God lives. "Iesus Christus heri et hodie ipse et in saecula"
I say to you with the apostle. Jesus Christ is the same today as he was yesterday and as he will always be.
He lives. He lives, not only in heaven, in the highest of heavens,
but in the Holy Sacrament of the Altar.
Father, can you speak to us about the importance of the Mass in our life?
Yes, my daughter, it is important as the divine sacrifice of the Cross is important.
Because the Mass is the unbloody renewal of the divine sacrifice of Calvary.
And the priest is always Jesus Christ Himself
who renews that sacrifice in an unbloody manner
and consecrates the Body and Blood of our Lord.
And you can attend it with the devotion
of the Lord's mother, all sorrowful and at the same time joyful.
Joyful inside because she knew that her Son's sacrifice
saved all mankind.
You can be close to our Lady,
to our most holy mother and speak to her of your things
and of the things of the world, of the things of the Church,
of the things of the country, of the things of the family.
A few days ago I was reading your homily for Holy Thursday on the Eucharist.
How could we increase our love for the Eucharist?
By being very close to Jesus Christ there precisely, in the Eucharist.
And also, apart from finding him in the Bread, in the Word.
Love him a lot. Since they deny his Real Presence,
go there and say like a man, with all the strength of your heart:
Lord, I believe it is you, I adore you, I want to be your friend,
for you are the one who has redeemed me. I want to be love for you,
because you are love for me. I want all my children
and my wife and my whole family and the whole world to love you.
And you keep talking a little bit.
Tell him whatever he inspires you to say.
And if you don't feel the need to tell him anything specific tell him like this.
Tell him: Lord, I don't know how to thank you. Help me a bit
so I can speak with you. You are already giving thanks as you say that.
Call upon our Lady, call upon Saint Joseph, my Father and Lord whom I love so much.
He is the one who has been closest to God and who has had the closest dealings with God,
with the Mother of God.
Look, I celebrate every day with a brass chalice.
But not out of poverty, I would want it to be gold.
It's brass, looks better than it is, as I am.
It had cost me 300 pesetas in Spanish money of that time.
Work it out, it's nothing... a handful of worthless coins.
On the other hand, if you read the Old Testament, when the Lord explains
how he wants to be worshipped, everything is made of gold, precious fabrics, vivid colours…
They wanted to give him the best that there was.
And that was only a representation of God.
It's not like now, that we have Jesus Christ,
true God and true Man, hidden in the tabernacle.
Jesus Christ… now that everyone is in such a hurry when it comes to God,
don't be in a hurry, don't just do things thoughtlessly…
I don't mind playing the juggler of our Lord.
And say with your heart: "Adoro te devote, latens Deitas." I adore you, hidden God.
I have shown you to get close to and increase your love for Jesus Christ, right?
But you can also talk to God seeking Him in your soul.
After Communion, what should one say to our Lord, or what can one say to Him?
My daughter, I’m sure you don’t mean to ask me this,
because when you are with a person you love,
you don't have to be told what you have to say to that person.
It all comes from your heart. When you have our Lord you start by saying to him:
Lord, I firmly believe that you are really, truly and substantially present.
Jesus, son of Mary, son of the living God, hidden in the sacramental species.
With your Body and your Blood, with your Soul and your Divinity.
And then you imagine him as he is.
Wonderful, True God and true Man.
And you tell him your things, your sorrows and your joys.
And you tell him of the sorrows the Church is going through, there are so many…
And you tell him of the sorrows of Humanity. And you pray to him
for the whole of humanity and for the whole Church.
And try to show your love for our Lord by going to Communion every day if you can.
Bringing your friends, but ready… And if they are weighed down by something
They’ll go to the doctor, they'll go to the confessor....
If you consider the Lord with love, you will see that the greatest wonder
is that He did not want to leave us.
Our Lord has wanted to remain as our food.
He has remained inert, hidden in the sacramental species.
Defenceless, but awaiting your love and my love.
Doesn't this move you to really love him?
Does it not move you to go to the tabernacles everywhere to tell him, Lord here I am, I love you?
Don't worry about the words. As when you speak with your wife
or with your children or with the people you love.
And you do a period of prayer every day.
Open the New Testament and enter into those scenes
that the evangelists recount. And react as you would have reacted
if you had witnessed all those wonders.
If you had listened directly to the words of our Lord.
And you will hear it in the depths of your heart.
And you will fall in love with Jesus Christ and his most Holy Humanity.
Keep on loving our Lord in the Holy Eucharist.
Loving him for those who do not love him. Just as you have just confessed
your faith here, without making foolish boasts, but with naturalness.
With the same naturalness with which you love your wife and you don't hide it, just the same.
And with the same heart you love our Lord.
Because you don't have two hearts, and neither do I.
With the one I love you, and I really do, with the same heart
with which I have loved my parents and I have loved all my children in the world,
I love Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. And I am not ashamed to say
that I am in madly in love.
With God our Lord, as long as my soul is in the state of grace, I can speak at once.
I seek Him in my heart. He dwells, He lives within you my daughter.
He is so close to you that He is within you,
giving supernatural life, giving height
and colour, and flavour, and interest, and joy to your life.
There God is.