St. Francis and The Eucharist
"Your principal motive in going to Communion should be to advance, strengthen and console yourself in the love of God, receiving for love alone what is given for love alone. At no other time is our Lord more loving and more tender than when he, as it were, humbles himself and comes to us in the form of food that he may enter our soul and enter into intimate union with us. If you are asked why you go to Communion so often say it is to learn to love God, to be purified from your imperfections, delivered from your miseries, consoled in your troubles and strengthened in your weaknesses.
As mountain hares become white in winter because they neither see nor eat anything but snow, so by adoring and feeding on beauty, purity and goodness itself in the Eucharist you will become altogether beautiful, pure, and good."
Introduction to the Devout Life
St. Francis de Sales
St. Francis de Sales
posted by Russ Rentler, M.D. | 8:18 PM
1 Comments:
Ahh, I love the quaint nature metaphors in Francis' writing, all the more charming when they're inaccurate.
But what a good message about the Eucharist! We are what we eat.
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