Devotion of the day: frequent Communion

Invitations from Jesus. Meditate on why Jesus instituted the Holy Eucharist as food… Was it not to show you the need for the spiritual life? But moreover, he gave it to us under the guise of bread, a necessary food every day; Jesus invited to the evangelical banquet not only the healthy, but the sick, the blind, the lame, indeed, all ... If you do not eat, you will not have Life. Could He have better manifested His ardent desire to see us receive Holy Communion often?

Church invitations. St. Ambrose wrote: Why do you not receive daily what can benefit you daily? Chrysostom cried out against the disorder of rare communions; when we have the necessary purity it is always Easter for us. The Sales, St. Teresa, all the Saints inculcate frequent Communion. In the early centuries, wasn't it daily? The Council of Trent implores Christians to approach it every time they attend Mass. What do you think about it?

Advantages of frequent Communion. 1 ° It is a very effective means to overcome our passions, not only because it communicates the strength to fight them, but also because it obliges us to purify our conscience, so as not to displease Jesus. 2 ° It accustoms us to the interior life, of recollection, made of acts of love, of prayers, of union with God. 3 ° It is the best means to make us saints: Communion was always esteemed the source of holiness, the furnace of Love. What esteem do you have of frequent Communion?

PRACTICE. - Appreciate Communion and receive it as often as you can.