The Jesus Retreat

"Then I will go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy..." (Ps 43:4)

"Let us remember that the place of Christ's presence on earth was not only the Upper Room in Jerusalem, but also the streets of towns and country roads. Everywhere people gathered before Him. They gathered together to be able to be with Him, to listen to Him. He speaks to us who have gathered, not with the living words of the Gospel, as He once did, but with the eloquent silence of the Eucharist.  In this silence of the white host, carried in the monstrance, are all His words; there is His whole life given in offering to the Father for each of us; there is also the glory of the glorified body, which started with the Resurrection, and still continues in heavenly union." - Pope John Paul II