When You Struggle to Pray at Mass

The Gathering Place, a Podcast from Blessed is She

Blessed is She

Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 833 Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

[TGP Clip] It's easy to zone out or struggle with wandering thoughts (or even anxieties!) during Mass. Maybe you leave bored or tired, thinking: "Does God actually have anything to offer me in the Mass?" He does — Himself, fully present in the Eucharist. In this podcast clip, Beth and Jenna dive into just how God is present and loving toward us in the Mass through the Eucharist. He waits for you to show up completely as you are so He can grow in relationship with you — and we'll give you some tips so you can experience His love for yourself. Watch this full episode of The Gathering Place podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_Aka-hYK0g&list=PL3ifxPSQgHc41HAAukZgs9DYqBVQerH3H&index=28&t=1s Books we referenced // "Personal Prayer" by Fr. Boniface Hicks: https://amzn.to/3WIGBWC "The Lamb's Supper" by Scott Hahn: https://amzn.to/3WW7hVm

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Timestamps:

0:00 Coming up

0:16 Today’s topic: the Eucharist

1:41 Indifference at Mass

2:41 Personal prayer

3:36 Vulnerability at Mass

6:14 How is prayer a relationship?

8:16 the reality of the Eucharist

9:33 the Sacraments are sensory

10:18 Going to Mass with an open heart

Transcript

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0:00.0	To view Mass as a love story really takes all the obligation out of it.
0:03.8	Who doesn't want to be loved, you know?
0:06.2	Everything we need is there in the Mass in the Eucharist, but we don't necessarily show up expecting that or even are open to receiving it.
0:15.6	Yeah. The sacraments are everything. In fact, one of our core values.
0:18.9	Yes. Tell the people, Beth. Or blessed is she. We've shared before about our core values. Yes. Tell the people, Beth. Her blessed is she.
0:21.9	We've shared before about our core values. Yeah, yeah. Which I love. The Eucharist is one of our core
0:26.7	values. I like that the bishops are catching on with our core values. It's about time. Yeah. That
0:32.1	Blessed is she? They're on to something. We've got to be talking about the Eucharist more.
0:36.4	You know, I had this conversation with a dear friend in Ireland, and I'm sure she had told
0:41.8	me this before, but it came at just the right moment when I was able to hear it and receive
0:46.9	it.
0:47.9	And by God's grace, it really changed things for me.
0:50.4	And I think for the ministry moving forward, at least in this season, she told me about
0:55.1	her experience on the first Blessed Is She Retreat in Ireland, the Wild Retreat in 2018, and how
1:00.5	she had been Catholic her whole life and received the Eucharist, but just didn't know or didn't
1:09.1	believe, maybe some combination, that it was truly Jesus. And she just left
1:14.4	me a voice memo and said, that retreat, that time in Eucharistic adoration, the procession
1:20.0	changed my life. I had never before met the person of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. I didn't
1:26.3	know it was him. And it changed everything for her.
1:29.7	Isn't that crazy? Yeah. And so as I listened to that message, it's just like, it became crystal
1:34.7	clear. I had like this laser focus that everything we need to do, it has to be about the Eucharist.
1:40.1	Yeah. It's at the center. I think it's possible to go to mass your whole life and not believe and not know and not be changed. I had been reading Father Bonifist Hicks book, Personal Prayer. And there's a whole section on the Mass and Eucharistic Adoration. To be honest with you, when I got to that place in the book, I was like, oh, bummer. How funny. Yeah, it was interesting. Okay. Yeah. Like before I was all in on personal prayer.
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