Partake

To the Protestant, if you would understand the Eucharist, you must start at the Passover.  Was it sufficient for the Israelites to sacrifice a lamb, to coat their lintels with its blood alone?  Or was it also necessary, even commanded, that they partake of the passover sacrifice by eating the lamb without blemish?  If so, woe unto you who deny the Body of the Lord in the Mass, for how can you partake in His sacrifice if you do not partake in His Body and Blood?

Shadows

Before Christ we were not men but the shadows of men - absences of grace cast by the denial of God which is sin. It is when Christ inhabits us, steps into us, that we become creatures truly - beings of flesh and blood, His Flesh and His Blood, most holy and precious. It is thus that we become more ourselves through Christ - without Him we are not us, but phantom negations.

The Life of Grace

The culmination of the life of sin is the life of grace.  For it is by realization of sin that we realize our need for grace. And it is grace that terminates the life of sin, transforming it into true life, from shadow to reality. Just so, the broken life of man on Earth becomes the fullness of life promised by Christ and fulfilled in the Resurrection.

Heart

Oh Lord, give me a new heart, replace this heart of stone with one for love alone.  Through and in this Eucharist, give Your own Sacred heart to me, that I might love as You love!

Communion

It is absolutely vital - it is utterly essential - to our understanding of the Sacrament of Marriage that we understand and appreciate the Eucharist.  For the Eucharist is that sacrament which, like marriage, we can partake in every day.  Understanding it, fully appreciating it, will aid us in appreciating every day the joy of communion with our spouse.

Prayer

Half a lifetime spent in prayer is not enough.  Only the whole will suffice.

Real

So much of our lives are lived in a fog of vanity and illusion.  Joy and Sorrow, these two are real, and are more dangerous to all the designs of the devil than anything else.