Let's face reality. I fear that the net result of this document will be a dramatic increase in sacrilegious Communions thanks to the progressivists, regardless of the noble efforts of traditional priests to guide their flocks according to perennial Catholic doctrine. How many liberal priests intend to warn the recipients that their eternal salvation may be at stake by an unworthy Communion?
In light of this coming flood of injuries and sorrows to Our Lord in the Eucharist, the following lament by Jesus to pray and repair for the many abuses and sacrileges of the Sacrament is extremely appropriate for our times, although this sublime Communion meditation was transcribed by the Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta in 1923.
"After
I received Communion, my sweet Jesus made Himself seen, and as soon as
I saw Him, I threw myself at His feet, to kiss them and to cling to
Him with all of myself. And Jesus, extending His hand to me, told me:
“My daughter, come into my arms, and deep into my Heart. I have
covered Myself with the Eucharistic veils so as not to strike fear. I
have descended into the deepest abyss of humiliations in this Sacrament
in order to raise the creature up to Me, identifying her with Me so
much as to form one single thing with Me, and, by letting my
Sacramental Blood flow inside her veins, constitute Myself life of her
heartbeat, of her thought, and of her whole being. My Love devoured Me
and wanted to devour the creature in my flames, to make her be reborn
as another Me. This is why I wanted to hide Myself under these
Eucharistic veils and, so hidden, enter into her to form this
transformation of the creature into Myself. But in order for this
transformation to take place, the dispositions were needed on the part
of creatures; and my Love, giving in to excess, as It instituted the
Sacrament of the Eucharist, so It issued from within my Divinity more
graces, gifts, favors and light for the good of man, to render him
worthy to receive Me. I could say that It put out so much good as to
surpass the gifts of Creation. First I wanted to give him the graces
in order for him to receive Me, and then Myself, to give him the true
fruit of my Sacramental Life.
"However,
in order to anticipate souls with these gifts, it takes a little
emptying of themselves, hate of sin, desire to receive Me. These gifts
do not descend into rot, into mud. So, without my gifts they do not
have the true dispositions to receive Me, and in descending into them, I
do not find the void in order to communicate my Life; I am as though
dead for them, and they are dead for Me; I burn, and they do not feel
my flames; I am light, and they remain more blinded. Alas! how many
sorrows in my Sacramental Life. Many, for lack of dispositions,
feeling nothing good in receiving Me, reach the point of nauseating Me;
and if they continue to receive Me, it is to form my continuous
Calvary and their eternal condemnation. If it is not love that pushes
them to receive Me, it is one more affront that they give Me - one more
sin that they add upon their souls. Therefore, pray and repair for the
many abuses and sacrileges that are committed in receiving Me in the
Sacrament.”
[March 27, 1923, Volume 15.]
P.s. Stay tuned for my tenth book, How to Pray the Secret Rosary.
Sadly, if something as simple as missing Mass on Sunday is a mortal sin that must be confessed before Communion, sacriligeous communions are already quite common. Of course, there are other commonly committed mortal sins out there, but this is simply the "great apostasy" as Pope Francis remarked on April 12. That is why he is a great devotee of Our Lady of Fatima who predicted this mess and promised that "my Immaculate Heart will triumph." That is why those who have kept the faith until now should renew their consecration to the Immaculate Heart and redouble their prayers, especially the rosary. Only by prayer can we calm this storm.
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