EUCHARIST - COVENANT COMMUNION

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

C O V E N A N T 
C O M M U N I O N

The first and principal effect of the Holy Eucharist is union with Christ by love (Decr. pro Armenis: adunatio ad Christum), which union as such does not consist in the sacramental reception of the Host, but in the spiritual and mystical union with Jesus by the theological virtue of love. Christ Himself designated the idea of Communion as a union by love: “He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, abideth in me, and I in him” (John, vi, 57). St. Cyril of Alexandria (Hom. in Joan., IV, xvii) beautifully represents this mystical union as the fusion of our being into that of the God-man, as “when melted wax is fused with other wax”. 

SOURCE: Catholic Answers (https://www.catholic.com/encyclopedia/eucharist) 



“In that first ‘fusion’ with Jesus (holy communion), it was my Heavenly Mother again who accompanied me to the altar for it was she herself who placed her Jesus into my soul.”

- St. Therese of Lisieux

A sacrament was, in fact, a supernatural act having reference to the Church. And this early undifferentiated conception contains a very vital truth. It is the truth that what the Church does or teaches, Christ does or teaches. He, by His Word or Spirit, is the true agent, and it is His creative energy which is operative in what is done: in every rite, at every altar He is “showing forth His glory”; and for that reason they are charged with a heavenly potency. Catholic sacramental theology is simply the rationalization and reduction to order of this vast field of sacramental experience. Manifestly the disuse or neglect of this experience is a spiritual loss. The psychology of religion is teaching us that “by rites emotions are re-enacted,” and the discovery of such a law is obviously of great consequence for faith. To the Catholic the Eucharist is at once a Passion and a Pentecost; it is, indeed, their perfect fusion, the projection into history of them both. And so, too, St. Paul can write that “we are buried with Him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life” (Rom. vi. 4).

- Theology, A Monthly Journal of Historic Christianity (https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=khA6AQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&pg=GBS.PA259)

Sincerely yours

in Jesus through Mary,

Mike Rizzio

Imitate Mary

Become like Jesus

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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