{"id":10570,"date":"2015-08-03T04:00:37","date_gmt":"2015-08-03T03:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/?p=10570"},"modified":"2015-07-30T08:16:27","modified_gmt":"2015-07-30T07:16:27","slug":"10570","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2015\/08\/10570\/","title":{"rendered":"Where everything is important, significant, and divine"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"eymard.2\"From the Writings of St Peter Julian Eymard, Priest<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Church presents herself before us with the words of Jesus on her lips; she repeats and explains them with an authority equal to that of the Saviour: \u201cThis is My Body. This is My Blood.\u201d\u00a0 She tells us, and we must believe that, by the divine power of these sacramental words, taken in their direct and natural sense, Jesus Christ becomes truly, really, and substantially present in the Most Blessed Sacrament of the altar under the appearances of bread and wine.\u00a0 She tells us, and we must believe that, by his omnipotence, Jesus Christ has changed the substance of bread into his Body and the substance of wine into his Blood, and that his Soul and Divinity accompany the presence of his Body and of his Blood.
\nAnd ever since the Last Supper, the Church has been proclaiming this belief down through the ages.\u00a0 Her Apostles have had but one voice, her teachers but one doctrine, her children but one belief, one love for the God of the Eucharist.\u00a0 How majestic is the voice of the whole Christian people!\u00a0 How touching and beautiful is the harmony of their praise and their love!\u00a0 Every true child of the Church wants to bring to the feet of the Divine King present on the altar a tribute of homage, a token of his affection \u2014 one brings gold, another myrrh, and all bring incense.\u00a0 Everyone wants to have a place in the court and at the table of the God of the Eucharist.
\nTo the testimony of her word the Church adds the testimony of her example and practical faith.\u00a0 As John the Baptist, after having pointed out the Messiah, cast himself at his feet to prove the liveliness of his faith, so the Church devotes a solemn worship, her entire worship to the adorable Person of Jesus whom she manifests to you in the Most Blessed Sacrament.\u00a0 With a delicate and jealous attention the Church has regulated Eucharistic worship to its minutest details.\u00a0 She does not rely on anyone to take in hand the matter of honouring her divine Bridegroom; for everything is important, significant, and divine, when there is question of the Real Presence of Jesus Christ.\u00a0 She wants to consecrate to the royal service of Jesus all the most genuine and precious things in the world.\u00a0 In her Liturgy everything is related to this mystery; everything takes on a spiritual and heavenly meaning; everything has a property of its own and contains some special grace.<\/p>\n

Responsory<\/strong>.\u00a0 The Lamb that was slain || is worthy to receive power, and divinity, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and benediction. * To him that sitteth on the throne, and to the Lamb, benediction, and honour, and glory, and power, for ever and ever.\u00a0 V. Behold the Lamb of God, behold him who taketh away the sin of the world. * To him \u2026 Glory be \u2026 To him \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the Writings of St Peter Julian Eymard, Priest The Church presents herself before us with the words of Jesus on her lips; she repeats and explains them with an authority equal to that of the Saviour: \u201cThis is My Body. This is My Blood.\u201d\u00a0 She tells us, and we must believe that, by the <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holy-eucharist","category-saints"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/saVypq-10570","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10570"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10570"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10574,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10570\/revisions\/10574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}