inundado por um mistério de luz que é Deus e N´Ele vi e ouvi -A ponta da lança como chama que se desprende, toca o eixo da terra, – Ela estremece: montanhas, cidades, vilas e aldeias com os seus moradores são sepultados. - O mar, os rios e as nuvens saem dos seus limites, transbordam, inundam e arrastam consigo num redemoinho, moradias e gente em número que não se pode contar , é a purificação do mundo pelo pecado em que se mergulha. - O ódio, a ambição provocam a guerra destruidora! - Depois senti no palpitar acelerado do coração e no meu espírito o eco duma voz suave que dizia: – No tempo, uma só Fé, um só Batismo, uma só Igreja, Santa, Católica, Apostólica: - Na eternidade, o Céu! Catechesis on the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass - St. John Vianney
CHAPTER 10 :Catechism on the Holy Sacrifice of the
Mass
ALL GOOD WORKS together are not of equal value with the
sacrifice of the Mass, because they are the works of men, and the holy Mass is
the work of God. Martyrdom is nothing in comparison; it is the sacrifice that
man makes of his life to God; the Mass is the sacrifice that God makes to man of
His Body and of His Blood. Oh, how great is a priest! if he understood himself
he would die. . . . God obeys him; he speaks two
After the Consecration, when I hold in my hands the most
holy Body of Our Lord, and when I am in discouragement, seeing myself worthy of
nothing but Hell, I say to myself, "Ah, if I could at least take Him with me!
Hell would be sweet with Him; I could be content to remain suffering there for
all eternity, if we were together. But then there would be no more Hell; the
flames of love would extinguish those of justice. " How beautiful it is. After
the Consecration, the good God is there as He is in Heaven. If man well
understood this mystery, he would die of love. God spares us because of our
weakness. A priest once, after the Consecration, had some little doubt whether
his few words could have made Our Lord descend upon the Altar; at the same
moment he saw the Host all red, and the corporal tinged with
blood.
If someone said to us, "At such an hour a dead person is to
be raised to life, " we should run very quickly to see it. But is not the
Consecration, which changes bread and wine into the Body and Blood of God, a
much greater miracle than to raise a dead person to life? We ought always to
devote at least a quarter of an hour to preparing ourselves to hear Mass well;
we ought to annihilate ourselves before God, after the example of His profound
annihilation in the Sacrament of the Eucharist; and we should make our
examination of conscience, for we must be in a state of grace to be able to
assist properly at Mass. If we knew the value of the holy Sacrifice of the Mass,
or rather if we had faith, we should be much more zealous to assist at
it.
My children, you remember the story I have told you already
of that holy priest who was praying for his friend; God had, it appears, made
known to him that he was in Purgatory; it came into his mind that he could do
nothing better than to offer the holy Sacrifice of the Mass for his soul. When
he came to the moment of Consecration, he took the Host in his hands and said,
"O Holy and Eternal Father, let us make an exchange. Thou hast the soul of my
friend who is in Purgatory, and I have the Body of Thy Son, Who is in my hands;
well, do Thou deliver my friend, and I offer Thee Thy Son, with all the merits
of His Death and Passion. " In fact, at the moment of the elevation, he saw the
soul of his friend rising to Heaven, all radiant with glory. Well, my children,
when we want to obtain anything from the good God, let us do the same; after
Holy Communion, let us offer Him His well-beloved Son, with all the merits of
His death and His Passion. He will not be able to refuse us
anything.