“Dear Lord…shine through me, and be so in me that every soul I come in contact with may feel your presence in my soul…Let me thus praise you in the way you love best, by shining on those around me.” (Blessed Cardinal Newman)
Whenever I think of Blessed Pope John Paul II, I think of the physical and spiritual glow that burst out of his person. He was a man filled with joy, a man filled with the love of Christ and the light of Christ…
Where did he get this light? In his own words, his secret was his great devotion to Christ in the Eucharist: “It is invaluable to converse with Christ, and leaning against Jesus’ breast like his beloved disciple, we can feel the infinite love of his Heart. We learn to know more deeply the One who gave Himself totally, in the different mysteries of his divine and human life, so that we may become disciples and in turn enter into this great act of giving, for the glory of God and the salvation of the world. Through adoration, the Christian mysteriously contributes to the radical transformation of the world and to the sowing of the Gospel. Anyone who prays to the Savior draws the whole world with him and raises it to God.”– from Our Holy Father, Pope John Paul II’s 1996 letter to the Bishop of Liege, written on the occasion of the 750th anniversary of the first celebration of the Feast of Corpus Christi
