Ave Maria Meditations
The effects of Holy Communion on the soul and how it sustains, restores, and delights: Communion sustains the life of the soul in a way similar to that in which foods sustain the body. The reception of the Blessed Eucharist keeps Catholics in God’s grace, since the soul recovers its energies from the continual wear and tear it suffers through the wounds of original sin and other personal sins. It maintains the life of God in the soul, freeing it from lukewarmness; and it helps us to avoid mortal sin and struggle effectively against venial sins.
The grace we receive each Communion delights the person who receives with good dispositions. Nothing can be compared to the joy of the Holy Eucharist. Enter the friendship and nearness of Jesus, present within us. Communion is the remedy for our daily needs, medicine of immortality, antidote against death, and food by which to live forever in Jesus Christ. It grants to the soul the peace and joy of Christ which is truly a foretaste of eternal happiness. We must ask Our Lady to help us to go to Communion every day with better dispositions.
From In conversation with God
