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Tuesday, 1 January 2013

The Cause of Every Problem: Eucharistic Dissociation


A Letter to You, Beloved of Christ: Section IV

What is the cause of all problems; of all the sins and imperfections, of every conceivable error that you are aware of and beyond what you are aware of- in your own soul, in your home, in your family, in the Catholic Church and indeed in the whole world? There is a diagnosis for such problems, of every problem, and this diagnosis is called: Eucharistic Dissociation.
Cut off and separated from Me who is Life one shall never be satisfied. I am Holy Eucharist, I am the Pure source of the Gospel, why then am I neglected and abandoned to be alone? So far away do My people come to adore me; why so far I ask? I cannot embrace you as intimately as I desire when you choose to keep such a distance. Why then do My people keep such a distance from Me when they come to Adore Me? You’ve come before Me so many times in Adoration and before Me in the Tabernacle, but how neglected I was; so near in the flesh, yet so far in Spirit. If only you surrender all and say yes with the Heart of My Mother to the Divine Will, then you would see the wonders that I would work within you! You must cease complaining about the lack of good priests and religious; and instead spend your time praying for vocations, for the purification of priests and all religious. For without holy Priests imbued in the Spirit, and cut off from the flesh and its bureaucracy, My people will be led astray and shall be at risk of becoming lost; as they will be “harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.” (Mt 9:36). Come my beloved; come before Me in Adoration through the Heart of My Mother in the Holy Rosary. Ask and you shall receive!
All problems: all sins and imperfection,- within the world, within the Church; and within your soul are caused by a neglecting, dissociation and denial of Christ in the Blessed Sacrament; the Sacred Heart which is the source of all Life, Peace, Joy, Hope, Love and Mercy. This is Eucharistic Dissociation, caused by receiving Holy Communion infrequently, failing to come before Christ in Adoration in prayer and thanksgiving; failing to give proper thanks after Communion and by failing to listen to Him in silence. It occurs when one is distant and far from Christ-Eucharistic. When one becomes like a bride who ignores and takes advantage of her loving Husband.
When one suffers from Eucharistic Dissociation one is not drinking plentifully from the River of the Water of Life, nor are they eating to their fill from the Bread of Life. One thus remains thirsty and hungry, whether they are consciously aware of this or not.
The Holy Eucharist is the Sacred Heart of Jesus; and Saint Augustine says: “My heart is restless until it rests in yours”. It is in the Eucharist (Christ- His Sacred Heart) therefore that we find Rest, that we find the fulfilment of the Sabbath. For “on the seventh day God finished his work which he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done” (Gen 2:2). Here God rests after finishing the work of creation. 
“It is accomplished!” Jn 19:30
When Christ exclaims on the Cross “It is accomplished!” (Jn 19:30) and “It is done!” (Rev 21:6), here he speaks of the work of salvation- the new creation as having been completed. Thus in the River of Love and Mercy which is the Blood and Water poured out from Christ on the Cross, and made present in the Holy Eucharist, we find the fulfilment of the Sabbath and thus the fulfilment of rest and peace. This is why in Isaiah the Holy Spirit calls the Holy Eucharist the ‘Covenant of Peace’ (Is 54:10).  For as the Psalmist says: “the Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want” (Ps 23:1), for in Him I lack nothing, since by Him I am made complete (shalom: completeness, peace). “He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters” (Ps 23:2); which in Hebrew translates more closely to the ‘waters of rest’.
So one who suffers from Eucharistic Dissociation not only suffers from thirst and hunger, but from restlessness. Since when one is hungry and thirsty they become restless; their soul becomes dehydrated and they become more and more delusional, thus easily lead astray, distracted, lukewarm, tepid, unfit for battle, out of shape for the fight, and unsatisfied. I did not come for this! I did not come so that you might be partially satisfied, says the Lord, I came so that your cup may overfloweth!



Wednesday, 19 December 2012

Prisoner of Love, King of the Dance & the Divine Husband


A Letter to You, Beloved of Christ: Section II

The Sacred Heart of Jesus, (His whole self) is in every Tabernacle throughout the whole world. He is the Prisoner of Love who remains in the Tabernacle for love of us; and from every Tabernacle does the River of the Water of Life flow forth; encountering the soul like a sweet kiss, like a heavenly embrace between the creature and the Creator. Why then do we keep our Lord locked up in the prison of the Tabernacle without visiting Him? “I was in prison and you came to visit me.” (Mt 25:36b) says the Lord. Will we not come? Will we abandon Him to be alone? Will we come and adore the King Most High?
It is in Adoration therefore that we encounter the Lord in all fullness; and in receiving Him that we ourselves become Living Tabernacles of Love. “It is wrong” says Pope Benedict XVI “to set celebration and adoration against each other, as if they were competing.” (Homily of His Holiness Benedict XVI, 7 June 2012). This is because Adoration is the celebration of the Risen Lord! And our Lord wishes to dance in every soul! For He who is Joy desires to celebrate within us; if only we let Him in. If we refuse Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament we are likened to a beggar who foolishly refuses to dance with his King, who for love and joy of us stoops so low to ask us to dance with Him.
You are a Bride of Christ and Son of God, every man is a Bride of Christ and Son of God; and indeed every woman is a Bride of Christ and Son of God. With “the mind of Christ” (1 Cor 2:16) we can understand, with the mind of man we cannot. Sing and break into song says the Lord, “for your Maker is your Husband” (Is 54: 5), and “you will forget the shame of your youth, and the reproach of your widowhood you will remember no more” (Is 54: 4b). “My covenant of Peace shall not be removed” (Is 54:10), this is the final covenant, the Holy Eucharist which is My Covenant of Shalom which means peace, wholeness and completeness. For indeed you lack nothing when you receive Me in Holy Communion says the Lord. And this covenant shall establish you in righteousness, that is in right relationship with Me (Is 54: 14). For I give to you Myself who is the very Righteousness of God; and you inherit all that I have and Am. Since “for our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God” (2 Cor 5:21). And thus you shall declare My beloved, says the Lord: ‘I am nothing, but in My Lord I am everything and possess all things! Alleluia! Alleluia!’.



Tuesday, 18 December 2012

The River of the Water of Life


A Letter to You, Beloved of Christ: Section I

 
The Holy Eucharist is "the source and summit of the Christian life" (Lumen Gentium, no. 11; CCC, 1324). This may not be new to you; but truly do we understand what this entails? What then of a Christian life that neglects the Holy Eucharist?
The Holy Eucharist is Christ Himself, and He says: “Come to me, you who desire me, and eat your fill of my produce.” (Sir 24:19); come and eat for “I am the Bread of Life, he who comes to me shall not hunger, and he who believes in me shall never thirst” (Jn 6:35). “The bread which I shall give for the life of the world is my flesh” (Jn 6:51b). “I am poured out like water” (Ps 22:14), says the Lord, and “whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst” (Jn 4:14). I am the fountain of the water of life and I poured Myself out on Calvary, and from the abundance of my Sacred Heart did flow the water of life when My heart was pierced; for scripture reads: “one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once there came out blood and water” (Jn 19:34).
“By means of the Mystery of the Eucharist, the Sacrifice of the Cross which was once carried out on Calvary is re-enacted in wonderful fashion and is constantly recalled, and its salvific power is applied to the forgiving of the sins we commit each day." (Mysterium Fidei, 27, Pope Paul VI, 1965). The Fountain of the Water of Life which is Christ, which was opened up on Calvary is made present in the Holy Eucharist. At every Holy Mass therefore our souls when we receive our Lord are flooded with the water of Life; and the seed of God’s Word, which is Christ within us is watered, and He grows, He increases as we decrease. Thus the “waters shall break forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert, the burning sand shall become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water” (Is 35: 6b-7).
Our Lord on the Cross before He died exclaimed “It is accomplished!” (Jn 19:30), the flesh and sin was conquered once and for all. Death was defeated and “the river of the water of life” (Rev 22: 1) was opened up for us. The river which we must follow upstream within the Ark which is Mary; to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, through the door of the wound of His Heart which is Holy Eucharist.
Thus says the Lord: “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give water without price from the fountain of the water of life” (Rev 21: 6).