😎🐫🎤 Christ’s peace and presence be with you. I started reading a book this week titled Beautiful Eucharist. Within the first five pages, it already has me contemplating and pondering this incredible sacrifice the we can choose to experience and live every day. I have been Catholic all my life, but I do enjoy occasionally visiting my friend’s churches and places of worship. I hadn’t really even thought about it until reading this book, but the word Eucharist is unique to the Catholic faith. It’s set apart, because it’s not just bread and wine, it truly is the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ. In speaking with nonpracticing Catholics, the Eucharist seems to be the one part of the Catholic faith that they miss the most.
In the book, Matthew Kelly mentions that he was once asked: “What would have to happen for you to leave the Catholic Church? That’s an interesting question and I would have to agree with Matthew’s answer. I couldn’t see myself ever leaving the Catholic Church. Every church has its issues, because every church is filled with us people. But there is just something incredibly awesome about receiving Christ in the Eucharist. It’s indescribable, but you know it when you feel it. During the time between my divorce and annulment, through the Catholic Church, I did not receive the Eucharist and I really missed not receiving Christ in that way. It really was personal for me, once my annulment was final and I started receiving the Eucharist again. It was like getting to hug a dear Friend, that you’d been separated from and could only talk with on the phone.
Beautiful Eucharist is a collaboration of 12 authors and I’m excited to keep working my way through this book. Even if you are just a little curious, I would recommend getting yourself a copy of Beautiful Eucharist. This is also a fantastic book to share with family, friends, and whomever the Holy Spirit prompts you to. See the link below, read Beautiful Eucharist, and let your life encounter Jesus through the Holy Eucharist.
Bless others and be blessed.
Shelly :0)
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