Do This in Memory of Me: Conform to Me

By: Laura Catherine Worhacz

“The model of our holiness is Jesus Christ. He came to ransom us, and by his holiness, personified in us, he makes us participants of the divine fruits of Redemption. And that is the essential condition for us to belong to him and have a share in his glory. We must imitate Jesus Christ because our sanctification was like the unique purpose of his Incarnation. We must imitate Jesus Christ because our conformity with Jesus Christ will be the very gage of our happiness in heaven.”  (Saint Peter Julian Eymard, Personal notes) 
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Dearest Eucharistic Family,

Incredible reflection from Saint Peter Julian, Christ, “personified in us, he makes us participants of the divine fruits of Redemption.” Jesus’ gift is to make us fully human by the divine life within. 
How do we find the Divine Life within?
 
The desire to love will help us find the way to the Divine through our vocation and service to the Church. 
 
When my daily Mass participation began, I had a burning desire to read and read, to learn and educate myself in the life of our Church. It is interesting that immediately, my apostolic life kept me busy in our Lord. The more I received the Eucharist, the more my desire to serve was enhanced. Jesus led me to “the unique purpose of His Incarnation.” We are the happiest even now through our conformity to Jesus Christ. 
 
Serving our families, those in our communities, and all God has entrusted to us makes us fully human. Caring for others and sharing by our identification conforms us to Christ. 
 
To humble ourselves in the Sacrament of Reconciliation conforms us to Christ. 
 
To forgive as we have been forgiven conforms us to Christ. 
 
To live in Mary’s heart conforms us to Christ. 
 
Letting go of the world conforms us to Christ to live in Jesus’ love, which will come from our union with Him. In our desire, consent, and participation in the great mystery of the Cross and Resurrection, we have the blessings as Catholics to RECEIVE HOLY COMMUNION. Our conforming to Christ can only come by Him as we are purified into His existence, a life-long process. We can remain in Jesus’ love by the living Word, following all He has commanded of us, and by loving as He has loved, placing others before ourselves, and washing the feet of another. 
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Jesus said to his disciples: 

“As the Father loves me, so I also love you. Remain in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and remain in his love. “I have told you this so that my joy might be in you and your joy might be complete.” (John 15:9-11)
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In John’s Gospel 15:18-21, Jesus speaks of the world’s hate and even the world hating him first. Jesus has called us out of the world to be in His love; the world may not know us, for it does not know what it is to conform to in the gift of love. To exemplify Christ’s passion is to do what He has commanded us to do, “to love one another.”  

“I give you a new commandment: love one another. As I have loved you, so you also should love one another.” (John 13:34)

Our Blessed Mother, Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament, is the surest way for us to follow the Lord Jesus on our pathway of life. In the hymn Immaculate Mary, “And bless, HOLY MARY, THE LAND OF OUR BIRTH.” The land of our birth, the Incarnation of Jesus Christ in the womb of Mary, birthed Christ into the world to save us from ourselves, from our sins. In Mary’s “Yes,” we may imitate and find our own “FIAT” to God’s will for us, to help us be imitators of Jesus Christ and in conformity with Him, will lead us to everlasting life. It will be upon our day of judgment that we will find the “gage of our happiness in heaven” to be among the angels and saints and all those who have gone before us.   

In John 15:18-21, Jesus said to his disciples: 

“If the world hates you, realize that it hated me first.
If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own;
but because you do not belong to the world,
and I have chosen you out of the world,
the world hates you.
Remember the word I spoke to you,
‘No slave is greater than his master.’
If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you.
If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.
And they will do all these things to you on account of my name,
because they do not know the one who sent me.”
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Laura Catherine Worhacz

Laura Catherine Worhacz is a Lay Associate of the Blessed Sacrament and author of Consecration to Jesus Through Our Lady of The Blessed Sacrament. She is also the Director of Mothers of The Blessed Sacrament. She lives in Trinity, FL with her husband and their two daughters.