Spiritual Communion
To commune is to enter into a union of ideas and feelings with a loved one, a husband, a child… We can commune with the thoughts, desires, and plans of a friend, with the beauty of nature.
But there is a far superior and most desirable union to which Our Lord invites us. If we can commune with the Sacred Host at the Masses we attend, outside of them, we can also commune spiritually by deeply desiring to unite ourselves with Jesus, present in all the tabernacles of the world.
Do we not deeply desire what we love? If our relationships with Jesus are merely speculative or the fruit of intellectual reasoning, we remain cold, sterile, and incapable of experiencing a true need for union of heart. While a soul deeply in love with her Lord sighs ceaselessly towards Him. Like a lover, she raises the impulses of her heart to reach the Beloved. And, unable to receive Him in the Holy Eucharist as much as her heart burns with desire, she asks for the same graces as if she were truly receiving it.
Jesus said to Saint Margaret Mary: “I take such pleasure in being desired in the sacrament of my love, that as many times the heart forms this desire, as many times I gaze at it lovingly to draw it to me.” Spiritual communion being above all a matter of the heart, love, and desire, it corresponds completely to the worship rendered to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. It is a devotion most beneficial to our soul in the form most accessible to all.