By: Laura Catherine Worhacz

Jesus will fill our hearts, ”May he give you the desires of your heart” ( Psalm 20:4). Jesus teaches us all things, how to live and move and be. Immersing our prayer into the sacrificial love Christ offers us from the Cross helps us find our center. Knowing we are so loved by God allows us to live in forgiveness, in return for Christ’s love.

Jesus is here for us, in a humble piece of bread; He teaches us to become one in His person, to abide in His love. There have been so many times I have knelt before the Blessed Sacrament, carrying the weight of the world. Instantly, hope transforms the burdens into a silent conversation with the Lord that soothes, clarifies, and guides us to peace.

Why are we here together? We are the Body of Christ.

After leaving our adoring time, who do we rely upon this side of Heaven?

Who can depend upon us? Is there a center of love in this life?

Yes.

The Blessed Sacrament at the center of our lives forms us and inspires us to be what Jesus is to us for others. Rejoice! What do we rejoice in? I rejoice in the gift of my faith, in the blessing to know Jesus Christ truly present in the Blessed Sacrament.

My husband, daughters, my entire extended family… My sisters in Christ, my brothers in Christ…The gift of our Blessed Mother, who loves us beyond telling… St. Joseph... This is the Kingdom of Heaven, and it is with us now in the Eucharist. Upon our reception of Holy Communion, we are in Heaven while on earth.

Our world was left a mark of faith from Mary, forming the center of her life through Jesus. She rejoices in carrying out God’s will by helping her children live in the same pattern of prayer through the heart of the Eucharist. 

People far from the faith or receiving without hope may need to see our compassion and love to know Heaven is real. The divine reality of Eternal Life will be upon us. Burdens, sadness, and sorrow are real; loss comes with a heartache God alone brings to light. May our Eucharistic Adoration bring Heaven to Earth so others may be removed from despair and REJOICE.

By: Laura Catherine Worhacz

​Dearest Eucharistic Family,
 
In my prayer this week, I envisioned being in the womb of our Church, sheltered in Our Lady's Immaculate Heart. The divine indwelling of God's life for us begins with our Lady holding us for Jesus. 
 
I recently viewed the Roe V. Wade film, and the corruption that we know exists was made ever more visible to me through the film. The unborn held in the womb of mothers who do not understand what it means to hold life within is daunting. The choice to terminate life because of fear and many reasons is a vast reality in our society. 
 
Our compassion and prayer in Christ will be the only presence of God others may come to know. Life is taken by the millions… There are so many unconscious wounds that direct our decisions in life.
 
In our Lady's womb, she keeps us in our Holy Mother Church. Are we as vulnerable as the unborn in a mother that lives in fear? Perhaps! So many in our day are frightened to live. Sprit and truth lead us to justice through mercy; we try to uphold moral values.
 
Grievous sin still exists; we are told not to judge. We have lost sense and life within our Church's womb; it is being taken by the millions, similarly to the unborn who are not safe. In our adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, we will find our own grievous sin. Our purification begins so we may take others with us on the pathway to salvation.
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The hands of the priest bring us the Body of Christ, the bread and wine are transformed by the power of God, the sacrament of life is born for us. The heart of the Eucharist beats; Jesus lives.
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 In today's Gospel, Jesus walks on water,

Jesus abides in the Father and, in the oneness of their love, the Holy Spirit is offered to us so we may live in grace. Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament brings us to birth in the light, Mary reinstates the honor and nobility of motherhood. Our surest refuge is to be held by Jesus through the Heart of Mary.

​Easter reminds us of our Baptism, death to life. Our eternal life begins here on earth in the heart of the Eucharist. We are being formed in the womb to be birthed into Pentecost. The Liturgy keeps us moving in grace. Jesus came to bring us life to take courage and to LIVE!

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By: Laura Catherine Worhacz

Hosanna, hosanna in the highest!

Every Holy Week, it has been a tradition for my family to watch The Passion of the Christ. One of my favorite portrayals in the film is the flashbacks.

​When Jesus is in His Passion, He thinks of running into His mother's arms. When He thinks of His love for us, He thinks of Holy Thursday and leaving us His life in the Eucharist. Saint Mary remembers being saved from being stoned and recalls the hand of God reaching down to her to lift her to the Cross.

How blessed we are to enter Holy Week and celebrate another Palm Sunday tomorrow. What about us? Where do our flashbacks take us?

In the silence, we can go there... Sometimes the places we are taken to are quite painful; sometimes, we recall graces embedded in our hearts that take us to the mystical. All of which create us in the divine plan and help us see God's love in all things.

To identify with all the experiences of life is healing for our souls. We find peace in the acceptance of our lives. We need grace to see the work of God in our lives. The Sacrament of Reconciliation sets fire to our longing to give in return for God's love for us.

What about flashing back to our first encounter with the Eucharist, to the moment we were given the grace to know Jesus in the mystery of the Sacred Host? How did our hearts burn with a desire to be with Jesus? How we longed to be in the presence of the living God.

Holy week is a time to be made holy; there is time for us to grow while still on this earth. On Holy Thursday, we are to remember how Jesus washed the disciple's feet and offered the first Eucharist: "Do this in Memory of ME." On Good Friday, we venerate the Cross and think of the divine person, Jesus Christ, dying for each of us so personally. On Holy Saturday, we wait in preparation for the Easter Vigil when the Resurrection from the dead is revealed to us.

The Sacred Triduum, the mystery of salvation, invites us to live in the Passion, Death, and Rising of Christ. Saint Joseph lived this mystery in intimacy with God. All that was revealed to him Saint Joseph kept sacred. Indeed, he reminisced often, flashbacked to the dreams he had, thought of the terror he fled from and protected his faith in Christ.

May this Holy week bring our lives to the Praise and Glory of Our Father who art in Heaven. Lord help us to be guardians of the Eucharist.

By: Laura Catherine Worhacz

​Dearest Eucharistic Family,

Our hope is in the Lord who made Heaven and Earth -- save us from spiritual starvation!

It seems we need a shield in front of our souls at every breath of life. A child in fear takes hold of its parent hands and immediately finds security. Saint Peter Julian reminds us in the above excerpt to behold Saint Joseph... to behold fatherhood and the integrity it was created to be, whole and undivided.

Disheartening is the witness of betrayal. We see and hear of it constantly, marriages collapsing, Holy Orders defiled… The restoration of God’s life begins in the hearts of those who believe in Him, with those who are willing to fall in love with Christ’s redeeming power. The Lenten season calls us to repentance, a time to glimpse into our existence and view our lives, a time to cast away shame and guilt so we may be born into EASTER with the fullness of life through our baptism.

Saint Peter Julian Eymard was always known to carry with him the Gospel of Saint John, another beloved. Saint John, the one who kept his head on the heart of Jesus Christ at the Institution of the Holy Eucharist, was enabled to soar above the darkness of the world through the love of Christ. Saint John, like Saint Joseph, teaches us to find the integrity of life through the desire to return love; this marks them as beloved ones.

The Eucharist leads us to dignity, integrity, fatherhood and motherhood, the sacredness of the sacrament of matrimony, and respect for the holy priesthood. How many men and women deny the vows people make by luring them away from them? BEHOLD Saint Joseph, the one who listened through the deep recesses of his being to be formed anew in God, the one who teaches us integrity illuminated in compassion through humility.

In my early morning rosary walks the joyful mysteries allow me preparation to receive Holy Communion. The birds of the air are chirping loudly; they seem to understand one another. Our prayers keep us in communion with the Kingdom of Heaven. God hears and understands our voices. The world may only hear chirping, yet we understand through our prayer that we are calling to the source of life in whom we seek Our Father.

May our prayers help us to purify our lives throughout these 40 days. May the intercession of our prayer gather many through the beating heart of the Eucharist. Our Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament, Saint Joseph, and many beloved ones exemplify the way to salvation through integrity of life. Behold us, Lord, who desire this pathway to HEAVEN. Forgive us of our sins. Amen

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