Please join us each week as we probe the depths of this Sacrament of Sacraments
November 2, 2025
Today we commemorate all of the Faithful Departed Souls. In today’s readings we hear Jesus teach the importance of addressing those who are in most need. He tells His disciples “Invite the poor, the crippled, the lame and the blind…..because they cannot repay you, for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.” (Luke 14: 13-14) We are reminded that the souls of the just are in God’s hands.
One of the great graces of the Holy Eucharist is the enrichment of love of neighbor. If we receive Jesus prayerfully, we should be compelled to “Give the gift that we’ve been given as a gift.” Give that gift to those in great need both the living and the dead.
Reflection: Focus on the Holy Souls in Purgatory, those who are
suffering the intense, painful longing to see God in Heaven. Pray for them this month and commend them daily to God’s Mercy, especially when you are heart to heart with Jesus after the reception Him in Holy
Communion.
October 26, 2025
This Sunday Jesus relates the parable of the two men at prayer: One is prideful and full of himself and the other is humble and repentent. This is a practical teaching on the virtue of humility.
Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament demonstrates the ineffable depths of His humility. God not only becomes man and takes on our human flesh out of His love and mercy, but He allows Himself (in the perfection of His humility) to be contained in the Sacred Host to become our spiritual food. “It is through the Eucharist that our bodies are Christified…..and we are prepared for Heaven.” Bishop Robert Barron
Reflection: Jesus, gentle meek and humble of Heart, make our hearts like unto Thine own…especially when we receive You into our hearts in Holy Communion.
October 19, 2025
Jesus asks us a probing question today. It is the poignant last sentence of today’s Gospel (Luke 18:8). “When the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?” We know that a recent Pew Poll found that only 30% of Catholics believe that Jesus is truly present Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity in the Holy Eucharist. 70% think the
Eucharist is just a mere symbol.
Reflection: Do you refer to the Eucharist as “it”? Or do you see that the Eucharist is the Lord Jesus Himself? How strong is your faith? If Jesus came today, would He find faith in His Divine Eucharistic Presence in your heart?”
October 12, 2025
This week we celebrate on October 13th the anniversary of the Miracle of the Sun, which took place in Fatima, Portugal in 1917. We know that Our Blessed Mother appeared to three children and asked them to do pray the daily rosary and do penance for conversions and peace. Tens of thousands of people witnessed the miracle: the sun appeared to fall from the sky and crash to earth. (Google it for actual photos.) What is little known about the Fatima apparitions is that they include a Eucharistic connection. An angel first appeared to the children holding a chalice in his left hand with a Host suspended above it. The angel prostrated himself before the Eucharist and taught the children this prayer: “O Most Holy Trinity, I offer you the most precious Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ present in all of the tabernacles of the world, in reparation for the outrages, sacrileges and indifference with which He Himself is offended.”
Reflection: The angel then gave the children Holy Communion and told them: “Take and drink of the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, horribly
outraged by ungrateful men. Repair their crime and console your God.”
Today Jesus is frequently still not recognized in the Blessed Sacrament. He continues to be
treated with indifference and sacrileges.
Use your time after receiving Holy Communion wisely and draw down graces of peace and mercy upon the world.
October 5, 2025
“Increase our faith.” is the request which the apostles make to Jesus in today’s Gospel. (Luke 17: 5-10) One of the most difficult articles of faith in the Catholic Church is to confess belief in the true Presence of Jesus in the Holy Eucharist. Only a living faith allows us to see beyond the earthly appearances of bread and wine to see the supernatural reality of the consecrated Host and wine truly being the very living body, blood, soul and divinity of Christ.
Reflection: How is your faith in the true Presence of Jesus when you receive Holy Communion? Is the Holy Communion Host just a symbol or is it the LIVING Jesus? Lord, increase our faith.
September 28, 2025
In today’s Gospel of Matthew 13: 47-52 Jesus invites all people to salvation. Not just Catholics are invited, but all of God’s children, who love him. Here is a prayer written at Mount Vernon by George Washington: “Teach me, Lord. Do not cast me into a spiritual slumber”.
Reflection: As Catholic Christians we possess the Holy Eucharist. After Holy Communion are we in a “spiritual
slumber of routine” or do we realize the Divine Presence is actually within us? It takes about 20 minutes for the Sacred Host to dissolve. For those 20 minutes, you are a living
tabernacle of the LIVING GOD. Are you awake to the fact that Jesus is yours “One on one” and how do you respond to Him?
September 21, 2025
On September 8th two new saints were canonized: St. Carlo Acutis and St. Pier Giorgio Frassati. Both saints were young and shared a passionate love for Jesus in the Blessed
Sacrament. Both attended daily Mass and prayed the rosary daily. St. John Paul II called St. Pier Giorgio, a “Man of the Beatitudes” because inspite of his family’s wealth, his popularity among university friends and his athleticism, he devoted hours to helping the sick and the poor. When he died of polio at age 24, thousands of people poured into the streets for his funeral Mass. He had contracted polio from his work with the impoverished sick. Here’s a quote to ponder from St. Pier Giorgio, “Jesus comes to me everyday in the Holy
Eucharist and I repay Him in my very small way by visiting the poor.”
Reflection: How do you repay Jesus for the gift you have received in the Holy Eucharist? St. Pier Giorgio, pray for us and inspire within us with an avid love for our Eucharistic Lord.
September 14, 2025
Jesus defends the holiness of the temple in today’s Gospel reading, John 3: 13-17.
It is interesting to note that if we continue to read a few more lines from this passage, we see Jesus compare His body to the temple.
Jesus’ body, His very own Person, is the place where divinty and humanity meet.
This gift of the Incarnation (i.e.God takes on our human nature.) makes the Holy Eucharist possible. In receiving Holy Communion, we truly receive the Body and Blood of Christ.
Reflection: Reflect on the fact that when you receive the Blessed Sacrament, you are actually holding Jesus’ Body within your body. Christ’s Body is really, truly and substantially the incarnated God, who has chosen to become man for our salvation. The cost of our salvation was paid on the Cross by Christ’s Precious Body and Blood. It is this Exultation of the Holy Cross that we commemorate today.
September 7, 2025
Jesus proposes a tough challenge to us in today’s Gospel (Luke 14: 27). “Whoever does not carry his cross and follow me cannot be my disciple.” This is a difficult teaching because it asks us to take on the burdens of the Christian life in the example of Christ. In His sufferings and death on the Cross Jesus forgave those who crucified Him. By asking us to carry our crosses as He did, we too must forgive those who have deeply wounded and offended us. The underlying challenge means we must strive to love God first and above all else and then to love all else for the sake of God.
Reflection: With each grace filled Holy Communion we receive, we become more like Our Lord. What seems impossible to us is never impossible for God. When we find it impossible to tolerate the cross of our fellowmen’s evils i.e. to forgive as Jesus did, turn to Our Lord in prayer and ask for the grace to carry your cross and forgive what may seem to you to be unforgiveable. The power to carry your cross is in the Eucharist. “Everything is in the Eucharist.” -St. Albert the Great