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Volume II Number 1 Wednesday, 30 January 2013 Meaning of Eucharist? It is the same with time spent in divine inti- macy with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. Luke 5:1-11. Peter had a great catch How can our encounters with the Lord not when, in obedience to Jesus, he low- cause us to fall more and more in love with ered his net at the other side. This Gos- Him? As we yield to such love, it will pel episode may lead us to believe that, prompt hunger for Scripture and the Sacra- since Peter learned how to catch, he ments as we seek to know and experience became fisher of men. I believe other- Him on a deeper level. wise. It will make us remember Him throughout Peter became fisher of men because he the day, inspire us to do little things just for learned to be caught … to be found … Him and try and make ourselves more at- by God. So, this is our lesson: Be found tractive to Him by lives of purity and holi- and caught by God! The truth of the ness. And yet, we should not feel discour- Gospel is that we cannot find God. We aged if we cannot love Him fully because cannot catch His Spirit. The Spirit will Jesus assures us that He will always love catch us … and our vocation begins Jesus to Peter: Be Fisher of Men. us with a love that surpasses all. when we allow ourselves to be caught by the Spirit. How? O God, You are my God -- for You I long! In Psalm 63, the Psalm- ist longs for divine life which is based on a close relationship with Put out into the deep! Jesus directs Peter. Fulfillment lies in God. The Psalm most beautifully expresses the intimate relation- waters deeper than we have ever gone before in our lives. We ship between God and the one who worships Him in His holy have to take risks, without guarantee for success. Otherwise, Temple. resources are under-utilized … skills are under-developed … talents, time, treasures and technology are not shared … Such must be OUR love and total self-giving to Jesus, exposed dreams and vision are not pursued. on the Altar, for our sake! O God, You are my God -- for You I long! For You my body yearns; for You my soul thirsts, like a land Jesus invites us … to leave the margin and shallow waters of parched, lifeless, and without water. So I look to You in the Sanc- our lives … go to the deep! There, the Holy Spirit will catch tuary to see Your power and glory. For Your us. There, you encounter the great power of God. There, we love is better than life; my lips offer You wor- realize our inadequacy, weakness and limitations … and ac- ship! I will bless You as long as I live; I will lift cept the power over us. There, God finds us. up my hands, calling on Your name. My soul But, unless we accept that God is greater than we are, unless shall savor the rich banquet of praise, with joy- we accept the need to be forgiven, unless we accept God’s ous lips my mouth shall honor You!3 terms of surrender, we cannot be found and caught by the Jesus asks for so little; yet, He gives so Spirit. Go to the deep where we can be found. much! This - the Eucharist - the whole Christ Reflection: In Genesis, God asks: Where are you? As an Ador- is His gift to all. Whether we are young or old, er, do you refuse to be found by God? Do you prefer to be sick or healthy, poor or rich, only by regularly partaking in the lost? – Condensed from Found by God – Glimpses of Grace: sacrifice of the Holy Mass and Eucharistic Adoration, can we reap Homilies/Meditation (2008) by Rev. Fr. Rufino C. Sescon, Jr. immense spiritual and temporal blessings in our lives! What Is Eucharistic Adoration? The Holy Eucharist is the LIVING FOUNTAIN OF LIFE where by Rev. Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J., S.T.D. we drink in the love of Christ Who alone quenches our thirst. We Grow in Love for Jesus with Every Encounter. In John Thus, time spent with our Beloved Saviour in Adoration, becomes 21:16, Jesus asks Peter the question that will determine his the most profound, meaningful, joyful, peaceful and healing expe- whole life: "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" Jesus is rience we could ever encounter! May our adoration never cease! asking each of us the same question: do you love me? Those O, SACRAMENT MOST HOLY! O, SACRAMENT DIVINE! ALL of us who have an experience of love, know, that true love sets PRAISE AND ALL THANKSGIVING BE EVERY MOMENT THINE! no conditions; it simply loves and yet it must be nurtured and nourished by intimacy, closeness or regular contact. >>>> (To be continued February 2013) Gamitin po natin itong Newsletter sa mga pagpupulong ng ating Turno/Section/Council. Salamat po! Page 1 2 Please bring Light to the darkness. *Our Lady of the Eucharist* Please open our spiritual blindness. Alliance of the Two Hearts: Hope of the World The Jewish custom at that time was for young maidens of By Rev. Fr. Michael O’Carroll, C.S.Sp. pious families to be raised in the Temple where they serve Courtesy of Assisi Development Foundation, Inc. until the age of marriage. Mary desires to remain a virgin Rev. Fr. Nicolas Tuite de McCarthy, SJ (died 1853) betrothed to God in His service but surrenders herself to reflects on the relationship between the heart of God’s will for her. The Father in Heaven wills her to marry and chooses Joseph of the House of David as her spouse. Mary – the center of her whole being – and each of the Divine Persons: The betrothal of Mary to Joseph has its wellspring, and is The Father adopter, in a special manner, as His promulgated, in Heaven by the very love of God. Joseph and daughter, the One Who would be the Spouse of His Mary vow to live together in chastity for the love of God. Spirit and the Mother of His only Son. He preserved Fear of the Lord is born … of perfect love of the Lord … of her, alone of all creatures, from the stain of original wisdom, justice and obedience of the meek. Those who truly sin, sanctified not only her birth but her very con- love the Lord fear to disobey His commands. Mary and Jo- ception and prepared her from her mother’s womb, seph, in their great love of the Lord, are endowed with this gift: Fear of the Lord. by an outpouring of graces without precedence and without measure; before she was born, she could Love caused this gift with its fruits of meek humility and already have been called as truthfully as Gabriel did: loving mercy – a love that is gentle, kind and merciful. Gratia plena … Full of Grace! Those who love in this way are not envious or boastful. The There, in this Immaculate Heart of Mary, the sacred Beatitude of Gentleness is the first attribute of the Sacred fire of Love does not go out, and where there burns Heart of Jesus which God bestows on Joseph as a gift of the ceaselessly an incense of unpleasant odor; there is Holy Spirit. Joseph, together with Mary, then raise and form the true altar of holocausts where the pure victim is Jesus meek and humble of heart. immolated and consumed constantly; the true Holy The betrothal ceremony of Mary and Joseph, attired in traditional of Holies, where the Eternal One secretly gives out His ora- Jewish garments … was a wedding celebrated in Heaven for the glory cles; and the Living Ark of which that of the Hebrews was that God would reveal through the Son of Mary. but a figure. (To be continued February 2013) (To be continued February 2013) The Holy Spirit Angels and Archangels Galatians 4:9. But now that you have known God – or ra- From Breakfast with Angels by Traci Mullins (1996). ther, God has known … found … you – how can you turn Isaiah 14:1-27 …How are you fallen from back to weak and impoverished things? Do you want to be Heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How enslaved again – and go back to Egypt? are you cast down to the ground, you who We … Adorers … tend to grow tired of true freedom which mowed down the nations! You said in your God has gifted us with. We prefer no responsibilities and heart: I will ascend to heaven; I will raise my refuse to take risks. We prefer to be told what to do ... what throne higher than the stars of God; I will sit not to do – this is good; that is bad. Do this; don’t do that. on the Mount of Assembly, in the far recesses of the North; I will climb up above the clouds; St. Paul tells the Galatians: You belong to Christ, let the St. Michael the Archangel I will be like the Most High! Spirit guide you. But, to decide in favor of Paul’s advice, we … Adorers … must reflect on the Word of God and His But down to the netherworld you go, to the deep recesses of the Pit. commands … to take on responsibilities … to take risks. All who see you stare at you and ponder over your fate: Is this the man who shook the earth, made kingdoms quake, made the world a And because many Adorers prefer to be in shallow waters waste, who overthrew cities and did not give his captives release? than the deep … we are inclined to prefer the celebration of certain days, fulfill certain obligations and rites … and then Our beloved Jaime L Cardinal Sin wrote in I Will Serve: Reflections be left alone with our little faith and weak love.