IT IS MY FLESH FOR THE LIFE OF THE WORLD

At 8 ,26-40; Ps 65; Jn 6,44-51
19 APRIL
The Father is the life of Jesus. The Father lives in Jesus, Jesus lives. Jesus dwells in the Father and receives every life from the Father. The Father is everything for Jesus. Jesus is nothing without the Father. If He were to separate one moment from the Father, he would be without the Father who is his life. As the Father lives in Jesus, as he is the life of Jesus, so he wants to be the life of every man in his Holy Spirit. For his will to be able to be accomplished He has established only one way: the dwelling of Christ in us, or rather the “transformation” of Christ in our life, our spirit, our body and our soul. This “transformation” of Christ into our life takes place through the Eucharist. This is the true end of the Eucharist: nourishing ourselves of the body and of the blood Christ, so that all Christ “is transformed” into us and the whole Father may live in us through this “transformation”.

But how does the Father live in us? In the same way that he lives in the Son. By manifesting through the gift that the Son made him of all himself all the creating and renewing omnipotence of his love and all the light of his eternal essence that gives life to everything. This will and desire of the Father, revealed fully by Jesus and fully accomplished in him, show us how foolish is our way of receiving the Eucharist: as a sacrament in its own right. Do we not seek the Eucharist today by separating it from Christ, from the Father, from the Holy Spirit, from the Word and from every other gift of grace and truth? We want the Eucharist almost as a seal to be applied to all our spiritual misery and even also as a blanket to hide our sins. It is obvious that something does not work. Surely Christ is missing and the Father is absent.

Who must educate the disciple to the truth of the Eucharist is the minister of it. The minister educates to the Eucharist, if he educates to the Word, educates to Christ Jesus and educates to the Father in the Holy Spirit. He educates to Christ if he educates to his Gospel. Since today the Gospel is no longer accepted by the believing mind as the one and only Word of eternal life, since even the minister of the Eucharist is no longer minister of the Word, it becomes impossible to educate to the Eucharist. Without Gospel education there is no education to Christ, if there is no educating to Christ not even might there be to the Father. At most there might be education to the Eucharist only in relation to a Christian morality that still remains at least as a remnant of the truth and light of Christ. In how many by now even this morality has been extinguished; there is no principle either of faith or of morality for which someone can be excluded from the Eucharist in them. Then, if even the Eucharist is no longer even the real, substantial, true presence of the body of Christ and his blood, but only a symbol, one understands that fighting battles for a symbol is of no use.

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draw him, and I will raise him on the last day. It is written in the prophets: ‘They shall all be taught by God.’ Everyone who listens to my Father and learns from him comes to me. Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God; he has seen the Father. Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life. I am the bread of life. Your ancestors ate the manna in the desert, but they died; this is the bread that comes down from heaven so that one may eat it and not die. I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world.”

Everyone speaks of the Eucharist from the fullness of his heart. Christ speaks from the heart of the Father. The disciple speaks from the heart of Christ, if his heart is of Christ and has been given to him, by handing it over to the Word and to the Gospel. If the heart has not been given to Christ, of the Eucharist will always be spoken from our heart of sin. Being the heart of sin without Christ, even of the Eucharist will be spoken without Christ. If the minister of the Eucharist is not a true minister of the Word, the Eucharist will always be received not according to truth. Giving the Eucharist without its truth is not a work of mercy, but a true profanation and a true sacrilege. The Eucharist must be given either in its perfect truth or in the will to become its truth. Truth is the essence of Christ and of the Eucharist.

Virgin Mary, Mother of the Redemption, Angels and Saints make us truth of the Eucharist.