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The Body of Christ (the Eucharist) is my everything. It's why I get out of bed in the morning. Prior to converting to Catholicism, my sins were like scarlet.

I have a good friend, in fact my MS-Synod Sunday School teacher, who is over 80 now, and still has her same fervent belief in Jesus (and Luther). But she never really sinned all that much in her life, and although I feel she'd be a saint if she was a Catholic, she doesn't seem to *need* the power of the Eucharist to get on. Maybe you are of the same mold?

But you can be certain that the Body of Christ IS the Body of Christ. All the saints and blesseds have said so, and they led lives that most of us couldn't live for even one single day, much less a lifetime. That strength came from somewhere, right? And they all have reiterated time and time again, this power came from the Eucharistic Lord. And since I am not smarter than Mother Teresa of Calcutta, nor Pope John Paul II, nor Father John A. Hardon, nor Padre Pio, nor even St. Bernadette, I not only have listened to them (and all the other saints as well) I now, because of it, receive the same "power" that they did (through the Most Holy Eucharist).

I was reading last night and it struck me so forcefully that while Satan devours and consumes mortals, sucks in everything of creation to digest and defile it, our God, our Lord Jesus feeds us, literally, by His own Flesh and Blood.

The Eucharist is such a gift! ~And we are so undeserving of anything.