Basic Book of the Eucharist by Lawrence Lovasik

Author:Lawrence Lovasik [Lovasik, Lawrence]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sophia Institute Press
Published: 2013-12-08T16:00:00+00:00

Your task is to lay your soul open to receive this divine life, to foster it and make it grow by your constant sharing in the dispositions, virtues, and sacrifices of Jesus Christ, until you can say with St. Paul, “It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me.”

The nature of the Christian life is a real sharing in God’s life, for God lives in you and you in Him by grace. He lives in you in the unity of His nature and in the Trinity of His Persons. He is active there, creating in your soul a supernatural organism that enables it to live a life, not indeed equal to, but truly like His — a Godlike life. He gives your soul light and strength by His actual grace, helps you to make your acts meritorious, and rewards them by a further infusion of sanctifying grace.

You also live in God and for God, for you must cooperate with His grace. By the aid of His grace, you freely accept His divine impulse, cooperate with it, and by it triumph over your enemies, acquire merit, and prepare yourself for the grace given to you by the sacraments. Even your free consent to accept His grace is the work of His grace.

Christ instituted the sacrament of the Eucharist precisely in order that He might unite Himself to each one of us as the source of all life, strength, light, and spiritual fruitfulness. Hence, Jesus comes first of all to unite us to Himself as members to their Head, in one Mystical Body. All the other fruits of the sacrament flow from this one, which is the most important. This is the chief reason for the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist.

The Body of Christ that you receive in Holy Communion is the living Body of the Incarnate Word. Since this Body of Christ comes to you filled with the power and the reality of the Divine Word and of the Holy Spirit, you are intimately united to the Divine Word and filled with the Holy Spirit.

In coming to you in Holy Communion, Jesus wills to fill you with the same Holy Spirit of love with which He is filled Himself. He wishes in this way to make you share in the divine life and to transform you entirely in Himself. This is the whole meaning of the Eucharist.

In his encyclical letter on the sacred Liturgy, Pope Pius XII describes our union with Christ in the Eucharist: “The very nature of the Sacrament demands that its reception should produce rich fruits of Christian sanctity. . . . Therefore let us all enter into the closest union with Christ and strive to lose ourselves, as it were, in His most Holy Soul, and so be united to Him that we may have a share in those acts in which He adores the Blessed Trinity with a homage that is most acceptable and by which He offers to the

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