When we receive the Eucharist, we receive really the body of the Lord, who have flesh, blood, bones, feelings and heart. the Jews were fighting among themselves: how could he give his flesh to eat? (Jo 6.52).

Jesus knew the questions were coming and what would they say: that the Eucharist is just a symbol, it’s just a spiritual self-giving of the Lord.

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The body of Jesus

When we receive, we receive the whole person of Jesus , the Eucharist is the risen Jesus with His glorious Body.We enter into communion with his wounds, which were opened for us to heal our wounds and the marks that sin has left us. We share the Heart of God, who loved and still loves each one of us, the same heart that was pierced by the spear.

The body of Jesus, present in the Eucharist comes to touch our being fully.

How many people today suffer from depression, anxiety, stress and insomnia, depending on sleeping pills and live with little tranquility! Evils that are a result of temptation, who comes to destroy everything in our lives.

Spiritual warfare

To support the spiritual battle in which we are involved, we need the Eucharist.

We bring in we own creative power of God: the fertile man and the woman gives birth to a new life. It is the partnership between God and the human creature to generate new children. But the enemy takes advantage of our weakness in this area, tempting us constantly, so we use our sexuality in a totally unvirtuous way.

We are in need of love and affection, we don’t get enough love from our parents. We were not valued by important people for us, at home, at school. Soon, when we begin to awaken to the affective life, what it offers us is sex and no love.

We’re looking to give and receive love, but often what we receive is sex, vulgar sex!

To defeat us in this battle the temptor wants to tear us apart, destroying us through the weakest part, we need the Eucharist. Our strength, our food and medicine will be the Eucharist. This is the body of the Lord, given to our body wounded by sin.Many young men and women, boys and girls, have been through this experience, that is the source of all the damage.

Our Lord Jesus Christ personally, comes to us to heal and free us. Spending time with Jesus in the tabernacle is the best medicine, the best therapy. We can’t imagine the effect this will produce in our lives, in our mind and heart, in our emotions and sexuality. The Lord will bring forth even the physical cures we need.

Jesus Eucharistic, by the power of the Holy Spirit, wants to cure the whole area of our affectivity and sexuality. He comes to cure the sterility that the whole world has brought us and gives us life.

Your brother,

Monsignor Jonas Abib