“Jesus is the living bread that can satisfy a person’s deepest yearnings” Pope Francis
I have to admit that before I really learned my faith and opened my heart I just did not get it. Receiving communion was something I had done as a child, but the real miracle of what I was experiencing was not something I understood or embraced.
I imagine it is that way for most people. Even today as adults, many do not believe in the real presence of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. They do not open their hearts to His Presence as they receive Him.
To be honest there are still times I am distracted. I can be at mass and in my mind I am shopping or going to the post office, but I do try, as soon as I recognized I have strayed, to bring myself back to the miracle happening right in front of me.
I have been a daily communicant for over 25 years now. In spite of my wanderings and distractions, I do believe in His presence and I know that it is He that nourishes me and gives me the graces I need to do the work I do, and more importantly to live the life He desires me to live. I have no doubt that without frequenting the sacraments it would not be long before I was “out there” again left to my own devices.
In addition to all of that, I know it is there that I meet, through the veil of faith, my son Joshua who I aborted over 40 years ago. It is there heaven meets earth and through Jesus I am united to him.
Within the gift of Holy Bread
My Savior comes to me
He calls me to His perfect love
And all I’m meant to be
He pushes through my many fears
To show me He is there
And in those times of deepest pain
With me the cross He’ll bear
Mary guides me on the way
Encouragement she gives
She’s trodden down this path herself
And know that Jesus lives
A call to deep abandonment
And trust beyond compare
She tells me when I reach the end
They’ll all be standing there
In this present moment
He is alive as well
Our meeting in the Eucharist
His life in me to dwell
And through this gift of living bread
My son I get to greet
Until my journey comes to end
where in heaven we shall meet.
