Stay With Us, Lord — a year of renewed and deepening love for the Holy Eucharist in the Diocese of Jackson

Sunday, Nov. 21 — Christ the King — the year of renewal begins

ADVENT DEVOTIONAL — WEEK 1

 “At the Last Supper, on the night he was betrayed, our Savior instituted the Eucharistic sacrifice of his Body and Blood. This he did in order to perpetuate the sacrifice of the cross throughout the ages until he should come again, and so to entrust to his beloved Spouse, the Church, a memorial of his death and resurrection: a sacrament of love, a sign of unity, a bond of charity, a Paschal banquet ‘in which Christ is consumed, the mind is filled with grace, and a pledge of future glory is given to us.'”  Catechism of the Catholic Church 1323.

ADVENT DEVOTIONAL — WEEK 2  

“The Eucharist is “the source and summit of the Christian life.”¹³⁶ “The other sacraments, and indeed all ecclesiastical ministries and works of the apostolate, are bound up with the Eucharist and are oriented toward it. For in the blessed Eucharist is contained the whole spiritual good of the Church, namely Christ himself, our Pasch.” Catechism of the Catholic Church 1324

ADVENT DEVOTIONAL — WEEK 3

“The Eucharist is the efficacious sign and sublime cause of that communion in the divine life and that unity of the People of God by which the Church is kept in being. It is the culmination both of God’s action sanctifying the world in Christ and of the worship men offer to Christ and through him to the Father in the Holy Spirit.”    Catechism of the Catholic Church 1325

ADVENT DEVOTIONAL — WEEK 4

“…by the Eucharistic celebration we already unite ourselves with the heavenly liturgy and anticipate eternal life, when God will be all in all.”   Catechism of the Catholic Church 1326