WE KNOW HIM THROUGH THE WORD

We pray to know and love God. His Word is to be planted in the hearts of men. Men's hearts are formed in the spiritual womb of the Blessed Virgin Mary, through the Holy Spirit. The Son is the Word. We know God through the Word made Flesh. We unite to God in the burning love of the Holy Spirit. The Son leads us to the Father. It is in this action of the Three Persons working together that we experience the knowledge and love of God. I feel this permeating action of the Spirit as I dwell in the heart of Mary and unite in the deepest chamber of Jesus' Heart, and there unite to the Father.

He has told us, "I am Yahweh your God who brought you out of Egypt, where you lived as slaves. You shall have no other gods to rival me." (Ex. 20:2-3) We were created by the Father. Life exists in Him. We were created to know, love, and serve God. It is in dwelling in Their Hearts that we know more the deep love of God.

Mary became the Mother of our Christ-life under the cross. At Baptism we become children of God. Mary is our spiritual Mother. We are born, not of blood but of God. Jesus gives to us His Mother, whereby she is constantly bringing forth her children in the Holy Spirit. We are created in His image and likeness. We are formed in her spiritual womb, or heart, in the Holy Spirit. As we are formed more and more in His likeness, we unite more to the Heart of Jesus, and He leads us to the bosom of the Father. We are the children of God. The Incarnation continues in us as we live our lives in union with the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, with the Holy Spirit. "…the Heart of Jesus wishes to be venerated together with the Immaculate Heart of Mary."⁵⁰

She is the Mother of our new life. As Eve was the mother of all the living, Mary is the Mother of our spiritual life, our Christ-life, our life in the Holy Spirit.

Mary stood beneath the cross on Calvary, the New Eve. Christ hung high on the cross, the New Adam. He plants the seed. He is the Word. The woman receives the seed and nurtures it. Mary is the Mother of our Christ-life. Mary is the Mother of our rebirth in Him. He is raised high above all of His human creatures. The gift is Himself. We see Him as He hangs high above us covered with blood, and we know the immensity of the God-made-Man. He gives Himself. He gives His life as a sacrifice to the Father. He dies that we too should die in Him, that we might rise to new life in Him, for He came to die that we would be restored to new life. Today this sacrifice is sacramentally made present at every Mass.

The priest puts on Christ. Through the power of the Holy Spirit, he offers the sacrifice of Jesus to the Father. We unite with Him. We offer ourselves, our body and our blood, our soul, our whole being to the Father in the Holy Spirit, that we will die in Him, that we will rise in Him to ever newer life. This is our sacrifice to the Father. As we unite through Him, with Him and in Him, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, we are sanctified. If bread and wine can be changed into the Body and Blood of Jesus, we too can be changed from our dark ways into the likeness of Him. We see our unworthiness to be so loved by God, and we long to give Him the greatest love. Uniting ourselves with the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, we love more deeply our beloved God.

I love You, Jesus. I love You. I love You, in the deepest love that I experience in uniting in this Sacrifice of the Mass. Let our hearts sing with the love of God as we are transformed more and more into the creatures that are more like the Father intended us to be. In this great mystery of God's burning love for His creatures, we unite with our beloved Savior in deepest union. In the Holy Eucharist, He gives Himself to us, and we become one with God. He gives us life and He nourishes this life with His own Body and Blood. We become one in Him, and we are united more deeply to each other. He wants us to be one body in Him.

Come Holy Spirit, fill our hearts with the fire of God's love. We are little children that were once afraid and lost and now are renewed and strengthened by this union with Divinity. Let us forever treasure the great gift of God, Himself, given in Mass and make reparation to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. Let us make reparation for the blasphemies against her heart, the indifferences, neglect, and sacrileges committed against His Heart, especially in the sacrament of His greatest love. Let us beg for mercy from the Almighty God for our sins and the sins of all His creatures. So ungrateful are we when God loves us so much. The Father gave His only begotten Son that we would be saved. It is through Him, we are restored to new life. Let us always remain after Communion and treasure these moments with our intimate and beloved God. Let us cherish the priests that God has given to us. Let us love him in his holy ministry. He represents Christ to us. Let us pray for the priests and for the Church. This is the channel whereby we receive His life today. Each sacrament is an encounter with Christ Himself.

He is the Alpha and the Omega. He is God. We are unworthy to tie His bootstraps. Yet He loves us with an unfathomable love.

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