Precipitur sponse, quod frequenter sumat corpus Christi, quod per manna, quod pluit patribus in deserto, et per farinam vidue, que pauit prophetam, designatur. Enarrat eciam virtutes magnas et gracias, que anime deuote sumenti ex communione predicta proueniunt.
The Divine Invitation to the Eucharist
The Lord calls the soul to receive His Body more frequently as a response to His divine presence.
"I am your God and Lord, whose voice Moses heard in the burning bush and John heard at the Jordan."✦✦ From now on, I want you to receive my Body more frequently.
The Flour of the Prophet
The Lord uses the biblical image of the widow's flour to illustrate how His Body serves as an inexhaustible food for the soul.
For this is the medicine and food by which the soul is strengthened, and the one who is weak in soul and feeble in virtues is restored to health. Isn't it written that the prophet was sent to the woman who fed him with a little flour, and it didn't run out until the rain came upon the earth? I am that prophet in a figure. My Body is that flour. This is the food of the soul; it isn't consumed or diminished, but it feeds the soul and remains forever unspent.
The Eternal Bread
The Lord contrasts physical food with the eternal nature of His Body, which was prefigured by the manna in the desert.
Physical food has three characteristics: first, it breaks down when crushed; second, it is consumed; third, it only nourishes for a time. But my food is ground yet remains whole; it isn't consumed but stays the same; and it doesn't nourish for a time, but for eternity. This food was prefigured in the manna that our ancestors ate in the desert; it is the very flesh I promised in the Gospel, which satisfies forever.✦✦
Medicine for the Soul
The Eucharist acts as a powerful medicine that strengthens the soul and is perceived by the intellect rather than the senses.
Therefore, just as a sick person grows in physical strength through bodily food, so everyone who receives this Body of mine with a good intention grows in spiritual strength. This is the most powerful medicine; it enters the soul and satisfies it. It remains hidden from the senses of the body, but is manifest to the intellect of the soul.
The Blindness of the Wicked
The Lord explains why the wicked find no sweetness in the Eucharist, as they are blinded by their own temporal desires.
This food is tasteless to the wicked, for whom nothing has flavor except the sweetness of temporal things; their eyes see nothing but their own desire, and their intellect discerns nothing but their own will.
Read the original Latin
"Ego sum Deus tuus et Dominus, cuius vocem Moyses audiuit in rubo et Iohannes in Iordane. Ab isto die volo, quod frequencius recipias corpus meum.
Hoc enim est medicamentum et cibus, de quo anima confortatur, infirmus in anima et debilis in virtutibus conualescit. Numquid non scribitur, quod propheta mittebatur ad mulierem, que pauit eum modica farina, et non minuebatur, vsque dum pluuia venit super terram?
Ego sum ille propheta in figura. Corpus meum est farina illa. Hoc cibus est anime, hoc non consumitur nec minuitur sed cibat animam et semper inconsumptum est.
Nam corporalis cibus tria habet: primo contritus liquescit, secundo annichilatur, tercio cibat ad tempus. Sed cibus meus teritur et manet intritus, secundo non annichilatur sed manet idem, tercio non cibat ad tempus sed eternaliter.
Hic cibus prefigurabatur in manna, quod comederunt illi antiqui patres in deserto, hic est caro, quam in euangelio promisi, que saciat in eternum.
Ergo, sicut eger crescit ad fortitudinem virium corporali cibo, sic omnis, qui hoc corpus meum cum bona intencione sumit, crescit ad spiritualem fortitudinem.
Hoc est fortissimum medicamentum, quod ingreditur ad animam et saciat eam. Hoc sensui corporis latet et intellectui anime manifestum est.
Hic cibus insipidus est malis, quibus non sapit nisi dulcedo temporalium, quorum oculi nichil vident nisi cupiditatem suam, quorum intellectus nichil discernit nisi voluntatem suam."
Scripture echoes
- ↩Exod.3.4 — When the LORD saw that he had turned aside to see, God called to him from the midst of the bush, "Moses, Moses," and he said, "Here I am."
- ↩Matt.3.17 — And behold, a voice from the heavens said, 'This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.'
- ↩John.6.31-John.6.32 — Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, as it is written: 'He gave them bread from heaven to eat.' John.6.32 — Jesus then said to them, 'Truly, truly, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven.'
- ↩John.6.51 — I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.
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