A 33-Day Dedication to Our Eucharistic Jesus (Guest: Fr. Jesse Maingot, O.P.)

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what does that mean to you? Why did you choose that, you know, how to be His? What does that line mean to you? And maybe connect it to some of the saints.

I think the title, I was trying to figure out what's the title of this book, and I came in prayer.

And I wanted a title that would express the intimacy that we're called to in Christianity.

We're not called just to a mere following of Jesus.

That's absolutely true.

But something far more wonderful.

And the book kind of spells that out.

We're called to actually live in Him.

And the Eucharist is...

Baptism is what obviously unites us to Jesus spiritually.

That we live in Him and He lives in us.

But the Eucharist nourishes our life.

So we become His, you know, more and more.

As you said earlier on, belonging.

We belong to Him more and more through the power of the Holy Eucharist.

And adoration.

And so often, you know, even the church, sometimes people find it hard to make the connection between the Mass and adoration.

And the power of Eucharistic adoration.

So that's what we argue in the book and show, like, what are the effects of Eucharistic adoration as well? We know what the church teaches about the fruits of Holy Communion, but there is some teaching in the Magisterium that I still think has to be unpacked more.

And it comes from John Paul II and Benedict XVI.

Pope Francis was a major proponent of Eucharistic adoration as well.

But Pope St. John Paul, echoed again by Benedict XVI, said that to worship the Eucharist outside of Mass, so in the tabernacle, in the monstrance, in Adoration Chapel, is to prolong and intensify and mature all the gifts given in the Eucharistic celebration.

That's a massive line, really, when you think of it.

So then you could go through all the fruits of Holy Communion in the Catechism and then extend that in adoration and realize, you know, this is what's deepening in me when I'm with Jesus and adore the Lord, you know.