Luminous Mysteries 5: Holy Eucharist

Meditations on the Eucharist
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Fifth Luminous Mystery
The Institution of the Eucharist
 “I am the living bread that came down from
Heaven; whoever eats this bread will live
forever; and the bread that I will give is my
flesh for the life of the world.”

The Holy Eucharist gives us not only grace
but the Author of all grace, Jesus, God and
Man. It is the center of all else the Church
has and does.
Spiritual fruit: Love of our Eucharistic Lord

Institution of the
Holy Eucharist

1. Institution of the Holy Eucharist
Christ offers his body and blood as food under the signs of
Bread and wine and testifies “to the end” his love for
humanity, for whose salvation he will offer himself in
sacrifice. No one has greater love than He who lays down
his life for those whom He loves.

Leonardo da Vinci, The Last Supper.

1A. Institution of the Holy Eucharist
In the upper room Jesus offers his own body and blood as
the Passover Lamb. Just as the Passover lamb was
sacrificed in Egypt to spare the firstborn sons of Israel, now
Jesus is to be sacrificed on the cross to spare the lot of all
humanity.


1B. He loved them to the end: “That is to say, to the
summit of every possibility of love, because Jesus renders
perpetual, today, the sacrifice accomplished one single time
on Calvary for the salvation of all.” (Gobbi)


1C. Institution of the Holy Eucharist
In this his gift, the new and eternal Covenant between God and
humanity is established, and the rite of the new Passover in the true
Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world is instituted.
(Gobbi)


 “I have ardently desired.” All the life of Jesus has been
directed o this supreme and ineffable moment.
 It is the Passover of love. On this day, Jesus gives his Body
as food and his Blood as drink to those who are being
redeemed and saved by Him There is no greater love than
this, that one lay down his life for those whom he loves.
 In this his gift, the new and eternal Covenant between God
and humanity is established, and the rite of the new
Passover in the true Lamb of God who takes away the sins
of the world is instituted.
 It is the Passover of suffering. Love is proven with
suffering. To this, his utmost gift of love, Judas responds
with betrayal, Peter with denial, the apostles with
desertion. (Gobbi)

“It is the Passover of suffering. Love is proven with suffering. To this,
his utmost gift of love, Judas responds with betrayal, Peter with denial,
the apostles with desertion.” (Gobbi)

Tintoretto, The Last Supper, 1566, Church of San Trovaso. Venice.

Words of the Queen on
St. John

3***. St. John “It is certain that I loved saint John in a special
manner, because he was most pure and candid as a dove; and in the
eyes of the Lord he was very pleasing, both on account of his purity
and on account of his love toward me. His example should serve thee
as a spur to do that which my Son and I expect of thee.” (Mary of Agreda)

Valentin de Boulogne The Last supper, 1625. National Gallery of Art. Rome.

 WORDS OF THE QUEEN on PURITY & LOVE OF ST. JOHN
(The Virgin Mary speaks to Sister Mary of Agreda, Spain.)
 “My daughter, I see thee much moved to emulation and desire by
the great happiness of the disciples of my most holy Son, and
especially that of saint John, my favored servant. It is certain that I
loved him in a special manner; because he was most pure and
candid as a dove; and in the eyes of the Lord he was very pleasing,
both on account of his purity and on account of his love toward me.
His example should serve thee as a spur to do that which my Son
and I expect of thee. Thou art aware, my dearest, that I am the most
pure Mother and that I receive with maternal affection those who
fervently and devoutly desire to be my children and servants in the
Lord. By the love which He has given me, I shall embrace them with
open arms and shall be their Intercessor and Advocate. Thy poverty,
uselessness and weakness shall be for me only a more urgent motive
for manifesting toward thee my most liberal kindness. Therefore, I
call upon thee to become my chosen and beloved daughter in the
holy Church.”

 “I shall, however, make the fulfillment of my promise depend upon
a service on thy part: namely, that thou have a true and holy
emulation of the love with which I loved saint John, and of all the
blessings flowing from it, by imitating him as perfectly as thy powers
will allow. Hence, thou must promise to fulfill all that I now
command thee, without failing in the least point. I desire, then, that
thou labor until all love of self die within thee, that thou suppress all
the effects of the first sin until all the earthly inclinations
consequent upon it are totally extinguished; that thou seek to restore
within thee that dove-like sincerity and simplicity which destroys all
malice and duplicity. In all thy doings thou must be an angel, since
the condescension of the Most High with thee was so great as to
furnish thee with the light and intelligence more of an angel than
that of a human creature. I have procured for thee these great
blessings and, therefore, it is but reasonable on my part to expect
thee to correspond with them in thy works and in thy thoughts. In
regard to me thou must cherish a continual affection and loving
desire of pleasing and serving me, being always attentive to my
counsels and having thy eyes fixed upon me in order to know and
execute what I command. Then shalt thou be my true daughter, and
I shall be thy Protectress and loving Mother.”

 WORDS OF THE QUEEN. (The Virgin Mary speaks to Sister
Mary of Agreda, Spain.)
 “My daughter, all that thou hast written in this chapter is a most
important warning for all those that live in the flesh and in the
imminent danger of losing eternal happiness. It should teach them
to seek my most kind and powerful intercession and to fear the
judgments of the Most High; for in this lies an efficacious means of
salvation and of meriting higher reward for the Lord. I wish to
remind thee once more, that among the secrets revealed to the
beloved John at the last Supper, was also this, that he had become
the beloved disciple of Christ on account of his love toward me, and
that Judas fell because he despised the mercy and kindness which I
had shown him. At that time, also, the evangelist understood other
great mysteries communicated and wrought in me; that I should
take part in the labor and suffering of the Passion and that he
should have special charge of me. My dearest, the purity which I
require of thee must be greater than that of an angel; and if thou
strive after it thou wilt become my dearest child, as saint John , and
a most beloved and favored spouse of my Son and Lord. His
example and the ruin of Judas should continually serve thee as a
stimulus and as a warning, to seek only after my love and to be
sincerely thankful for the love shown thee without thy merit.”

The Eucharist is the same
sacrifice as on the Cross

2**. The Eucharist is the same sacrifice as on Calvary

“When the Church
celebrates the
Eucharist, she
commemorates
Christ’s Passover,
and it is made
present: the sacrifice
Christ offered once
for all on the cross
remains ever
present.”
(Catechism)

2A. The Eucharist is the same sacrifice as on Calvary

“In the Eucharist the
sacrifice of Christ becomes
also the sacrifice of the
members of his Body. The
lives of the faithful, their
praise, sufferings, prayer,
and work are united with
those of Christ and with his
total offering. Christ’s
sacrifice present on the altar
makes it possible for all
generations of Christians to
be united with his offering.”
(Catechism)

2B. The Eucharist is the same sacrifice as on Calvary
“Jesus comes by means
of the Eucharistic
Sacrifice, to wash again
today with his divine
blood, all the sin and the
evil of the world.
“The Eucharistic Jesus
will release all his power
of love which will
transform souls, the
Church and all
humanity.” (Gobbi)

At every Mass the sacrifice of Calvary is made present.
6. The Eucharist is a sacrifice inasmuch as it is offered up,
and a sacrament inasmuch as it is received.
“Each day with love and with sorrow, with intimate participation of your
lives, celebrate the holy Sacrifice of the Mass. It has the power to make
reparation, and to destroy so much evil in the world.” (Gobbi)

3. The Holy Trinity during Mass: “As a mother, I am always
at the side of my Son in every tabernacle on earth. Wherever the Son
is there is always present the Most Holy Trinity. At the side of every
tabernacle, there are all the angels, and all the saints.” (Gobbi)

Tintoretto, The Last supper. 1561.

3. Bread of life: “I am the living bread that come down from heaven.
.
Whoever eats of this Bread will have life and I will raise him up on the last
day. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in
him. I am with you always, to the end of the ages.” (in the Eucharist.)

Tintoretto, The Last supper. 1561.

4.The Bread of Life
I am the living bread that come
down from heaven. Whoever
eats of this Bread will have life
and I will raise him up on the
last day. I am with you
always, to the end of the ages.
(in the Eucharist.)

We break the one bread that
provides the medicine of
immortality, the antidote for
death, and the food that makes
us live for ever in Jesus Christ.
By our communion at the altar
we are filled with every heavenly
blessing and grace.

4A.The Bread of Life Man also lives by the
Living Bread that comes
down from heaven.
“Jesus becomes present in the
Eucharist to be the food of your
spiritual life and to form you to
a true capacity for love.
Jesus give Himself to you to
love in you, with you and by
means of you.
The Eucharistic Jesus wants to
lead all of you along the road of
love, of reconciliation, of
communion, of peace and of
salvation.” (Gobbi)

 “Especially when thou receivest Him in the holy Sacrament and
possessest Him within thee: for in this thou shouldst also imitate
David, who, after asking the Lord what return he should make for
all his benefits, answers: "I will take the chalice of salvation; and I
will call upon the name of the Lord" (Ps. 115, 13). Thou must
accept the salvation offered thee and bring forth its fruits by the
perfection of thy works, calling upon the name of the Lord, offering
up his Only begotten. For He it is who gave the virtue of salvation,
who merited it, who alone can be an adequate return for the
blessings conferred upon the human race and upon thee especially.
I have given Him human form in order that He might converse with
men and become the property of each one. He conceals Himself
under the appearances of bread and wine in order to accommodate
himself to the needs of each one, and that each one might consider
Him as his personal property fit to offer to the eternal Father . In
this way He furnishes to each one an oblation which no one could
otherwise offer, and the Most High rests satisfied with it , since there
is not anything more acceptable nor anything more precious in the
possession of creatures.”-----Words of the Queen.

5. United with the Holy Trinity!
The Eucharist is a true banquet
in which Christ offers himself
as our nourishment. He also
grants us the Holy Spirit.
“Grant that we who are
nourished by his body and
blood may be filled with his
Holy Spirit.”

Whoever is united with One of
the Three Persons is thereby
united to the whole Blessed
Trinity, for this Oneness is
indivisible.
(St. Faustina Kowalska)

Titian, The Last Supper.

5. United with the Holy Trinity!
“He brings you to
communion with the
Heavenly Father in his
Spirit of Love, and He
gives you his very own
divine life.” (Gobbi)
Whoever is united with
One of the Three Persons
is thereby united to the
whole Blessed Trinity, for
this Oneness is
indivisible.
Titian, The Last Supper. (St. Faustina Kowalska)

Source and summit
of Evangelization

6. The Eucharist: source and summit of all evangelization.
In holy communion
each of us receives
Christ, and Christ
receives each of
us.
Holy Communion
brings about the
mutual “abiding” of
Christ and each of
his followers.
The Eucharist thus
appears as both
the source and
summit of all
evangelization.
(Pope John Paul II)
Joos van Ghent, The Communion of the apostles, 1460 Palazzo Ducale. Urbino.

6. The Eucharist: “I wish thee also to
ponder, what a horrible
crime it is in the eyes of
the Lord, in mine, and
in those of all the
saints, that men should
despise and neglect the
frequent reception of
the holy Communion,
and that they should
approach it without
preparation and fervent
devotion. Principally in
order that thou mayest
understand how I
prepared myself so
many years for
receiving my most
blessed Son in the holy
Sacrament.”
(Mary of Agreda)
Joos van Ghent, The Communion of the apostles, 1460. Palazzo Ducale. Urbino

Words of the Queen on
the Holy Eucharist
(Mary of Agreda)

 WORDS OF THE QUEEN on THE HOLY EUCHARIST (The
Virgin Mary speaks to Sister Mary of Agreda, Spain.)
 “O my daughter! Would that the believers in the Catholic faith
opened their hardened and stony hearts in order to attain to a true
understanding of the sacred and mysterious blessing of the Holy
Eucharist! If they would only detach themselves, root out and reject
their earthly inclinations, and, restraining their passions, apply
themselves with living faith to study by the divine light their great
happiness in thus possessing their eternal God in the holy
Sacrament and in being able, by its reception and constant
interaction, to participate in the effects of this heavenly manna! If
they would only worthily esteem this precious gift, begin to taste its
sweetness, and share in the hidden power of their omnipotent God!
Then nothing would ever be wanting to them in their exile. In this,
the happy age of the law of grace, mortals have no reason to
complain of their weakness and their passions; since in this bread of
heaven they have at hand strength and health. It matters not that
they are tempted and persecuted by the demon; for by receiving this
Sacrament frequently they are enabled to overcome him gloriously.
The faithful are themselves to blame for all their poverty and labors,
since they pay no attention to this divine mystery, nor avail
themselves of the divine powers, thus placed at their disposal by my
most holy Son.”

 “I tell thee truly, my dearest, that Lucifer and his demons have such
a fear of the most holy Eucharist, that to approach it, causes them
more torments than to remain in hell itself. Although they do enter
churches in order to tempt souls, they enter them with aversion.
Their wrath against the Lord and against the souls alone could
induce them to expose themselves to the torment of his real
sacramental presence.
 Whenever He is carried through the streets they usually fly and
disperse in all haste; and they would not dare to approach those that
accompany Him, if by their long experience they did not know, that
they will induce some to forget the reverence due to their Lord.
Therefore they make special efforts to tempt the faithful in the
churches; for they know what great injury they can thereby do to the
Lord himself, who in his sacramental love is there waiting to
sanctify men and to receive the return of his sweetest and untiring
love. Hence thou canst also understand the strength of those who
prepare themselves to partake of this bread of the angels and how
the demons fear the souls, who receive the Lord worthily and
devoutly and who strive to preserve themselves in this purity until
the next Communion. But there are few who live with this
intention.”

 “Write this admonition in thy heart; and since without thy
merit the Almighty has ordained, that thou receive holy
Communion daily, seek by all possible means to preserve
thyself in the good dispositions from one Communion to
the other. It is the will of the Lord and my own, that with
this sword thou fight the battles of the Almighty in the
name of the holy Church against the invisible enemies.
For in our days they are heaping affliction and sorrow
upon the mistress of nations, while there is none to
console her or to take it to heart (Thren. 1, 10). Do thou
thyself weep for the same reason and let thy heart be torn
in sorrow. But while the omnipotent and just Judge who is
so greatly incensed against the Catholics for having
outraged his justice by their unmeasurable and continual
transgressions even under the aegis of their grand faith,
none are found to consider and weigh the fearful damage,
nor to approach the easy remedy of receiving the holy
Eucharist with a contrite and humble heart; nor does any
one ask for my intercession.”

 “Though all the children of the Church largely incur this fault, yet
more to be blamed are the unworthy and wicked priests; for by the
irreverence with which they treat the blessed Sacrament. If the
people see their priests approach the divine mysteries with holy fear
and trembling, they learn to treat and receive their God in like
manner. Those that so honor Him shall shine in heaven like the sun
among the stars; for the glory of my divine Son's humanity will
redound in a special measure in those who have behaved well
toward Him in the blessed Sacrament and have received Him with
all reverence. Moreover the devout will bear on their breast, where
they have so often harbored the holy Eucharist, most beautiful and
resplendent inscriptions, showing that they were most worthy
tabernacles of the holy Sacrament. This will be a great accidental
reward for them and a source of jubilation and admiration for the
holy angels and the rest of the blessed. They will also enjoy the
special favor of being able to penetrate deeper into the mystery of
the presence of the Lord in the sacrament and to understand all the
rest of the wonders hidden therein. This will be such a privilege, that
it alone would suffice for their eternal happiness, even if there were
no other enjoyment in heaven. Moreover the essential glory of those,
who have worthily and devoutly received the holy Eucharist, will in
several respects exceed the glory of many martyrs who have not
received the body and blood of the Lord.”

 “I wish thee also to hear, my dearest daughter from my own mouth,
what were my sentiments when in mortal life I was about to receive
holy Communion. In order that thou mayest better understand what
I say, reflect on all I have commanded thee to write about my gifts,
merits and labors in life. I was preserved from original sin and, at
the instant of my Conception, received the knowledge and vision of
the Divinity, as thou hast often recorded. I knew more than all
saints; I surpassed the highest seraphim in love; I never committed
any fault; I constantly practiced all the virtues in a heroic degree
and in the least of them I was greater than all the saints in their
highest perfection; the intention and object of my actions were most
exalted and my habits and gifts were noble without measure; I
imitated my most holy Son most closely; I labored faithfully; I
suffered with eagerness and co-operated with the doings of the Lord
exactly as was becoming to me; I ceased not to exercise my love and
gain new supereminent merits of grace. Yet I thought myself to have
been fully repaid by being allowed to receive Him even once in the
holy Eucharist; yea, I did not consider myself worthy of this one
favor.”

 “Reflect then what should be thy sentiments, and those of the rest of
the children of Adam, on being admitted to the reception of this
admirable Sacrament. And if for the greatest of saints one holy
Communion is a superabundant reward, what must the priests and
the faithful think, when they are allowed to receive it so frequently?
Open thy eyes in the deep darkness and blindness which overwhelm
men around thee, and raise them up to the divine brightness in
order to understand these mysteries. Look upon all thy works as
insufficient, all thy sufferings as most insignificant, all thy
thanksgiving as falling far short of what thou owest for such an
exquisite blessing as that of possessing in the holy Church, Christ
my divine Son, present in the holy Sacrament in order to enrich all
the faithful. If thou hast not wherewith to show thy thanks for this
and the other blessings which thou receivest, at least humiliate
thyself to the dust and remain prostrate upon it; confess thyself
unworthy in all the sincerity of thy heart. Magnify the Most High,
bless and praise Him, preserving thyself at all times worthy to
receive Him and to suffer many martyrdoms in return for such a
favor.”

 “I wish thee also to ponder, what a horrible crime it is in the eyes of
the Lord, in mine, and in those of all the saints, that men should
despise and neglect the frequent reception of the holy Communion,
and that they should approach it without preparation and fervent
devotion. Principally in order that thou mayest understand and
record this warning, I have manifested thee, what I did on that
occasion and how I prepared myself so many years for receiving my
most blessed Son in the holy Sacrament and also the rest, which
thou art yet to write for the instruction and confusion of men. For if
I, who was innocent of any hindering sin and filled with all graces,
sought to increase my fitness for this favor by such fervent acts of
love, humility and gratitude, consider what efforts thou and the
other children of the Church, who every day and hour incur new
guilt and blame, must make in order to fit yourselves for the beauty
of the Divinity and humanity of my most holy Son? What excuse
can those men give in the last judgment, who have despised this
ineffable love and blessing, which they had always present in the
holy Church, ready to fill them with the plenitude of gifts, and who
rather sought diversion in worldly pleasures and attended upon the
outward and deceitful vanities of this earthly life? Be thou amazed
at this insanity as were the holy angels, and guard thyself against
falling into the same error.” Words of the Queen.

The Eucharist is
priceless treasure

7. The Eucharist is a priceless treasure
“Jesus must become for you
the one and only treasure.”
(Gobbi)
“The Eucharist is a priceless
treasure: by praying before it
outside of Mass we are
enabled to make contact with
the very wellspring of grace.”
(Pope John Paul II)
“Of all devotions, that of
adoring Jesus in the Blessed
Sacrament is the greatest
after the sacraments, the one
dearest to God and the one
most helpful to us.”
(St. Alphonsus Ligouri)

8. Sorrowful mother of the Eucharist.
“Today my motherly heart is deeply wounded and saddened because I
see that about the divine presence of Jesus in the Eucharist there is
much emptiness, silence, neglect, and abandonment.
I want to bring you here with me, prostrate before every
tabernacle, in an act of adoration and reparation.” (Gobbi)
Let every (retired)
person understand
that your greatest
contribution to the
Church’s mission lies
in your adoration and
reparation before the
Blessed Sacrament !
Many souls can be
saved by praying the
Divine Mercy prayer at
3 pm.

8. Sorrowful mother of the Eucharist.
“My Immaculate Heart is
glorified by you, when you
become burning flames of
love and zeal for Jesus
present in the Eucharist;
when you bring to Him all
the souls who are entrusted
to you.” (Gobbi)

9. Communion of life with Jesus
“Before the tabernacle, you
should be in a communion of
life with Jesus. Make of Jesus
your dearest friend. Tell your
love to Jesus .

This communion of life with
Jesus will develop and mature
into your holiness, and of a
possibility to transform evil into
good, and to act profoundly
that souls may be led by you to
salvation.” (Gobbi)

“Go often before the
tabernacle for your
personal encounter of love
with Jesus. Renew your
pledge of love for Jesus
present in the Eucharist.

Make the Holy mass the
center of all your piety, the
summit of your day, the
heart of your apostolic
action.” (Gobbi)

“Prostrate yourselves with me in an act of
profound adoration before the Eucharistic
Jesus. His real presence among you is the
light upon your path, a comfort for all your
weariness, a balm upon every wound
It is a joy in all your sorrows, a peace which
calms every anxiety.
It is the dawn which marks the beginning of
each new day of your human life.”
Prostrate yourselves with me in an act of
fervent thanksgiving for all the favours that
have been given you, by the love and
providence of your Heavenly Father. It is
the Father who arranges for you every
minute of your life.
Prostrate with me in an act of intense
reparation for all the sins of the world.
(Gobbi)

How Our Lady prepared
for Holy Communion
(Mary of Agreda)

 In these exercises the great Queen sought
especially to celebrate the institution of the most
blessed Sacrament by new hymns of praise, of
thanksgiving and fervent love. She was solicitous
to invite for this purpose her own angels and
many others from the empyrean heaven, in order
to assist and accompany in these praises of the
Lord. It was a wonder worthy of his
Omnipotence, that the Most High should send
from heaven multitudes of angels to view this
prodigy of Christ's remaining sacramentally
present in her heart from one Communion to the
other.

How Our Lady prepared for HOLY COMMUNION
Though the great Queen worthy of preserving within
Herself the sacred species as in a tabernacle, She was so
solicitous in preparing Herself anew by the most fervid
exercises and devotions every time She was again to
receive holy Communion; and this She did nearly every
day except on those in which She remained in her
oratory. She first offered up for this purpose her weekly
exercises of the Passion and besides this, whenever She
retired at nightfall before the day of Communion, She
began other exercises such as prostrations in the form of
a cross, genuflections, prayers, and adorations of the
immutable essence of God. She asked permission of the
Lord to speak to Him and to permit Her, in spite of her
earthly lowliness to partake of his Son in the holy
Sacrament; She appealed to his infinite bounty and to his
love toward the Church in thus remaining sacramentally
present, as a reason that She should be favored with this
blessing. She offered to Him his own Passion and Death.

 She made most intense acts of humility, professing
Herself but dust and ashes in comparison with the
infinite being of God, to which the highest creatures are
so inferior and unequal. In the contemplation of what
She was to receive sacramentally, She was so affected
and so deeply moved, that it is impossible describe it in
words; for She raised Herself and transcended above the
choirs of seraphim and cherubim; and as, in her own
estimation, She considered Herself the lowest of all
creatures, She called upon her guardian angels and upon
all the other angels, asking them, with incomparable
humility, to supplicate the Lord to dispose and prepare
Her for receiving Him worthily, since She was but an
inferior and earthly creature. The holy angels, obeying
Her in joyful admiration, assisted and accompanied Her
in these petitions, in which She persevered for the greater
part of the night preceding her Communion.

 We can never worthily understand to what height rose her virtues
and works of love on these occasions. But they were often of such
a kind as to oblige the Lord to respond by personal visit, in which
He gave Her to understand with what pleasure He came to dwell
sacramentally in her heart and to renew in Her the pledges of his
infinite love. When the hour of her Communion arrived, She first
heard the Mass usually celebrated by the Evangelist. In these
Masses, although the Epistles and Gospels, being not yet written,
were not read, the consecration was always the same as now, and
to it were added other rites and ceremonies with many psalms and
orations. At the end of Mass the heavenly Mother approached,
making three most profound genuflections; all inflamed with love
She received her Son in the Sacrament, welcoming in her purest
bosom and heart that same God, to whom She had given the most
sacred humanity in her virginal womb. Having communicated,
She retired, and, unless some very urgent need of her fellowmen
demanded otherwise, remained alone for three hours. During
these hours the Evangelist was often privileged to see rays of light
darting forth from Her as from the sun. (Mary of Agreda. The Mystical
City of God.)

 “In order to dispose thyself day by day for holy Communion thou
shouldst apply whatever thou performest in these exercises; imitate
also the other works practices, which thou hast come to know of me.
If the Mother of Him whom I was to receive, deemed myself
unworthy of Communion and by so many means sought the purity
necessary for such a Sacrament, consider what thou must do, so
poor and subject to so many miseries and imperfections! Purify the
temple of thy interior, scrutinizing it by the divine light and
adorning it with great virtues, since it is the eternal God, whom thou
art to receive; One, of whom nobody but Himself is worthy. Above
all I exhort thee to call upon me and ask me to help thee; for thou
must know, that I am the special Advocate and Protectress of those,
who desire to arrive at great purity for receiving holy Communion .
Whenever they invoke me for this purpose, I present myself before
the throne of the Most High, and, as one well knowing the
disposition required for harboring God himself, I ask this favor and
grace for those who are about to receive Him in the holy Sacrament.
I have not lost in heaven the solicitude and zeal which I exhibited
upon earth. Having asked me, proceed to ask also the intercession
of the angels, for they also are very anxious to see souls approach
the holy Eucharist with great devotion and purity. Invoke the
intercession of the angels and saints to obtain grace from the Lord.
” (Our Lady Spoke to Mary of Agreda. Spain)

 With her own hands, She provided ornaments and
sacerdotal vestments for the celebration of the Mass, thus
originating the ceremonious observances in the Church.
Although these vestments were not quite of the same
form as nowadays; yet they were not materially different
in appearance from those which in the course of time
came into use in the Roman Church. The material was
more alike; for She made them of linen and rich silks,
purchased with the alms and presents made to Her.
Whenever She worked at these vestments, sewing or
fitting them, She remained on her knees or on her feet,
and She would not entrust them to other sacristans than
the angels, who assisted and helped Her in all these
things; likewise She kept these ornaments and all that
pertained to the service of the altar in incredible order
and cleanliness; and from such hands as hers, all came
forth with a celestial fragrance, which enkindled the
spirit of the ministers.

 From many kingdoms and provinces, where the Apostles were
preaching, numbers of converts came to Jerusalem in order to visit
and converse with the Mother of the Redeemer of the world, at the
same time offering rich gifts. Among others, four sovereign
princes, who were royal governors of provinces, visited Her and
brought many valuable presents, which they placed at her disposal
for her own use and for the Apostles and disciples. The great Lady
answered that She was like her Son, and that the Apostles likewise
were in imitation of their Master; that hence these riches were not
appropriate to the life they professed. They begged Her to console
them by accepting their gifts for the poor or for the divine worship.
On account of the persistent requests She received part of what
they offered, and from the rich silks She made some ornaments for
the altar; the rest She distributed among the indigent and the
infirmaries. For She was accustomed to visit such places and often
served and washed the poor with her own hands, performing such
services, as well as distributing the alms, on her knees. Wherever it
was possible She consoled the needy and assisted the sick in their
last agony. Nor did She ever rest from works of charity, either
actually engaging in them, or pleading and praying for others in
her retirement.

 During these last years the Queen ate or slept very little;
and this little only, because saint John asked Her to rest
for at least a small portion of the night. But this sleep was
only a slight suspension of the senses, lasting no longer
than a half hour, during which, in the manner above
described, She lost not the vision of the Divinity. Her
food was a few mouthfuls of ordinary bread and
sometimes a little fish, taken at the of the instance of the
Evangelist and in order to keep him company; in this, as
in other privileges, saint John was thus fortunate, not
only eating with Her from the same table but having the
food prepared for him by the great Queen and
administered to him as from a mother to her son, and
moreover being obeyed by Her as a priest and a
substitute of Christ.

10. Jesus washes the feet of his disciples
“Love his brothers and yours. Learn from Jesus how to love.
You too, gird yourself with the towel, to put yourself at the
service of your neighbour. Let it be Jesus himself who loves
in you.” (Gobbi)

10B.
“Today is the day of the new commandment: ‘Love one another as I
have love you.’ Beloved sons, put yourselves ever at the service of all.
You must also wash the feet of your brothers, pour balm on their
wounds, share with them in their needs and their poverty.” (Gobbi)

“
“To the poor give his richness;
To the rich, his poverty;
To the healthy, his weakness;
To the sick, his strength;
To sinners, his salvation;
To the dying. His paradise;
To the hungry, his body;
To the thirsty, his blood;
To the weak, his support;
To the little, his defence;
To all, his divine caress.”

Ford Maddox Brown, Jesus washing Peter’s feet.

The ( National ) Rosary For the Evangelization of
(Nations)
1. Fatima Prayer: To Eucharistic Jesus, source of all
evangelization.
“O my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of
hell, lead all souls to heaven, especially those who are in
most need of thy mercy.”

2. Invocation of the Holy Spirit: Principal agent of
evangelization.
“Come, Holy Spirit! Fill the hearts of the (National) people
and enkindle in them the fire of your love! Come by means
of the powerful intercession of the Immaculate Heart of
Mary, your well-beloved Spouse.”

3. Prayer to Our Lady of ( Nation ): Star of the new
evangelization.
“Hail Holy Queen, Mother of (Nation), come and present the
(National) people to Jesus, the fruit of thy womb.
Look upon them continually with mercy and through your

Consecration to the Immaculate Heart (Short version)
“ Virgin of Fatima, Mother of Mercy, we who belong to
the Marian
Movement, consecrate ourselves in a special way to
your
Immaculate Heart. We also consecrate our motherland
(Nation) to
your Immaculate Heart. We intend to live with you,
through you and
for you, all the obligations assumed by our Baptismal
consecration
to bring about in ourselves that interior conversion so
urgently
demanded by the Gospel, that we may be available only
to do
always the will of the Father.
Allow us to dwell in the garden of your Immaculate
Heart . Lead us
to a spiritual renewal with prayer and penance, with the
daily

Finally pray one Our Father,
one Hail Mary, and one
Glory be, to the Holy
Father’s intention.

End of the Cenacle

Words of the Blessed Virgin
on the

Holy Eucharist
to Fr. Stefano Gobbi

The Holy Eucharist
I am the Mother of adoration and
reparation. Beside every tabernacle of the
earth there is always my motherly
presence. In my Immaculate heart all
form a concert of perennial adoration, of
unceasing prayer and of profound love
for Jesus, really present in every
tabernacle on earth. Jesus has given you
the gift of always remaining in you midst.

Today my motherly heart is deeply
Wounded and saddened because I see
that about the divine presence of Jesus in
the Eucharist there is much emptiness,
silence, neglect, and abandonment.
I want to bring you here with me,
Prostrate before every tabernacle, in an
act of adoration and reparation.”

 “You must understand that the centre of your life, the fount of your grace, the
source of your light, the beginning of your apostolic action is found only here
in the tabernacle where Jesus is kept.
 Jesus is present to teach you how to grow, to help you to walk, to strengthen
you in giving witness, to give you courage in evangelizing, to be a support for
all your sufferings.
 In the Eucharist, there is really present Jesus Christ. You must believe more in
his presence among you; you must spread with courage and force, your
invitation for a return of all to a strong and witnessed faith in the real presence
of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist.
 I ask for a return to the practice of making everywhere hours of adoration
before Jesus, exposed in the most holy Sacrament. I desire that there be an
increase in the homage of love towards the Eucharist. Surround the
Eucharistic Jesus with flowers and lights; draw close to Him with profound
acts of genuflection and of adoration.
 If you knew how the Eucharistic Jesus loves you, how a little gesture of love
fills Him with joy and with consolation! Jesus pardons so many sacrileges
and forgets an infinity of ingratitude before one drop of pure priestly love
which is placed in the chalice of his Eucharistic Heart. Go often before the
tabernacle; pray before the tabernacle. Let yours be a continual prayer of
adoration, of intercession, of thanksgiving and reparation. Let yours be a
prayer which is united to the heavenly song of the angels and saints, to the
ardent supplications of the souls. Let yours be a prayer which brings together
the voices of all humanity.

 Before the tabernacle, yours should be not only a presence of
prayer, but also a communion of life with Jesus. When you
ask something of Him, He always hears your prayer.
 “You must go beyond appearances to experience in your soul the
presence of Jesus in the Eucharist because, under the veil of each
consecrated Host, Jesus is really present among you.”
 “Go before the tabernacle to establish with Jesus a simple and
daily rapport of life. With the same naturalness with which you
seek out a friend, to before the tabernacle to seek out Jesus.
Make of Jesus your dearest friend, the most trusted person,
the most desired and the most loved. Tell your love to Jesus,
because this is the one thing that makes Him immensely happy.
‘Jesus, You are our love; Jesus You alone are our great friend;
Jesus, we love You; Jesus, we are in love with You”.
 “This communion of life with Jesus will develop and mature into
your holiness, a capacity to welcome in your own person the
sufferings and crosses of all, of a possibility to transform evil into
good, and to act profoundly that souls may be led by you to
salvation.”

 “The Eucharistic reign of Christ will unfold in all its
power and will have the capacity to change hearts, souls,
individuals, families, society and the very structure of the
world.
 “Today it is necessary to shed greater light upon the
value of Holy Mass as the sacrifice which renews, in a
true manner, that accomplished by Jesus on Calvary.”

 “As little lambs I have gathered you into my sheepfold to
prepare you for the immolation which awaits you. You
are co-operating with my action for the salvation of the
world.”
 “I place you before every tabernacle to give you in
homage to Jesus, as most precious jewels and most
beautiful and fragrant flowers.”

 “The Eucharist will once again be the heart and center of the whole life of the
Church. Jesus in the Eucharist will become the summit of your prayer, and your
apostolic action. Bring everyone to Jesus in the Eucharist.”
 “Make the Eucharistic Jesus the center of your prayer, the sun of your life, the
love of your life. You become a soothing balm which is placed on the open and
bleeding wounds of your holy mother the Church.
 “My heart is filled with joy in seeing you here, on a pilgrimage of love, of
adoration, of reparation and of thanksgiving to Jesus, present in the Eucharist, to
console Him for the great emptiness, the great ingratitude and the great
indifference, with which He is surrounded in his real and loving presence in all
the tabernacles of the earth.”
 “Thank you for the joy which you are giving to the Heart of Jesus who is smiling
upon you with pleasure. Thank you for the joy which you give to the deep sorrow
of the Immaculate Heart of your heavenly Mother.
 “I am the Mother of the Most Blessed Sacrament. As a mother I am always at
the side of my Son. I am still to be found wherever Jesus is present, in every
tabernacle on earth.
 “I am the joyful Mother of the Eucharist. Wherever the Son is, there too the
Father and the Holy Spirit are always present. There is always present the divine
and Most Holy Trinity. There are all the angels and all the saints, arranged in
their nine choirs of light to sing the glory of the most Holy Trinity.”

 “I am the sorrowful Mother of the Eucharist. You should all gather together,
religious and faithful , in order to form, with heaven and purgatory, an unceasing
hymn of adoration and praise. Instead, today Jesus in the tabernacle is
surrounded by much emptiness, much neglect and much ingratitude. At Fatima,
the Angel taught this prayer: “Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, I
adore You profoundly and I offer You the most precious body, blood, soul and
divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, present in all the tabernacles of the world, in
reparation for the outrages, sacrileges and indifference with which He Himself is
surrounded.”
 “Jesus is surrounded today by an emptiness which has been brought about
especially by you priests who, in your apostolic activity, often go about uselessly
and very much in the periphery, going after things which are less important and
more secondary, and forgetting that the center of your priestly day should be here,
before the tabernacle.”
 “He is surrounded by the indifference of many of my children, who live as if He
were not there.”
 “Above all, it is the sacrileges which today form around my Immaculate Heart, a
painful crown of thorns. How many communions are made and how many
sacrileges perpetrated!”
 “Never before as today, has Love been so unloved. Love Jesus who is surrounded
by great coldness and a general indifference. Let your ministry be a service of
love for Him.”

 “You must be today a clarion call for the full return of the whole Church Militant
to Jesus present in the Eucharist. Because there alone is to be found the spring of
living water which will purify its aridity and renew the desert to which it has been
reduced; there alone is to be found the secret of life and of light; there alone is to
be found the fount of her renewed holiness: Jesus in the Eucharist!”
 “It is not your pastoral plans and your discussions, it is not the human means on
which you put reliance and so much assurance, but it is only Jesus in the
Eucharist which will give to the whole Church the strength of a complete
renewal.”
 “I desire that this message of mine be made public and spread throughout the
whole world because I am calling you today from every part of the earth to be a
crown of love, of adoration, of thanksgiving and of reparation.”
 “I lead you to a habitual intimacy of life, of love, of adoration, of thanksgiving
and of reparation to Jesus present in the Eucharist.
 “The power of your intellect causes you to see Jesus in the spendor of his glory.
The power of the will sets you on the way of always doing his divine will. “ I have
come, O Lord, to do your will.”

 “You are being called more and more to become the apostles and
new martyrs of Jesus, present in the Eucharist. You must increase
your reparation, your adoration and your life of piety. The
Eucharistic Heart of Jesus will work great things in each of you.”
 “Beloved sons, build a dam to hold back the flood of sacrileges.
Never before as in these present times have so many communions
been made and in such an unworthy manner.”
 “I myself will fill up the great void about my Son Jesus. I will form a
barrier of love about his divine presence. I will do this through you,
beloved sons, whom I wish to set up as a guard of love round about
all the tabernacles of the earth.”
 “Oh, what weight Holy Mass has to compensate for, and to destroy,
the evil which is daily brought about by so many sins.

 Not by bread alone does man live. Man also lives by the Living Bread that comes
down from heaven. Jesus is the living bread, the food to eat that one may hunger
no longer, the water to drink that one may thirst no longer. Jesus becomes present
in the Eucharist to be the food of your spiritual life and to form you to a true
capacity for love.
 Jesus gives Himself to you in the Eucharist to love in you with you and by means
of you.
 Learn of Him who is meek and humble of heart and you will find rest for your
souls.
 Flourish everywhere the cult of adoration, of reparation and of love for the Most
Holy Eucharist.
 Let yourselves be possessed by his love. How much Jesus loves you!
Do not look at your miseries; do not be discouraged by your weaknesses; do not
count your sins, because the divine Charity of the Heart of Jesus surpasses
infinitely every human ingratitude.
Even if there is being repeated the action of Peter who denies, of that of Judas
who betrays, or that of the apostles who flee and abandon Jesus, open your hearts
today to hope, because Jesus loves you. His love overcomes your every human
weakness.

“Let your heart be completely immersed in his Eucharistic Heart. Jesus then takes
your little heart, opens it, expands it and fills it with his love. He loves in you and you
love in Him.
You become a new John, called to have a profound intimacy of life with Jesus.
Seek Jesus in order to quench your thirst for blessedness; go to Him to satisfy your
great need for love; your too, place your head upon his Heart to feel its beatings; live

everyday with Him, you who are called to be the other Johns of the Eucharistic
Jesus.
For you, who are called to be the light of the world, there now falls the duty of
illuminating the earth in these days of dense darkness.
“I invite you to bend with me over the altar. Adore Him with me; heap love upon
Him
with me; console Him with me: thank Him with me; with me, make reparation for
the
offenses, the coldness and the great indifference with which He is surrounded.”

Love is not loved
 For love of you, Jesus lived a life which was humble, poor, hidden and spent in
prayer and in work.
For love of you, Jesus took upon Himself suffering, humiliation and
marginalization.
For love of you, Jesus became the Man of Sorrows and offered Himself as a
victim on the Cross.
For love of you, He allowed Himself to be condemned, mocked, tortured, crucified
and killed.
For love of you, Jesus remains ever present in your midst in the state of a victim
in the sacrament of the Eucharist.
For the love you, He has even given you his Mother.
 If you knew how the Heart of Jesus loves you! Jesus loves you and in return
receives from you ingratitude, indifference and lack of response. Jesus loves you
and you live as though He did not exit. Jesus loves you and, in the Eucharist,
throbs with love for you and you leave Him alone, abandoned, surrounded by a
great void an d so much unbelief.
 It is so true that Love is not loved.
 Allow your heavenly Mother to form you to love , to make you grow in love.

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