This Eucharistic Meditation is designed to help you spend thirty minutes to an hour in meditation and silent prayer with Jesus during Eucharistic adoration. Even if you cannot be physically present in a church or adoration chapel with the Blessed Sacrament, you can unite yourself spiritually to the Eucharist as you spend this time in prayer.
THE GRACE I SEEK: to have a spirit of loving obedience to all that God asks, especially to help build a Eucharistic culture
IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER, AND OF THE SON, AND OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. AMEN.
Pause for a few moments, and allow yourself to become aware of Jesus’ gift of himself in the Eucharist. Realize that, at this very moment, the Lord of Life is gazing upon you with great love. Allow yourself to receive his loving gaze. You are his beloved child. Rest in his loving gaze.
Thank Jesus for the gift of himself in the Eucharist.
ASK FOR THE GRACE: Jesus, help me to have a spirit of loving obedience to all that God asks, especially to help build a Eucharistic culture.
Read slowly, 3–4 times. Allow the words of Scripture to wash over your mind and heart. Allow the Holy Spirit to speak to you through this passage.
“Taking the book of the covenant, he read it aloud to the people, who answered, ‘All that the Lord has said, we will heed and do.’ Then he took the blood and sprinkled it on the people, saying, ‘This is the blood of the covenant that the Lord has made with you.’” (Exodus 24:7–8)
Allow yourself to sit with these questions for a while, being attentive to how the Lord is speaking in your heart.
Every time God made a covenant with his people, it was “sealed in blood.” He chose to send his Beloved Son, who shed his Blood to set us free, sealing the “new and everlasting covenant.” How can I grow in gratitude for the Blood of Christ outpoured for my salvation? How can I stand in true awe as I consider how the Body of Christ was literally tortured, realizing that he did this out of love for me?
Read slowly, 3–4 times. Allow these words to wash over your mind and heart. Let the Holy Spirit speak to you through this meditation.
“While they were eating, he took bread, said the blessing, broke it, gave it to them, and said, ‘Take it; this is my body.’ Then he took a cup, gave thanks, and gave it to them, and they all drank from it. He said to them, ‘This is my blood of the covenant, which will be shed for many.’” (Mark 14:22–24)
What a profound moment in salvation history! Jesus celebrates the first Mass with his disciples, instituting the Eucharist. With deep gratitude and wonder in our hearts, let us pray, “Lord, I give you thanks and praise for the gift of the Eucharist—the renewal of the Paschal Mystery in which I participate at every Mass. I ask you for the grace to receive your Body and Blood in Holy Communion with awe, allowing you to transform my life so it can be a living reflection of your Eucharistic Heart: blessed, broken, and shared so that all may have life.”
Remain in silence with the Lord. Allow him to speak in the silence, in your heart. Receive his presence. If it helps, write down what you sense the Lord communicating to you during this time of prayer.
O God, who in this wonderful Sacrament have left us a memorial of your Passion, grant us, we pray, so to revere the sacred mysteries of your Body and Blood that we may always experience in ourselves the fruits of your redemption. Who live and reign with God the Father, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen. (Collect, Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ)
At every Mass, Jesus offers himself to the Father for us. We can always join our own offerings with Jesus at Mass. This Sunday, offer your desire to enter more fully into Holy Mass so that you can become a living sacrifice of praise with Jesus.
During the coming week, make your love for our Eucharistic Lord concrete by spending extra time with him in Eucharistic adoration, offering that time of prayer for those in most need of his mercy.
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