In pondering the Resurrection of Jesus, I love to picture the moment when His heart is infused with Divine Life, and begins to beat once again. The moment when everything, in time and eternity, changed.
This Sacred Heart, which had been pierced by a sword at His crucifixion, is pierced with the Love of the Father and this Heart begins to beat again with glorified life. Every part of His body is alive again, and is not just alive, but new. There is power, glory, love and divinity in every single cell.
His Heart beats and He doesn't just wake up, He RISES. He comes forth. He is still incarnate God, but now His body is something entirely new in all of time, eternity, and creation.
This new body, this new heart, He has given to us!
When we receive Him in the Eucharist, we receive His heart; not a lifeless heart, pierced by a sword, we receive His glorified heart! The same heart that began to beat again at the resurrection and has never stopped. That heart infused with the very life of God. Every cell.
If this is true, then we would be incredibly and underservedly Blessed to receive it even once in our lives. Once would be a miracle, yet we are able to receive this miracle EVERY day!
It is true. He said so. He is the Truth.
Jesus said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you.54Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day.55For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.56Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him.57Just as the living Father sent me and I have life because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on me will have life because of me. ~ John 6: 53-5758
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