Do This in Memory of Me: Submit to Obedience.

By: Laura Catherine Worhacz

Dearest Eucharistic Family,
 
We are in the Easter Season, a time for renewal of grace in our lives. The Sacrifice of Jesus Christ is not something passed, it is held in our hearts and reigns in MEMORY, "Do This in Memory of Me." Lent is also passed on for this year, but the glory of Easter is the fulfillment of the season; we do not dismiss it, we rather take it with us in the fullness of grace just as our mother did.
 
To live in the blessing of grace is a treasured gift for the faithful. I was in prayer to prepare for this blog and the thought of choice came to me. To live in faith, grace, and God's light is our choice, an act of the will. Then I found the reflection below from Saint Peter Julian: to serve Jesus with our will, "without choosing." Such a beautiful thought it adds to the concept of choice: it falls into obedience. To live in obedience to our prayer and sacrifice, to strive to live in imitation of Jesus Christ without choosing, is to live in disposing ourselves to God's triumphant glory in us.
 
By the grace of the Eucharist, we see every challenge, every Lent, and every sorrow through the light of the Blessed Sacrifice and God's creative power over all the earth.
 
As Christians, we continue to live making up for what is lacking in the sufferings of Christ. We cling to the reality that HEAVEN AWAITS us and the Kingdom of God is with us now upon the Altar of the LORD. To live in heaven now helps us to see the miracles of life all around us. The gifts and the blessings surrounding us.

"Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I complete what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the Church..." (Colossians 1:24)
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Since we cannot see grace, it is seemingly realistic, especially amid suffering, to separate from the gentle Jesus. To live in obedience is to live in grace even when we cannot see; this brings us hope. The Resurrection of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ is a spring of LIVING WATER, a place of refuge.
 
To espouse the Holy Spirit as our Lady did reveals to us the entrance of obedience and submission to God's will through the mobilizing force of grace, a gift. To live in a bouquet of love for our God is for us to live as Jesus has lived, so others may come to know HIS GLORY.

​"I will serve Jesus with all my will. Without choosing, I will dispose myself to filial obedience in everything, without reservation. Besides, I will love all that obedience will say or show me, without preference other than that of humility, mortification, and the gentleness of Jesus. My entire life will be an adoration, but the desired moment, the royal and holy hour of adoration will be the mobilizing force, the motivation, the goal of all my desires, of all my joys, the time of the spouse's arrival, the hour of the Passover of Jesus, the hour of audience with his love. Like a thirsty deer, I will hasten to the spring of living water (cf. Ps 41:2). Like an angel summoned by God, I will hasten to his throne; like a child at the birthday of its father, I will bring a bouquet of love to my God." (Saint Peter Julian Eymard)

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.