“What is there upon the altar
before the Consecration? A bit of bread, a little wine. And after the
Consecration? For the senses – for touch, sight, taste – bread and wine still.
Faith, only faith, penetrates beneath those veils, to reach the divine reality
that is totally hidden there. Without faith, we shall never see anything but
bread and wine; we shall not see God; He does not reveal Himself there as He
does in the Gospel…
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In the case of the Eucharist,
there is room only for pure faith; faith founded solely on the words of Jesus: ‘This
is my body, this is my blood.’ The Eucharist is, above all, a ‘mystery of faith’;
Mysterium fidei.
That is why in this mystery…we
ought to listen solely to Jesus. Reason is so confounded that those who, in
this, do not listen to Christ must say, like the Jews to whom Our Lord promised
the Eucharist: ‘This saying is hard and who can hear it?’ And they went away
from Christ’s presence. Let us, on the other hand, go to Jesus as did the
faithful apostles whom Christ asked on that occasion, ‘Will you also go away?’
and let us say to Him, with Peter: ‘Lord to whom shall we go? You have the
words of eternal life. And we have believed and have known that You are the
Christ, the Son of God.’
Therefore, let us consult Christ
on the subject of this mystery. Christ Jesus is Infallible Truth, Eternal
Wisdom, Omnipotence. That which He promised – why should He not have carried it
out?
(From Christ in His Mysteries by Blessed
Columba Marmion)
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