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The Writings
of
Saint Peter Julian
Eymard
Prayer to Saint Peter Julian Eymard
Gracious God of our ancestors,
you led Peter Julian Eymard,
like Jacob in times past, on a journey of faith. Under the guidance of your gentle Spirit, Peter Julian discovered
the gift of love in the Eucharist
which your Son Jesus offered
for the hungers of humanity.
Grant
that we may celebrate
this mystery worthily,
adore it profoundly,
and proclaim it prophetically for your greater glory. Amen.
Saint
Peter Julian Eymard, Apostle of the Eucharist, pray for us!
O
Saint Peter Julian,
who, all aflame with faith in the Holy Eucharist,
pleaded with the world, "Jesus is there; go to him",
obtain through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary,
Our Lady of the
Blessed Sacrament,
that this cry from
the depths of your heart may re-echo in all hearts
and lead to a renewal and deepening
of Christian life
everywhere.
May your
call resound even more powerfully and
fruitfully
from heaven where you share
the glory of the saints.
May it raise among the faithful
and especially among priests,
to whom you were so constantly devoted,
new armies of adorers and apostles of the Eucharist
who, like you, will dedicate themselves
to its glorification
among individuals and nations,
and work for the coming of the peace of Christ
in his reign of love. Amen.
Saint
Peter Julian, pray for us!
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Saint
Peter Julian Eymard
Modern Saint of
the Eucharist -
Founder of the Blessed Sacrament Fathers,
Brothers
and Sisters
Apostle
of the Eucharist
Born: February 4, 1811, La Mure d'Isère, France.
Baptized:
February 5, 1811.
Ordained Priest: July 20,
1834.
Founded: Two Religious Orders, one for men:
Congregation of the
Blessed Sacrament in 1856;
another for women:
Servants of the Blessed Sacrament in 1858.
Canonized: December 9,
1962, at the conclusion
of the first
session of the Second Vatican
Council by Pope John
XXIII.
Feast Day: August
2 on the Universal Calendar
of the Catholic Church:
Yes, dear sons and daughters, honor and celebrate him who was so
perfect an adorer of the Blessed Sacrament;
after his example, always place at the
center of your thoughts, of your affections, the undertakings of your
zeal this incomparable source of all grace: the mystery
of faith, which hides under the veils
the Author himself of grace, Jesus the incarnate
Word.
From the Homily by Pope
John XXIII at the Canonization of Saint Peter Julian Eymard December
9, 1962
Congregation of the Blessed
Sacrament,
Rule of Life,
No.
2
Challenged by the religious indifference and ignorance of his time, Saint Peter Julian Eymard
searched for the answer to its needs.
He found it in the love of God
manifested in a special way in the gift of Christ in his Eucharist.
Captivated by this love,
he made it know to his contemporaries.
For this purpose, he traced out
for his companions a new form of life in the church,
to provide for Christ the
Lord, present in the Eucharist,
true and perpetual adorers and zealous promoters of his love.
Convinced that a life cannot be fully Eucharistic unless it is consecrated to both God
and our fellow human beings, he left us an example of contemplation
and apostolic activity.
His intense life
of adoration,
his apostolate centered on Mass and Communion,
his efforts to lead people to
adoration of the Lord
in the setting of solemn exposition,
his activity in the service of all, with a preference for priests and the poor,
indeed his whole life
witnesses to the gift of himself to Christ.
FATHER EYMARD:
METHOD OF PRAYER
St. Peter
Julian Eymard taught and recommended a very simple method of prayer,
which is at the
heart of Jesus' self-offering in the Eucharist. It goes as follows:
It may
mean simply being
one with Jesus as he offers
adoration, thanksgiving,
reparation, and petition
for our needs and those of the world.
It may mean offering to Jesus himself our prayer of adoration,
thanksgiving, reparation, and petition for our needs and those of the
world.
It may mean simply being in God's presence in a state of adoration,
thanksgiving, reparation, and petition.
Being there simply, loving, peacefully waiting on him, sitting in his
presence, offering one's own presence, and drinking in his Love like the
rays of the sun:
To
adore Christ present in the sacrament, "remembering that this
presence flows from the sacrifice of the Mass and leads to
sacramental and spiritual communion";
To dwell with
Christ our
Lord, enjoying his intimate
friendship and
pouring out our hearts before him, for ourselves
and our dear ones, and praying for the peace and
salvation of the world;
To offer our entire lives with Christ to the Father in the Holy
Spirit and receiving in this wonderful exchange an increase of
faith, hope, and love;
To worship
Christ our Lord in the Blessed
Sacrament in harmony with our way of
life.
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