Ultimate Nourishment

Ultimate Nourishment

That's right, bread and multiplication. But if you ask me what the connection is, I will honestly say, I did not know until now. Last week, I have been receiving messages about “bread” and “multiplication”.

With much effort, whether to go or not to go, I got myself to once more attend our Thursday “Divine Will” study. Good for me I showed up again. The leader talked about the Eucharist.

She started with describing how holy, Consecration is, when, through the intercession of the priest, the Lord comes down from Heaven to humble Himself and be one with the piece of small, white, host.

I have always considered Consecration as the most sacred part of the Eucharistic celebration. It is during this time that I really talk to the Lord because I respect His Presence. This moment is very special for me. It is my belief that at this specific time, my prayers are so powerful that anything I ask for shall be granted to me, of course, still, according to His Will. I claim that I am His child, so I can ask Him to provide me with all my needs according to His riches in Christ Jesus and lift up to Him all the favors that I want (kinda selfish huh).

Especially now, after absorbing more and more knowledge about the Eucharist, this portion of the mass, Consecration, has even greater impact on me. Do you know the deeper meaning of the pouring of the water into the wine? It amazes me as I recall how the leader carefully explained this to us. She relayed that it was the representation of our will, the water, being infused with the Divine Will, the wine. When they are combined, they become one, wherein you can no longer distinguish one with the other. You can only see the wine, though the water is still there in the chalice. The same thing happens when we let our will be fused with the Divine Will.

My level of awareness has been heightened on the mystery of the transubstantiation, the miraculous changing of the bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ. The consecrated host being truly the body, and the consecrated wine being truly the blood, of our Lord.

The words of the Divine Mercy Chaplet reverberate . . . the body and the blood, soul and divinity of your dearly beloved son, our Lord Jesus Christ.

So, everything I have come to learn these past few days, somehow gets connected in my mind and heart - the Divine Mercy, the Divine Will, now the bread, the wine and the multiplication of His graces.

Further discussions revealed, that when we pray the Our Father and we ask for our daily bread, we ask for three kinds of bread. Our leader went on saying that these three kind of bread are: the Divine Will, the Holy Eucharist and the bread as food for the body, the pandesal she said lightly. We ask from God for nourishment for both our body and our soul.

This was even strengthened by a message sent to me by a friend, an El Shaddai member, emphasizing the same truth that the body and the soul are one, thus, we should take care of both, not neglecting any of the two. Nourish the body and the soul.

Multiplication has not yet come to me as clearly, but what is happening is that, as I continue with my study with the Divine Will, everything gets multiplied: knowledge, people, messages, experiences, even challenges, and other factors that kept on helping me grow in the Spirit.

Today, I have been given the grace to attend mass twice and receive Holy Communion twice. Currently, I have been faced with a particular difficulty. But you know what? I have never felt so troubled, yet so peaceful and so joyful, all at the same time. May God, in His Mercy accept my deep gratitude.

I pray that you, who are reading this now, be blessed, that our generous God shower you too with grace and spiritual gifts. Do not tire of doing good.

Believe and claim His words. He says to us “Do not be afraid, I am with you,” and “If I am with you, who can be against you.”

Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.
Mathew 4:4