MARY, OUR MOTHER: Our Companion: "Cum" & "Panis"

Sunday, July 26, 2009

Our Companion: "Cum" & "Panis"

I just learned something new about something I knew already! I know that Jesus is our Companion through life, especially when we are in a state of grace and when we receive Him in Holy Communion! Today's Gospel reading is the story of the miracle of the multiplication of the loaves. This beautiful story of Jesus` compassion on the crowds gives us hope that He will continually feed us with His love and grace. And yes, it takes another human to act for the Lord, i. e., the priest, who consecrates the bread into Christ's Body and then dis

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tributes It to us at Mass. The Bread of Life!

But here's what I just learned after reading a meditation in Magnificat Magazine:

The word companion comes from two Latin words, cum, meaning "with," and panis, meaning "bread." Bread with us! So each time we Christians say that Jesus is our Companion, we can remember that He is truly Present in the Holy Eucharist!

Did you know that some Saints had the special grace of Our Lord's Presenc

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e staying in their hearts from one Communion to the next? St. Faustina of the Divine Mercy had this Gift, so did St. Anthony Mary Claret among others. but especially did Our Lady, the Blessed Virgin Mary, have this grace. Imagine that, Jesus never leaving them as their Companion! I pray for this grace too, so could you. We may not be worthy but God works His miracles when and where He wants. Fiat voluntas tua! Pope Benedict XVI said somewhere: "True joy is found in recognizing that the Lord is still with us, our faithful Companion along the way!" What joy would we have in knowing the Lord dwelt in our hearts at all times!

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PSALM 71 SPEAKS TO MY HEART

Forsake Me Not When My Strength Is Spent

In you, O Lord, do I take refuge;
let me never be put to shame!
In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me;
incline your ear to me, and save me!

Be to me a rock of refuge,
to which I may continually come;
you have given the command to save me,
for you are my rock and my fortress.

Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked,
from the grasp of the unjust and cruel man.
For you, O Lord, are my hope,
my trust, O Lord, from my youth.
Upon you I have leaned from before my birth;
you are he who took me from my mother's womb.
My praise is continually of you.

I have been as a portent to many,
but you are my strong refuge.
My mouth is filled with your praise,
and with your glory all the day.
Do not cast me off in the time of old age;
forsake me not when my strength is spent.

For my enemies speak concerning me;
those who watch for my life consult together
and say, “God has forsaken him;
pursue and seize him,
for there is none to deliver him.”

O God, be not far from me;
O my God, make haste to help me!
May my accusers be put to shame and consumed;
with scorn and disgrace may they be covered
who seek my hurt.

But I will hope continually
and will praise you yet more and more.
My mouth will tell of your righteous acts,
of your deeds of salvation all the day,
for their number is past my knowledge.

With the mighty deeds of the Lord God I will come;
I will remind them of your righteousness, yours alone.

O God, from my youth you have taught me,
and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds.

So even to old age and gray hairs,
O God, do not forsake me,
until I proclaim your might to another generation,
your power to all those to come.
Your righteousness, O God,
reaches the high heavens.
You who have done great things,
O God, who is like you?

You who have made me see many troubles and calamities
will revive me again;
from the depths of the earth
you will bring me up again.
You will increase my greatness
and comfort me again.

I will also praise you with the harp
for your faithfulness, O my God;
I will sing praises to you with the lyre,
O Holy One of Israel.
My lips will shout for joy,
when I sing praises to you;
my soul also, which you have redeemed.

And my tongue will talk of your righteous help all the day long,
for they have been put to shame and disappointed
who sought to do me hurt.

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Our Companion: "Cum" & "Panis"

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