Eucharistic Meditations

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  1. One
  2. Two
  3. Three
  4. Four
  5. Five
  6. Six
  7. Seven
  8. Eight
  9. Nine
  10. Ten
  11. Eleven
  12. Twelve
  13. Thirteen
  14. Fourteen
  15. Fifteen
  16. Sixteen
  17. Seventeen
  18. Eighteen
  19. Nineteen
  20. Twenty
  21. Twenty One
  22. Twenty Two
  23. Twenty Three
  24. Twenty Four
  25. Twenty Five
  26. Twenty Six
  27. Twenty Seven
  28. Twenty Eight
  29. Twenty Nine
  30. Thirty
  31. Thirty One
  32. Thirty Two
  33. Thirty Three
  34. Thirty Four
  35. Thirty Five
  36. Thirty Six
  37. Thirty Seven
  38. As We Celebrate the Feast
  39. Thirty Nine
  40. Forty
  41. Forty One
  42. Forty Two
  43. Forty Three
  44. Forty Four
  45. Forty Five
  46. Forty Six
  47. Forty Seven
  48. Forty Eight
  49. Forty Nine
  50. Fifty

Thirty Three

  1. Your modest shrine awaits in penitence,
    Cleansed with Your blood and burnished with Your Grace,
    Stocked with the Spirit's grand inheritance,
    Lit by the tortured image of Your face:
    You have prepared me as Your humble home;
    O Saviour Jesus, welcome, quickly come.
  2. For in Your Sacrament You magnify,
    Building a temple of me for Your love
    That in Your glory I may glorify
    You within me, the world and heaven above:
    In You all guilt and rancour are released,
    I hear Your call and hasten to the feast.
  3. How can this hand that grasps, these eyes that lust,
    This tongue that lies, bear now to be so close?
    It is the mystery of sacred trust
    That ours is to repent, Yours to dispose
    Who dined with sinners, set the captives free,
    Release my soul, Dear Lord, and dine with me.
  4. No sustenance, no jewel, approximates
    To this one gift received at Your command,
    No victor at his greatest celebrates
    Such joy as I receive from Your bless'd hand
    Who, through Your priesthood, offered as Our Christ
    Is given back to us in Eucharist.