"With Eucharistic self - offering it is the awesome power of the Holy Spirit --

"Divine Love --

"That is released into the world."



Father John A. Sedlak has this story:


Full participation and nuclear fusion


The following is randomly adapted from a snippet or two of his timely article in the June 2009 issue of Homiletic & Pastoral Review.

"Offering God a blank check

"What is Eucharistic self - offering?

"Just what does offering ourselves with Christ in his self - offering unto the Cross for the life of the world entail?

"How do we go about it?

"A simple way of understanding it, in order to put it into practice, is this: Eucharistic self - offering is offering ourselves to God as a blank check to do anything or bear anything he would ask of us for the salvation of others.

"Lay people might normally make this offering primarily for their spouses, children, parents, brothers and sisters, and then others such as friends.

"Clergy and consecrated religious would offer themselves also for the Church and the world, especially all those entrusted to their care and those who ask for their prayers."


without having our check bounce...


"All are to renew this offering at each Mass, particularly as we receive Holy Communion, and then strive to live it out in everyday life under all circumstances, in relation to all others, without having our check bounce.

"That is, we prayerfully discern what the Lord is asking us to do and do it, and we accept troubles and sufferings without complaint, turning what we do and bear into redeeming love."


Pope Benedict XVI's parallel of Jesus Christ with Nuclear Fission cited...


As he quotes the Pope's own words: The Eucharist draws us into Jesus' self - oblation. More than just statically receiving this incarnate Logos, we enter into the very dynamic of his self - giving. Jesus draws us into himself. The substantial conversion of bread and wine into his body and blood introduces into creation the principle of a radical change, a sort of nuclear fission, to use an image familiar to us today, which penetrates to the heart of all being, a change meant to set off a process which transforms reality, a process leading to the transfiguration of the entire world, to the point where God will be all in all (cf. 1 Cor. 15:28).

And so, as the good father reiterates:

"With Eucharistic self - offering it is the awesome power of the Holy Spirit -- Divine Love -- that is released into the world."