Preparing For Union With Jesus

Discover or rediscover the fullness of union with Jesus.

"Every day Jesus offers me in Holy Communion an actual grace to love Him more, to unite myself more closely to Him.  Every day I must offer Him a heart always more open to love and union.  Intense acts of faith in the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist will help to arouse my love and make me actually love Him, and precisely during this actuality of love, Jesus will pour out the increase of His charity, the living flame of His infinite love." 1  ~Father Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalen, O.C.D.

God is so in love with you!

"Jesus penetrates me, transforming me into Himself only in the measure that I place no obstacles in His way, and insofar as I am disposed to receive the special grace of the Eucharist, the grace of "union with Christ."  2   ~Fr. Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalen, O.C.D.

Discover or rediscover the One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic, and Pro-Life Church.  

 

"The more perfect the dispositions with which I approach the Holy Table, the more complete this union and transformation will be.  These dispositions consist in preparing my heart for an ever greater union with the Lord, a union which requires conformity of aspirations, tastes, sentiments, and wills." 3 ~Fr. Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalen, O.C.D.

"In addition to the physical presence of Jesus, and because of this presence, each Communion brings me a new increase of grace and charity, but even this increase will be in proportion to my capacity for receiving it." 4  ~Fr. Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalen, O.C.D. 

"If my heart is closed by selfishness and pride, if it is bound by attachment to creatures, or is too much engrossed by worldly affections and affairs, it will be unable to make room for an increase of divine love, and Jesus will be, so to speak, forced to lessen the outpouring of His charity and to diminish His gifts...if I do not give myself entirely to Him, He cannot wholly pour Himself into me, as a friend into the heart of a faithful friend." 5  ~Fr. Gabriel of Mary Magdalen, O.C.D.

Recognize, accept, return, and share the unfathomable and eternal love of God

which is limitless, timeless, faultless, miraculous, 

and can never be contained. 

 God is at work in you!

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Sources:
1,4,5. Father Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalen, O.C.D., Divine Intimacy:  Meditations on the Interior Life for Every Day of the Liturgical Year (Rockford, IL:  Tan Books and Publishers, Inc., 1996), p. 620.
2, 3.  Father Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalen, O.C.D., Divine Intimacy:  Meditations on the Interior Life for Every Day of the Liturgical Year (Rockford, IL:  Tan Books and Publishers, Inc., 1996), p. 619.
Photos taken at Ss. Cyril and Methodius Slovak Roman Catholic Church, Sterling Heights, Michigan, U.S.A. and The Divine Mercy Center, Eastpointe, Michigan, U.S.A.