Conversing with Christ in a confident way

Conversing with God, touching God: look at how St Luke relates the cure of the woman with a haemorrhage. Jesus said, “Who was it that touched me?” When all denied it, Peter said, “Master, the crowds surround you and are pressing in on you!” (Luke 8:45). Life flows forth from Christ in torrents; it is a divine power. My daughter, my son, you talk to him, you touch him, you eat him, you encounter him every day in the Eucharist and in your prayer, in the Bread and in the Word.

Many years ago, I witnessed this scene: there was a group of men, one of whom was a famous celebrity. People were stopping to look at him. A young boy darted out of the crowd, ran his hand over the suit of the man who was being admired by everyone, and turned round with his face radiant, shouting, “I touched him!”

We do even more. We have a personal friendship with Jesus Christ. That relationship is the basis of our good divinisation. In the Blessed Eucharist and in our prayer we find the professorial chair from which we learn how to live by serving all souls with joyful service; how to govern, also by serving; how to obey freely, because we want to obey; and how to seek unity in the closest possible identification, while respecting variety and diversity.

God in the Bread and in the Word

The Acts of the Apostles describes in a few words the atmosphere of the first Christian community: they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers (Acts 2:42). With the Faith, the Bread and the Word, we will persevere, we will be victorious, and we will obtain all the love that awaits us in heaven, after we have been happy on earth and opened up paths of peace in the world to many souls from all nations.