1413 By the consecration the transubstantiation of the bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Christ is brought about. Under the consecrated species of bread and wine Christ himself, living and glorious, is present in a true, real, and substantial manner: his Body and his Blood, with his soul and his divinity (cf. Council of Trent: DS 1640; 1651).
It is one thing knowing that Christ is truly present in consecrated bread and wine; it is quite another to treat both species with utmost reverence. The first consecration took place during the Last Supper. [2]
It is out of love that Christ gave of Himself and it must be out of love that one must give of oneself to Christ. This is fundamental to all Christians and Catholics.
It is therefore a disgrace and an embarrassment to all Catholics to have Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI point this out on April 10, 2019 [3]:
The way people often simply receive the Holy Sacrament in communion as a matter of course shows that many see communion as a purely ceremonial gesture.
Receiving Holy Communion, actual Heart tissue of the dying Christ [4], as a matter of routine during Mass is a mockery or near mockery of the Real Presence of Christ. Receiving Christ cannot be a non-thinking response to a stimulus. It requires the total dedication of one's heart, mind and soul.
Only a saint knows how that is done. Sainte Marguerite-Marie Alacoque is one such saint. Because the Eucharist is the Heart of Christ, and Sainte Marguerite-Marie Alacoque was devoted to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, one ought to say Sainte Marguerite-Marie Alacoque's prayer of reparation whenever one is in the Real Presence of Christ, during Mass when the Holy Communion is being distributed and after it has been received, and during Eucharistic adoration [5] [Emphasis original]:
Adorable Heart of Jesus, glowing with love for us and inflamed with zeal for our salvation. O Heart that understands the misery to which our sins have brought us, infinitely rich in mercy to heal the wounds of our souls, behold me humbly kneeling before You to express the sorrow that fills my heart for the coldness and indifference with which I have so long returned the numberless benefits which You have bestowed upon me.
With a deep sense of the outrages that have been heaped upon You by my sins and the sins of others, I wish to make reparation to Your most Sacred Majesty. It was our sins that filled Your Heart with bitterness; it was the weight of our guilt that pressed down Your face to the earth in the Garden of Olives and caused you to die in agony on the Cross. But now, repentant and sorrowful, I implore Your forgiveness.
Adorable Heart of Jesus, Source of true consolation and ever merciful to the penitent sinner, impart to our hearts the spirit of penance that we may be sincerely sorry for our sins. Pardon them, O Lord, in Your mercy, and let all who have sinned against You in the Sacrament of Your love be converted and return to You. Deliver us from our sins. And in order to repair the sins of ingratitude by which we have grieved Your most tender and loving Heart, may we love and honor You in the most adorable Sacrament of the Altar, where You are present to hear and grant our petitions and to be the food and life of our souls.
Merciful Jesus, be our Mediator with Your heavenly Father, whom we have so grievously offended. Help us to amend our ways. As Your Sacred Heart is our refuge and our hope when we have sinned, so let it be the strength and support of our repentance, and nothing in life or death shall ever separate us from You. Amen.
[1] http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p2s2c1a3.htm.
[2] https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+26%3A26-28%2CMark+14%3A12-25%2CLuke+22%3A7-20&version=NIV
[3] https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/full-text-pope-emeritus-benedict-xvi-lays-out-thoughts-on-abuse-crisis
[4] https://aleteia.org/2017/09/23/the-eucharistic-miracle-of-sokolka-the-host-is-tissue-from-heart-of-a-dying-man/
[5] https://www.ourcatholicprayers.com/reparation-to-the-sacred-heart-of-jesus.html
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