Holy Eucharist

This is my body. I have often helped you consider this marvellous reaction of human love: two people who love one another, when they have to part, exchange some photographs with a dedication so full of affection, so aflame, that it is almost a wonder that the words don't burn the paper. It's the same with Jesus, who loves us to the end: he has to go and, at the same time, he wants to stay. But what we are not able to do, God can do: he goes and he stays. He institutes the Holy Eucharist so that we may eat him, so that we will be strengthened, so that we will be faithful and come to perfect union with him ...

Even though I have reminded you of the reasons why Jesus has wanted to remain among us, I can also say that I don't understand why he stayed, knowing how he was going to be treated: knowing not only that many tabernacles would be neglected, but also that there would be many people approaching him who do not know him, who do not love him or who ignore him, who do not appreciate him or who mistreat him. But in spite of all this, Jesus truly stayed in the Holy Eucharist, with his Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity. And he stayed for you and for me.

Love is repaid with love! Think about how you genuflect before the tabernacle, about your visits to the Blessed Sacrament, how you think of him when you pass close to a tabernacle, with thoughts that should be more ardent every time. Love is repaid with love!