…I’ll share these words from St. Peter Julian Eymard1 that have stayed with me since I first read them:
Eucharistic adorers share Mary’s life and mission of prayer at the foot of the Most Blessed Sacrament. It is the most beautiful of all missions, and it holds no perils. It is the most holy, for in it all the virtues are practiced. It is, moreover, the most necessary to the Church, which has even more need of prayerful souls than of powerful preachers; of men of penance rather than of men of eloquence. Today more than ever have we need of men who by their self-immolation, disarm the anger of God inflamed by the ever-increasing crimes of nations. We must have souls who by their importunity re-open the treasures of grace which the indifference of the multitude has closed. We must have true adorers; that is to say, men of fervor and of sacrifice.
Good St. Joseph, make me a man of prayer, of penance, of fervor, of sacrifice.
- Source: from the “Day 19” reflection in 30 Day Eucharistic Revival by Fr. Donald H. Calloway, MIC. Original source is Our Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament by St. Peter Julian Eymard. ↩︎
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