Real presence of Christ in the Tabernacle. Be consequent


 

 

 

The body of the leper was cleansed by the feeling of Christ's hand. And we can be divinized by contact with Jesus in Communion. Even the angels are amazed at this great Mystery. The Soul of Christ is in the Holy Host, and all His human faculties preserve in it the same properties as in Heaven. Nothing escapes the kind and loving glance of Christ: neither material Creation, nor glory of the blessed, nor activity of the angels. He knows the past, the present and the future. "His Eucharistic life is a life of love. From the Heart of Christ the fervor of an infinite charity goes up ceaselessly. The whole intimate life of the priestly soul of the Incarnate Word -adoration, petitions, thanksgiving, atonement- is inspired by this boundless love". The Most Holy Trinity finds in Jesus Christ present in the Tabernacle a glory without measure and without end.


Saint Thomas Aquinas7 teaches that the Body of Christ is present in the Holy Eucharist just as it is in itself, and the Soul of Christ with his intelligence and will; only those relationships that refer to quantity are excluded, since Christ is not present in the Holy Host in the manner of a quantity located in space8. In a mysterious and ineffable way He is with His glorious Body.


The Second Person of the Blessed Trinity is there, in the Tabernacle that we visit every day, perhaps very near the house where we live or very near the office where we work, in the Chapel of the University, of a hospital or of the airport; and He is with the sovereign power of His uncreated Divinity. He, the Only-begotten Son of God, before whom Thrones and Dominations tremble, by whom all was made, equal in power, wisdom and mercy to other Persons of the Blessed Trinity, remains perpetually with us, as one of us, and never stops being God. Truly, in your midst is one whom you do not know.9 Are we absorbed by our business, by our work, by our daily concerns, and do we often think that there, very close by, next to our home, really dwells a merciful and omnipotent God? 


Our great failure, the greatest mistake of our life, would be if at some point those words that the Holy Spirit put in the pen of St. John could be applied to us: He came to his own, and his own did not receive him,10 because they were -we can add- busy with their things and their work, all matters that without Him are of no importance. But today we make a firm resolution to remain with a watchful love: rejoicing greatly when we see the walls of a church, making many spiritual communions during the day, and acts of faith and love; and we will express to Him our desires for atonement for those who pass by Him without addressing Him.


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