Forgotten Truths To Set Faith Afire!

(Image Source: Wikimedia Commons ) In the course of the day, the faithful should not omit visiting the Blessed Sacrament, which in accordance with liturgical law must be reserved in churches with great reverence in a prominent place.  Such visits are a sign of gratitude, an expression of love and an acknowledgement of the Lord’s presence. (Saint Pope Paul VI)

(Image Source: Wikimedia Commons ) The effects of Holy Communion are: spiritual nourishment of the soul (an increase in sanctifying grace, of the virtues and gifts of the Holy Spirit); intimate union of the soul with Christ and with His mystical body through grace and charity; a diminishing or mitigating of sensual passions; a glorious resurrection of the body; the remission of venial sins; the remission in some part or in great part of the temporal punishment due to sin; and spiritual sweetness and delights.  Father Winfrid Herbst, S.D.S

I desire to unite Myself to human souls; My great delight is to unite Myself with souls. Know, my daughter, that when I come to a human heart in Holy Communion, My hands are full of all kinds of graces which I want to give to the soul.  But souls do not even pay attention to Me; they leave Me to myself and busy themselves with other things. Oh, how sad I am that souls do not recognize Love! They treat me as a dead object.  St. Maria Faustina Kowalska

Material food first changes into the one who eats it, and then, as a consequence, restores to him his lost strength and increases his vitality. Spiritual food, on the other hand, changes the person who eats it into itself. Thus the effect proper to this sacrament is the conversion of a man into Christ, so that he may no longer live, but Christ lives in him; consequently, it has the double effect of restoring the spiritual strength he had lost by his sins and defects, and of increasing the strength of his virtues. (St. Thomas Aquinas )