St. Peter Julian Eymard, Priest
The Apostle of the Eucharist

As a young priest, St. Peter Julian Eymard burned with the desire to establish perpetual adoration of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament upon His royal throne. He believed that both clergy and the laity should make up the Honor Guard adoring their Eucharistic Master day and night unceasingly.

Here is what he had to say about the Eucharist:

"Have a great love for Jesus in his divine Sacrament of Love; that is the divine oasis of the desert. It is the heavenly manna of the traveller. It is the Holy Ark. It is the life and Paradise of love on earth."

"Until we have a passionate love for Our Lord in the Most Blessed Sacrament, we shall accomplish nothing."

"If we thus base our worship on love, we will come into Our Lord's presence with great confidence."

"...it is now, in the Eucharist, that Our Lord wishes to enjoy His title of 'Good Master'....He wants us to dwell on His tenderness and find joy in his presence; He wants us to be drawn to His feet by sheer happiness of seeing Him."

"Words cannot express the perfection of his adoration. If Saint John leaped in the womb at the approach of Mary, what feelings must have coursed through Joseph during those six months when he had at his side and under his very eyes the hidden God! If the father of Origen used to kiss his child during the night and adore the Holy Spirit living within Him, can we doubt that Joseph must often have adored Jesus hidden in the pure tabernacle of Mary? How fervent that adoration must have been: My Lord and my God, behold your servant! No one can describe the adoration of this noble soul. He saw nothing, yet he believed; his faith had to pierce the virginal veil of Mary. So likewise with you! Under the veil of the Sacred Species your faith must see our Lord. Ask St. Joseph for a lively, constant faith."

Jesus Waits for us Here with Divine Longing

St. Peter Julian Eymard

Adore and visit Jesus, abandoned and forsaken by men in His Sacrament of Love. Man has time for everything except for visits to His Lord and God, WHO IS WAITING AND LONGING FOR US in the Blessed Sacrament. The streets and places of entertainmentare filled with people; the House of God is deserted. Men flee from it; they are afraid of it. Ah! Poor Jesus! Did you expect so much indifference from those You have redeemed, from Your friends, from Your children, from me?

Sympathize with Jesus Who is betrayed, insulted, mocked, and crucified far more ignominiously in His Sacrament of Love than He was in the Garden of Olives, in Jerusalem, and on Calvary. Those whom He has the most honored, loved, and enriched with His gifts and graces are the very ones who offend Him the mostby their indifference.

Offer up for this intention all that you have suffered during the day or week that Jesus may be loved and adored by all. Because we ourselves are unable to atone for so much wrong, we unite ourselves to the infinite merits of our Savior Jesus. Receive His Divine Blood as it mystically flows from His Holy Wounds,and offer it to the Father in perfect atonement for the sins of the world.

Take His sufferings and His prayer on the Cross and beg the Heavenly Father for pardon and mercy for all.

Unite your reparation to that of the most Blessed Virgin at the foot of the Cross or the altar, and from the love of Jesus for His Divine Mother you will obtain everything.

"Today solemn exposition of the Blessed Sacrament is the grace and need of our time. Society will be restored and renewed when all its members group themselves around our Emmanuel."

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