text: Yes, your comments hit a nerve.  They brought back a memory of my daughter who decided she would 'keep Jesus with me'.  She was eight and figured having a host in her pocket was much better than anything she could wear around her neck for 'protection'.  I had to explain that Jesus said 'take and eat' because then He could become part of every cell in our body just like any other food we ate, and that's how He wanted us to 'keep him with us'.  She thought about it and said: "Even the parts that don't work right, like my pancreas?"  She had just been diagnosed as a Type I diabetic.  I said, "especially the parts that don't work right, because He wants to be part of those even more".  How would you have handled this situation had it been one of your children?  With excerpts from the Catechism?
  
  There are times your attempts at whatever you think you're doing here sound like pure desperation.