"Oh! If we could see the posture of the angels and the saints before the adorable Eucharist, we would not be so bold as to enter without fear, without respect, without amazement.
Mother Mectilde of the Blessed Sacrament
St. John Vianney
“Take in one hand a sponge full of water, and in the other a little pebble; press them equally. Nothing will come out of the pebble, but out of the sponge will come abundance of water. The sponge is the soul filled with the Holy Spirit, and the stone is the cold and hard heart which is not inhabited by the Holy Spirit.”
(From Sermons of St. John
Marie Vianney)
Father Kevin M. Cusick
“The vaccine for the real pandemic, one of fear, is faith. There is no real control possible over physical reality, the span of a human life or the world in which we live. Only faith can open the possibility of cooperating with the Creator, acknowledging our complete dependence upon Him now and in eternity. Through prayer, committed, regular and sincere, we grow in faith.
Every time we kneel and pray, every time we seek the silence of our church and the glow of the tabernacle lamp beckoning within, we receive another dose of the only vaccine that conquers our greatest enemy, he who through fear and sin can cast both body and soul into Gehenna.
In the Mass, the perfect prayer, we truly meet and receive the One in whose infinite and everlasting love all the answers to our probing questions and baseless fears lie. “Fear is useless. What is need is Faith’.”
(From Faith Vaccinates Against Pandemic of Fear in December 16, 2021 issue of The Wanderer)
Mother Mectilde of the Blessed Sacrament
“All that you desire of me is that I remain immersed in the center of my nothingness, where, ceasing to be, I confess and proclaim in silence that You are, O my God, the One who is, and the only One worthy of being eternally. Amen.”
(From The “Breviary of Fire” – Letters by Mother Mectilde
of the Blessed Sacrament)
“We must never lose sight of our holy tabernacles: it is there that we find our strength and our virtue. If human infirmity and affairs allowed, we should pass our whole life at the feet of our Divine Master. At least let us go there as often as possible, and quit so many futile occupations that rob us of precious time claimed for what we owe the love of a God.
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Far from us be disgust, negligence and frivolity. Alas! is it possible that it should be burdensome for us to converse with our Sovereign Lord? Where is one better off than close to one’s Father, to one’s spouse, to one’s all? To live with Jesus – is this not to begin to live on earth the life that we are called to live in heaven? Ah! Can we say that we have faith if we complain of the length of time we spend before the Most Holy Sacrament?
What, however, does one see in the world, and perhaps even among us? Poor creatures, fragile nothings, worms of the earth, for which it is such an effort to spend half an hour with the King of heaven and of earth! People consecrate days and nights in vain conversations, to futile entertainments, and always find it too long the moments given to a God who forgets Himself for love of us. Oh heavens, be astonished…”
(The Mystery of Incomprehensible Love by Mother Mectilde of the Blessed Sacrament)
"The Eucharist is alive. If a stranger who knew nothing about the Eucharist were to watch the way we receive, would he know...
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