The Ultimate Mystery of the Body and Blood of Jesus

In my parish, our priest is trying to find more adorers for our Eucharistic Adoration Chapel. Sadly, I don't know how successful he'll be.

While people may go to church for the social benefits, unfortunately, we are overall a nation of disbelievers. If people believed that the Creator of the Universe was present in the Eucharist night and day, and we could talk to God there with unlimited access, then the chapel would be filled. We'd be treating Christ like a rock star.

The problem is we are asked to believe in an Invisible God. The modern day sentiment teaches “prove it then I'll believe” rather than “I do not know enough to doubt.”

Our culture wants God to make Himself small enough for our minds to know Him. Today's unbelievers remind me of those passing by the Crucifixion who wanted Jesus to come down from the cross.

God's reply to Moses, I am who I am, is not a trick answer. It is in the presence of God in which we hear the Whisper the Saints have heard, the Voice of God.

What happens when we spend time before the Blessed Sacrament is we become changed--just as the bread and wine are changed by the words of Jesus into His real Body and Blood-- and we become open to God's Will.

Perhaps Jesus coming to us in the forms of bread and wine is difficult to understand. Is the smallest seed that is put into soil and then produces food for us to eat any easier to understand than Christ giving us Himself in the forms of bread and wine? We didn't make the seed that we plant. Yet it gives us food for strength and growth if we cultivate it, just as the Body and Blood of Jesus gives eternal life to those who eat it.

The invisible is not less real just because our senses fail to see it.

We're attracted to goodness because in us is a soul that has been created for goodness. We yearn for something other than what we have now because we are lacking love, and we can only find true love if we find God. Happiness is found within God alone. We are transformed in the same mysterious way that the bread and wine at Mass become the Body and Blood of Jesus.

In Jesus Christ's gift of Himself we are fed the antidote to sin and death. The power involved may be unseen, but it is no less transforming. Without Jesus' Body and Blood we could not be saved. God is with us in every tabernacle at every Catholic church.

Come let us adore Him!