The Holy Eucharist and Real Presence
of Our Lord Jesus Christ
The
Last Supper
Let us now Enter the Adoration Chapel to spend some quality
time with Our Lord in His Eucharistic
Presence. Benediction and Exposition time daily @ 7:00
a.m. eastern.
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can be with Him now!........ Just Click on Our Lord in the
center of the Monstrance and you will be taken to the live
WebCam in the Adoration Chapel of The Monks of
Adoration.
As an
answer to these words of consecration was heard the voice
of the eternal Father, saying: "This is my beloved Son, in
whom I delight, and shall take my delight to the end of the
world; and He shall be with men during all the time of
their banishment." In like manner was this confirmed by the
Holy Ghost.
The most sacred
humanity of Christ, in the
Person of the Word, gave tokens of the profoundest
veneration to the Divinity contained in the Sacrament of
his body and blood. The Virgin Mother, in Her retreat,
prostrated Herself on the ground and adored Her Son in the
blessed Sacrament with incomparable reverence. Then also
the angels of Her guard, all the angels of heaven, and
among them likewise the souls of Enoch and Elias, in their
own name and in the name of the holy Patriarchs and
Prophets of the old law, fell down in adoration of their
Lord in the holy Sacrament.
All the
Apostles and
disciples, who, with the exception of the traitor, believed
in this holy Sacrament, adored it with great humility and
reverence according to each one's disposition. The great
high priest Christ raised up his own consecrated body and
blood in order that all that were present at this first
Mass might adore it in a special manner, as they also did.
During this elevation his most pure Mother, saint John,
Enoch and Elias, were favored with an especial insight into
the mystery of his presence in the sacred species. They
understood more profoundly, how, in the species of the
bread, was contained his body and in those of the wine, his
blood; how in both, on account of the inseperable union of
his soul with his body and blood, was present the living
and true Christ; how with the Person of the Word, was also
therein united the Person of the Father and of the Holy
Ghost; and how therefore, on account of the inseperable
existence and union of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, the
holy Eucharist contained the perfect humanity of the Lord
with the three divine Persons of the
Godhead.
All this
was understood most profoundly by the heavenly Lady and by
the others according to their degree. They understood also
the efficacy of the words of the consecration, now endowed
with such divine virtue, that as soon as they are
pronounced with the intention of doing what Christ did at
that time, by any priest since that time over the proper
material, they would change the bread into his body and the
wine into his blood, leaving the accidents to subsist in a
new way and without their proper subject. They saw that
this change would take place so certainly and infallibly,
that heaven and earth would sooner fall to pieces, than
that the effect of these words of consecration, when
pronounced in the proper manner by the sacerdotal minister
of Christ, should ever fail.
The heavenly
Queen
understood also by a special vision how the most sacred
body of Christ is hidden beneath the accidents of bread and
wine without change in them or alteration of the sacred
humanity; for neither can the Body be the subject of the
accidents, nor can the accidents be the form of the body.
The accidents retain the same extension and qualities as
before, and each of their parts retain the same position
after the host has been consecrated; and the sacred Body is
present in an invisible form, also retaining the same size
without intermingling of parts. It remains in the whole
host, and all of it in every particle of the host, without
being strained by the host, or the host by the body. For
neither is the extension of his Body correlative with the
accidental species, nor do they depend upon the sacred Body
for their existence. They therefore have a totally
different mode of existence and the body interpenetrates
the accidents without hindrance.
Still greater
was my
admiration when Jesus our God, having raised the most holy
Sacrament for their adoration, divided it by his own sacred
hands, first partook of it Himself as being the First and
Chief of all the priests. Recognizing Himself, as man,
inferior to the Divinity, which He was now to receive in
his own consecrated body and blood. He humiliated and, as
it were, with a trembling of the inferior part of his
being,
shrank within Himself before that Divinity, thereby not
only teaching us the reverence with which holy Communion is
to be received; but also showing us what was his sorrow at
the temerity and presumption of many men during the
reception and handling of this exalted and sublime
Sacrament. The effects of holy Communion in the body of
Christ were altogether miraculous and divine; for during a
short space of time the gifts of glory flowed over in his
body just as on mount Tabor, though the effects of this
transfiguration were manifest only to his blessed Mother,
and partly also to saint John, Enoch and Elias. This was
the last consolation He permitted his humanity to enjoy as
to its inferior part during his earthly life, and from that
moment until his Death He rejected all such alleviation.
The Virgin Mother, by a special vision, also understood how
Christ her divine Son received Himself in the blessed
Sacrament and what was the manner of its presence in his
divine Heart. All this caused inestimable affection in our
Queen and Lady.
While receiving
his own Body and Blood
Christ our Lord composed a canticle of praise to the
Eternal Father and offered Himself in the blessed Sacrament
as a sacrifice for the salvation of man. He took another
particle of the consecrated bread and handed it to the
archangel Gabriel who brought and communicated it to the
most holy Mary. By having such a privilege conferred on one
of their number, the holy angels considered themselves
sufficiently recompensed for being excluded from the
sacerdotal dignity and for yielding it to man. The
privilege of merely having even one of their number hold
the sacramental body of their Lord and true God filled them
with a new and immense joy. In abundant tears of
consolation the great Queen awaited holy Communion. When
saint Gabriel with innumerable other angels approached, She
received it, the first after her Son, imitating his
self-abasement, reverence and holy fear. The most blessed
Sacrament was deposited in the breast and above the heart
of the most holy Virgin Mother, as in the most legitimate
shrine and tabernacle of the Most High. There the ineffable
sacrament of the holy Eucharist remained deposited from
that hour until after the Resurrection, when saint Peter
said the first Mass and consecrated
anew.
After having
thus favored the heavenly Princess, our Savior distributed
the sacramental bread to the Apostles (Luke 22, 17),
commanding them to divide it among themselves and partake
of it. By this commandment He conferred upon them the
sacerdotal dignity and they began to exercise it by giving
Communion each to himself. This they did with the greatest
reverence, shedding copious tears and adoring the Body and
Blood of our Lord, whom they were receiving. They were
established in the power of the priesthood, as being
founders of the holy Church and enjoying the distinction of
priority over all others (Ephes. 2, 20). Then saint Peter,
at the command of Christ the Lord, administered two of the
particles of holy Communion to the two Patriarchs, Enoch
and Elias. This holy Communion so rejoiced these two holy
men, that they were encouraged anew in their hope of the
beatific vision, which for them was to be deferred for so
many ages, and they were strengthened to live on in this
hope until the end of the world. Having given most fervent
and humble thanks to the Almighty for this blessing, they
were brought back to their abiding place by the hands of
the holy angels. The Lord desired to work this miracle in
order to pledge Himself to include the ancient natural and
written laws in the benefits of the Incarnation, Redemption
and general resurrection; since all these mysteries were
contained in the most holy Eucharist. By thus communicating
Himself to the two holy men, Enoch and Elias, who were
still in their mortal flesh, these blessings were extended
over the human race such as it existed under the natural
and the written laws, while all the succeeding generations
were to be included in the new law of grace, the Apostles
at the head. This was all well understood by Enoch and
Elias, and, returning to the midst of their contemporaries,
they gave thanks to their and our Redeemer for this
mysterious blessing.
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