The Eucharistic Presence

God promised to dwell with the Israelites and the whole humanity. Behold among men the dwelling place of God, they shall be his people, He shall be their God (Ez 37:27). This promise was fulfilled at the incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ. He became human being like us in all things but sin. The Word became flesh and dwelt among us. And we see his glory, the glory as of a father’s only son, full of grace and truth (Jn 1:14). Before his Ascension to his Father, Jesus made an astonishing promise: Behold I am with you always to the close of the age (Mt 28:20).

Jesus Christ knowing the challenges we will be facing as Christians, promised to stay with us to the end of the world. He fulfilled this promise by staying with us in the Eucharist. The Eucharist does not symbolize or represent Jesus. The holy Eucharist is Jesus. The Eucharist is Jesus, body and blood, soul and divinity. The God whom heaven and earth cannot contain condescended to stay among us in the Blessed Sacrament. The Eucharist is Emmanuel- God with us.

Nothing can explain this singular and stupendous presence of God among us but love; the boundless love of Jesus for us. Pope John Paul II says “contemplating Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament we discover the boundless love.”  In the presence of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament we are bathed with the glory, stunned by the beauty, enthralled by the majesty of Jesus and filled with every grace and blessing. In the presence Blessed Sacrament, all our worries and anxieties are laid to rest. All our problems and troubles dissolve into nothingness. We are filled with hope, joy and peace. In the presence of Jesus, we feel safe.

Stay with us Lord, because it is almost evening and the day is now nearly over (Lk 24:29). Stay with us Lord in the dark and dreadful moments of life. Stay with us Lord especially at the last moments of our lives. Stay with us Lord.