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

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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By: Laura Worhacz

Consecration Week Theme: Mary's Triumph
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We will continue to look at the pearls of Mary's Crown from the heart of St. Peter Julian Eymard.
 
In the few days before the recitation of our promise, we will take a last look at these words from St. Peter Julian Eymard from the Thirtieth Day of the Eymard Library, Vol.7. 
 
St. Peter Julian Eymard's words:
 
Jesus himself introduces His Mother to the glorified state; He owes her compensation. She enters by a special gate, open for her alone. If the twelve Apostles are the twelve gates of heaven, Mary is the royal entrance to that celestial country, the gate par excellence. O august and holy Gate! Jesus leads His Mother by the hand, up to the very Throne of God: "Behold, O Father, her with whom Thou art associated by Thy choice of her as My Mother-to give me my humanity!" And the Father therewith crowns her with her three most beautiful titles: Queen, Mother, and Mediatrix. But in Mary's diadem, there are three pearls that shine with an even more dazzling brightness-the pearls of her humility, of her poverty, and of her suffering. ​(abbreviated text)
 
 
MEDITATION
 
St. Peter Julian Eymard recognized his life in the Eucharist, lived his life in the Eucharist, and calls down from Heaven to the children of God to find their life in the Eucharist- Jesus truly present in the Blessed Sacrament. Tomorrow is the day of our Consecration to Our Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament. We promise Mary that we will adore her Son. We live in the family of God by our baptism and nurture this family life by the dedication of our love within it. Today we will take a final look from the heart of St. Peter Julian at the "three most beautiful titles." Mediatrix will be a grand way to close our preparation and then open a life of servitude to our Eucharistic King through the heart of Mary. Mary is Mediatrix of all grace. She will be our intercessor of God's power, His Love, and life within us. Our Lady who is Mediatrix is empowered by the crown of God's gifts in the pearl of suffering. In chapter 30 St. Peter Julian tells us that, "Simeon's prophecy poisoned all her joy. From the moment of its utterance, Mary substituted for Jesus while He was still too young to suffer publicly. And at the foot of the cross she is nearest to Jesus in order that she may suffer more. Because Jesus wished to have her nearest to Him in heaven, He united her more than any other creature to His sufferings and humiliations while on earth. In a word, God has crowned Mary with glory and honor as the Masterpiece of His love." The words, "Mary substituted" should console our hearts as we have this Mediatrix of Grace to stand with us in the poison of sufferings, the hardships of life, the crosses, toils, and disappointments that we will endure. We need not ever be alone. Mary too is our Mediatrix of Joy who rejoices with us in the gift of the Word made flesh in our own lives. Mary's love is offered to us. She shares in our sufferings, they become her sufferings, she shares in our joys, they become her joys. Mary is our Mediatrix and Our Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament. She will carry us as she carried Jesus. Mary lived in the greatest of these, love. Mary longs for her children to live in the love of God the Father. Mary's spousal love for the Holy Spirit is the perfection of God living in her by His descent of this Spirit to flow from her existence. Mary is Mediatrix of love by the way of her suffering. Our Lady's suffering is the outpour of Her life for us. She gives the "Gift of herself" to God. She lives in His Will, in His Love. Mary's triumph is the triumph of Jesus! Jesus' life is manifested through her. Mary offers to us, her loving consecrated children, this same manifestation by uniting very closely to Jesus Eucharistic. Mary, Mediatrix, who is Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament, guide our lives after our consecration promise to call on you as Queen, Mother and Mediatrix by your royal crown. Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament, carry us too as you carried your Son into the world and through the world by the way of God's love!
 
Mary, Mediatrix of all grace we pray for your intentions they become our own for the salvation of all your children. 
 
Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament's pearl of suffering is a diadem in her crown, granted her the title Mediatrix. Mary, Mediatrix of God's love by the power of the Holy Spirit, keep us in the fullness of the gifts of the spirit so we too may receive the Promise of Our Father. Our Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament, pray for us your consecrated children.
 
 
 
SEND
 
Make a perpetual promise to recite a spiritual communion prayer if you cannot get to daily Mass. The faith you place in the prayer is the grace you will receive from it. Continue to journal and try to receive the Sacrament of Penance before your consecration day. Ponder and pray for the Hope Our Blessed Mother had and for the same entrance into the mystery of salvation and the poverty she lovingly accepted.
 
Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament, pray for us.
St.Peter Julian Eymard Apostle of the Eucharist, pray for us.
Jesus in the Most Blessed Sacrament, have mercy on us.
 
-Laura
 


PRAYER

Litany to the Blessed Virgin Mary


Lord, have mercy on us.
Christ, have mercy on us.
Lord, have mercy on us.
Christ hear us.
Christ, graciously hear us.
God, the Father of heaven,
Have mercy on us.
God, the Son, Redeemer of the world:
Have mercy on us.
God, the Holy Ghost,
Have mercy on us.
Holy Trinity, One God,
Have mercy on us.
Holy Mary, pray for us. (repeat at end of each phrase.)
Holy Mother of God,
Holy Virgin of virgins,
Mother of Christ,
Mother of divine grace,
Mother most pure,
Mother most chaste,
Mother inviolate,
Mother undefiled,
Mother most amiable,
Mother most admirable,
Mother of good counsel,
Mother of our Creator,
Mother of our Savior,
Virgin most prudent,
Virgin most venerable,
Virgin most renowned,
Virgin most powerful,
Virgin most merciful,
Virgin most faithful,
Mirror of justice,
Seat of wisdom,
Cause of our joy,
Spiritual vessel,
Vessel of honor,
Singular vessel of devotion,
Mystical rose,
Tower of David,
Tower of ivory,
House of gold,
Ark of the covenant,
Gate of Heaven,
Morning star,
Health of the sick,
Refuge of sinners,
Comforter of the afflicted,
Help of Christians,
Queen of angels,
Queen of patriarchs,
Queen of prophets,
Queen of apostles,
Queen of martyrs,
Queen of confessors,
Queen of virgins,
Queen of all saints,
Queen conceived without original sin,
Queen assumed into heaven,
Queen of the most holy Rosary,
Queen of peace.
Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world,
Spare us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world,
Graciously hear us O Lord.
Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world,
Have mercy on us.
V. Pray for us, O holy Mother of God.
R. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.


Let us pray:
Grant, O Lord God, we beseech Thee, that we Thy servants may rejoice in continual health of mind and body; and, through the glorious intercession of Blessed Mary ever Virgin, may be freed from present sorrow, and enjoy eternal gladness. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.

By: Laura Worhacz