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MOTHER & REFUGE OF THE END TIMES

IN THE END MY IMMACULATE HEART WILL TRIUMPH!

Mother Of The Eucharist

By Bella Francis

The heart of a mother is the heart of the one who gave the Eucharist. If we honor and love her heart, she forms our hearts to encounter Christ in the Eucharist by guiding us to be more conscious, true, intimate, to welcome Him, live authentic lives thus making us become Eucharistic souls. John the Baptist cries out in the wilderness, to prepare the way for the Lord who comes and is born for us, how lowering the neck of pride and filling the gaps of miseries with the virtue of humility and poverty, in obedience in purity, mortifying us by fasting and detachment from self and material goods. Only with a true preparation for the meeting with God which is coming to us,. Poverty, purity, obedience: all these are riches for all the people but even more so for the priests who celebrate the Eucharist and who must obtain the Eucharist in detachment from self from possessions, by mortification, the spirit empties and lifts up the soul toward heaven. How many priests fast, do mortification, they are very few. Their tables are stacked with food, bellies full, all of which weighs them down and diminishes their sanctity. The priest in this state, fails to recognize the coming of the Lord, lacking in trust , thus obscuring the presence of Our Lord to the people. The Eucharist is an encounter with God who blends in with us and what is the Eucharist if not love; love that wants to nourish us but only if our involvement, our spirit prepares for His coming, with prayer, mortification, poverty, purity, obedience. Only then can we recognize His love and welcome Him. When you are full of yourself, love doesn’t enter and you don’t recognize it. Let’s go to the heart of Mary , let’s go to her who shapes us who helps us with all the necessary virtues who prepares us to encounter her Son in the Eucharist who will be born in us.

Below is an excerpt from Fr. Stefano Manelli from “Jesus, our Eucharistic love”

“The Holy Eucharist is the Bread that comes from our Heavenly Mother. It is Bread produced by Mary from the flour of Her immaculate flesh, kneaded into dough with her virginal milk. St. Augustine wrote, “Jesus took His Flesh from the flesh of Mary.”

We know, too, that united to the Divinity in the Eucharist there is Jesus’ Body and Blood taken from the body and blood of the Blessed Virgin. Therefore, at every Holy Communion we receive, it would be quite correct, and a very beautiful thing, to take notice of our Holy Mother’s sweet and mysterious presence, inseparably united with Jesus in the Host. Jesus is always the Son she adores. He is Flesh of her flesh and Blood of her blood. If Adam could call Eve “bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh” (Gen. 2:23), cannot the holy Virgin Mary even more rightly call Jesus ‘Flesh of my flesh and Blood of my blood”? Taken from the “intact Virgin” as says St. Thomas Aquinas, the flesh of Jesus is the maternal flesh of Mary, the blood of Jesus is the maternal blood of Mary. Therefore, it will never be possible to separate Jesus from Mary.

And thus “The Eucharist,” writes St. Albert the Great, “produces impulses of a love that is angelic, and It has the unique power to put in souls a holy feeling of tenderness toward the Queen of Angels. She has given us what is Flesh of her flesh and Bone of her bone, and in the Eucharist, she continues to give us this sweet, virginal, heavenly banquet.

When we go before Jesus on the altar, we always find Him “with Mary His Mother,” as the Magi did at Bethlehem (Mt. 2:11). And Jesus in the sacred Host, from the altar of our hearts, can repeat to each of us what He said to St. John the Evangelist from the altar of Calvary, “Behold thy Mother” (John 19:27).

For this reason, at every Holy Mass which is celebrated, the Blessed Virgin can repeat with truth to Jesus in the Host and in the Chalice, “You are my Son today I have generated You” (Ps. 2:7). And justly St. Augustine teaches us that in the Eucharist “Mary extends and perpetuates Her Divine Maternity”, while St. Albert the Great exhorts with love, “My Soul if you wish to experience intimacy with Mary let yourself be carried between Her arms and nourished with Her blood” … Go with this ineffable chaste thought to the banquet of God and you will find in the Blood of the Son the nourishment of the Mother.”

And so there could be a never-ending extolling of Our Blessed Mother’s virtues in drawing us close to her beloved Son. Her tenderness, her love, her constant pleading for our cause is unsurpassed.

Immaculate heart of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist, Mother of the Word Incarnate, Mother of fair love, we implore your intercession for our salvation.