As We Behold You

Gaze upon the Lord, allow him to love you!
In the embrace of silence, know your God!

O Blessed Host, you are our promise of our life and Resurrection!
As we behold you, hold and enfold us.

O Blessed Host, it is you who feed me with your very self.
As we behold you, hold and enfold us.

O Blessed Host, from whom the living water of life flows,
sanctify me and make me holy.
As we behold you, hold and enfold us.

O Blessed Host, as I praise and adore you, we become one.
As we behold you, hold and enfold us.

O Blessed Host, may my life be transformed into your body and blood.
As we behold you, hold and enfold us.

O Blessed Host, you are Eucharist to me, may I be a Eucharist to others.
As we behold you, hold and enfold us.

O Blessed Host, very heart of God, bless all I bear within me.
As we behold you, hold and enfold us.

O Blessed Host, you are my hope, joy and my love.
As we behold you, hold and enfold us.

O Blessed Host, be food to the living and show mercy to the dying.
As we behold you, hold and enfold us.

O Blessed Host, behold my open hands, a symbol of my heart's longing for you.
As we behold you, hold and enfold us.

Source: Ty Mam Duw Poor Clare Colettine Community
Upper Aston Hall Lane, Hawarden, CH5 3En WALES GB
Website http://www.poorclarestmd.org
Our blog http://tmdclareway.blogspot.com/
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I Am The Living Bread

"Every day he humbles himself just as he did when he came from his heavenly throne (Wis. 18:15) into the Virgin's womb; every day he comes to us and lets us see him in abjection, when he descends from the bosom of the Father into the hands of the priest at the altar. He shows himself to us in this sacred bread just as he once appeared to his apostles in real flesh. With their own eyes they saw only his flesh, but they believed that he was God, because they contemplated him with the eyes of the spirit. We, too, with our own eyes, see only bread and wine, but we must see further and firmly believe that this is his most holy Body and Blood, living and true. In this way our Lord remains continually with his followers, as he promised, Behold, I am with you all days, even unto the consummation of the world (Mt. 28:20)." (St. Francis of Assisi.)

"I am the living bread which came down from heaven; if any one eats of this bread, he will live for ever; and the bread which I shall give for the life of the world is my flesh. . . . Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you; he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him. As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so he who eats me will live because of me. This is the bread which came down from heaven, not such as the fathers ate and died; he who eats this bread will live forever." John 6:53-58.