Living Eucharist...A really close match

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Fr. George W. Kosicki, C.S.B.

Look at the above image very closely. Double-click it to get more detail.  Fr. George W. Kosicki, C.S.B. a holy and respected priest of the Congregation of St. Basil no doubt loves the Holy Eucharist for he is a zealous apostle of Divine Mercy. He published this short forty-four page book in 1997. Based on some of his letters to Vinny and Donna Flynn from 1990-1991, it is worth pondering.

Living Eucharist
Counter-Sign to Our Age
and Answer to Crisis

Did you notice the formula at the center of image?

E=mh²

Hmmm, what is the Father trying to tell us?

I will leave out the answer and just describe his search, as I present the following passage:

Chapter XV. THE SPIRITUAL ENERGY OF THE EUCHARIST.

January 15, 1991

May the Lord fill you with His radiant presence.

I have been searching for a spiritual-biochemical equation for the Eucharist. Of course, I’m aware that you can’t describe the Eucharist by an equation, but I’ve had an inner urge to keep searching for an equation that would help describe the various dimensions of the Eucharist and help us to remember them. This week, in prayer, I’ve come up with an equation for the spiritual energy of the Eucharist! It has been an exciting insight for me and so I went to share it.

As you may know the great equation for physical energy was the product of the insight of Albert Einstein. He proposes that energy and matter are interconvertible and when matter is converted into energy there is a tremendous release of energy, He described this conversion in the simple equation:

e=mc²

That is, energy (e) is equal to the mass of matter (m) multiplied by the speed of light twice. His theoretical equation was proved correct in the first atomic bomb: matter was converted into explosive energy! This is physical energy.

Is there a spiritual energy?

[I omitted text here to make my point, in what follows this is indicated by …]

He [St. Thomas Aquinas] is saying that God’s spiritual energy is greater than His physical energy of creation. So the search for an equation of spiritual energy became even more significant to me.

And Eureka, I think I’ve found such an equation.  It describes the conversion…into the radiant energy of the Eucharist.

It radiates spiritual energy!

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We need to take extended time before the Eucharist for Radiation Therapy”.  

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Another way that we can be transformed by the spiritual energy of the Eucharist is by “gazing” upon the radiant presence of the Lord. This gazing is perceiving with the eyes of faith, the true spiritual beauty before us.

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The great moment of transformation takes place when we receive the Eucharist, this spiritual radiant energy, in Holy Communion. We receive the Body and Blood Soul and Divinity of the Lord Jesus Christ under the appearance of bread and wine, but transformed by the Holy Spirit.

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We are challenged and called to be living Eucharist, so that all who see our light (Mt 5:14-17) may give glory to God; that seeing the radiance of God’s mercy in us, all may be confronted by the sign of contradiction to our age and see the answer to our crisis in the Church and world.

We should thank Father George
for his witness of the spiritual energy
of the Eucharist

Sincerely yours in Jesus and Mary,

Mike Rizzio

Imitate Mary

Become like Jesus

Live for the Triune God

Seek the Light of Our Lord Jesus Christ

See you on the High Ground!

* - J.M.J. + O.B.T. + M.G.R. stands for:

Jesus, Mary and Joseph;

O Beata Trinitas;

St. Michael, St. Gabriel and St. Raphael

The Battle of the Holy Eucharist (and Spiritual Energy)

J.M.J. + O.B.T. + M.G.R.*

Pope Benedict XVI:

On the Eucharist and Love
"Source of the Spiritual energy  that Renews Our Life"

CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy, (Sep 25, 2005) Our response to his love therefore must be concrete, and must be expressed in a genuine conversion to love, in forgiveness, in reciprocal acceptance and in attention for the needs of all. Many and varied are the forms of service that we can offer our neighbor in everyday life, if we pay a little attention. The Eucharist becomes in this way the source of the spiritual energy that renews our life every day and, in this way, renews the love of Christ to the world.

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From the Holy Father's first encyclical Deus Caritas Est, God is Love (Dec 2005) concerning the Church's role in social justice: "She has to play her part through rational argument and she has to reawaken the spiritual energy without which justice, which always demands sacrifice, cannot prevail and prosper."

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Before closing his Sunday Angelus (Feb 25, 2007), the Pope reminded all those gathered in the piazza that "the indispensable spiritual energy required to establish peace and happiness can only be obtained from this source [Christ]."

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On April 2, 2008, Pope Benedict XVI while celebrating Mass in St. Peter's Square to commemorate the third anniversary of John Paul's death recalled his mentor's devotion to the Blessed Sacrament in his homily: "The Mass—as he often said—was for him the focal point of every day and of his entire life. The "living and holy" reality of the Eucharist gave him the spiritual energy to guide the People of God along the path of history."

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At special dedication Mass at Albano, Italy Pope Benedict spoke the following words: "Therefore, the love of Christ, the love that will never end, is the spiritual energy that unites those who participate in the same sacrifice and are nourished by the one bread broken for the salvation of the world."

(POPE BENEDICT XVI)

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http://www.therealpresence.org/eucharst/realpres/mission2.htm

The theme of World Mission Sunday, to be held Oct. 24, is "Eucharist and Mission," two realities that are "inseparable," as the Pope points out in his message, recalling key concepts of his 2003 encyclical "Ecclesia de Eucharistia."

In that encyclical, the Holy Father says that "the Eucharist builds the Church and the Church makes the Eucharist" noting "how the mission of the Church is a continuity of the mission of Christ and draws spiritual energy from communion with his Body and Blood."

Indeed, "the goal of the Eucharist is precisely, 'the communion of mankind with Christ and, in him, with the Father and with the Holy Spirit,'" he writes in his message for Mission Sunday.

(POPE JOHN PAUL II)

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http://www.dailycatholic.org/issue/2000Jun/jun23vic.htm

Finally, in this reflection on the significance and missionary content of the Eucharist we must not forget the martyrs, those unique "missionaries" and witnesses of the faith and love of Christ. The relics of the martyrs have from antiquity been placed under the altars, where the memorial of the "victim sacrificed for our reconciliation" is celebrated. They are a clear sign of the vigor that emanates from Christ's sacrifice. This spiritual energy conducts those for whom the Lord's body is food to offer their own lives for Him and for the brethren in the total gift of self, to the point, if necessary, of shedding one's blood.

 (POPE JOHN PAUL II)

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http://www.adoremus.org/HolyEucharistQuotes.html

Pope John Paul II - to Miloslav Cardinal Vlk, Archbishop of Prague, and members of Focolare - February 19, 2005

"With ever-living ardor, contemplate Christ in the mystery of the Eucharist.

Following His example, be ready in all circumstances to make yourselves instruments of mercy and communion. The secret of pastoral success is the crucified and risen Lord, Whom we adore in the Sacrament of the Eucharist. As you well know, in order to be eloquent signs of His love and instigators of His peace in all environments, everyone is first of all asked to cultivate an intimate and constant familiarity with Him. From intense participation in the Eucharist springs the spiritual energy needed to bring all projects of goodness to fruition."

(POPE JOHN PAUL II)

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http://www.ad2000.com.au/articles/2005/jul2005p6_1989.html

The origins of the Eucharistic prayers and actions derive of course from Jesus' Last Supper, celebrated with the apostles on the night before He died.

But this ritual in turn was rooted in Jewish customs from the Old Testament. The unleavened bread eaten at each Passover feast commemorates the Jewish exodus from Egypt. We also remember the manna the Jews received to sustain them in the desert. We recall too the priest Melchisedec from the first book of the Bible offering bread and wine (Genesis 14. 17- 20).

But there would have been no point to the Last Supper on Holy Thursday without Jesus' death on Good Friday.

In faith we are celebrating the death of the Lord until He comes again. The power of the universe has acted through His Son, the sacrificial Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. It is this gaining of salvation through Jesus' unique sacrifice that we commemorate in every Mass.

But we also look forward because Holy Communion is what St Ignatius of Antioch, who was martyred in the Colosseum in 107AD, called "the medicine of immortality". Holy Communion in particular, and all the sacraments, give us the spiritual energy or grace to enjoy happiness after death. In fact the Eucharist is a foretaste of the heavenly banquet to come.

(CARDINAL GEORGE PELL)

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http://www.adoremus.org/0305Arinze.html

Sunday Mass then emerges in clearer light, as does the parish as a Eucharistic community.  We also ask ourselves what place the Holy Eucharist has in the day and week for each of us and how we learn from Christ to offer ourselves.  The Holy Eucharist supplies us with the spiritual energy for the apostolate.  It punctuates the major milestones in our personal and community life, and is with us at the evening of our earthly pilgrimage.

(CARDINAL ARINZE)

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http://www.catechist.com/archive/articles_view.php?article_id=2423

If you have a misselette or have access to a Sacramentary, locate and read the section for the Offertory and Eucharist prayers. Pause between words and phrases to capture the beauty and meaning of the words. The next time you participate in the Mass, remember this reflection and discover a new spiritual energy flowing through you.

(THE CATECHIST)

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http://www.msfskhoop.iway.na/pea-tk43.htm

The Eucharistic year is a year of grace given to us to strengthen our faith, to refresh our souls and to draw new spiritual energy. But, above all, it should be a bright spark for a renewed missionary enthusiasm with the awareness that to celebrate Eucharist signifies to announce Christ and to make Him present in the lives of people.

(FRASALIANS)

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http://www.sjnohio.com/Spirit%20&%20Grace.htm

These, then, are our three needs with regard to sanctifying grace: firstly, that we preserve it permanently; secondly, that we recover it immediately if we have lost it by mortal sin; thirdly, that we seek to grow in sanctifying grace with an eagerness that sees the sky as the limit.

Now none of these three things is easy to do. In fact, by our human wisdom and strength alone, none of these three things is even possible. That is why sanctifying grace is preceded by and accompanied by a whole train of special helps from God. We call these special helps actual graces. An actual grace is a momentary, transient impulse, a spurt of spiritual energy with which God touches the soul. They are divine impulses that move us to judge what is right and to do what is good.

Without God’s help we cannot succeed in getting to heaven. The story of grace is as simple as that. Without sanctifying grace we are not capable of the beatific vision. Without actual grace we are not capable of receiving sanctifying grace in the first place. Without actual grace we are not capable of remaining for any long period in the state of sanctifying grace. Without actual grace we cannot recover sanctifying grace if we should lose it.

 (ST. JOHN NEUMANN PARISH)

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http://saintrobertbellarmine.blogspot.com/2009_08_01_archive.html

"Spiritual Energy"

My Dear People,

Prayer and Service are the Keys

Ever feel like the Lord seldom hears your prayers? Elijah, the prophet, felt that way. In our first reading today, we find the prophet exhausted from prayer and service of the Lord. He falls asleep under a desert tree. While resting, an Angel of the Lord awakens him. God's messenger brings a hearth cake and a jug of water for nourishment. Elijah was too exhausted to eat. He fell asleep again. The Angels stirs Elijah after his rest. Elijah then walked for forty days and forty nights.

Then, he prayed. Strengthen by the Lord, Elijah served the Lord with all his heart. Like Elijah, we too need to be strengthened by the Lord. Prayer and service keeps us on track. When we fail to pray, we run out of "spiritual energy". Only Our Lord, can refuel the souls. Take the time to relax, pray, and refuel with the Lord. If you have not yet visited our Adoration Chapel, make time to spend time praying and praising the Lord each week. Entrusting you to the care of Our Lady,

Fr. Mark

By sharing in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, may we find the strength and courage to make our own sacrifices to build up our church, and provide faith for the future.

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http://www.thechristiancommunity.org/resources/eucharist.htm

From the beginning, the Eucharistic service, and chiefly the great prayer of Transubstantiation, the Eucharist proper, had the character of an 'action.' In fact, it was very often called 'actio,' and the corresponding verb was 'to make,' 'to do.' We even find the formulation: 'to make the Passion and the Resurrection of Christ.' Christ's word at the Last Supper, 'do this' was understood in a deeper sense. It was not only that the ceremony of Holy Thursday was to be repeated, but that the whole event of Golgotha—Passion as well as Resurrection and Ascension—was to be brought to life anew. In the Eucharist Christ's central deed of redemption became actual and alive.

Divine providence arranged it in such a way, that it was really a constructive aid, able to arouse the utmost spiritual energy of the one to be helped. Christ's redeeming deed does not work automatically. It cannot make us holy without our conscious and willing participation. Such an automatic salvation would certainly spare mankind all its tragedies, but it would destroy man's freedom and dignity. Christ's deed has been so fashioned that it remains a dormant potentiality as long as it is not made effective and active by man's free agreement and cooperation. Man is supposed to do something in order to release the full divine energy of this deed. Without man's response it remains a latent possibility. When man responds, he becomes sensitive to the spiritual emanations welling forth from Christ's deed.

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http://www.holyspiritinteractive.net/youth/growingpains/06.asp

Every time I have said these words before receiving Holy Communion, I’ve always wondered about the significance of them. Being a healing professional, this aspect of the Holy Eucharist was always of particular interest to me.

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My faith is spiritual energy (substance) that is reality in heaven, which will be transformed into physical reality on this earth in answer to my prayer of hope. We say “Our Father who art in Heaven, ……, thy Kingdom come, thy Will be done, on earth as it is in heaven…..”. God’s Will for us already exists in heaven. When we have faith, we allow God’s Will to become substance and reality in our lives.

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http://www.holyspiritchurchjax.org/

The members of Holy Spirit Catholic Church are a community of faithful followers of Jesus Christ, who derive their strength and spiritual energy from the Eucharist and other Sacraments. We allow ourselves to be formed and molded by the Holy Spirit, the third person of the Blessed Trinity. We strive to live and abide by the "Spirit of Wisdom, Spirit of Understanding, Spirit of Good Counsel, Spirit of Fortitude, Spirit of Knowledge, Spirit of Piety and Spirit of Fear of the Lord." We are committed to the service of God through our neighbors in our solidarity with the poor and needy by our involvement in various ministries.

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http://www.sistersihmofwichita.org/flyers/sunjune10.htm

Let us pray for this tremendous grace to hunger and thirst for Holy Communion.  It is precisely in receiving Our Lord in Holy Communion that our hunger for God grows and intensifies.  The more we receive Holy Communion the more we will love Jesus, and the more we love Jesus the more we will desire to receive Holy Communion.  Does not our Holy Father refer to the Eucharist as the Sacrament of Love?  What better way to return our love to Him who has so loved us as to become Food for our souls?  What better way to grow in charity towards our neighbor than to be united with all those to whom Christ gives Himself in Holy Communion (SC).  Numerous are the benefits of receiving Holy Communion. The following are just a few benefits to inspire greater zeal:

1. Holy Communion is a personal visit of Jesus, Author of all spiritual energy and of all holiness

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http://www.tldm.org/News3/i_wait.htm

"Could I but make known to all souls the loving sentiments with which My Heart overflowed at My Last Supper, when I instituted the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist...!  ...How many souls who had been enfeebled by sin and the violence of passion would come back to their allegiance and recover their spiritual energy by partaking of this Bread of the strong!”

(JESUS???)

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W A R N I N G

http://www.lcc.cc/ecem/eveleinf/chakras.htm

HERETICAL REPRESENTATION OF SPIRITUAL ENERGY

The Holy Eucharist literally exists on the intersection between the Earth and the Heavens. As a column of fire and light it connects the forces of the earth and those of the sun as a channel for richly imbued spiritual energy. In executing the ritual of the Holy Eucharist the cosmic energies are activated and bundled. Amongst others, these immense sources contain "prana", the vitality of the sun, "fohat", the cosmic electricity of the Divine Will and "kundalini", the creative fire. An aspect of the generation of this field of transformation is the path through the rainbow bridge of the chakras of those present. The goal is the formation of suitable channels for the distribution of these powers in the world.

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Sincerely yours in Jesus and Mary,
Mike Rizzio

Imitate Mary
Become like Jesus
Live for the Triune God
Seek the Light of Our Lord Jesus Christ
See you on the High Ground!

* - J.M.J. + O.B.T. + M.G.R. stands for:

Jesus, Mary and Joseph;
O Beata Trinitas;
St. Michael, St. Gabriel and St. Raphael

Benedict XVI on Spiritual Energy...E=mc2

J.M.J. + O.B.T. + M.G.R.*

Pope Benedict XVI's reflection from his Sept 25, 2005 Angelus: On the Eucharist and Love: "Source of the Spiritual Energy That Renews Our Life":

The whole of Jesus earthly existence, from his conception until his death on the cross, was an act of love, to the point that we can summarize our faith in these words: "Jesus, caritas" -- Jesus, love. In the Last Supper, knowing that his hour had come, the divine Master gave his disciples the supreme example of love, washing their feet, and entrusted to them his precious legacy, the Eucharist, in which the whole paschal mystery is centered, as the venerated Pope John Paul II wrote in the encyclical "Ecclesia de Eucharistia." Take and eat, all of you, because this is my Body," "Take and drink all of you, because this is the cup of my Blood."

Jesus' words in the cenacle anticipated his death and manifested the consciousness with which he faced it, transforming it into a gift of himself, in the act of love that gives itself totally. In the Eucharist, the Lord gives himself to us with his body, with his soul and with his divinity, and we become one with him and among ourselves.

Our response to his love therefore must be concrete, and must be expressed in a genuine conversion to love, in forgiveness, in reciprocal acceptance and in attention for the needs of all. Many and varied are the forms of service that we can offer our neighbor in everyday life, if we pay a little attention. The Eucharist (((Mystery of Light))) becomes in this way the source of the spiritual energy that renews our life every day and, in this way, renews the love of Christ to the world.

LIGHT->LIFE->LOVE

From the Holy Father's first encyclical Deus Caritas Est, God is Love (Dec 2005) concerning the Church's role in social justice: "She has to play her part through rational argument and she has to reawaken the spiritual energy without which justice, which always demands sacrifice, cannot prevail and prosper."


Before closing his Sunday Angelus (Feb 25, 2007), the Pope reminded all those gathered in the piazza that "the indispensable spiritual energy required to establish peace and happiness can only be obtained from this source [Christ]."


On April 2, 2008, Pope Benedict XVI while celebrating Mass in St. Peter's Square to commemorate the third anniversary of John Paul's death recalled his mentor's devotion to the Blessed Sacrament in his homily: "The Mass--as he often said--was for him the focal point of every day and of his entire life. The "living and holy" reality of the Eucharist gave him the spiritual energy to guide the People of God along the path of history."


Yesterday at a special dedication Mass at Albano, Italy Pope Benedict again spoke about spiritual energy with the following words: "Therefore, the love of Christ, the love that will never end, is the spiritual energy that unites those who participate in the same sacrifice and are nourished by the one bread broken for the salvation of the world"

What is one to make of this

SPIRITUAL ENERGY?

Is it possibly tied to how God the Father created matter,

through Jesus and in His image, likeness and goodness?

Energy (both spiritual and temporal)
is directly related to Mass and Light

At Holy Mass the consecration of the bread and wine
(i.e., transubstantiation)

is the work of the Holy Spirit, whose Light gives Life:

Spiritual Light---turns bread into Christ's Body

Spiritual Light---turns wine into Christ's Blood

Is E=mc²

an expression of this Truth?

Wouldn't it be nice if Pope Benedict XVI, the former Archbishop of Munich (where Einstein went to Catholic School for three years) made the point that we start relating to the concept of mass–energy equivalence that unites the concepts of conservation of mass and conservation of energy and allows rest mass to be converted to forms of active energy as a key to understand God's Creation, Recreation that occurs each Mass, and Eternal Life.

Sincerely yours in Jesus and Mary,
Mike Rizzio, SOLT

Imitate Mary
Become like Jesus
Live for the Triune God

Seek the Light of Our Lord Jesus Christ
See you on the High Ground!

If you have a few minutes please go to the following sites
and see what I have been compelled to work on since 2004.

http://soltlaity.org/breadoflife.htm

http://soltlaity.org/slideshow.htm

I will attempt to answer any and all inquiries at jmjriz@aol.com.

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* - J.M.J. + O.B.T. + M.G.R. stands for: Jesus, Mary and Joseph;
O Beata Trinitas; St. Michael, St. Gabriel and St. Raphael

"Spiritual Hiroshima!"

J.M.J. + O.B.T. + M.G.R.*

Who protected the eight German Jesuit's at Hiroshima
on the Feast of the Transfiguration?

Jesus was Transfigured, The Fourth Luminous Mystery...
The Jesuits were kept from certain death in the fireball
and radiation within 1 mile of ground zero.

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Below we find another non-Catholic version of  E=mc²
as spiritual energy that we Catholics know finds its ultimate
source and summit in the Holy Eucharist.

The author of the blog posits what prayer of the faithful
would do through multiplication in the spirit.

We Catholics must ask, what would valid receipt
of Holy Communion by the faithful provide
in the way of spiritual energy for renewal and
conversion of a world gone wrong?

When will the Catholic world take notice?

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http://www.prayer247365.com/Learningcenter/Articles/articles7.htm

Is there a spiritual formula that tells us how God’s spiritual energy works?

It is this writer’s thinking that just such a formula does exist and works in the spiritual realm in somewhat the same way that Einstein’s formula works in the physical realm.

If we take Einstein’s equation E=mc² equation and define it in the following manner, it explains how spiritual energy is released. The formula now becomes SE=mc². SE is now defined as "spiritual energy." This will then replace the physical energy "E" part of the equation. The "m" in Einstein’s formula is the scientific notation for "mass." In this spiritual formula, "m" is defined as the "mass of mankind." c² of is now defined as the constant of God’s communication media (by means of the Holy Spirit)  the (²) squared is the combined entity of God the Father and God the Son.

The magnitude of spiritual energy then becomes dependent upon those who have the indwelling power of the Holy Spirit. Scripture tells us that when a person becomes a believer, he is given the gift of the Holy Spirit. When a believer has the gift of the Holy Spirit, he has the power to create spiritual energy through his communication with God the Father and God the Son.

God’s chosen vehicle of communication between Himself and believers is prayer! (And it is not limited by the speed of light!) It is by our prayers that believers create spiritual energy. The more we pray the more spiritual energy is created. Therefore, believers who do not pray regularly diminish the amount of spiritual energy that God can make available to counter the evil of this world. It is by the spiritual energy of prayer that God brings spiritual light into the sin-darkened hearts of fallen man.

God’s spiritual energy multiplies His works!

The early church was extremely powerful. They were not powerful because of who they were, but because they understood the source of their power and used it constantly. The source of their power was the Holy Spirit and they were in constant communication with the risen Lord through prayer. Because they were dependent upon prayer, the teaching and guidance of the Lord through the Holy Spirit, they used God’s law of multiplication to empower everything they did. The evil of the world around them could not withstand the proliferation of the Gospel message and the hope it brought.

Jesus himself taught them the basics of this law and how it was to work. It was important enough that all four Gospel writers made note of it. We know it as the "Parable of the Sower." In this parable, Jesus teaches that God’s Word, when it is sown, will produce much increase. When we preface everything we do with prayer, that is – consult the Lord of the Harvest – our prayers are answered and multiplied far beyond our expectation because it is God working His Plan through us. We, through prayer, become the magnifying lens that Our Lord Jesus uses to empower the work of the Gospel. When we pray, God does miraculous things. When we fail to pray, we give permissive power to the evil in this world to prevail.

How then does God’s law of multiplication and empowerment work? In the Scriptures, let us look at Matthew 13:23 (or, Mark 4:20). Jesus says the following, "But the one who received the seed that fell on good soil is the man who hears the word and understands it. He produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown." Here Jesus tells us His basic law of multiplication. If we are faithful and obedient to His commands, He will see that we will produce a crop of 100, 60 or 30 times what was sown. His law of multiplication applies to all spiritual, as well as physical activities!

Hence, when we pray first, He will multiply our prayers as well as the physical actions that follow, when we put feet to our prayers. How do we know this to be true? Let us look at some history of the early church and several periods of revival over the past two hundred years.

By the year 300, the influence of the early church had become so great that when Constantine (who professed to be a Christian) became Emperor, he made Christianity the state religion. From the time that Jesus was crucified about 30 A.D., the Roman Empire tried to exterminate this radical religious group that refused to bow to the Emperor. Now three hundred years later, instead of being wiped out, it became the accepted State Religion. This is an emphatic statement about God’s law of multiplication and empowerment!

In church history, many examples of powerful revivals exist. "Jonathan Edwards’ Call to Prayer brought the great awakening (1731-1735) in our nation. The wondrous revival of 1857 was brought by city missionary Landfear’s stirring the Christians of New York City to prayer. It was the prayer of the four humble Christians of Kells, and the prayers of others, that brought the marvelous Ulster Revival of 1859-60… Also the great Welsh revival of 1904." (PF Torrey pg 161).

The Moravian community of Herrnhut on the eastern edge of Germany began a century of prayer and constant revival on August 13, 1727. (See PG Red Moon pg 38) This season of prayer and missionary effort saw the spread of the Gospel to many backward areas of the world. It also witnessed the birth of a new nation on the North American continent. Many other wonderful stories and acts of grace also came from that 100 year prayer session. God had truly multiplied His power throughout the known world of that day.

God will use His Children in glorious ways if they are obedient in prayer. It is evident from past revivals and comments from great church leaders that prayer is the fuel for evangelism. Without prayer, evangelism falters. It becomes an intellectual activity fueled by the manmade efforts of church committees. It falters because it is not the plan of God to give human effort any credit for souls being saved. It is only by the power of the Almighty Sovereign of the Universe to draw the lost to the loving arms of our Savior Jesus Christ. He uses praying believers as the focal point for the explosive power created by His Holy Spirit.

What would it take today for God to produce a spiritual Hiroshima?

It would take the body of today’s believers, the Church, to fervently seek God’s spiritual law of multiplication. To do this, would empower today’s believers. Let us see just how this might work.

If we take just the top twelve Protestant church groups today who are estimated to have about 65 million members and a half million congregations and get them praying fervently, it would produce a spiritual Hiroshima! How do we figure this?

Let’s do the math. If we have a five member prayer group, in each congregation that prays just one hour per week. That would mean there would be two and half million people praying one hour each week. Now let’s apply God’s law of spiritual multiplication and use the lowest figure of thirty (30) as a multiplication factor. Then 30 times 2.5 million would impact 75 million prayer targets as a result of a half million congregations praying for just one hour per week.

If just ten percent of the present church membership would pray for just one hour per week, that figure would increase to about 200 million prayer targets. For every additional hour of "fervent prayer" the figure would increase by another 200 million. If just 10% of the church in the U. S. would pray for a 12 hour period every week, more than 3 billion prayer targets would be touched by believer empowered prayers.

In effect, a little over two weeks of such prayers would impact a number equivalent to the entire population of today’s world. A consistent practice by the church body of "fervent prayer" in this manner would produce a spiritual revolution around the world. Or, we could say that God’s energy released by praying believers would produce a "Spiritual Hiroshima!"

Sincerely yours in Jesus and Mary,

Mike Rizzio

Imitate Mary

Become like Jesus

Live for the Triune God

Seek the Light of Our Lord Jesus Christ

See you on the High Ground!

* - J.M.J. + O.B.T. + M.G.R. stands for:

Jesus, Mary and Joseph;

O Beata Trinitas;

St. Michael, St. Gabriel and St. Raphael

Anti-Truth vs. Truth...the world's final conflict

J.M.J. + O.B.T. + M.G.R.*

The following entries are "fruit," first bad and then good, of a GOOGLE Search on Eucharist, energy.  I offer them here for your edification and discernment, to make the case that Catholics better pay attention to the attack of the evil one (Lucifer/Satan/Devil, a.k.a. LSD).

Anti-Truth

Why Communion is a Satanic Ritual « Custodial Smackdown

Aug 4, 2008 ... Jesus did not want anything resembling the Eucharist, ... a perverse practice that only degrades spiritual energy, instead of uplifting it. ...

http://custodialsmackdown.wordpress.com/2008/08/04/why-communion-is-a-satanic-ritual/

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Thelemic-Hermetic Magical Rite of the Eucharist

Fire = energy or tendency to reach a higher energy state. .... I invoke y’all to guide me in this spell (or rite of the Eucharist) that I may perfectly ...

http://www.freeworldalliance.biz/Documents/Scientific-MagicRitual.htm
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AUGUST 2008 The Shrine of Holy Wisdom
A radically inclusive and ...Divine Energy of the Eucharist – Every Sunday at 10:00 a.m.. AUGUST 3 - Feast of the Holy Transfiguration ~ The Liturgy of the Cosmic Christos A ...

http://www.christofdivinelife.org/newsletter_files/AUGUST%202008.htm

And these three are just the proverbial "tip of the iceberg!"

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Truth

MIRAE CARITATIS (On the Holy Eucharist)

May 28, 1902

Pope Leo XIII

To examine into the nature and to promote the effects of those manifestations of His wondrous love which, like rays of light, stream forth from Jesus Christ—this, as befits Our sacred office, has ever been, and this, with His help, to the last breath of Our life will ever be Our earnest aim and endeavour.

13. That genuine charity, therefore, which knows how to do and to suffer all things for the salvation and the benefit of all, leaps forth with all the heat and energy of a flame from that most holy Eucharist in which Christ Himself is present and lives, in which He indulges to the utmost. His love towards us, and under the impulse of that divine love ceaselessly renews His Sacrifice. And thus it is not difficult to see whence the arduous labours of apostolic men, and whence those innumerable designs of every kind for the welfare of the human race which have been set on foot among Catholics, derive their origin, their strength, their permanence, their success.
http://www.adoremus.org/MiraeCaritatis.html

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SACRAMENTUN CARITATIS (The Sacrament of Charity)

March 13, 2007

Pope Benedict XVI

Through the concrete fulfilment of this responsibility, the Eucharist becomes in life what it signifies in its celebration. As I have had occasion to say, it is not the proper task of the Church to engage in the political work of bringing about the most just society possible; nonetheless she cannot and must not remain on the sidelines in the struggle for justice. The Church "has to play her part through rational argument and she has to reawaken the spiritual energy without which justice, which always demands sacrifice, cannot prevail and prosper." (244)

http://www.catholicliturgy.com/index.cfm/FuseAction/documentText/Index/14/SubIndex/0/ContentIndex/581/Start/557

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Message of the Synod of Bishops on the Eucharist

"The Eucharist: Living Bread for the Peace of the World"

VATICAN CITY, OCT. 22, 2005 (ZENIT.org).-During the Twentieth General Congregation held yesterday, Friday 21th October 2005, the Synodal Fathers approved the Message of the Synod of Bishops to the People of God, at the conclusion of the XI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops.

You are the «sentinels of the morning» and the «explorers of the future.» Do not fail to draw from the source of divine energy in the Holy Eucharist to bring about the changes that are necessary.
http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=78713
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In the Eucharist God is giving us the power to live as we are meant to live, sharing, loving, and forgiving like Jesus. In this special meal God is filling us with his love, his life and his light.

God is light, God is life, God is love. You are precious to God, you are his beloved child. Know that God is always with you, always looking on you in love, always waiting for you be still and turn to him so he can fill you full of his light, his love, his life…

As you continue to breathe slowly and deeply feel God’s loving warmth and light and energy inside you, filling you to overflowing, spilling out, shining all around you, ready to share with everyone you meet, bringing God’s love and life to others, spreading Christ’s light in the world, making others feel welcome and special, bringing out the best in others, like Jesus… Know that even when we leave our prayer, when we stop being still, when we stop thinking about God, God’s light and love is always with us, God is always with us, always loving us. Resolve to make time every day to be aware of God’s presence, to be still and receive his love.

(Jenny Gray Jan 2008)

http://www.stfranciswgc.org.uk/Sermons/20080120%20Celebration%20of%20Children%20&%20Communion.doc

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The effect of our resources, Eucharistic Adoration, is the fire that lights the hearts of the faithful. Mother Teresa said, “We cannot separate our lives from the Eucharist; the moment we do, something breaks. People ask, ‘Where do the sisters get the joy and energy to do what they are doing?’” Indeed, such joy and energy can only come from the Eucharist, which, according to St. Peter Julian Eymard, “[i]n one day...will make you produce more for the glory of God than a whole lifetime without it.”

http://www.catholiccollegestudents.org/eacampaign.html

Every morning Mother spent at least two hours with us before the Blessed Sacrament in prayer and meditation, and one hour in the evening in the adoration of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, which filled her with diving light, love and energy to recognise, love and serve Him in the poorest of the poor."

http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=4223&dos=64&size=A

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1. Why does Jesus come to us in the Eucharist?

Jesus comes to us in the Eucharist to give us new spiritual energy so that we can continue leading good Christian lives. (CC 1391-1392)

http://www.daughtersofstpaul.com/growinginfaith/basicqas/sacraments/eucharist3_97.htm
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The Eucharist is the priest's source of spiritual energy to keep on serving. It is the source of his ministry of reconciliation and healing.

http://www.ad2000.com.au/articles/2003/feb2003p10_1238.html

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Conclusion

The "lights" and the "shadows" in our eucharistic faith and practice indicate the need to treasure anew the greatest gift which Christ gives to us in the Church, the Holy Eucharist. New enthusiasm and new energy in studying and living our Catholic faith leads, first of all, to new enthusiasm and energy in contemplating the "eucharistic face" of Christ. Through the new evangelization, the "lights" of our eucharistic faith and practice will be enhanced and the "shadows" will be eliminated. May reflection upon the mystery of Christ’s abiding presence with us in the Eucharistic Sacrifice and banquet be at the heart of our work to carry out the new evangelization of our world.

http://www.therealpresence.org/eucharst/realpres/burke_003.htm

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First of all, holy Communion increases and energizes and strengthens the life of Christ in us. Our whole relationship with God depends on the life of Christ in us, on what we call grace. Without grace, we are out of touch with God, on our own to sink or swim as best we can with energies and capabilities that are simply insufficient for the challenges we face. Moreover, grace is what qualifies us for heaven, what makes us capable of the contact with God that provides our eternal happiness. The food of the Eucharist is a source of life and energy for our spirits just as material food is a source of life and energy for our bodies. It makes us grow in grace and thus grow in our aptitude for heaven.

http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:9aq1wrvoXoEJ:www.americancatholic.org/Newsletters/MM/ap0700.asp+Eucharist+energy&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=13&gl=us

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The Holy Eucharist: With Other Occasional Papers

By Philip Napier Waggett

Published by The Young Churchman Co., 1908

Energy of Reception

The thought therefore of a common unity of reception, without difference, without energy, sweet as it is, is not a thought we may rest in as true by itself alone. It may not give us rest. Rather by the very echo of that great warning of the sacred past it bids us wake and pray.

And as we pray, it is made clear to us in the second place that Holy Communion is for us something more than an experience which is passive and uniform, and uniform because passive. Besides being a blessing in which all alike share because all alike simply receive, and find therefore no room for difference, for all eat the same spiritual meat, this holy Sacrament is that which demands, and makes possible while it demands, a certain energy in the recipient. And in this call for energy, this possibility of spiritual movement in those who feed, lies the possibility also of difference in the profit of their feeding. For where obedience may grow in the God-given merit of action, there also sloth may claim its spoil; there also fear may rob the soul of its prize. There not only may actual obstacles bar the clear road of Grace, but mere inaction may lose what the strength of the soul should have been put forth to acquire.

For indeed in this most holy feast our Divine Lord, bestowing grace upon us, bids us rise and act. It is an energy of acceptance which He evokes. " Do this," He commands, in the first revelation of the Communion. " This is the work of God." "Labour for that meat which abideth unto everlasting life."

For just as in natural feeding there is no strictly passive reception, but rather an energising of the power of life to claim and appropriate the food which shall sustain its strength—the strength which remains seeking the strength which is to come—even so, but always by Divine grace given, is it in Communion. Mere nature indeed can make no approach to this food. In nature we are not exhausted only or lying in uttermost faintness, but dead. The dead can neither feed nor hunger. But by the grace of God, by the revival of the regenerate life, the Christian soul and body, though faint and weak, are yet faint with hunger, and in uttermost weakness yet are called upon for an act. "Open thy mouth," cries our God in the accents of a mother who yearns over her fainting child; "Open thy mouth wide, and I will feed thee."

So by God's gift there is the possibility, and by God's invitation and command there is the duty, of a genuine energy and work of the soul in coming to Communion. Yes; we are to reach out after that Heavenly Bread which is our Saviour, God and Man—God possessing our nature, manhood filled with the Divine majesty. He Who is not only our Shepherd leading us to pastures where we may find our nourishment, not only our Lord bestowing bread from Heaven, angels' food upon our need ; He Who is Himself our Bread, stands at the Right Hand of Power ready to feed us thence, to feed us there. He is able to make us sit with Him there in Heavenly places, while He enters also into our hearts, that He may sup with us and we with Him. But with the offered feast, He bestows also the power to open doors to His coming. With the offered shelter of His Heart, He bestows also such a faculty as He may address in command, saying, "Abide in Me." He does not take from His own in the bounty of Communion the power of a personal activity. Rather now, by the substance of past Communions (which yet are not passed away), by the inborn vigour of the new birth, by the breath of the Spirit moving in Him the Head and in us the members, He opens the way and He requires the effort of a genuine act of seeking, of reception, of spiritual manducation; and it is in the growing freedom of this energetic acceptance that the effect of the Heavenly gift grows in those who are taught of God.

O, that we might thus increase in Heavenly wisdom, and in the power of God's might. Send forth, O Lord, Thy light and Thy truth that they may lead me, that I may indeed go unto the Altar of God and reach the full enjoyment of Thy plenty. It is by the outflowing rays of Divine Glory that we must be led home to the Divine Source. Safely shall we follow towards Him those streams which flow from Him. Show unto me, O most bountiful Lord, in the Incarnate life the rays of Thy Majesty, that following along the path they create, pursuing that Way of Life which Jesus indeed is, I may arrive in constant energy of Communion at the Fountain of Light in Him.

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The Holy Eucharist supplies us with spiritual energy for the apostolate. It punctuates the major milestones in our personal and community life and is with us at the evening of our earthly pilgrimage.

Considering that “the Church draws her life from Christ in the Eucharist, by him she is fed and by him she is enlightened” (Eccl. De Euch., 6), it follows that the Eucharist “stands at the centre of the Church’s life” (Eccl. De Euch., 3). Pope Paul VI had earlier made an observation in the same sense: “If the sacred liturgy holds first place in the life of the Church, then the Eucharistic Mystery stands at the heart and centre of the liturgy, since it is the font of life that cleanses us and strengthens us” (Mysterium Fidei, 2).

Eucharist: Spiritual Energy for Apostolate

The Holy Eucharist sends us on mission. At the end of Mass, the deacon, and in his absence the priest, says to us: “Ite Missa Est”. This really means: “Go, you are sent to live and share what you have received and what we have heard, meditated, sung and prayed”. The Holy Eucharist sends us to proclaim Christ, each according to that person’s vocation and mission in the Church and in the world. The witness of our lives and our word when that is called for, will show that we are followers of Christ. This is an obligation on everyone in the Church: lay faithful, cleric or man or women in the consecrated state.

Holy Eucharist at Sunset of Earthly Pilgrimage

There comes a time when indications begin to increase to show that the end of our earthly life is not far away. Strength begins to fail. The bones start to ache. Movement slows down each day. One sickness or the other is detected. In short, the evening, the twilight, the sunset of our earthly pilgrimage is beginning to unfold.

As all through life starting from infancy, so also in old age the Holy Eucharist is central to our Christian life. Jesus accompanies us with this sacrifice and sacrament. The Church sets great value on the apostolate of the hospital chaplains who celebrate mass for the sick in hospitals or homes for the elderly and bring them Holy Communion. The sick or the old in their homes are also brought the comforting visit of their Eucharistic Lord.

When death is near, the Holy Eucharist is administered to the dying as Viaticum, to strengthen the dying and accompany him or her on the journey to eternity.

Francis Cardinal Arinze

November 19, 2005

http://media.libsyn.com/media/arinze/centrality_holy_eucharist.pdf

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Everyone who wants to fight abortion needs to say the same. We need to exercise the same generosity we ask the mothers to exercise. We need to imitate the mysteries we celebrate. "Do this in memory of me" applies to all of us in the sense that we are to lovingly suffer with Christ so others may live. We are to be like lightning rods in the midst of this terrible storm of violence and destruction, and say, "Yes, Lord, I am willing to absorb some of this violence and transform it by love into personal suffering, so that others may live."

Indeed, the Eucharist gives the pro-life movement its marching orders. It also provides the source of its energy, which is love. Indeed, if the pro-life movement is not a movement of love, then it is nothing at all. But if it is a movement of love, then nothing will stop it, for "Love is stronger than death, more powerful even than hell" (Song of Songs 8:6).

Fr. Frank A. Pavone, National Director, Priests for Life

http://www.priestsforlife.org/articles/abortionisantieucharistic.html

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Thus it is a holy and lifegiving thing, full of divine energy. And we too are transformed in Christ, the first-fruits, to be above corruption and sin. What the blessed Paul says is true: “Just as we bore the image of the earthly, so shall we bear the image of the heavenly” (1 Cor 15:49) that is to say, of Christ.

http://www.earlychurch.co.uk/pdfs/Cyril/The%20Union%20of%20Natures%20&%20The%20Eucharist.pdf

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Sincerely yours in Jesus and Mary,
Mike Rizzio, SOLT

Imitate Mary
Become like Jesus
Live for the Triune God

Seek the Light of Our Lord Jesus Christ
See you on the High Ground!

* - J.M.J. + O.B.T. + M.G.R. stands for: Jesus, Mary and Joseph;
O Beata Trinitas; St. Michael, St. Gabriel and St. Raphael

Oh Damascus...

J.M.J. + O.B.T. + M.G.R.*

St. John Damascene
(675-749 AD)

Called Golden Speaker because of his eloquence.

In 1890 Pope Leo XIII declared him a Doctor of the Church.
His feast is celebrated on 27 March.

Extracts from An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith:

The first name then conveys the notion of His existence and of the nature of His existence: while the second contains the idea of energy.

Further, the true doctrine teacheth that the Deity is simple and has one simple energy, good and energising in all things, just as the sun's ray, which warms all things and energises in each in harmony with its natural aptitude and receptive power, having obtained this form of energy from God, its Maker.

Since we find many terms used symbolically in the Scriptures concerning God which are more applicable to that which has body, we should recognise that it is quite impossible for us men clothed about with this dense covering of flesh to understand or speak of the divine and lofty and immaterial energies of the Godhead, except by the use of images and types and symbols derived from our own life.

And God's hands mean the effectual nature of His energy, for it is with our own hands that we accomplish our most useful and valuable work.

… the Godhead is not compound but in three perfect subsistences, one perfect indivisible and uncompound God. And when I think of the relation of the three subsistences to each other, I perceive that the Father is super-essential Sun, source of goodness, fathomless sea of essence, reason, wisdom, power, light, divinity: the generating and productive source of good hidden in it.

… we speak of God having place and the place of God where His energy becomes manifest. For He penetrates everything without mixing with it, and imparts to all His energy in proportion to the fitness and receptive power of each: and by this I mean, a purity both natural and voluntary. For the immaterial is purer than the material, and that which is virtuous than that which is linked with vice. Wherefore by the place of God is meant that which has a greater share in His energy and grace. For this reason the Heaven is His throne. For in it are the angels who do His will and are always glorifying Him. For this is His rest and the earth is His footstool. For in it He dwelt in the flesh among men. And His sacred flesh has been named the foot of God. The Church, too, is spoken of as the place of God: for we have set this apart for the glorifying of God as a sort of consecrated place wherein we also hold converse with Him. Likewise also the places in which His energy becomes manifest to us, whether through the flesh or apart from flesh, are spoken of as the places of God.

… to God alone belongs the power of energising everywhere at the same time.

… the Deity, Who is everywhere and above all, energises at the same time in diverse ways with one simple energy.

… the soul is bound up with the body, whole with whole and not part with part: and it is not contained by the body but contains it as fire does iron, and being in it energises with its own proper energies.

… God Who is invisible by nature is made visible by His energies, we perceive from the organisation and government of the world.

… the divine effulgence and energy, being one anti simple and indivisible, assuming many varied forms in its goodness among what is divisible and allotting to each the component parts of its own nature, still remains simple and is multiplied without division among the divided, and gathers and converts the divided into its own simplicity.

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Oh Damascus, we need your golden gift today!

Here is what I found in an Amazon search:

…the Holy Eucharist is a source of energy for all-around Christian…

…reduces the obstacles to the transforming energy of the Eucharist

…source of new life and energy. The Eucharist enables believers… 

…elements of the Eucharist, where the energy of a past event is ...

... Age of the Fathers have dedicated time and energy to the Eucharist ...

…the food and drink of the Eucharist sustain the energies of hope…

The Eucharist can be compared to the sun drawing all other things to itself from which these receive their energy and power.

By restoring this ancient approach … we attain to Eucharistic spirituality, the energy of Christ within us to form and shape us into his image.

The core source of this divine energy is in the Holy Eucharist. The apostles were doing more than merely arranging ceremonies and rituals; they were experiencing the mystery of light that flowed from their contact with the Eucharist.

Our visible spectrum now includes that vital energy that Eucharist is who we are.

Just as ordinary food is converted into physical energy, the Eucharist nourishes the continual journey of the believer toward oneness with God.

The invocation of the Spirit in Eucharist calls for the energy of God to transform humanly nourishing food into the Bread of Life.

The Eucharist is spiritual energy that we need to continue on the road to Heaven.

The power of the resurrection in the energy of the Eucharist is to declare that here, in church celebrating Eucharist every individual is equal.

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Eucharist-Energeia = Mass x Double Consecration (Mystery of Light)

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“Suppose there were a reality faster than light, so superenergized that it would be at rest, everywhere at once. Every object we see—though it appears rock-hard—is actually just another form of energy: e = mc². Couple that with all we know from religion; encounters with God are so often described as burning bushes and fiery pillars and tongues of flame. I Am is the pool of energizing existence out of which everything draws its ‘is,’ ‘the dearest freshness deep down things.’ It may not help everyone, but when I pray, I pray to a Person made of light.”

Fr. William O’Malley, SJ

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Sincerely yours in Jesus and Mary,

Mike Rizzio

Imitate Mary

Become like Jesus

Live for the Triune God

Seek the Light of Our Lord Jesus Christ

See you on the High Ground!

* - J.M.J. + O.B.T. + M.G.R. stands for:

Jesus, Mary and Joseph;

O Beata Trinitas;

St. Michael, St. Gabriel and St. Raphael