Salvation is in the Eucharist

And in High Praises to Christ

[adapted from Michael Brown's "Secrets of the Eucharist" ]

      The formula of salvation was given at the LastSupper. Pray. Have faith. Love as Jesus loved. Be as humble as Christ was whenHe washed the feet of His disciples.

 

      This, it is indicated, will lead to a pleasantafterlife.  This is the safest way. The narrow gate.

 

      Serve others. Serve God. Praise God. Love yourCreator with all your heart.

Love the Trinity.Love the Holy Spirit. Love Christ.

 

      If you do nothing else in life, love well. Loveand suffer well. Love as Jesus loved on the Cross.

 

      Praise Him every day. Praise the Lord. When wepraise and adore God, when we glorify Jesus, when our love is proven by how weendure our trials, we are invoking God in the most powerful fashion and canfeel the peace of His love.

 

      That's the essential message of the Gospels, andit comes to life during the Eucharist. It comes to life when we adore God bystarting Mass with a responsorial psalm. I don't think there are many prayerssuperior to the praises in the Book of Psalms:: "Praise theLord in His sanctuary," say the final ones. "Praise Him in the firmament of His strength. Praise Him for His mighty deeds,praise Him for His sovereign majesty. Praise Him with the blast of the trumpet,praise Him with lyre and harp, praise Him with timbrel and dance, praise Himwith strings and pipe. Praise Him with sounding cymbals, praise Him withclanging cymbals, let everything that has breath praise the Lord!"

 

      I remember when I returned to an active Catholicfaith how powerful it was to thank and praise God. God is worthy of all praiseand thanks. He is so good! He is so merciful! Suffering is nothing compared toeternal joy. How can we thank Him enough for the afterlife? How can we thankHim enough for eternity? With Christ, joy is always the end result. Calvary isthe door to Resurrection. When there is attack and oppression, when there areconcerns and obsessions, when there is anxiety, a litany of praise -- whetherread from the----- or in spontaneous prayer -- is immediately comforting. Suchprayers take on all the more force when said before the Blessed Sacrament. Manywere the saints who spent hours at a time -- literally ten or twenty hours --in front of the Blessed Sacrament, enraptured with heaven, adoring God. Theydidn't notice anything in the chapel but the Blessed Sacrament. You could havetaken the stoles from their shoulders or raised a din and they would not havetaken much notice. They were in the reality of Adoration. And that's why theywere so free of evil. Just as he can't remain in the presence of love andhumility, neither can the devil remain within earshot of praises to God.

 

      The rays from the Eucharist are arrows againstthe wiles of Satan.