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Maria Valtorta (Itália, ano 1897-1961) - Obra: "O Livro de Azarias" (1946-1947) Azarias
[the Guardian Angel of Maria Valtorta] speaks:
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And yet many, forgetful of Paul"s warning, go to Holy Mass without "examining themselves" and eat that Bread, drink that Blood with an impure soul, and Bread and Blood, which are Redemption, become condemnation, being sacrilegiously received by the sinner.
He, the Divine One, did not become Man and give Himself for this. But so that man can become a god [godlike].
He did not become Bread to give you death, but to give you Life. Mad with love, after having saved and redeemed you, He wanted to live in you, crucifiers, and make you gods, for sublime love has these sublime paradoxes. Being God, He became Man, and men killed Him, and He wanted to make men gods. And He makes gods with the Eucharist, which, when well received, transubstantiates you into Him, as Paul says, "I do not live, but Christ lives in me."
"Men destined to die – destined to die eternally, for
original sin always keeps the toxins of death active in you, and you may perish at any moment, in spite of the Grace which the Redeemer has restored to you with his immolation and his Sacraments, created by Him and vivified with his merits – you can combat death with Life: with the Eucharist.
He said so: "If you do not eat the Flesh of the Son of Man and drink his Blood, you will not have life in you. Whoever eats my Flesh and drinks my Blood will have eternal Life, and I shall raise him up on the Last Day." And also: "I have come that they may have Life and have it to the full.... For this reason I give my life .....
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But woe to those who knowingly make the Bread of Heaven their condemnation, the toxin which kills, using the most sublime Sacrament sacrilegiously. And harm as well to whoever limits its transforming power by receiving it with indifference and lukewarmness, without a real will to transform himself, in God and with God"s help, to be increasingly worthy to receive it.
Eucharistic life: life of fusion. Communion does not cease when you leave the Church or when the Species have been consumed in you. It lives. No longer materially. But it still lives, with its fruits, with its ardors, with the cohabitation – or, rather, the inhabitation of Christ in you – with your fructification in Christ, for "the shoot which remains united to the vine bears fruit," and "those who remain in Me and in whom I remain bear much fruit."
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Eucharistic life: life of love. Both through what the Eucharist, the memorial of love, and of love as a spring and furnace, transmits into whoever receives it – and it is undeniable that where there is good will, even if the creature is weak and formless, the Eucharist is seen to bring an increase in formation, a strengthening of will, a transformation of feeling from lukewarm to ardent, of desire from weak to strong, of obedience to the precept of receiving Communion on Feasts into hunger to do so every day – and through what the soul contributes on its own, increasingly assisted by the grace of the Sacrament.
The Eucharist keeps Christ present in all his operations as Christ. His Incarnation: the Eucharist is a perpetual Incarnation of Christ. His hidden life: the Tabernacle is a continuous house in Nazareth. His life as a worker:
Jesus Eucharist is the unwearying craftsman who works souls.
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"But, then, what your body will become, into whose interior the Most Holy Body descends and vanishes in the Species, absorbed, like every food of man, by the juices changing it into your blood? Do you understand? Into Your blood. Your blood, the blood of you that feed on the Most Holy Eucharist, contains – not metaphorically – what was the Species of the Most Holy Body, just as your spirit retains the grace which issues from this complete Body, endowed with Flesh, Blood, and Soul, like that of every man, and, in addition, with Divinity, for it is the Body of the Divine Word.
If your body should be holy because it is the temple for the Holy Spirit, who descends into you and breathes, what should it become to be a worthy tabernacle for the God who comes to dwell in you – even more: to fuse with you, to become you – and, since the Greater cannot be absorbed by the lesser: to absorb you, to make you become Him – that is, gods, as He is God? I tell you: with every effort you should imitate the Virgin, to whom the Word united Himself to the point of becoming Flesh of her flesh and Blood of her blood, and receiving life from Her, obeying the motions of his Mother"s heart, his Mother"s vital laws, so as to form Himself and be Jesus.
"Christ, when conceived, obeyed his Mother. But the Mother to what superabundant purity She took Herself, She, already the All-Pure, to place around the Divine One a Holy of Holies even more select than the one shining on Moriah!
[Mount Moriah is the name given to a rocky hill where King Solomon built the temple to God]
Mary made Herself a heavenly tabernacle, a celestial throne, so that God might still live in a Heaven, as long as possible, before suffering from the contacts of the world.
The lovers of Jesus must act this way. Make themselves heavenly recesses so that the Eucharist may still live in them in a pulsating, adoring Heaven, preserved from the stench and blasphemy of the world.
"And in this little Heaven, in your little Heaven, in which, if such it is, there is really nothing lacking – for
the Three are present in the Eucharist, inseparable although They are Three, forming the sublime Unity which is called Trinity, and the charity of Mary and the saints is not absent, always adoring wherever the Lord is, nor are the angelical choirs absent, with their hymns bearing you to Heaven – be capable of praising. Not with words, but with love. Be capable of praising. Do not be afraid of praising too much. Jesus Eucharist deserves measureless praise because his miracle of power and love is superior to all human praise.

 

 
Vide também Vida e Obra de Maria Valtorta
Nota sobre a fonte: Maria Valtorta foi uma mística católica italiana. Durante sua vida, ela foi agraciada com revelações de Jesus Cristo sobre o Evangelho, e também de Nossa Senhora, do Espírito Santo e de vários santos e anjos.