ABSOLUTE MUST READ: LA SANTA MISA EN EL SIGLO II SEGÚN SAN JUSTINO EL MÁRTIR
En los Hechos de los Apóstoles encontramos evidencia de que las primeras comunidades cristianas celebraban la Eucaristía, a este respecto resulta muy interesante el relato que nos hace San Justino Mártir para el año 155. […] Sabemos que las primeras comunidades eran perseguidas y acusadas de realizar sacrificios humanos en su culto a Dios. Se conserva una carta que San Justino le envió al emperador romano Antonio Pío para el año 155 en la que el santo explicaba, en un lenguaje que el “César” pudiera comprender, cómo era exactamente eso que hacían los cristianos en aquellas extrañas reuniones dominicales https://tengoseddeti.org/article/la-misa-de-los-primeros-cristianos/
BISHOP BARRON: THE LORD’S PRAYER
En el Padre Nuestro el termino “epi ousion” (que suele traducirse en todas las versiones por “correspondiente al día” o “diario”), técnicamente significa de “super/arriba” (epi) “esencia/substancia” (ousion).
Al final de ambos textos de Mateo 6:11 y Lucas 11:3 hay otras palabras separadas y distintas “semeron” y “kath hemeran” que literalmente se traducen “hoy” y “cada día” pero la palabra “epi ousion” que acompaña “pan” es distinta.
En la traducción latina de Santo Jerónimo, santo padre de la iglesia, que tradujo la Biblia del hebreo y del griego al latín por encargo del papa Dámaso I, aunque guardó el “panem quotidianum” para el texto de Lucas 11:3, tradujo literalmente “panem supersubstancialem” para el texto de Mateo 6:11, o sea “pan en su super substancia” o “pan en su super esencia”, … en otras palabras: Cristo en su forma de pan transubstanciado, la Eucaristía!!!!! Wow!!
Verifique en el libro de Catequismo y siiiiiii….lo explica tambien muy bien en la referencia número 2837 en la Segunda Sección sobre el Padre Nuestro!!!!
Dice que en sentido básico pedagógico se puede traducir “diario” para repetir la idea de “hoy” que está al final del texto (ya que uno debe comer algo fisicamente cada día para vivir y en este sentido comer pan literal es “esencial”) pero tomado en sentido cualitativo “epi ousion” se refiere al pan “lo más esencial”, el Pan de Vida, la Eucaristía!!!
STUDY OF OFFICIAL CATECHISM REFERENCE BOOK: CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM
THE CHURCH – PEOPLE OF GOD, BODY OF CHRIST, TEMPLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P28.HTM
790 Believers who respond to God’s word and become members of Christ’s Body, become intimately united with him: “In that body the life of Christ is communicated to those who believe, and who, through the sacraments, are united in a hidden and real way to Christ in his Passion and glorification.”220
This is especially true of Baptism, which unites us to Christ’s death and Resurrection, and the Eucharist, by which “really sharing in the body of the Lord, . . . we are taken up into communion with him and with one another.”221
Jesus is right here in the Holy Eucharist!!!
For more than 40 years I lived on the planet Earth ignoring, not knowing at all that Jesus Christ was right here on Earth, in every single piece of Eucharist, in every single Catholic Church, in every single Tabernacle of Catholic Churches and Chapels all around the world. Jesus is not just seating at the right hand of God the Father Almighty in Heaven, far away in Heaven… He’s right here!!!!
THE GREATEST GIFT MADE TO HUMANITY, THE TREASURE OF ALL MANKIND HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT, THE GREATEST INVENTION OF ALL TIME: JESUS CHRIST THE VERB THE LOGOS THE SECOND PERSON OF THE HOLY TRINITY ON EARTH IN THE FORM OF THE HOLY EUCHARIST!!!!
Jesus had promised in Matthew 28:19 and 20: “And I will be with you all the days until the conclusion of the system of things” and He did keep His promise. He went to Heaven and He came back in the form of consacred hosts: every time a Catholic priest pronounces the blessing on the bread and the wine, the bread becomes the flesh and body of Christ and the wine His Blood, both are the Living God Jesus Christ. Not only He is here, not only can wH go and see him, spend time with Him, worship Him in the Exposition of the Holy Sacrament of the Altar but also every Catholic who is baptized and who has received the Sacrament of the First Holy Communion can actually RECEIVE Jesus Christ in the Holy consecrated host and consume Him and become ONE with Him and welcome Him in the house of his soul!!! We eat Him, we drink Him, we consume Him and we become ONE with Him, we become Eucharistic Souls!!! And Jesus is not just sitting in a tabernacle as consacrated hosts, He also becomes part of us as we partake of the Holy Communion. He becomes ONE with us, we consume Him and we enter inside his Divinity: we become ONE with Him and we can take Him home with us in our hearts as He dwells inside of us. He becomes ONE with us. We are ONE!!! We become ONE!!! The Apostle Paul says in Galatians 2:20: “It’s no longer I who lives but Jesus who lives in me.” For 40 years I had no knowledge, no concept whatsoever, of the fact that Jesus was on Earth and that I could become so intrinsically and intimately united with Him!!! It is a whole other dimesion of spirituality!!!
Jesus is here!!! Jesus is here on Earth!!! Jesus is right here!!!
If someone was telling me that Jesus was here, on Earth, in flesh and blood, in Times Square, at the Eiffel Tower, or at the Plaza del Sol in Madrid, I would be the first one to run and go see Him, to touch Him, to hug Him, to listen to Him, to ask Him question, to beg Him to heal me, to explain my life to Him that He already knows but stil to talk to Him and pour out my heart to Him, to heal my broken heart, to bless me, to hug me…! But wait… HE IS HERE!! We can go and see Him and spead time with Him in every single Catholic Church with a tabernacle where the Holy Consacred Host resides!!! GOD IS HERE!! That is mind-boggling!!
I would be like Mary sitting at the feet of Jesus, mesmerized, drinking His words, listening to Him, speaking to Him, asking Him all the burning questions I have in my head, talking to Him, asking Him the millions of questions I’ve have my whole life, asking for a blessing, asking Him to talk to me, to explain to me my life, to guide me, to give me counsel, to bless me, to forgive me, to put His hand on my head, to heal me, to heal my body, to heal my heart, to heal my painful years, to heal my broken heart….!!! My dream was always to be at the feet of Jesus as Mary had been and I absolutely always loved that story in the Gospel but as a Jehovah’s Witness I had no hope of ever seeing Jesus because if you are not of the 144,000 you’ll never go to Heaven and according to the Jehovah’s Witnesses you’ll never see Jesus in person, you’ll be on earth in a paradise far from Him… No!! No!!! No!!!!!
As a Catholic, I now know that Jesus gives to all of us THE GREATEST GIFT OF ALL MANKIND, THE BIGGEST TREASURE OF ALL HUMANITY HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT: HIMSELF, GOD HIMSELF, GOD THE SECOND PERSON OF THE HOLY TRINITY, THE LOGOS, THE VERB, JESUS CHRIST ON EARTH IN EVERY SINGLE CONSACRED HOST , IN EVERY PIECE OF THE HOLY EUCHARIST, IN EVERY CORNER OF THE EARTH.
He is here!!! He is here!!! He is here!!!! He lives in every consacrated host and as we partake of the Holy Communion He lives in us, inside of us, He comes home with us, He sleeps in our hearts with us, He goes through everything we go through, He accompanies us in our trials, in our tears, in our hopes, in our dreams, He lives with us, He experiences what we experience, He accompanies us, He carries our crosses for us, He lives inside of us… We are never alone!!! He lives in us, He lives with us, He’s here. He is the biggest treasure of all humankind hidden in plain sight, the greatest gift of God to humanity: Jesus Christ, Our God Lord and King, present in every piece of Holy Eucharist on the planet Earth.
Anytime you see in a church a red candle, He is there inside the tabernacle or in the monstrance in the Exposition of the Holy Sacrament of The Altar: that is the Divine Holy True Presence. Stay with Him. Accompany Him. Bathe in His Divinity and in the rays of his Holy Presence and grace that invades the entire church, you will never be the same and the more you are in His presence, the more you realize how much He heals you, how being with Him is like already having a foot in Heaven, and how much you need Him and what a privilege it is to be able to have a private audience with Your King and God every day of your life!!! Since August 2023, I spend minimum 2 hours evry day in worship of the Holy Sacrament during the week and on weekends I easily spend 4 to 7 hours, even 11 hours sometimes, (or entire nights in a 24/7 chapel we have in Madrid) there is no better place on the planet to be at!!!
So the next time you think: “if only I could speak to Jesus…. if only Jesus was here… if only I could see Jesus I would…”, here is the greatest good news that every single human soul must know:
“BUT HE IS HERE!!! RIGHT HERE!!! YOU CAN GO AND SEE HIM EVERY SINGLE DAY OF YOUR LIFE!!! HE HAS BEEN WAITING FOR YOU!! COME AND SEE!!!”
EUCHARISTIC MIRACLES
MUST SEE: Eucharistic Miracles: Scientific Proof – Explaining the Faith
EWTN Newsreal: The Miracle of Lanciano, 750 AD
Los milagros eucarísticos: cuando la ciencia corrobora la Fe . Entrevista al Dr. Ricardo Castañón
Documental “Los milagros Eucarísticos
Milagros Eucarísticos más Impresionantes | Podcast Salve María – Episodio 51
Una Hostia convertida en Carne – El Primer Milagro Eucarístico en Lanciano
¿Cómo es la historia del Milagro Eucarístico de Lanciano?
THE EUCHARIST IN SCRIPTURE
The Eucharist In Scripture – Explaining the Faith
PRECIOUS BLOOD
What is the Most Important Devotion? Start with the Precious Blood – Explaining the Faith
The Most Important Chapter in the Bible ~ Sunday Homily 8.25.24 ~ Fr. John Hollowell
Litany of the Most Precious Blood of Jesus
https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/devotions/litany-of-the-most-precious-blood-of-jesus-248
https://www.usccb.org/prayers/litany-most-precious-blood
THE TOMISTIC INSITITUTE: EUCHARIST
Fr.Chris Alar – EUCHARISTIC MIRACLE: PERSONAL TESTIMONY
EL PADRE NUESTRO
BIBLIA DE JUAN STRAUBINGER
Understanding the Sacraments: A New Summary! (Part 1 of 2) Explaining the Faith with Fr. Chris Alar
Part 2 of 2: Understanding the Sacraments. A New Summary! Explaining the Faith w/Fr. Chris Alar
1ST PASSOVER: JESUS TURNED WATER INTO WINE
2ND PASSOVER: JESUS MULTIPLIES THE BREAD
3RD PASSOVER: JESUS TURNED BREAD AND WINE INTO HIS BODY AND BLOOD
The Proper Disposition: How to Receive the Eucharist Worthily and Well (Aquinas 101)
What Happens When You Eat the Body of Christ? (Aquinas 101)
El «síndrome de Chesterton»
Chesterton sudó al comulgar por primera vez: temblor y temor reverencial ante la Presencia Real. El autor reflexiona sobre ese estremecimiento –mysterium tremendum– para resaltar su contraste con una praxis litúrgica hoy cada vez más horizontal y banalizada, donde gestos, mediaciones y silencio se erosionan. Recuperar la comunión en la boca, de rodillas y administrada por un ministro ordenado no debe ser opción marginal, sino pedagogía medular, necesaria, de lo sagrado.