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Today is the Feast Day of Saint Catherine of Siena. She was born the 24th of 25 children. She was a stigmatic – she bore the wounds of Christ in her body, as did Saint Padre Pio. However, there was a difference. Padre Pio’s stigmata was visible for 50 years, then disappeared before he died. Catherine’s stigmata was invisible  and only appeared after her death. Saint Catherine was named one of the first two women Doctors of the Church, with Saint Teresa of Avila. About today’s topic, both Saint Catherine and Saint Padre Pio lived for years on the Eucharist alone! The Eucharist sustained their lives! When Saint Catherine tried to eat other food under obedience, she threw it up. When Saint Padre Pio tried to eat other food under obedience, he lost weight, so they told him to stop. What is the meaning of this? Spiritual food is more important than physical food! Spiritual Food – the Bread of Life – that’s the greatest! Saint Catherine couldn’t read or write. How could she become a Doctor of the Church? She had a really good teacher – the best – the Holy Spirit! All her knowledge was infused knowledge from the Holy Spirit! All the Saints loved the Mass and the Eucharist, our topic today. Do you love the Mass and the Eucharist? What is the most important thing you can do in your life? Receive Holy Communion – the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ, the Son of God become man! If you go to Mass and receive Jesus in Holy Communion worthily, in a state of grace, for your whole life, then you will go to heaven when you die! Pray for priests and for vocations for the priesthood! No priests, no Mass. No Mass, no Eucharist. No Eucharist, no Holy Communion. No Holy Communion, we are spiritual orphans!

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The greatest of the Seven Sacraments is the most Holy Eucharist. Eucharist means Thanksgiving. The Holy Eucharist is a sacrament and a sacrifice. In the Holy Eucharist, under the appearances of bread and wine, the Lord Jesus is contained, offered, and received. In every Mass during the consecration, by the action of the Holy Spirit and the words and actions of the priest, bread and wine become the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ. Do we see Jesus? No, but it is really Jesus the priest holds up for adoration after the consecration. The appearances of bread and wine remain but the substance is changed into Jesus’ own Body and Blood. We truly receive Jesus in Holy Communion! The smallest particle of the consecrated host is the whole and entire Jesus! Jesus gave us this Sacrament because He loves us so much that He wants to come into our hearts. Why do we believe this is truly Jesus? Because Jesus Himself told us so! “Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up on the last day. For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in them.” (Jn 6: 53-56). The Eucharist is worth more than the whole created universe because it is GOD. The children of Fatima knew that the Eucharist was Jesus’ own Body and Blood. They called the Eucharist the “hidden Jesus”- hidden from their sight but truly present. Pray for faith in the Eucharist. And then love the Eucharist!  Make visits to the Eucharistic Jesus in tabernacle! Receive Jesus in Holy Communion frequently and fervently! Ask Our Blessed Mother to help you receive Jesus with all the love and devotion that is in her Immaculate Heart! Then, like Mary’s Heart, your heart will become a living tabernacle of Jesus the Lord!

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Father Ed explains these Eternal Truths: the Four Last Things, and for Catholics, the Five Last Things – Death, Judgment, Heaven, Hell and Purgatory. Saint Ignatius proposes that meditating on these serious topics helps us move away from sin and move towards God. Recognize that by saying “no” to sin and whatever temptations we might have, we are saying “yes” to the love of God and “Yes” to living out Principle and Foundation – the meaning and purpose of our lives: we are created to praise God, to reverence God, to serve God in this life so that we will arrive at our eternal salvation – happiness with God in Heaven for all eternity. Delve into these eternal and challenging truths with Father Ed to find the answers to the questions, the doubts, the confusion that keep us from truly loving God and experiencing the peace and joy He promises now and forever to those who love Him.

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Father Ed reminds us that the greatest of all Sacraments is the Holy Eucharist or Holy Communion because it is truly God. You can’t say the other sacraments are God. They communicate God’s grace, but the Eucharist is really God, there is a big difference. Holy Communion is the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ. Holy Communion gives us God Himself. Holy Communion is Jesus loving us by uniting His whole being with our whole being. In Holy Communion we receive a Heart transplant and a Mind transplant – the very Heart and Mind of Christ! The essence of our Catholic Christian life is loving Christ, but especially in the Mass where He becomes truly present in His Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity to be received by each one of us so that we may have life and life everlasting. The Mass is a matter of life and death for us! “Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day” (Jn 6:54). Listen to go deeper in your knowledge and love of this most sublime and efficacious Sacrament!