Do This in Memory of Me: Live in MY LOVE

By: Laura Catherine Worhacz

“The Divine flame needs a little activity... there are no limits to the degrees for the love of God, the gift of self, personal self-denial. We must die daily and be like the sun, which always rises as if it were the first time that it is obeying God and follows its course until its setting. Live especially in the divine Eucharist I will grant you the first blessing.” (Saint Peter Julian Eymard, Letter to Mme. Marechal on March 1, 1866) 

Dearest Eucharist Family,  
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To live in grace is an incredible blessing. With recent hurricanes over the east coast of the USA, witnessing the disaster they have caused sets our hearts on our suffering and the suffering of others. Our mission in Christ Jesus to identify with our brothers and sisters in Jesus’ love and to act in accordance with the movement of the Holy Spirit is our call. And in obedience to the gift we have received in Jesus’ love and Eucharistic life, the Son of God rises daily in our lives as the sun rises daily upon the earth. 

We are blessed to live in Jesus’ love.  

I have been living in a hospital for almost 70 days. An unexpected trauma came when my husband experienced septic shock. Upon returning home for a weekend for a family event, it seemed as if heaven came down to capture me in the arms of my children, who I missed so dearly while away.  
The hospital stay seemed like a dream. In prayer, I was thinking of the Kingdom of Heaven and what it must be like to be far from this earthly life and in the glory of God. We have a mission on this side of the heavens. There is much work to do in our world.  

“Blessed be the LORD, my rock, who trains my hands for battle, my fingers for war; My safeguard and my fortress, my stronghold, my deliverer, My shield, in whom I take refuge, who subdues peoples under me.” (Psalm 144:1-2) 
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The non-Catholic hospital I have been living in has a secular flair. I have met so many beautiful healthcare workers of many different cultures. There is certainly a lack in the reality of spiritual life. With the Eucharist as our sustaining power, we can fulfill the mission to love each person before us and introduce them to Jesus’ love. 
The word "secular" means relating to the worldly or temporal, or not overtly religious.   
Our blessed Mother, Our Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament, loves her children, even those mixed up in the disillusionment of not knowing they are created in God’s Diving LOVE. 

“You formed my inmost being; you knit me in my mother's womb. I praise you, because I am wonderfully made; wonderful are your works!” (Psalm 139:13-14) 

To live in God’s love and grace of the Holy Spirit will enable us to heal the open wound of humanity by the gift we hold in knowing God. Living in the structure of the Catholic Church and sacramental life, especially the Eucharist, sets a flame to our souls and mission in Christ. Even in suffering, we hold tightly to Jesus’ embrace. The world wind of the modern way will pass away and all that will live for in Jesus will be with us for all eternity. It is the love we share, the memories we create and the relationships we nurture that will provide us with a familiar setting in our heavenly dwelling.  

“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who in his great mercy gave us a new birth to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you who by the power of God are safeguarded through faith, to a salvation that is ready to be revealed in the final time. In this you rejoice, although now for a little while you may have to suffer through various trials, so that the genuineness of your faith, more precious than gold that is perishable even though tested by fire, may prove to be for praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.”  (1 Peter 5-7) 

I will return to God’s will of hospital life until my husband is well enough to be released and return home. May the mission Our Lord has set before me be fulfilled with my heart rejoicing, knowing it is the Christ Jesus Our Lord who invites us to live in His LOVE. 

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.