Alphonsus Liguori

Name: Preparation for Death — XXXIII. THE HOLY COMMUNION
Author: Alphonsus Liguori

Preparation for Death — XXXIII. THE HOLY COMMUNION (1868)

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“Preparation for Death — XXXIII. THE HOLY COMMUNION”, published in 1868, is a work by Alphonsus Liguori. It explores elements such as love, Francis of Sales and Sacrament.

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Alphonsus Liguori, Preparation for Death — XXXIII. THE HOLY COMMUNION (1868)

“ O my Jesus, and what has ever led Thee to give Thy whole Self for our food? And what remains, after Thou hast given us this gift, to compel us to love Thee? Oh! Lord, give us light, and make us to feel how excessive is the love which caused Thee to reduce Thyself to food, to unite Thyself with us poor sinners. But if Thou givest Thyself wholly to us, it is a reason that we also should give ourselves wholly to Thee. O my Redeemer, how have I been able to offend Thee, Who hast so loved me, and Who hast had nothing more that Thou couldst do to gain my love? Thou hadst become Man for me ”

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Alphonsus Liguori, Preparation for Death — XXXIII. THE HOLY COMMUNION (1868)

“ That if anything could shake my faith in the mystery of the Eucharist, I should not be able to doubt the power, but rather the love of God, which He has revealed to us in this Sacrament." How can the bread become the Body of Jesus? How can Jesus be found in more than one place? I answer, that God can do all things. But if you ask me how God can love man to such an extent as to be willing to become his food, I can only answer, that I do not understand it, and that the love of Jesus cannot be more fully comprehended. ”

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Alphonsus Liguori, Preparation for Death — XXXIII. THE HOLY COMMUNION (1868)

“ By how much the more we feel cold, by so much the more, we ought to approach frequently the holy sacrament, that we may ever desire to love God. S. Francis of Sales writes, If they ask you "why you communicate so often? " tell them that two classes of persons ought to communicate often; the perfect and the imperfect; the former to preserve their perfection, the latter to attain to perfection." S. Bonaventure said also, " Although thou art cold, yet approach, trusting in the mercy of God; he so much the more needs a physician, as he feels himself to be the more ill." ”

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Alphonsus Liguori, Preparation for Death — XXXIII. THE HOLY COMMUNION (1868)

“ Our Blessed Lord in the Holy Communion gives us for food not only a part of His own table, not only a part of His own body, but His whole Body: " Take, eat; this is My Body," and together with His Body He gives us even His Soul and His Divinity. In short, says S. Chrysostom, in the Holy Communion Jesus Christ " gave Himself to thee wholly, and left nothing for Himself." S. Thomas Aquinas adds, that " God in the Eucharist has given to us all that He is, and all that He has." ”

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Alphonsus Liguori, Preparation for Death — XXXIII. THE HOLY COMMUNION (1868)

“ Let us consider, in the second place, the GREAT LOVE of Jesus Christ, which He has shown to us by such a gift. The Holy Sacrament is a gift which is given from love alone. It was needful for our salvation, according to the Divine decree, that the Redeemer should have died, and by the sacrifice of His life should have made satisfaction to Divine Justice for our sins; but what necessity was there, that after having died, He should leave Himself to us as food? But thus love willed. ”

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Alphonsus Liguori, Preparation for Death — XXXIII. THE HOLY COMMUNION (1868)

“ Through the great desire that the Redeemer had to be received by us, not only did He exhort us to receive Him with such invitations as, " Come, eat of My Bread, and drink of the Wine which I have mingled," (Prov. ix. 5) ; " Eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved, (Sol. Song v. i) ; but He imposed the reception of Himself by positive command, "Take, eat; this is My Body," (S. Matt. xxvi. 26.) So that we may come to Him to receive Him, He allures us with the promise of eternal life: " Whoso eateth My Flesh .... hath eternal life." ”

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Alphonsus Liguori, Preparation for Death — XXXIII. THE HOLY COMMUNION (1868)

“ Father Olympio says, that nothing so inflames with love towards God as the Holy Communion. " God is love." (i S. John iv. 8.) And He is the fire of love: " God is a consuming fire." (Deut. iv. 24.) The Eternal Word came to kindle this fire of love in the world. " I am come to send fire on the" earth, and what will I, if it be already kindled?" (S. Luke xii. 49.) And Oh, what bright flames of sacred love does Jesus kindle in souls, which with such a desire, receive Him in this Sacrament! S. Chrysostom says that " the Eucharist is a coal which inflames us ”

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