ELISHEBA BLOGLaura, Ivonne, and Rick
write about their lives in the Eucharist. |
ELISHEBA BLOGLaura, Ivonne, and Rick
write about their lives in the Eucharist. |
By: Laura Worhacz Holy Saturday April 11, 1846 Saint Peter Julian Eymard to Miss Marguerite Guillot: "I said that you would take the Blessed Virgin as your guardian and teacher. Do so in order to resemble your good mother and through her resemble Jesus her divine Son, whose perfect copy she is. In this way you will imitate Jesus in Mary. Become a true daughter of Mary. Live in her heart more than in your own. You will find the adorable Heart of Jesus in her pure and virginal heart, three hearts in one. Tomorrow your tears will cease. And so, may God be Praised!" [1] Two days before on Holy Thursday, April 9th, 1846 Saint Peter Julian told Mother Marguerite: " It's understood that when we vow ourselves to the Queen of Heaven and earth in this manner, it is forever." Although the early years Saint Peter Julian surely held his own words close to his heart in that his relationship with our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament would be FOREVER. Through his own Eucharistic journey. through his disappointments and trials Mary was the guide to Saint Peter Julian's every resurrection. The deep recesses of our own souls hope in the one who died for us, who remains with us in the Blessed Sacrament. For those who have consecrated their lives to Jesus Christ through our Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament we have a faithful responsibility to uphold. To be faithful adores of Jesus Christ remembering Saint Peter Julian teaches us it is FOREVER! We enter the tombs of our own hearts triumphing by the hope that will be given to us once again at the Easter Vigil. By our own freedom we live as witnesses to the truth, in all circumstances. God is calling out for LOVE from the tomb. Through our own pains may our hearts grasp the innate response to give, to serve, to adore and love in return of all that has been given to us. May we resemble our Mother in her Son, reassured that our tears will cease, and our faithfulness will live Forever! Every Saturday we honor the mother of God. Holy Saturday all the more we stand with Mary. Through the agony of sin and suffering she intensely witnessed Mary was assured the triumph of God. On Holy Saturday, we wait with the beloved of God. We wait with the faithful adorers who have gone before us. We behold our Mother and wait for the vigil of God's love to light the world. On Holy Saturday we remember Christ in the tomb. We are secured in our Mother's love, we wait with her to zealously proclaim the Eucharistic Kingdom on earth. "”MAY GOD BE PRAISED!" [1] Abbreviated text, Saint Peter Julian Eymard to Miss Marguerite Guillot (Mother Marguerite DU SS) ( II4/395 VI2) DOC. #0073 The Life and Letters of Saint Peter Julian Eymard, Volume I The Early Years 1828-1852
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Dear Friends,
As consecrated children of Our Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament we are called to live out the promise we have made. We can begin by reciting daily the prayer to Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament specifically for and untied to the promise. We will be resuming our weekly posts on Saturdays, and ask you to pray with us as the Holy Spirit continues to unfold the future of this endeavor to build the Eucharistic Kingdom of God. In Christ, Ivonne and Laura Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament Blessed are you, Mary exalted daughter of Sion! You are highly favoured and full of grace, for the spirit of God descended upon you. We magnify the Lord and rejoice with you for the gift of the Word made flesh, bread of life and cup of joy. Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament, our model of prayer in the cenacle, pray for us that we may become what we receive, the body of Christ your son. Amen St. Peter Julian Eymard Apostle of the Eucharist, pray for us. Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament, pray for us. Jesus in the Most Blessed Sacrament, have Mercy on us. CONSECRATION TO OUR LADY OF THE MOST BLESSED SACRAMENT
I.— Our Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament, having meditated upon your devotion, I admire the excellence of your adoration and Eucharistic service in the Cenacle; I now give myself entirely to you to guard and direct my vocation as an adorer. I place into your hands the direction of my vocation and the graces of the awesome duties that it asks of me. My vocation of adorer is the most beautiful of all, since it retains me forever in the service of the Person of Jesus Christ in His Divine Sacrament. My vocation shares the functions of the angels and, if I dare say it, those of the Blessed Virgin herself, in the service of Jesus. For this divine vocation, I come to you in my poverty and spiritual emptiness. I have nothing. I am nothing. I can do nothing!—I know not how to pray nor how to make prayer. I possess only routine piety, with some meagre ideas of virtue, narrow and limited. Alas, my God! You who should have at Your service all that is greatest, most perfect, and most holy, how is it You chosen me, poor infirm creature, a nothing full of miseries, still covered with the scars of my sins, still with the old self that lives in me? 0 Mary, my celestial Queen and Mother, I can only accept the honor of becoming the happy servant of our Eucharistic Jesus, if you consent to form me, to raise me, and to clothe me with your spirit, your virtues, your merits. Take me for your child, Queen and Mother of the servants of Jesus, you who love all who are in Jesus and for Jesus! I place into your hands, my good Mother, the grace and the training of my vocation. I give myself to you; give Jesus to me. Formed and presented by you, O good Mother, Jesus, my sweet Master, will receive me kindly and love me in you. My vocation is beautiful; its duties are great and divine. I desire to pass my life in adoration at the foot of the throne of Incarnate Love. United before the Eucharistic with the angels and saints I will touch into eternity praising God’s infinite goodness, blessing His boundless mercy, thanking His love, devoting myself to His glory, immolating myself for sinners, and consuming myself for the extension of His reign on earth. I ought to live always with Jesus in the Host, like the Blessed Virgin at Nazareth and in the Cenacle, like the saints in glory. I ought not to quit Him, even to serve and follow my neighbor. My mission is that of Magdalen, contemplative, with the Queen of the Apostles in the Cenacle, praying before the tabernacle, converting the world by her prayer at the foot of the Eucharist; that of St. Teresa, St. Catherine of Siena, and of all those holy souls who carry on an uninterrupted apostolate of prayer and immolation. I ought to honor in an entirely special manner the interior and hidden life of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, living unknown to men, even the pious and the holy, forgotten by my own, despised by the world, dead to all in order to live more freely and more purely with Jesus in God. But how can I, all alone, fulfill duties so sublime? How dare I even approach Jesus to serve Him? Alas! all alone—I should be ashamed of myself! But, O my good Mother, since thou dost deign to become my teacher, thou wilt let me adore Jesus with thee, bless Him with thy praises, entreat Him with thy prayers, serve Him with thy hands, love Him with thy heart, glorify Him with thy sanctity. I will be thy disciple, thy child, and, shall I say it?—a little Mary, another thyself,—the servant of Jesus! I shall tell thee simply and artlessly my faults, 0 my good Mother! I shall make known to thee my ignorance, my little knowledge, my little success. I shall give thee the tiny flowers of virtue that I shall have gathered, and thou wilt offer all to Jesus, and myself along with thyself. On this condition alone, do I hope to become a true servant of the Most Blessed Sacrament. My God, behold Thy humble servant! May it be done unto me according to Thy merciful goodness and Thy grace of love! Our Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament, Mother and Model of Adorers, pray for us who have recourse to thee! |
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AuthorsWe are Ivonne J. Hernandez, Rick Hernandez and Laura Worhacz, Lay Associates of the Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament, and brothers and sisters in Christ. |