The Holy Eucharist, analogous to natural food, preserves, increases, restores and strengthens the supernatural life. It grants to the soul the peace and joy of Christ, as "a foretaste of eternal beatitude "; it erases venial sins from the soul and diminishes evil inclinations; it increases the supernatural life and moves us to perform effective acts related to all the virtues: it is "the remedy of our daily need ".
Hidden under the accidents of bread, Jesus waits for us to come frequently to receive him: the banquet, he tells us, is ready. Many are absent, and Jesus is waiting for us. When we receive him, we can say to him, with a prayer that today is recited in the Liturgy of the Hours: Stay with us, Lord Jesus, for it is getting dark; be our companion on the way, lift up our hearts, revive our faint hope.
Faith-which will manifest itself first of all in the soul's proper preparation-will be indispensable for eating this new bread. The disciples who abandoned the Master that day renounced their faith: they preferred to judge for themselves.
We say to him, with St. Peter: Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life16. And we resolve to prepare Communion better, with more faith and more love: "Adore him with reverence and devotion; renew in his presence the sincere offering of your love; tell him without fear that you love him; thank him for this daily proof of mercy so full of tenderness, and foster the desire to approach Communion with confidence. I am amazed at this mystery of Love: the Lord seeks my poor heart as a throne, so that he will not abandon me if I do not turn away from him "
At the end of our prayer, we too say to the Lord, like those people of Capernaum: Lord, give us always this bread.
And when we pray the Our Father, let us think for a moment that our needs and those of our brothers and sisters are many; we will say with devotion: Father, "Give us this day our daily bread, what we need to subsist in body and soul. Tomorrow we will be happy to ask God again to remember our poverty. And He will say to us: Omnia mea tua sunt all my things are yours.
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