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 believe that Jesus’ sacrifice makes all things new
IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER, AND OF THE SON, AND OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. AMEN.
Become aware of the silence and emptiness of this Good Friday. Let yourself imagine Jesus in his suffering and death. Know that he did it for you, for your salvation.
Thank Jesus for the gift of himself in his death on the Cross.
ASK FOR THE GRACE: Jesus, help me to believe that your sacrifice makes all things new.
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.
“Yet it was our infirmities that he bore, our sufferings that he endured, while we thought of him as stricken, as one smitten by God and afflicted. But he was pierced for our offenses, crushed for our sins; upon him was the chastisement that makes us whole, by his stripes we were healed.” (Isaiah 53:4–5)
Allow yourself to sit with these questions for a while, being attentive to how the Lord is speaking in your heart.
How has Jesus taken on your own personal sin and suffering in his Passion? How have you experienced the power of the Blood of the Lamb in your life? Thank Jesus for taking on the full weight of your sin through his Passion and Death.
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Read slowly, 3–4 times. Again, allow the words of Scripture to wash over your mind and heart. Let the Holy Spirit speak to you through this passage.
“Jesus said, ‘I thirst.’ There was a vessel filled with common wine. So they put a sponge soaked in wine on a sprig of hyssop and put it up to his mouth. When Jesus had taken the wine, he said, ‘It is finished.’ And bowing his head, he handed over the spirit.” (John 19:28–30)
Allow yourself to sit with these questions for a while, being attentive to how the Lord is speaking in your heart.
In a moment of seeming defeat, Jesus conquered sin and death. By becoming as nothing—a poor man hanging on a tree—Jesus inaugurated for us new life. Imagine Jesus on the Cross. Ask him to help you deepen in gratitude for his death on the Cross, the final sacrifice that has conquered sin and death forever. Allow yourself to be moved with compassion for the profound sufferings of your Savior, Jesus.
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.
Remember your mercies, O Lord, and with your eternal protection sanctify your servants, for whom Christ your Son, by the shedding of his Blood, established the Paschal Mystery. Who lives and reigns for ever and ever. (Opening Prayer, Good Friday of the Lord’s Passion)
Today, the Church waits in silence at the tomb of Christ. According to the rubrics of the Church, Mass is not celebrated today until the Vigil of the Lord’s Resurrection. During this time of emptiness and waiting, offer to Christ the hope of eternal life with him. Unite your sufferings to his, so as to rise with him at Easter. During this time of emptiness and pain, offer to Jesus your desire to quench his thirst by offering him your whole self.
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