Medjugorje Day By Day May 12 - THE CROSS WAS IN GOD'S PLAN

"The body was prepared for the Son, through Mary's putting herself entirely at the disposal of the Father's will and thus making her body available as the tabernacle" (Pope Benedict XVI).

"For each one of us that marvelous avenue of graces, which began in the Immaculate Conception, runs without a fault or break straight to the Blessed Sacrament.

The one mystery answers to the other; the one illuminates the other; the one completes and consummates the other. The Blood that is in the Chalice is from the living Heart of Jesus.

It was shed in the Passion before it was shed in the Chalice. It had lived long in His Sacred Heart before He shed it; and He took it at the first, with His spotless Flesh, from the Immaculate Heart of Mary; and that it was sinless and stainless there was from the Immaculate Conception.

And so at one end of the avenue is Mary's sinless Flesh, prepared for her as for the Mother of God, and at the other end the sinful flesh of man made immortal and incorruptible by the Flesh of Jesus, Mary's Son, and the sinful soul of man bathed to a glorious purity in the Blood of Jesus, Mary's Son, through the mystery of His sweet Sacrament of love;

and the light that lies ahead, the light we are all approaching, and have not yet attained, the glow and splendour of our heavenly home, it is by the same sweet Sacrament that we shall attain it, and make it ours at last.

So at every mass, and in each communion we look up to the Immaculate Conception. The light of that far-reaching mystery is in our faces on the altar-step.

 It beams direct upon us, and so full is it of the same light as the Blessed Sacrament that we seem almost to hear our Mother's voice from that distant fountain, 'Eat, O friends, and drink, and be inebriated, my dearly beloved'" (Fr. Faber).

Praise to the Holy Trinity for giving us so great a Mother! Thank you,
Blessed Mother Mary, for leading us to your Son!

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Remember what took place in the heart of our heavenly Mother at the foot of the Cross. She was turned to stone before her crucifies Son, due to the excessive suffering, but you cannot say she was abandoned. On the contrary, she was never loved more that at that moment when she suffered and couldn't even cry.

"Money simply cannot be transferred to the world beyond. Here we come to the purpose of money according to the Savior. Give away money to those who are in need, for by relieving their necessity you will make friends of those who will intercede for the salvation of your soul. Money will not buy Heaven; but it will make friends for us that will help us when we fail. 'Inasmuch as you did it for the least of these My brethren, you did it for Me' (Matthew 24: 40)."

Once as I was talking with my spiritual director, I had an interior vision-quicker than lightning-of his soul in great suffering, in such agony that God touches very few souls with such fire. The suffering arises from this work. There will come a time when this work, which God is demanding so very much, will be as though utterly undone. And then God will act with great power, which will give evidence of its authenticity. It will be a new splendor for the Church, although it has been dormant in it from long ago. That God is infinitely merciful, no one can deny. He desires everyone to know this before He comes again as Judge. He wants souls to come to know Him first as King of Mercy. When this triumph comes, we shall already have entered the new life in which there is no suffering. But before this, your soul [of the spiritual director] will be surfeited with bitterness at the sight of the destruction of your efforts. However, this will only appear to be so, because what God has once decided upon, He does not change. But although this destruction will be such only in outward appearance, the suffering will be real. When will this happen? I do not know. How long will it last? I do not know. But God has promised a great grace especially to you and to all those...who will proclaim My great mercy. I shall protect them Myself at the hour of death, as My own glory. And even if the sins of soul are as dark as night, when the sinner turns to My mercy he gives Me the greatest praise and is the glory of My Passion. When a soul praises My goodness, Satan trembles before it and flees to the very bottom of hell. (378)

These thoughts for a day are taken from a daily meditation book based on the Messages of Our Lady of Medjugorje by Father Richard J. Beyer, Ave Maria Press.

Referring to the cross of Mt. Krizevac, Our Lady said

"Dear Children, the cross was in God's plan when you built it. During these days especially, go up on the mountain and pray at the foot of the cross. I need your prayers" (Weekly Message August 30, 1984).

Of the cross, Our Lord said:

He called the crowd with his disciples, and said to them, "If any want to become by followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake, and the sake of the gospel, will save it." (Mk 8:34-35).

In one of the Nazi concentration camps of the Second World War, a Polish priest named Fr. Maximillian Kolbe was interred for publishing writings unfavorable to the Third Reich. On one occasion, several prisoners escaped from the compound and the camp commandant, to punish the prisoners, ordered ten of them to die through starvation.

Among the condemned prisoners was a young man who was known to have a wife and children. When the prisoners' numbers were called out, Fr. Kolbe stepped forward and insisted on taking the young man's place. Incarcerated in the death cell, he helped his companions prepare for death. Through the long days, the guards did not hear the usual sounds of pleading and anguish, but the subdued sounds of hymns and prayers. Fr. Kolbe was the last to die, and because he had taken so long, they injected him with poison.

After his death, a picture of Christ on the cross was found scratched with his nails of the wall of his death cell.

In prayer today, reflect on the words of Christ: "Unless a grain of wheat falls to the earth and dies, it remains only a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit." (Jn 12:24).

"Then Jesus took the bread, said the blessing, and gave it to them saying,

‘This is My Body, which will be given for you, do this in memory of Me.’"

Luke 22:19

Pentecost Sunday, May 11, 2008

Dear Friends,

"I go to Eucharistic Adoration every week at our parish or at the neighbouring parish. What peace there is kneeling or standing or sitting before the Lord, Our Saviour. The Chapel is a beautiful place to contemplate Him by looking at Him and pondering in our hearts the great miracle of His real presence in the host. Jesus told His Apostles in the Garden of Gethsemane: "So you could not keep watch with me for one hour?" (Matthew 26, 40b) We are called to give at least one hour a week to Eucharistic Adoration and to pray for vocations to the priesthood and religious life. I love to be with Jesus present on the altar and to express to Him my love and to ask Him to strengthen my faith in Him. He is the foundation of my life and without Him I am nothing. I simply want to live for Him. May every breath of mine express to Him my love and my dedication to Him.

A man came to visit me one day and he asked me what the Holy Eucharist meant for me. He wanted to know what I believed with regards to the Eucharist. I answered him without hesitation that the Holy Eucharist is a sacrament instituted by the Lord Jesus, Himself. Jesus is truly present in the Eucharist. He is there with His body and blood, soul and divinity as He is now in heaven. He is the One who told us that we have to eat His body and drink His blood in order to have life, eternal life. The Holy Eucharist is the greatest gift the Lord could leave us. This man told me that was exactly what he believed too. He is now a Catholic today and he loves to go and receive the Holy Eucharist.

Father Melvin

Reading: Acts 2:1-13

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Fr. Melvin Doucette May 10,2008



The Holy Eucharist

Then the Lord said to Moses, I will now rain down bread from heaven for you. Each day the people are to go out and gather their daily portion.' In the evening quail came up and covered the camp. In the morning a dew lay all about the camp, and when the dew evaporated, there on the service of the desert were fine flakes like hoarfrost on the ground. Moses told them, This is the bread which the Lord has given you to eat.' Exodus 16:4 and 16:13 15.

Saturday, May 10, 2008

Dear Friends,

Yesterday it was cloudy and windy the whole day. We did not have any rain. Today we have the same temperature and we are supposed to have rain.

I am packing these days for my trip to the USA. I will leave tomorrow. There will be no letter until I come back on May 22. Please pray that this trip may go well. I am looking forward to visit with some dear friends of mine.

In the above quotation from Exodus, the Lord speaks about the manna He gave the people of Israel for forty years in the desert. This is a symbol of the Holy Eucharist and Jesus refers to it in the Gospel of John chapter six. The Lord knows how to give good things to His people.

Here is another quotation from my book, which I am writing on the Holy Eucharist:

There have been very great Eucharistic miracles. I went to Lanciano in Italy twice where I saw with my own eyes the great miracle that happened there. The host changed from the appearance of bread to the flesh. The scientists analyzed a piece of the host that had turned to flesh and they confirmed that it was a part of the heart. The blood in the chalice under the species of wine turned into blood and the scientists found out that it was of type AB, which is prevalent in the Middle East. These miracles happened many years ago.

Something very special happened to me when I was in Africa. I would celebrate Holy Mass at the parish church every day when I was at the parish. For a whole week in 1977, as soon as I finished the consecration of the bread and wine into the Body and Blood of the Lord at Mass, an aroma of roses would come from the Sacred Species. I smelled this beautiful scent every day that week. The aroma was very strong and the people who sat in the first pews noticed this phenomenon. One would think that the whole altar was covered with fresh roses. The aroma gave me great joy that the Lord would make Himself present in this way. As soon as I drank the Precious Blood and put the ciborium back into the tabernacle, the aroma would go away. After a day or so, some of the people came to me to ask where the aroma of flowers came from and if I smelled it at the Mass.

I told them that I was aware of this and the aroma came from the chalice and from the Sacred Host. In this way, Jesus made Himself known to the senses that He was in the Holy Eucharist.

Father Melvin

Reading: John 6:32 33

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