Getting Ready to Pray                     

The Eucharist is a “Thanksgiving Sacrifice” in which we join in the thanksgiving death of Jesus and in which we ask to be made an “ever-lasting gift” to God.

In our celebration of the Eucharistic Liturgy, we enter in to a “holy exchange” in which we are both the receivers and the gifts at the same time.

Some Thoughts 

As we live out both realities, these days of faith, we might pray with our experiences of receiving gifts of all kinds, verbal, emotional, material, and even mysterious ones.

We can pray as well with the opportunities we have to be gifts, sent by the Eucharist, to the lives around us.

Our giving ourselves as gifts is definitely a strong prayer of thanksgiving as it was in the total life of Jesus, including his death.