Father Melvin Doucette
1704 Palmer Road North, R.R. 2
Tignish, Prince Edward Island
C0B 2B0  Canada

Sunday, 22 September 2002

I  CHERISH  YOUR  FRIENDSHIP

Dear Paul, Rita and Friends,
Greetings on this foggy Sunday! It is so foggy I cannot see more than
300 feet. As soon as it gets warmer, it will lift and hopefully the
promised sun will shine brightly.

I celebrated the Holy Eucharist at Palmer Road Church in French last
evening. I'll be there again this morning at 11:00. My mother is
continuing to do well and Wayne felt great peace yesterday. I thank
you all for your prayers.

During my prayer this morning, Jesus spoke to me saying, "Melvin, I love
you. Many of you will go to church today to pray and sing hymns. You
will express your love to me and ask for my help. A large number will
receive me in the Eucharist in Holy Communion. I am blessing you all. At
the celebration of the Eucharist, you will be present at Calvary when I
offered myself totally to my Father for each one of you. My sacrifice
for you is made present every time the celebration of the Eucharist
takes place. At these celebrations, your salvation is being accomplished
and many graces are showered upon you. Offer yourselves to me together
with the bread and wine. As the bread and wine are changed into my body
and blood, so you too will be changed. I will come and live in your
heart. There is no greater prayer more pleasing to the Father, to the
Holy Spirit and me, than the celebration of the Divine liturgy of the
Eucharist. I call you all, my brothers and sisters, to go to church
every Sunday and during the week if it is at all possible. Your
salvation depends on it. If you love me, you will be very happy to come
and pray in Church, where I am present in a special way. I cherish your
friendship; come and live with me. I bless you."

Jesus talks to us this morning about taking part in the Mass on Sunday.
If we love Jesus, we will go to Church often, every day if it is
possible. We will receive the food of angels as some saints prefer to
call the Holy Eucharist. We believe that Jesus is truly present, as the
resurrected Lord, in His humanity and divinity, in the Holy Eucharist.
Let us receive Him with great devotion. Is there anything greater in
this world than to receive the Son of God, Jesus, Our Saviour, in our
hearts at Holy Communion? In this way we build up a great bond of
friendship with Jesus. He tells us today that He cherishes our
friendship. What a wonderful way to strengthen our friendship with Him
by receiving Him in Holy Communion as often as we can! The Holy
Eucharist is the greatest gift the Lord could give us as St. John tells
us in his Gospel in Chapter 6. St. John quotes Jesus saying, "Amen,
amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink
his blood, you do not have life within you." (verse 47). It is
absolutely necessary for us to receive the Holy Eucharist in order to
have eternal life. We are not to eat just bread or drink wine, but Jesus
says very plainly, we are to eat "his flesh". In the Holy Eucharist,
Jesus is there in "his flesh" as we know He is truly present with His
body and blood, soul and divinity. It is only in receiving the sacred
host that we fulfill what is written in the Gospel of St. John. Read
this passage today and accept the truth about the Holy Eucharist as
taught by the Bible.

Let us ask the Lord to strengthen our faith in the Holy Eucharist and to
seek His friendship every day.
 
Father Melvin

TEL: (902) 882-2004
E-MAIL: melvin.doucette@pei.sympatico.ca

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