Where We Can Find Him

“Where does Jesus live?” With His Father in Heaven. “And has He no home on this earth?” Yes, every Catholic Church, from North to South, from East to West, is His home. “But I do not see Him when I go to church.” I will tell you where He is. Have you ever noticed a little door in the center of the high altar? Behind that little door Jesus lives and He only comes out to go to the people in Holy Communion or to let the priest place Him in the centre of a large gold vessel for Benediction.

Only the priest can open that little door and, when he does, this is what he sees: a large gold cup with a cover, holding a number of sacred hosts, in each one of which Jesus is present. Those are the sacred hosts the people will receive in Holy Communion. “But when they are all gone, what will the priest do?” He will fill the gold cup with little round pieces of bread and when he says Mass, he will change each one into the Body and Blood of Christ. “And what else is behind the little door?” A little gold or silver case in which Jesus is present in one large sacred host. This sacred host the priest uses for Benediction.

“And what does Jesus do all day behind that little door?” He waits for you and me to come and call on Him. Oh, every day run over to the nearest church to visit Him. Get as near to Him as you can. Kneel at the railing and with your eyes on that little door, stay a few minutes with Him.

We need never be lonesome, wherever we travel through the wide, wide world, for we shall always find Jesus waiting for us behind the little door. The tiny flame of the lamp that hangs before the altar, says: “Jesus is at home.” If ever the little light is out, for some reason, Jesus is not there.

Whenever Catholics pass Jesus’ home, the church, men and boys take off their hats and women and girls bow their heads.

Whenever, in traveling, you come to a village or a city, bow to Jesus, for He is somewhere there in His altar-home. And if you should move to another town or visit there, find out at once where the Catholic church is that you may go and call on Christ.

For the Catholic Church is His Church. It is the Church He made when He lived on earth and so He stays with it.