THE REAL PRESENCE

INTRODUCTION ------------ FOREWORD
1. ADORATION IN SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH ------------ 2. HOW TO ADORE
3. METHOD OF ADORATION ACCORDING TO THE FOUR ENDS
OF THE HOLY SACRIFICE OF THE MASS
4. THE OUR FATHER
5. THE INSTITUTION OF THE EUCHARIST
6. THE TESTAMENT OF JESUS CHRIST
7. THE GIFT OF THE HEART OF JESUS
8. THE TESTIMONY OF THE CHURCH
9. THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS CHRIST
10. FAITH IN THE EUCHARIST
11. THE WONDERFUL WORK OF GOD
12. THE SACRIFICES OF JESUS IN THE EUCHARIST
13. THE EUCHARIST AND THE DEATH OF OUR SAVIOR
14. THE EUCHARIST, A NEED OF THE HEART OF JESUS
15. THE EUCHARIST, A NEED OF OUR HEART
16. THE EUCHARIST AND THE GLORY OF GOD
17. THE DIVINE BRIDEGROOM OF THE CHURCH
18. THE HIDDEN GOD ---------- 19. THE EUCHARISTIC VEIL
20. THE MYSTERY OF FAITH
21. THE LOVE OF JESUS IN THE EUCHARIST
22. THE EXCESS OF LOVE
23. THE EUCHARIST AND FAMILY LIFE
24. THE FAMILY FEAST
25. THE GOD OF GOODNESS ---------26. THE GOD OF THE POOR
27. THE EUCHARIST, THE CENTER OF OUR LOVE
28. OUR SOVEREIGN GOD
29. THE MOST BLESSED SACRAMENT IS NOT LOVED!
30. THE TRIUMPH OF CHRIST THROUGH THE EUCHARIST
31. GOD IS THERE! ----------32. THE GOD OF OUR HEART
33. THE CULTUS OF THE EUCHARIST
34. LET US LOVE THE MOST BLESSED SACRAMENT
35. THE EUCHARIST, OUR WAY
36. SELF-ABASEMENT, CHARATERISTIC OF EUCHARISTIC HOLINESS
37. JESUS, MEEK AND HUMBLE OF HEART ------------ 38. JESUS, MODEL OF POVERTY
39. CHRISTMAS AND THE EUCHARIST ------------- 40. NEW YEAR WISHES TO OUR EUCHARISTIC LORD
41. EPIPHANY AND THE EUCHARISTIC ---------- 42. CORPUS CHRISTI
43. THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS ------------- 44. THE HEAVEN OF THE EUCHARIST
45. THE EUCHARISTIC TRANSFIGURATION -------------- 46. ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST
47. ST. MARY MAGDALEN ------------------ 48. THE MONTH OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT

Prayers from the Father Stedman Jesus, Mary Joseph Novena Manual :
NOTE: THESE ARE NOT PART OF THE EYMARD WORK, BUT WERE ADDED BY THE WEB MASTER.

PRAYER FOR FAITH IN THE REAL PRESENCE
A CONTRACT WITH JESUS
BEFORE COMMUNION
PRAYER BY AN OLD LADY
O MOST HOLY GOD
WHAT SHALL I GIVE THEE?
OFFERING OF ONESELF
TO OUR LADY OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT
TO JESUS ABANDONED IN THE TABERNACLE
TO JESUS FORSAKEN
APPEAL FOR PARDON
ACT OF REPARATION
PRAYERS: TEXT-ONLY FORMAT

VIEW THE MASTERPIECE: VIRGIN WITH HOST BY INGRES

PRAYER TO THE EUCHARISTIC HEART OF JESUS

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INTRODUCTION

NO TIME more opportune than the present could be chosen to place before the public this little volume by the venerated Père Eymard. In the process for his Beatification, his writings have been declared faultless by the Sacred Congregation of Rites. Our Sovereign Pontiff, Pope Pius X, has recently issued his extraordinary Decree on Daily Communion, thus marking a notable era in the spiritual life of Holy Mother Church. To all pious souls who hearken to the paternal injunction of the Holy Father, this little book will afford food for deep and serious meditation. Its pages are studded with Eucharistic jewels just as they fell from the lips of the ardent Apostle of the Holy Eucharist.

It will, as we believe, supply a need long felt by Eucharistic Congresses, and help to disseminate such literature as those worthy bodies of the Clergy earnestly recommend.

We trust "The Real Presence" is only an introduction to the whole series of Père Eymard's works, which we would be glad to see soon in English garb. No sentence from the writings of this sainted servant of God can fail to give strength and courage and comfort to all lovers of our Eucharistic Lord. May his words help to establish the reign of Jesus Christ in the hearts of the Faithful!

J. CARDINAL GIBBONS,
Archbishop of Baltimore.
October, 1906

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FOREWORD

THE works of Saint Peter Julian Eymard are recognized in the French world as classics of Eucharistic piety. In the hope they may become so in the English Catholic world, we are offering the public a new translation of them.

Possibly no one has so insistently and perseveringly written or spoken of the Eucharist as Saint Eymard has. The Eucharist worked on the faculties of his soul like a magnet. His mind and heart, as if polarized, invariably swerved back towards their star, the Eucharist. He was never at a loss to discover some hidden link between the Eucharist and the subject under study. Like the "householder who bringeth forth out of his treasure new things and old," he drew all things out of the Eucharist for every purpose. In fact he looked at the world only through the "Divine prism of the mystery of the Eucharist."

This Eucharistic approach to the problems of the soul is distinctive of his spirituality. Duty never came alone in its cold and austere stiffness but with something of our Eucharistic Lord in it that transformed it into a labor of love. The road that wound in and out of the shadow of the Cross was never a lonely one, for the Eucharistic Christ stood ever near with His strengthening and consoling companionship. The virtues were made lovable by being presented not in their native asperity but as actions of Jesus in the Eucharist. The result was a spirituality based on and motivated by love for Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.

He made universal use of the Eucharist in his own life and advised others to do as much. In short, he laid down in theory and in practice that the Eucharist is the chief means of progress in spiritual life, the light which shows the way and supplies the needed strength to follow it.

Unfortunately Saint Peter Julian never wrote nor even planned a complete treatise on the spiritual life, although his long experience with souls, his deep insight into their needs, his sure sense of the supernatural, and the stem logic of his mind eminently qualified him for such a task. However, in his sermons and letters of direction he touched practically every point of ascetical theology, so that there is in them sufficient matter for a comparatively complete study on the spiritual life.

The present volume, The Real Presence, is a collection of sermons that deal almost exclusively with the wonders operated by our Lord's love in the Eucharist. From every page, Saint Peter Julian, the "Priest of the Eucharist," sends a ringing plea to all men to love our Eucharistic Lord as He deserves and to take Him as both the model and the means of their holiness. Pondering over these chapters cannot but make us know better and love more the Eucharistic Christ. And with a more practical understanding of this supereminent means of grace, the problem of salvation should be easier to solve.

May His Eucharistic Kingdom come! That was Saint Peter Julian's most ardent wish. We make it ours in publishing a new translation of The Real Presence.

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