Ave Maria Meditations
The Eucharist is the miracle of miracles; it is a living reminder of all the secrets of the holy faith, and therefore it deserves the highest honor. The same miracle of inconceivable love, realized for the first time in the womb of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is revealed anew, on our altars, though in a different way, during each Mass. The Word becomes flesh and dwells among us.
As then, this greatest mystery was hidden from the world, so it is hidden now. Although many secrets of love are presented to us by our holy Catholic faith, there is one amongst them that seems to exceed all others, or rather it is a gathering of all others, as it were a summary or a renewal. In this mystery of the Eucharist, all the fountains of God’s love gather in one hearth and make a kind of fire of love that constantly embraces the whole world, cleanses it, inspires human hearts, lights them up, lifts them up, sanctifies them, and makes them happy. This is the mystery of the Blessed Sacrament and the sacrifice of the Holy Mass.
For the sins ever repeated by people, Christ would have had to hang on the cross for all ages and call upon God’s mercy for us if His eternal wisdom did not invent another way of continuing and immortalizing the sacrifice of the Cross and giving us His infinite merits by the sacrifice of the holy Mass.
Love brings Christ to be born every day on the altar. This love urges Him to renew His Passion all over the world every day and to offer Himself constantly to His Father for our sins, as He offered Himself once on the Cross at Calvary.
Blessed Honoratus Kozminski
