Furthermore…

I come more and more to appreciate how wise and all-knowing was Our Lord in giving us the Eucharist to sustain us in our discipleship. As I  came out of a rather empty, going through-the-motions observance of my faith and began to receive the Holy Communion more frequently, I filled in  a couple of spiritual potholes.

A fastidious or squeamish part of my makeup didn’t sit well with loving and being in an intimate physical relationship with what I visualized as the human man Jesus, the True Presence of my imagination. I was so happy when I had the grace to realize I could love Jesus solely as manifested in the seeming bread which masks His True Presence, and that I could leave behind the discomforts connected with being in intimate closeness with another, even Divine,  male person. Learning to concentrate on and directing all my love to the refined purity of the sacred host mercifully laid the squeamish discomforts to rest.

The other improvement in my relating to the Eucharist was in considering, perhaps for the first time seriously,  how generous and prudent was Jesus in instituting the sacrament in the way we know it, so that He can remain with us through the years. He designed things in such a way that the daily miracle of  the consecration  at Mass puts Himself in all His Holiness in our midst, in a form accessible to unholy beings such as ourselves, over and through the years.

 Talk about Intelligent Design! Divine Design, I’d call it!