Day 198: The Love of Jesus
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What is the Rosary in a Year podcast and how do I access the prayer plan?
I'm Father Mark Mary with Franciscan Friars of Renewal, and this is the Rosary in a Year podcast. We're through prayer and meditation. The Rosary brings us deeper into relationship with Jesus and Mary and becomes a source of grace for the whole world. The Rosary in a Year is brought to you by Ascension. This is day 198. To download the prayer plan for Rosary in a Year, visit ascensionpress.com forward slash rosary in a year or text R-I-Y to 33777. You'll get an outline of how we're going to pray each month and it's a great way to track your progress. The best place to listen to the podcast is in the Ascension app. There are special features built just for this podcast and also recordings of the full rosary with myself and other friars.
I encourage you to pick up a copy of the Rosary in the Year Prayer Guide, a book published by Ascension that was designed to complement this podcast. You'll find all the daily readings of scripture, saint reflections, and beautiful images of the sacred art we'll be reflecting on. Today we will be meditating upon and praying with the fifth movement of the mystery, the institution of the most holy Eucharist. So our review and reflection today, I'd like to begin with the language we use when looking at the Eucharist, namely the creativity of love. I shared this story of a kind of a monastic sister in response to one of the brothers asking like, how can we pray like we did on this mountaintop back in the friary in the South Bronx?
And she gave us this phrase, the creativity of love. When you love someone, you create a way, a space to be with them. But we have to always remember that the creativity of our love is always a response. It's a response to the creativity of God's love. And how beautiful an expression of the creativity of love is Jesus remaining with us in the form of bread and wine through the mystery of the most holy Eucharist. and how Jesus gives himself totally to us in the Holy Eucharist. He remains to us in our neighborhood parish missions, but also he's able to give himself totally. The creativity of his love can get into, if you will, like prisons. And I've been a part of the celebration of the Most Holy Eucharist in the prisons in Honduras.
And there is Jesus. sacramentally present body, blood, soul, and divinity, giving himself, receiving totally in those prison cells or in the mountaintops, or Jesus can come to those who are homebound, right? The creativity of the love of Jesus, which invites the response of the creativity of our own love that we like create space, particularly in our own lives to remain with him. And then also aided by St. Catherine of Siena's dialogue, we just spent some time just receiving again the gift to seeing again the truth that the heart of God truly present through the most holy Eucharist is an abyss of love. And then Luke's gospel, as Jesus says, like, I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you.
It's like this visceral, this deep, this abyss of love, which desires to eat this Passover with us. It is an abyss of love, a burning fire of love who gives himself to us, who remains with us through this sacrament, through this mystery. and that yearns, that longs, that earnestly desires to give himself to us and to receive us. This abyss of love is the heart of the divine bridegroom who gives himself to the bride, his church, desiring to give himself to the church, but also to receive the church, his bride. And this is true for us as individuals as well, like the divine bridegroom of our souls, like his heart is an abyss of love giving himself to us. and earnestly desiring, totally desiring, like inflamed with desire to receive us totally.
So as we come to the Eucharist, particularly to receiving Holy Communion, on the surface, it's somewhat sober and still and solemn and simple, but above the senses through faith, we know that Jesus is burning with love. And that holy communion is this most intense and intimate and beautiful of exchanges where he gives himself again with fire, with love, with desire to us.
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