NEWSLETTER INSERTS FOR THE FEAST OF CORPUS CHRISTI

‘Many a time, as I folded up the handkerchief on which the body of our Lord had laid and dried the glass or tin cup used as a chalice, the feeling of having performed something tremendously valuable for the people of this Godless country was overpowering’.

Fr Walter Ciszek SJ, prisoner in Siberia from his book ‘He Leadeth Me’.

‘Each time I celebrated Mass, I had the opportunity to extend my hands and nail myself to the cross with Jesus, to drink with him the bitter chalice. Each day in reciting the words of consecration, I confirmed with all my heart and soul a new pact, an eternal pact between Jesus and me through his blood mixed with mine. Those were the most beautiful Masses of my life.’

Cardinal Francis X. Van Thuan, Prisoner in solitary confinement in Vietnam from Testimony of Hope, Pauline Books and Media.

‘To serve means to become Eucharist for others, to identify ourselves with them, to share their joys and sorrows, to learn to think with their heads, to feel with their hearts’.

Cardinal Francis-Xavier Van Thuan.

‘To adore me is to demonstrate that all your hope is in me. To adore me is to show me that you count not on yourself nor on others but on me alone. To adore me is to give me the freedom to act within you and upon you in such as away as to unite you wholly to myself, as you have asked me to; my heart to your heart, my soul to your soul, my body to your body, my blood to your blood’.

In Sine Jesu, 181.

‘To adore me is to demonstrate that all your hope is in me. To adore me is to show me that you count not on yourself nor on others, but on me alone. To adore me is to give me the freedom to act within you and upon you, in such a way as to unite you wholly to myself, as you have asked me to do: my heart to your heart, my soul to your soul, my body to your body, my blood to your blood’.

In Sine Jesu, 181.

‘Adoration is a furnace and a forge’.

In Sine Jesu, 208

‘It seems to me that nothing expresses the love in God’s heart more than the Eucharist; it is union, consummation, he is in us, we in him and isn’t that heaven on earth?’

St Elizabeth of the Trinity, Letter 165.