I tell you in all the universe, I think there is no greater a way for God to tell us how much he loves us than those words: “take, eat, this is my Body” and “take, drink, this is my Blood”. What else can we say to that but: “I love you too. Thank You.”
And it doesn’t matter how you regard the question of the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist; whether you believe in memorialism, consubstantiation, transubstantiation, or something else. This is something universally applicable to all Christians:
“I love you too.”
Think of what the Virgin Mother felt when she first heard those words, how she knew only all too well what they meant, she who nursed Him as a babe and stayed with him as he bore the cross. Her perspective is what opened my eyes to the marvel of Communion. Who is this God who gives his body and blood up for you? He cannot say “I love you” in any greater way, no. What else can he do to get our attention but taking up the cross on my behalf, I who rejected him so many times in word and deed? Can he be anything else but Love and Mercy itself?
Don’t let his agony which he took on for you go to waste by rejecting Him. False humility under the guide of Pride is not approaching Him because we are not worthy. None of us are truly worthy, that’s sort of the point. It is why we Catholic Christians say every time we get up for Holy Communion: “Lord I am not worthy that you should enter my roof, but only say the word and my soul shall be healed.” (Based on Matthew 8:8). Those who are said to receive Holy Communion unworthily in 1 Corinthians 11 are unworthy in a very different sense. One God hastens to welcome to His table, the other he does not.
Accept Him, know Him, love Him. He did all of this for you. God bore your sins on the cross so that you could inherit eternal life. So not rebuke Him, and do not take Holy Communion lightly. So many offend Him who receive unworthily; by those knowingly living in a state of unrepentant sin, by those who do not believe, by those who receive without reverence. For such it is better that they not receive at all.
Jesus make us worthy!
Crossing The Jordan 