How to prepare for Holy Communion: what Jesus says

Thus Jesus replies: «Examine carefully your conscience and purify it as far as possible, with a sincere contrition and a humble confession: so that no burden remains to oppress it and disturb it with remorse, preventing you from going up to the altar of God with completely free soul. You feel pain from all your sins, in general, but above all from your failings every day. Saddened and worried that you are still so carnal and earthly, so little capable of mortifying your passions, so full of impulses towards pleasure, so little alert on your senses, so often entangled in so many vain fantasies; so inclined to the things of this world, and so negligent in the things of the soul; so easy to laugh, to lose control of yourself, and so difficult to repent and feel pain for your sins; so ready for all that is refinement and comfort, and so lazy in what requires rigor and fervor; so curious to know novelties and see beautiful things, and so reluctant to embrace what is humble and despised; so eager to possess, so stingy in giving, so tenacious in keeping; so light in speaking, so incapable of keeping silent, so broken up in customs and so inappropriate in deeds; so greedy in eating, so deaf to the Word of God; so ready to accept rest, and so slow, instead, to submit to fatigue; so capable of resisting sleep, when it comes to spending time in chatter, and so asleep, instead when there is to watch over in prayer: so eager, then, to get to the end soon, so distracted in waiting for you, so arid in the to communicate to you, so easily distracted, so seldom fully collected, so easy to anger, to offend others, to judge them, to reproach them; so happy when all is well with you, so afflicted with every adversity; so easy for good intentions and so unable to keep them.

After confessing and regretting with pain and with great sorrow of your weakness these and your other sins, make the firm resolve to always improve your life. Then, with full abandonment and perfect will, offer yourself in my honor on the altar of your heart, as a perpetual holocaust, that is, entrust your body and your soul to Me without regret, to be worthy to receive the salutary sacrament of mine. Body.

In fact, there is no more just offer, nor greater satisfaction, for your sins to be canceled, than the pure and whole offer of yourselves, together with the offering of the Body of Christ, in Mass and Communion. If you will do all this with all your strength, if you sincerely repent, every time you approach me to have forgiveness and grace, know that I do not want the death of the wicked, but instead I want the wicked to be converted and alive, and that of all his sins I will not keep any memory, because all will be forgiven him "(taken from" The imitation of Christ ", book IV, Chap. 7).

Fifteen minutes in prayer to thank the Holy Communion (Meditations dictated by Jesus to a soul; taken from: "Thanksgiving to Holy Communion" by Father Paolo Maria Pia Zanetti. My God and my everything. «O soul that you have received, made me in my image, wanted as a daughter, loved as a friend and bride, you knew what desire is continually in me to be food that feeds you, living water that quenches your thirst. Oh, if you knew the gift of God and who is the one you received , and with what love has come within you, your heart would feel consumed with love! Think: I AM YOUR GOD, THE ALMIGHTY, THE INFINITE, THE HIGHEST MASTER before whom the angelic hosts cover their faces, Seeing their unworthiness to look at me, I AM THE INCREASED LOVE THAT MAIA WILL END, yet, I burn with the desire to consume myself in you, so that you may be another Myself. Ah, what love I bring you!

Do you think that I made myself a man like you, to save you, to reveal my Divine Life, the one I live with the Father: a life of love, of eternal light. Do you think that I became a man like you, to suffer like you, indeed to take your sufferings, your pains, your weaknesses, all the burden of your sins, so that you could have the joy, the life of Grace which is immortal life . Meditate on my loving Passion and think how I did not hesitate to be completely torn in the body, all devastated and consumed in the soul, with the Spirit immersed in the most dense and horrendous darkness, so much so as to go so far as to say: GOD MY, GOD MY, WHY YOU LEFT ME? It was the most horrendous, the most ignominious, death that will ever have the same. All this I have faced for you, so that your spirit may enjoy my Light that illuminates for eternity; for your soul to be full of all my treasures of wisdom and science; OF THE GIFT FOR EXCELLENCE THAT IS THE HOLY SPIRIT, THE COMULATOR; because your body, thus becoming, temple of this Blessed Light, COULD RESURVE AT THE END OF THE TIMES.

Tell me, can there be Love greater than this? No, there is none, I tell you, YOUR GOD. This is why I say to you: Lie down in my Eucharistic Heart, which you have now received (the Holy Host) and rest in my love, DO NOT LEAVE IMMEDIATELY, PLEASE, I YOUR GOD, I ASK YOU FOR A Begging FOURTH OF NOW, if you really can't give me more, but not for profit, but for the only fiery love that I bring you and that I want to impress on your heart too. Therefore I say to you: Love me, with all my heart, with all your mind; only in this way will it be a total love, appropriate to mine which led me to consume myself for you! CONSUMMATUM EST!