As we can see, the devil takes Jesus' presence in the Eucharist very seriously, while we remain indifferent to so many sacrileges, so many desecrated tabernacles, and so many sacrilegious communions...
On April 2, 1290, an extraordinary event took place on Billetes Street in Paris. A Jew named Jonathas obtained a consecrated host from a parishioner of Saint Merry's parish. He took out his rage on the host and, with a knife, slaughtered it. Then, blood began to flow, and he was frightened. He threw it into the fire, and it miraculously rose above the flames. He threw it into a pot of boiling water, and it stained the pot with blood. Then it rose into the air and took the form of a
crucifix. Finally, it landed on a bowl... A parishioner, who ran when she heard the screams, picked it up and took it to the priest. The house where this event took place was turned into a chapel the following year, and there are two original documents certifying the veracity of this event. They also mention the
conversion of Jonatás' wife and children and several of his co-religionists.
But profanations are not distant events or science fiction. An Italian nun wrote to me in December 1996:
I must have been about three years old. One day, the maid in my house took me with her to visit a witch, bringing her a consecrated host that she had received at Communion. The witch stabbed the host several times with a knife in front of me.
And the Lord wanted me to understand in a very clear and profound way, in the depths of my being, that He was truly present in that host; that He was alive, suffering for that action, but at the same time, I understood And the Lord wanted me to understand in a very clear and profound way, in the depths of my being, that He was truly present in that host; that He was alive, suffering from that action, but at the same time, I understood that He was glorious. And I realized, at my young age, that Jesus needs our love to be consoled for
all the insults and offenses He receives in this sacrament of love."
And what do we do to console Jesus in the Eucharist? Jesus continues to suffer as he suffered in Gethsemane, sweating blood at the thought of so much divine love rejected and so many sacrileges and sins of all men of all times. But he also received comfort from the angel
and in him he received comfort from all good men and from so many worshippers who would make reparation and console him for so many offenses. Do you want to be one of these worshippers and reparators? Are you willing to give everything for your friend Jesus?
Fr Ángel Peña