical feeling running through my body. I kid you not. It was like I was about to take off into space. It was a moment of most joy and happiness and peace that I have ever felt. I couldnt wait until next sunday to go to mass again.

 

[Pug]

It wasn’t the first time that I understood the significance of the eucharist. It was after a few months of receiving that it became profound for me. I don’t know if it is just me, that I need time to accustom myself to things, or if it took me that long to absorb the teachings enough to percieve the miracle before me. I found the info in RCIA to be way more than I could take in right away. I suppose I am still sorting it out near 20 years later

 

[csr]

There are several moments I could mention. My first communion of sorts was in a Protestant church where they still kneel. I felt that there was something inherently true about what they were doing. I now know that I was discovering the truth about our need to humble ourselves. My next ‘first’ experience was, of course, receiving the Eucharist in a (Novus Ordo) mass. At that time–this is the one I guess you are really asking about–I just felt that this was the truth, that I was doing what people should do and have always done, that I was in a long line of truth. I didn’t feel sensations. My next ‘first’ experience was receiving Eucharist at the mass codified by St. Pius V. There I felt even more strongly that this was the truth, that I was doing what people should do and have always done. Those are my three ‘first-time’ communion experiences. Each time I was struck by the inherent truth: first of the need for communion, and second and third of the fact that this is what Our Lord wants us to do, to nourish the divine life within us: to take our medicine. The Catholic Church is a hospital for souls! The other religions are witchcraft and back-woods remedies, and most people don’t know they’re sick anyway.

 

[Jermosh]

For me it was the least expected of the other Sacraments that I was going to receive. I “believied” in the real presence, and I knew what it held. I took off the whole Easter week and went to mass daily and did my first adoration on Holy Thursday. But I was still looking forward to my Baptism and Confrimation more.

To be short It was a like eating a hot pepper. I went and received, I chewed and chewed and swallowed, the differance between the 2 species is a great contrast. It was not till I went to go back to my pew and when I kneeled that it hit me. I knew then what I have been missing my whole life. If there is one thing that will keep the Church whole it is the eucharist, it is its core and only substantial form of our Lord. It kept me coming back to mass each week during my typlical religous “low period”, and to be honest I would give up my life and everything in it to receive. There is much more involved in this story, but it is a very long sad story.

 

[Mamamull]

I had been called personally to convert by the Eucharistic Christ. I had had a few years of praying during the Eucharist, but having to walk up and all the other things, I was a little too preoccupied for the first few times to really sink in.

Now, I feel like a teenager in love and can’t wait to receive my Lord in his fullness. It is almost a romance that I have with the Eucharist. My husband is cool about that. He said it is similar for him, but he usually is moved by the impression he has of our Lord on the altar during the consecration. My husband is a cradle Catholic and has often been a little jealous of my connectedness to the Eucharist.

Praying the Rosary is also a great means to loving the Eucharist. Our blessed Mother is very loving and tender. She also has her Son help us. It was in learning to pray the Rosary that I receieved a much deeper appreciation of the Eucharist.

 

[Jermosh]

Mamamull:

I had been called personally to convert by the Eucharistic Christ. I had had a few years of praying during the Eucharist, but having to walk up and all the other things, I was a little too preoccupied for the first few times to really sink in.

Now, I feel like a teenager in love and can’t wait to receive my Lord in his fullness. It is almost a romance that I have with the Eucharist. My husband is cool about that. He said it is similar for him, but he usually is moved by the impression he has of our Lord on the altar during the consecration. My husband is a cradle Catholic and has often been a little jealous of my connectedness to the Eucharist.

Praying the Rosary is also a great means to loving the Eucharist. Our blessed Mother is very loving and tender. She also has her Son help us. It was in learning to pray the Rosary that I receieved a much deeper appreciation of the Eucharist.

Eek you sound like me almost. And yes my wife is kinda jelous as well.