May, month of Mary: meditation on day twenty

EUCHARISTIC JESUS

20 DAY
Holy Mary.

Invocation. - Mary, Mother of mercy, pray for us!

EUCHARISTIC JESUS
The shepherds at the announcement of the Angel and the Magi at the invitation of the star went to the cave of Bethlehem. There they found the Virgin Mary, Saint Joseph and the Child Jesus, wrapped in poor clothes. Certainly they did not content themselves with targeting the Celestial Child, but they will have caressed, kissed and embraced him.
A feeling of holy jealousy makes us exclaim: Lucky shepherds! Lucky Magi! -
However, we are luckier than they are, because we have the Eucharistic Jesus at our complete disposal. The Eucharist is a mystery of faith, but a sweet reality.
Jesus, loving us with infinite love, after his death he wanted to remain alive and true among us in the Eucharistic state. He is Emmanuel, that is God with us. We can visit and contemplate him under the Eucharistic Species, indeed we can feed on his Immaculate Meats by means of Holy Communion. What do we have to envy to the shepherds and the Magi?
Christians, called rosewater, weak in faith and in other virtues, only once a year, on Easter, do they approach the Eucharistic Jesus. Souls more disposed to good are communicated several times a year, on solemnities and also monthly. There are those who communicate daily and consider lost the day when they cannot receive Jesus. There are numerous hosts of such souls; the devotees of Mary should tend towards this perfection of the Eucharistic life: daily communion.
Communion gives glory to God, it is a tribute to the Queen of Heaven, an increase in grace, a means of perseverance and a pledge of glorious resurrection. Even when you do not feel the sensitive taste or external fervor at the act of Communion, it is good to communicate the same. Jesus said to Saint Geltrude: When, dragged by the vehemence of my loving Heart, I enter with Communion in a soul that has not mortal sin, I fill it with good, and all the inhabitants of Heaven, all those of the earth and all souls in Purgatory, at the same time some new effects of my goodness are affected. Sensitive taste is the minimum of the advantages that derive from the Eucharistic Sacrament; the main fruit is invisible grace. -
Let us communicate therefore frequently, especially on holy days to Our Lady and every Saturday.
We do everything to approach the Eucharistic Banquet well.
Our Lady was grieving to see Baby Jesus, the King of Eternal glory, residing in a squalid cave. How many hearts receive Jesus and are more miserable and unworthy than the Bethlehem cave! What a glacial coldness! How much scarcity of good works!
If we want to please Jesus and Mary more, let us communicate fruitfully:
1. - Let us prepare ourselves from the previous day, to bring to Jesus acts of charity, obedience ... and small sacrifices.
2. - Before communicating, we ask for forgiveness for all the small deficiencies and promise to avoid them, especially those in which we fall most often.
3. - We revive the faith, thinking that the Consecrated Host is Jesus alive and true, throbbing with love.
4. - After receiving Holy Communion, we think that our body becomes a Tabernacle and many Angels are around us.
5. - Let's get rid of the distractions! We offer every Holy Communion to repair the Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary. We pray for enemies, for sinners, for the dying, for the souls of Purgatory and for consecrated persons.
6. - We promise to Jesus to do some good work or to flee some dangerous occasion.
7. - We will not leave the Church unless about a quarter of an hour passes.
8. - Whoever approaches us throughout the day, must realize that we have communicated and demonstrate it with sweetness and a good example.
9. - During the day we repeat: Jesus, I thank you that today you have come to my heart! -

EXAMPLE

It is a duty to repair sacrileges and Eucharistic profanations. L'Osservatore Romano, on 16-12-1954, published the following: «The weekly in Montreal has published an interview with the Superior Mother of Carmela of Bui Chu, presently in Canada with the Sisters. Among other things, the Superior narrated an extraordinary event that happened in Carmel itself.
A communist soldier entered Carmel one day, determined to inspect it from top to bottom. Penetrating into the chapel, a Sister told him that this was the house of God to be respected. "Where's your God? "Asked the soldier." There, said the Sister, and pointed to the Tabernacle. Placing himself in the center of the Church, the soldier took up his rifle, took aim and fired. A bullet pierced the Tabernacle, breaking the Ciborium and dispersing the Particles: The man always remained motionless with the rifle leveled, no longer making a movement, with his eyes fixed, rigid, petrified. A sudden paralysis had made him an inanimate block, which at the first collision fell on the floor in front of the altar so ignobly desecrated ».

Foil. - Make many Spiritual Communions during the day.

Ejaculation. - May every moment be praised and thanked - The Blessed and Divine Sacrament!