Ask yourself prior to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, as bridegrooms and their brides do during the time
of discernment and preparation prior to their engagement and wedding, "Am I fully
prepared to wed my life to Christ's, to enter into union with Him, and to
submit to God's will for a lifetime?"
After asking the question (keep asking it throughout your life), prepare yourself properly for this Sacred Union, crave Jesus, and be unified with Him in the Blessed Sacrament every single day. God is so in love with you!!
After asking the question (keep asking it throughout your life), prepare yourself properly for this Sacred Union, crave Jesus, and be unified with Him in the Blessed Sacrament every single day. God is so in love with you!!
SACRAMENTAL CONFESSION AND PREPARATION
The Sacrament of Reconciliation and the Blessed Sacrament are inseparable from one another and are to be received often. The former makes it possible for us to receive the latter worthily, in the state of grace.
Visit The Sacrament of Christ's Peace and consider the many ways you can make your Sacramental Confessions incredibly meaningful, intimate and powerful.
A few very powerful suggestions to get you started, and to inspire you to greater Divine intimacy: after confessing your sins, make your Act of Contrition while looking right into Christ's eyes as He forgives you from the Cross.
Make your Act of Contrition in union with all those who have made an Act of Contrition through all time.
Also, make your Act of Contrition on behalf of all those who would not/are not/will not go to confession for whatever reason. Don't forget to thank the Lord before you leave for His love and mercy, and promise Him that you will return again soon.
Make your Act of Contrition in union with all those who have made an Act of Contrition through all time.
Also, make your Act of Contrition on behalf of all those who would not/are not/will not go to confession for whatever reason. Don't forget to thank the Lord before you leave for His love and mercy, and promise Him that you will return again soon.
PREPARING OURSELVES TO ENTER INTO THE MYSTERY OF OUR REDEMPTION AND OUR SOULS' WEDDING TO CHRIST
While praying just prior to the
start of Holy Mass, you are in the state of grace! Perhaps the Lord will have you petition all the
occupants of heaven and the Holy Souls in Purgatory to join you in the search for and rescue of precious, immortal souls.
What a wonderful favor to ask for during your soul's wedding to Christ, that souls are saved from eternal perdition so that they may enjoy union with God forever, instead.
The congregation faces our Prisoner of Love in the tabernacle as every person prepares their hearts before Holy Mass. During this important time of preparation, the Lord asks each of us to become His prisoners of love in return prior to our union with Him.
What a wonderful favor to ask for during your soul's wedding to Christ, that souls are saved from eternal perdition so that they may enjoy union with God forever, instead.
The congregation faces our Prisoner of Love in the tabernacle as every person prepares their hearts before Holy Mass. During this important time of preparation, the Lord asks each of us to become His prisoners of love in return prior to our union with Him.
The Lord asks us to surrender our wills to God's will and offer ourselves to God as a
sacrifice in imitation of Christ and Blessed Mother.
AS HOLY MASS BEGINS
At the start
of Holy Mass, you see Jesus standing in front of every
single person in church. He is bound, has become a prisoner, is suffering from hatred and rejection, catastrophically
injured, and crowned with thorns.We are to ask ourselves as Jesus stands before each one of us, our Savior and also our role model, what choices have we made and hold ourselves accountable for them.
Ask yourself as bridegrooms and their brides do during the time
of discernment and preparation prior to their engagement and wedding, "Am I fully
prepared to wed my life to Christ's, to enter into union with Him, and to
submit to God's will for a lifetime?"
SO MANY EMBRACES
Our words, spoken and sung during Holy Mass, surround the Lord and embrace Him as His
words come to us and embrace us with so much love; we are all surrounded
by these loving words!
Our words surround the Lord throughout the
Holy Sacrifice as He journeys, and suffers, along the Way of the Cross.
(Silence.) His words surround each one of us in particular as we suffer in imitation
of Him and His most holy Mother as we accompany them along the Way of Sacrificial Love.
WEDDING GIFTS
The Lord makes comparisons to marriage between a man and a woman; we are to present ourselves as gifts to
one another, ourselves as gifts to the Lord on the occasion of the wedding of
our souls to Christ, as a man and a woman do to celebrate their nuptials. There is no need to give
material gifts, because the the best presents are already being given. They are priceless!
The
ultimate gift we can give at our souls' wedding to Christ is to surrender our lives to God, completely. Just think about it: we can and should give this gift many, many times, every single day during every Holy Sacrifice of the Mass!
This is what Jesus does for us. He is so lavish!
UNION WITH JESUS IN THE BLESSED SACRAMENT
During Holy Communion, the Lord
inspires you to ask the angels to take particles of the Sacred Host you received, place them in monstrances, and then bring those monstrances to the
hearts of all people through all time, and also at the moment of their death,
and place them within their bridal chambers, within their hearts.
You are surprised to learn that the Lord has requested this action of you after you had been unified with Jesus in the Sacrament of Love, so all of your merits are
attached to the Sacred Host also, and they benefited the recipients. Father's are as well, because he is the priest from whom you received the Eucharist,
God's channel to the people.
Performing this action of thought, this prayer, can be generalized to
every single one of us. Let us not lose any precious graces that can be
obtained for other souls!
ENJOYING SACRED UNION WITH JESUSWhile in the bridal chamber of our hearts enjoying union with our Lord, we can exchange so much love and affection with Him, as we kiss His Sacred Face and He kisses ours. We can and should look into His Eyes as He looks into ours, and exchange very intimate glances with our Savior.
He is so in love with us.
We also experience a blending of our wounds and
self-giving with Christ's, as two become one and as sacrificial love is multiplied through
this sacred union.
We are to invite others into our chamber in a action/prayer of thought so that they may benefit from this
Sacred Union as well. There, we are also unified with the Mystical Body of
Christ.
Discover and then keep rediscovering the one, holy, Catholic, apostolic, and pro-life Church, and the majestic full expression of Christianity as established by its very Founder, Jesus Christ.
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Images taken at Ss. Cyril and Methodius Slovak Catholic Church,
Sterling Heights, Michigan, U.S.A. Parish Website
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