Amazing Eucharistic considerations:

1) Jesus is physically present in his body, blood, bones. His soul is there. His divinity is there.
2) St. John Vianney, and others, teach that a Catholic receiving Holy Communion is transformed into the flesh and blood and bone of Jesus--yes, your flesh and blood are transformed into his. Would you see this change under a microscope? No, but it is in fact more real than the merely biological. Your body now and your glorified body in Heaven will be flesh of his flesh.
3) Jesus' flesh, bones, blood is all from Mary, only Mary. If his flesh and bones and blood is yours now...you too are one in flesh with Mary. You can say--and should often say to yourself--you are the very flesh of Mary. That's how close you are you and she are...
4)..and not only that, your soul and Jesus' are united...and Jesus' soul and Mary's soul are utterly united. Which means your soul and Mary's are united as one too.
5) Jesus' Heart and yours become one...Jesus' Heart and Mary's are, yes, one...so then your heart becomes one with Mary's Heart.

All of this happens in Holy Communion. Three hearts become one, three souls become one, and as you are made into Christ you and Mary are one, and all of one flesh--Mary's: Living Jesus' life is not merely imitation--it is an ontological change, a change in your very being--you become Christ, so much so that as you and Jesus are but one Christ, you and Mary are one, you really live Jesus' life--a true child of the Father and of Mary.

Knowing this...what difference does it make in our lives?

And priests and deacons--why do I never hear any of this in homilies?

Does this have to do with consoling Mary? Yes! She is simply overflowing with joy when you are transformed into Christ, and Christ is consoled too because he is able to love and console her through you. You cannot make them happier than by a worthily received (i.e. one is not conscious of mortal sin) Holy Communion! And you cannot be closer to them in this life. Astonishing. 

If people knew the truth of this, that fairytales are based on a real, divine fairytale...they would be knocking the doors down to become Catholic.

Feast of St. Joseph

Consoling Mary at the Cross

An amazing thing to consider, during Lent and throughout the year. This is from an amazing article on the knowledge of Mary and the Sacrifice of Jesus by Fr. Bertrand de Margerie:

"Mary also knew, through her infused knowledge, our effective reparations toward her and was consoled by them."

Yes, you read that right--Mary at the Cross saw the reparations, prayers and penances that we offer her now and she is not only consoled now by these, she was consoled at the foot of the Cross by them! You are consoling Mary at the foot of the Cross when you console her now. Ponder that for a while...you console her at the Cross.

And the author goes on to write this:

"These spiritual consequences encourage us to become ever more the consolers of Mary Coredemptrix, that is, to let Christ crucified console her through us."

That brings us to another point:

It's really a false notion, the way it's phrased, to say when we go to Mary she betrays us to Christ--that would mean her charming us to her is a lie, a deceit--rather, she charms us to her in all truth--when we come to her she transforms us into Christ, but then transformed into Christ who do we love more than anyone after God? Mary. In whose arms do we find ourselves, more and more the more we are transformed into Christ? Mary's. So by transforming us into Christ, not only do we become More Christ's and more Christ, we become more and more Mary's at the same time. She wants us to be one with Christ and to be be one with her. Kolbe said this too--we don't go from one to the other (Mary to Jesus or Jesus to Mary), we go "with one to the other."

The more you are one with Jesus, the more you love and are in union with Mary, and when you console her now (a desire and ability Jesus gives to a person through the Holy Spirit), you console her at the Cross--not in imagination, in actual fact.

#consolemary #consolatiomariae