08/02/2021
From today’s reflection in the Magnificat.
Bringing His Eucharistic Love to the Crowds
We must quickly get to work to save souls by the divine Eucharist, to awaken [a world] numbed in dormant apathy because they don’t know the gift of God, Jesus, the Eucharistic Emmanuel. This is the torch of love which we must carry to tepid souls who haven’t made Jesus in the holy tabernacle their center and their life. Any devotion which doesn’t set up one tent on Calvary and one near the Tabernacle is not a solid piety and will never do anything great.
I fear that people are wandering too far from the Holy Eucharist, that this mystery of love par excellence is not sufficiently proclaimed. So souls are suffering, becoming more sensual and materialistic and inordinately attached to human beings. It is because they don’t know how to find their consolation and strength in our Lord.
Adoration is on the increase in Toulon. If you could send me a few leaflets, I would distribute them among our fervent sailors and even in the jail, where four thousand convicts could become good adorers, because there are some beautiful souls in chains…. Remember that when we have put a Eucharistic spark into a soul we have planted a divine seed of life and all virtues in its heart.
Saint Peter Julian Eymard
Saint Peter Julian Eymard († 1868) founded the Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament. This text is from a letter encouraging a woman in France to continue promoting Eucharistic adoration. / From Counsels for Spiritual Life, Edited by Father Fiorenzo Salvi, et al. © Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament, Rome. All rights reserved.