St. James Catholic Church

Forest City, Iowa
   

 

 

 

 

 

 

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St. Francis on the Blessed Sacrament

St Francis had such an immeasurable love for the Blessed Sacrament. He understood this sublime Mystery as few others. He exhorted his friars to have the greatest possible reverence for the Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, together with His Holy Name and the writings which contain His words, those words which consecrate His Body as well as chalices, corporals and all that is related to the Holy Sacrifice. Let us praise and worship our God and Savior, present in this Most Holy Sacrament, in the words of St Francis:

Let the whole of humanity tremble,
the whole world shake and the heavens exult when our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God, is present on the altar in the hands of a priest!
O admirable heights and sublime lowliness!
O sublime humility! O humble sublimity!
That the Lord of the universe, God and the Son of God, so humbles Himself that for our salvation
He hides Himself under the little form of bread!
Look at the humility of God and pour out your hearts before Him!
Humble yourselves as well, that you may be exalted by Him.

Therefore, hold back nothing of yourselves for yourselves so that He who gives Himself totally to you may receive you totally.

Let us pray:

Most High, Glorious God, enlighten the darkness of our hearts.
Give us a right faith, a firm hope,
perfect charity and profound humility,
with wisdom and perception, O Lord,
so that we may do what is truly Your Holy Will. Amen.

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St. John Vianney on the Blessed Sacrament

"At the moment when the mother of St. Alexis recognized her son in the lifeless body of the beggar who had lived for thirty years under her palace stairway, she cried out: 'O my son! that I should have known thee so late!...'  The soul, at the end of this life, will see at last him whom it possessed in the Eucharist; and, at sight of the consolations, the beauties, the riches that it has disregarded, it, too, will cry out: 'O Jesus, my Life, my Treasure, my Love, to think that I should have known thee so late!...'"

Quoted from St. Jean-Marie Baptiste Vianney's (Le Cure d'Ars) Meditations on the Eucharist

St. John Vianney, pray for us and procure for us the grace of a living faith in Christ's Presence in the Eucharist!

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Rev. Michael Schueller, Pastor
Rev. Henry Huber, Associate Pastor
 
St. James Catholic Church -  906 West O Street - Forest City IA 50436
(641) 585-4856

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