Attending Children and Family Holy Hour Without A Child To Hold

I've blogged about Children and Family Holy Hour before. How difficult it was for me, mostly because there is music and prayer said out loud (for children) as opposed to the quiet adoration I prefer. Things have gotten better for me, especially since the mc. I consider myself a mother, just my baby is in heaven. And now we begin the story of my collision that happened yesterday...at Children and Family Holy Hour.

Item #1. The book: The 7 Se.crets of the Eucharist. Great book, super easy read. Secret #2 is something like this:

"Christ is not alone”

Christ came to earth as a human and fused his two natures into one: divine and human. The Eucharist is the body, blood, soul, and divinity of Christ (Council of Trent). You cannot divide Christ. So if you are only receiving under one species you are receiving the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Christ.

We cannot divide Christ into parts.

Divinity equals Trinity. So, when we are in receipt of the Eucharist, or pray, we are receiving/ praying to the Trinity. They cannot be separated. That means where Jesus is so is the Father and the Holy Spirit. Sacramentally only Jesus is present. So when you communicate under one species you are receiving the Body, Blood, Soul (humanity of Christ) and the Divinity (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) but there is more. Christ is a King and a king always travels with his court. So, when you communicate you are drawn closer to the court of heaven;

this means departed loved ones, saints, Our Lady, the entire court of heaven.

Item #2) The song: "Lull.aby for My Savior" by Da.nielle Rose (I love her!). The line in the song goes something like this;

And when I tell you that I love you,

Baby, just close your eyes and sleep

I am rocking you in my soul's embrace.

So, here I am, Adoring God in the Most Blessed Sacrament, sitting in the middle pew, center, with maybe 20 other people around me, and Item #1 and #2 collide and head straight for my heart. With Catherine Grace in heaven, which means she is with our Heavenly Father, who is the Blessed Sacrament in the monstrance in front of me - she is here. And like the lady sitting in the side pew to my left, rocking her baby daughter in her arms, I can hold mine in my soul's embrace at Children and Family Holy Hour. Overwhelmed, I have to leave and cry.

In the bathroom, as I wipe my tears from my red eyes, I wonder why she was taken away from me. Then I realize that I left, she is still there. He is still there. I need to be there.

Thank you Lord for such a beautiful gift.
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Litany of the Blessed Sacrament

Lord, have mercy. Christ, have mercy.

Lord, have mercy. Christ, hear us. Christ, graciously hear us.

God the Father of heaven, have mercy on us.
God the Holy Spirit…
Holy Trinity, one God…
Living Bread that came down from heaven…
Hidden God and Savior…
Wheat of the elect…
Wine of which virgins are the fruit…
Bread of fatness and royal dainties…
Perpetual Sacrifice…
Clean oblation…
Lamb without spot…
Most pure Feast…
Food of Angels…
Hidden Manna…
Memorial of the wonders of God…
Supersubstantial Bread…
Word made flesh…
Sacred Host…
Mystery of faith…
Most high and adorable Sacrament…
Most holy of all sacrifices…
True Propitiation for the living and the dead…
Heavenly Antidote against the poison of sin…
Most wonderful of all miracles…
Most holy commemoration of the Passion of Christ…
Gift transcending all fullness…
Special memorial of divine love…
Affluence of divine bounty…
Most august and holy mystery…
Medicine of immortality…
Tremendous and life-giving Sacrament…
Bread made flesh by the omnipotence of the Word…
Unbloody Sacrifice…
Our Feast at once and our fellow-Guest…
Sweetest banquet, at which angels minister…
Sacrament of piety…
Bond of charity…
Priest and Victim…
Spiritual sweetness tasted in its proper source…
Refreshment of holy souls…
Viaticum of those who die in the Lord…
Pledge of future glory…

Be merciful, spare us, O Lord.
Be merciful, graciously hear us, O Lord.

From an unworthy reception of Your Body and Blood, O Lord, deliver us.
From the lust of the flesh…
From the lust of the eyes…
From the pride of life…
From every occasion of sin…
Through the desire by which You desired to eat this Passover with Your disciples…
Through the profound humility by which You washed their feet…
Through that ardent charity by which You instituted this divine Sacrament…
Through Your precious Blood which You have left us on our altars…
Through the Five Wounds of this Your Most Holy Body which You received for us,

We sinners, we beseech You, hear us.
That You would preserve and increase our faith, reverence, and devotion toward this Sacrament…
That You would conduct us, through a true confession of our sins, to a frequent reception of the holy Eucharist…
That You would deliver us from all heresy, evil, and blindness of heart…
That You would impart to us the precious and heavenly fruits of this Most Holy Sacrament…
That at the hour of death You would strengthen and defend us by this heavenly Viaticum…

Son of God, Lamb of God, You take away the sins of the world, spare us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, You take away the sins of the world, graciously hear us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, You take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us, O Lord.
Christ, hear us. Christ, graciously hear us.

V. You gave them bread from heaven,

R. Containing in itself all sweetness.

Let us pray.

O God, in this wonderful Sacrament, You left us a memorial of Your passion. Grant us so to venerate the sacred mysteries of Your Body and Blood that we may ever continue to feel within us the blessed fruit of Your redemption. You live and reign forever and ever. Amen.