I was privileged to celebrate the feast of Corpus Christi–the solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ–all weekend. I’m continuing in the spirit of that wonderful feastday today, during my Eucharistic adoration.
Jesus in the Eucharist is the ultimate Font and Model of all true communication–a giving of self in love. The Eucharistic virtues of hiddenness, humility, silence, availability, presence–these are all “communications virtues”! As a writer specializing in a certain form of communication, I am invited by Jesus to remain in Him so that I not only imitate Him in these virtues, but I allow Him to love, listen, and speak through me.
I recently found this quote from the Founder of the Pauline Family, Blessed James Alberione, that is appropriate for the feast of Corpus Christi. I’m planning to use it in my new book on the Eucharist:
We need a blood transfusion… There must be communication, union, between the Heart of Jesus and your heart–our heart–so that His divine blood will flow into us until little by little our blood is replaced by His. When this union, this total fusion between our will and His will takes place, then, to put it briefly, our will is replaced with the will of Jesus; our feelings are replaced with the feelings of Jesus. We live in Jesus–this is love! We are lost in Jesus. It is no longer I who think, it is no longer I who feel; it is no longer I who act. It is Jesus in me! It is Christ who lives in me!
The Heart of the universe, our lives, and of all true communication: Jesus in the Eucharist.
Sr. Marie Paul Curley
Sr. Marie Paul Curley, fsp, is a member of the Daughters of Saint Paul, who seek to communicate Christ in their lives and through the media. Originally from the Boston area, she entered the Daughters of St. Paul while a teenager, convinced that she had discovered God’s plan for her life. Twenty-five years later, she still rejoices daily in God’s loving plan for her. Sr. Marie Paul is currently missioned in Boston, MA, where she writes for Pauline Digital and Pauline Studios. Her most recent books, Saints Alive! The Faith Proclaimed and Saints Alive! The Gospel Witnessed, are novelized short stories of saints from every walk of life.
your quote makes my heart pound and brings tears to my eyes before the first sentence ends. I NEED more of more of His blood, I ache to say “No longer I that lives but Christ that lives in me, ” This is my new quote for my blog, mirror and fridge. I can’t thank you enough
From a fellow canadian who lives near Brockville, Ontario.