{"id":193,"date":"2006-07-08T01:48:37","date_gmt":"2006-07-08T06:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/?p=193"},"modified":"2017-04-17T22:09:30","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T02:09:30","slug":"193","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/193\/","title":{"rendered":"","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-images\/Eucharist.jpg\" alt=\"Eucharist\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>KEEPING<\/strong> Christ&#8217;s commandments is how we remain in His love (John 15:10), and if we remain in Him, we &#8220;will bear good fruit&#8221; (15:5).<\/p>\n<p>But Jesus also said,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><code>Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him. <\/code><span style='font-size:9.0pt'><br \/>\n&#8211;John 6:56<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How can we fail to take advantage of this precious gift given us in the Holy Eucharist? <em>It is Jesus Himself! <\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><code>For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.  <\/code><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>  &#8211;6:55<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If we find ourselves hungering for happiness, thirsting for peace, starving for virtues, and lacking in love, why do we not come to The Table where the &#8220;source and summit&#8221; of our needs is daily provided?<\/p>\n<p>My brothers and sisters, how often have I been filled with the Holy Spirit, pacified in soul, and stirred to a burning love after receiving Jesus in the Eucharist&#8211;at a Mass, which only a handful of people attended!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><code>I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me will never hunger, and whoever believes in me will never thirst. <\/code><span style='font-size:9.0pt'><br \/>\n&#8211;6:35<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If the wider Church only knew what graces they would find to overcome faults, resist temptation, grow in virtue, and come to know Love itself <em>through Holy Communion!<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<span style='font-size:9.0pt'>Were we to disregard the Eucharist, how could we overcome our own deficiency?&#8221;  &#8211;Pope John Paul II, <em>Ecclesia de Eucharistia<\/em>, (60)<\/span><\/ul>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KEEPING Christ&#8217;s commandments is how we remain in His love (John 15:10), and if we remain in Him, we &#8220;will bear good fruit&#8221; (15:5). 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