Heaven Will Be Like The Constant And
Endless Reception Of The Holy Eucharist
By Michael H. Brown
I like to think of heaven
as a feeling akin to constant and eternal reception of the Eucharist. It's like
receiving Christ twenty-four hours a day. It's like the highest point we have
ever achieved, and then far higher. It draws me to think of times I've had
extraordinary experiences, like the visit to Rome a few years back when,
suddenly, although I had no ticket, I found myself moved by the crowd into St.
Peter's Basilica one Sunday morning, and there I was -- at a Mass being
celebrated by Pope John Paul II.
There are many things you
remember from a special Mass. You remember the great feeling that comes from the
atmosphere. You remember the graces that pour upon so huge a crowd. But of all
things I most remember the joy and at the same time the awesome seriousness on
the face of John Paul when he raised the Host during the Consecration.The
thousands packed in St. Peter's seemed to stop their very breathing. There was a
great hush as the Pope spent quite a while displaying the Host first to one
side, then to the front, then to the other side, and then to the back, so
magnificently showing Christ in the Eucharist to everyone in the basilica -- a
huge, white, shining Eucharist, a Host that nearly seemed to radiate like some
of those historic miracles, a Host that even in the darkest of dark, even in a
time of great evil, radiates always and everywhere.
In the Blessed Sacrament,
we experience a little piece of heaven. Paradise manifests itself through the
sacrament. It manifests in the way of peace. It manifests in the calm we feel
after Communion. It manifests in the way of miracles visible and
invisible.
Just as there were a flurry
of Marian apparitions, now we also have a flurry of Eucharistic miracles. I
think this is highly significant. People often ask what the future will bring.
Well, I think we're going to experience a heightened presence of Jesus. We're
going to much better appreciate Communion. We're going to see more force in the
sacraments. There will be many signs, and a good number of them will come
through the Eucharist. Jesus will radiate yet stronger. We will hear of many
healed before the Blessed Sacrament.
This enhanced experience of
the Eucharist will signal the reign of the Sacred Heart, and that's good news
indeed. The reign of the Sacred Heart will spell the end of much evil. One day
soon, it will spell the end of Satan's century. The Presence of Christ dispels
the man of perdition (2 Thessalonians 2:8). It joins the Immaculate Heart in
announcing victory. Jesus is even now arriving. His Heart will become more
prominent and we will see more intervention. But first He must be called. He
must be invoked. We must invite Him. So call. Invite Jesus. Call Him from the
mountains, call Him from the rooftops. Call to Him in Adoration. Call that He
take us to the Face of God and the Light of His Kingdom.
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