Our Lord, Jesus Christ, depicted with the Holy Eucharist, a sacrament He founded during His Last Supper.

In the words of St Josemaria Escriva, the Eucharist should be the “centre and root” of the spiritual life. After all, the Eucharist is Jesus himself, who gives himself to us as the nourishment of our soul and who waits for us in the “prison of love”, the tabernacle. In this meditation we pray about how we can grow in love for Jesus in the Eucharist, using words that Catalina Rivas puts on his lips in her book The Passion, published by the Apostolate of the New Evangelization. We consider:

• Why Jesus washed the feet of the apostles before instituting the Eucharist
• The many fruits that come from receiving Jesus well in Holy Communion
• The sorrow of Jesus when people receive him unworthily
• The story of a Chinese girl who was killed  for her love of the Eucharist
• How we can grow in love for Jesus by keeping him company in the tabernacle