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Visita XXVIII

The Gift of the Eucharist

Reflecting on the Father's gift of Jesus in the Eucharist as the source of all grace.

Since God has given us his own Son, as St. Paul says, what good could we ever fear he would withhold from us? For has he not also, with him, given us all things?1 (Rom. 8). We already know that the Eternal Father has given everything he has to Jesus Christ: The Father has put all things into his hands (Jn. 13:3). So let us always give thanks for the goodness, the mercy, and the generosity of our most loving God, who has chosen to make us rich in every good and every grace by giving us Jesus in the Sacrament of the altar: In him you have been made rich in every way. .2 . so that you lack nothing in any grace (1 Cor. 1:5 and 7).

A Vow of Total Consecration

A personal prayer of self-surrender and spiritual communion with the Savior.

So then, O Savior of the world, O Word made man, I can think that you are mine and wholly mine if I want you—but can I say at the same time that I am wholly yours, you who want me? Ah, my Lord, remedy this: do not let the world see this disorder and this ingratitude—that I should fail to be yours when you want me!3 Oh, may it never be so. If that has been true in the past, let it be so no longer in the time to come. Today I resolutely consecrate myself entirely to you: I consecrate to you, in time and in eternity, my life, my will, my thoughts, my actions, and my sufferings. Here I am, entirely yours; as a victim consecrated to you, I take leave of creatures and offer myself wholly to you.4 Consume me with the flames of your divine love. No, I won't have created things sharing my heart any longer.5 The signs you showed me of the love you bore me back then, when I didn't love you, make me hope that you'll surely accept me now that I love you, and that I give myself to you for the love of you. Eternal Father, today I offer you all the virtues, acts, and affections of the Heart of your dear Jesus. Accept them for me, and through his merits—which are all mine, since he has given them to me—grant me the graces that Jesus asks of you for me. With these merits I thank you for so many mercies you have shown me. With these, I make satisfaction for what I owe you for my sins.6 Through these, I hope for every grace from you: forgiveness, perseverance, paradise, and above all, the supreme gift of your pure love. I see that I am the only one putting an obstacle in the way of everything—but even for that, you still provide the remedy.7 I ask this of you for the love of Jesus Christ, who promised: "If you ask the Father anything in my name, he will give it to you" (John 14). So you can't refuse me this. Lord, I want only to love you, to give myself to you entirely, and never again to be as ungrateful as I have been until now.8 Look on me and hear me; make this the day I turn wholly to you, so that I never stop loving you again. I love you, my God; I love you, infinite Goodness; I love you, my love, my paradise, my good, my life, my all. Ejaculatory prayer.9 My Jesus, my all; you want me, and I want you. Spiritual Communion.

Refuge in the Mother of God

Turning to Mary for consolation and the grace to love her Son more deeply.

To Mary. How lifted I feel in my miseries, and how consoled in my trials; what comfort I find in temptations when I remember you and call on you for help, O my sweetest and most holy mother Mary. Yes, you are quite right, O saints, to call my Lady the harbor of the afflicted—Portus vexatorum, as St. Ephrem does; the restoration of our miseries—Restauratio calamitatum nostrarum; and the solace of the wretched—Solatium miserorum, as St. Bonaventure says.10 the rest of our tears: Requies gemituum nostrorum, St. Germanus.11 My Mary, console me; I see myself full of sins and surrounded by enemies, without virtue, and cold in my love for God. Console me, console me, and let that consolation be to make me begin a new life—a life that truly pleases your Son and you. Giac.12 Change me, Mary my mother, change me; you can do it. O Mary, how I love that beautiful name by which those who love you call you: Mater amabilis.13 Yes, my Lady, you are truly lovable.14 Your beauty and goodness have made even your own God fall in love with you: Concupivit rex speciem tuam. It is he who says to you: Quam pulchra es, amica mea, quam pulchra es! And in another place: Tota pulchra es. .15 .16 And there is no stain in you.17 If You are so loved by God, then I, a wretched sinner so greatly favored by You, must also love You. I love You, my most lovable Queen, and I long to be one of Your greatest lovers. Accept this desire of mine, O Lady, and obtain for me from God the love I ask of You, since the love given to You is so pleasing to God.18 Jas.19 O my most lovable Mother, grant that I may love You deeply.

Read the original Latin

Avendoci Dio donato il suo medesimo Figlio, dice S. Paolo, qual bene mai noi possiamo temere che ci abbia a negare? Quoniam non etiam cum illo omnia nobis donavit? (Rom. VIII). Sappiamo già che l'Eterno Padre tutto quello che ha l'ha dato a Gesù Cristo: Omnia dedit ei Pater in manus (Io. XIII, 3). Ringraziamo sempre dunque la bontà, la misericordia, la liberalità del nostro amantissimo Dio che ha voluto renderci ricchi d'ogni bene e di ogni grazia nell'averci dato Gesù nel Sacramento dell'altare: In omnibus divites facti estis in illo. .

. ita ut nihil vobis desit in ulla gratia (I Cor. I, 5 e 7).

Sicché, o Salvatore del mondo, o Verbo umanato, io posso pensare che voi siete mio e tutto mio se io vi voglio: ma posso dire insieme ch'io son tutto di voi che mi volete? Ah, Signor mio, rimediate a non far vedere nel mondo questo sconcerto e questa ingratitudine, che io non abbia ad essere vostro quando voi mi volete!

Ah non sia mai. Se ciò è stato per lo passato, non sia più per l'avvenire. Io risolutamente oggi mi consacro tutto a voi: vi consacro nel tempo e nell'eternità la mia vita, la mia volontà, i miei pensieri, le mie azioni, i miei patimenti. Eccomi tutto vostro; qual vittima a voi consacrata, mi licenzio dalle creature e tutto a voi mi offerisco. Consumatemi colle fiamme del vostro divino amore. Non voglio no che del mio cuore n'abbiano più parte le creature. I segni che mi avete fatti vedere dell'amore che mi portaste allora quando io non vi amava, mi fanno sperare che certamente mi accettiate ora che v'amo, e per amore a voi mi dono.

Eterno Padre, io vi offerisco oggi tutte le virtù, gli atti, gli affetti del Cuore del vostro caro Gesù. Accettateli per me e per gli meriti suoi che tutti sono miei, mentr'egli a me l'ha donati: concedetemi quelle grazie che Gesù vi domanda per me. Con questi meriti io vi ringrazio di tante misericordie usatemi. Con questi soddisfo quello che vi debbo per li peccati miei. Per questi spero ogni grazia da voi, il perdono, la perseveranza, il paradiso, e sopra tutto il sommo dono del vostro puro amore. Vedo già che a tutto io sono che pongo impedimento, ma a ciò ancora voi rimediate. Io ve lo prego per amore di Gesù Cristo il quale ha promesso: Si quid petieritis Patrem in nomine meo, dabit vobis (Io. XIV).

Dunque non me lo potete negare. Signore, io non voglio che amarvi, che donarmi a voi intieramente, e non vedermi più ingrato come sono stato sinora. Guardatemi ed esauditemi; fate che oggi sia il giorno ch'io tutto mi converta a voi, per non lasciare mai più d'amarvi. V'amo, mio Dio, v'amo, bontà infinita; v'amo, mio amore, mio paradiso, mio bene, mia vita, mio tutto. - Giac. Gesù mio, tutto mio; voi mi volete, io vi voglio. La comunione spirituale.

A Maria. Quanto mi sento sollevare nelle miserie mie e quanto consolare nelle mie tribulazioni; quanto conforto io provo nelle tentazioni, quando mi ricordo e chiamo voi in aiuto, o mia dolcissima e santissima madre Maria. Sì, che ben avete ragione, o santi, di chiamare la mia Signora porto de' tribolati: Portus vexatorum, come S. Efrem; ristoro delle miserie: Restauratio calamitatum nostrarum; il sollievo de' miserabili: Solatium miserorum, S. Bonav. ; il riposo delle nostre lagrime: Requies gemituum nostrorum, S. Germano. Maria mia, consolatemi voi; io mi vedo pieno di peccati e circondato da' nemici, senza virtù, freddo nell'amore verso Dio. Consolatemi, consolatemi, e la consolazione sia di farmi cominciare una nuova vita: vita che veramente gradisca al vostro Figlio e a voi. Giac. Mutatemi, Maria madre mia, mutatemi, voi lo potete fare.

O Maria, quanto mi piace quel bel nome, con cui vi chiamano i vostri amanti: Mater amabilis. Sì, che Voi, Signora mia, siete troppo amabile. La vostra bellezza e bontà ha innamorato di Voi lo stesso vostro Dio: Concupivit rex speciem tuam. Egli è che vi dice: Quam pulchra es, amica mea, quam pulchra es! Ed in altro luogo: Tota pulchra es. . . , et macula non est in te.

Se dunque Voi siete tanto amata da Dio, è necessario, ch'io misero peccatore, tanto beneficato da Voi, ancora v'ami. Io v'amo, o Regina mia amabilissima e desidero d'essere uno dei più grandi vostri amanti. Accettate, o Signora, questo mio desiderio, e Voi impetratemi da Dio questo amore che vi domando, giacché tanto piace a Dio l'amore che a Voi si porta. Giac. O amabilissima Madre mia, fate, ch'io v'ami assai.

Scripture echoes

  1. Rom.8.32He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?
  2. Rom.8.32He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?
  3. John.13.3Jesus knew that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going to God.
  4. 1Cor.1.5because in everything you were enriched in him, in all speech and all knowledge,
  5. 1Cor.1.5-1Cor.1.7because in everything you were enriched in him, in all speech and all knowledge, 1Cor.1.6 — just as the testimony about Christ was confirmed among you, 1Cor.1.7 — so that you are not lacking in any spiritual gift, as you wait for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ
  6. 1Cor.1.5because in everything you were enriched in him, in all speech and all knowledge,
  7. John.4.42;1John.4.14and they were saying to the woman, "It is no longer because of your word that we believe, for we ourselves have heard, and we know that this one is truly the Savior of the world." 1John.4.14 — And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as Savior of the world.
  8. John.1.1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
  9. Rom.5.8But God demonstrates his own love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Notes

  1. 1Source reads Quoniam non etiam...; Vulgate of Rom 8:32 has quomodo non etiam.... Sense rendered as the rhetorical question of the verse.
  2. 2Source sentence is only a stray period, likely a segmentation artifact between the Latin quote and the next section's citation.
  3. 3Italian 'sconcerto' can mean disorder, scandal, or jarring inconsistency; rendered as 'disorder' to keep the moral-spiritual force without over-specifying 'scandal'.
  4. 4mi licenzio dalle creature: archaic/devotional sense of dismissing or taking leave of creatures (renouncing attachment), not modern 'license'.
  5. 5Non voglio no: emphatic double negation/affirmation rendered as English 'No, I will not...'
  6. 6Italian soddisfo keeps the traditional sense of making satisfaction / paying the debt of sin through Christ's merits, not mere emotional contentment.
  7. 7Archaic Italian a tutto io sono che pongo impedimento rendered as 'I alone am the one who puts an obstacle in the way of everything' (self as sole impediment to the graces hoped for).
  8. 8Italian 'non voglio che… che…' is the exclusive construction ('I want nothing but / I want only to'), not a negated wish.
  9. 9Source label '- Giac.' treated as abbreviated Italian 'Giaculatoria' (ejaculatory prayer), matching the section structure before the spiritual-communion heading; not taken as a James citation, since no scriptural quote is attached.
  10. 10Latin Marian titles are preserved as given. Attribution of Restauratio calamitatum nostrarum is not explicitly marked in the Italian (unlike Portus / Ephrem and Solatium / Bonaventure).
  11. 11Italian has lagrime (tears); the accompanying Latin has gemituum (sighs/groans). English follows the Italian surface; Latin title kept intact.
  12. 12Source abbreviation Giac. treated as an author/source tag (as in neighboring - Giac.), not expanded.
  13. 13Mater amabilis is kept as the Litany title (Mother most amiable/lovable). Italian amanti rendered as 'those who love you' to avoid erotic coloring while keeping the sense of devoted lovers of Mary.
  14. 14Italian troppo amabile is intensifying ('exceedingly/so very lovable'), not a negative 'too lovable'.
  15. 15Source sentence is only a period; likely a segmentation artifact between the Song 4:7 fragments in s5 and s8.
  16. 16Source sentence is only a period; likely a segmentation artifact between the Song 4:7 fragments in s5 and s8.
  17. 17Latin fragment continues Song 4:7 after s5's Tota pulchra es; leading comma preserved as source segmentation. Full verse sense: 'You are all beautiful... and there is no stain in you.'
  18. 18impetratemi: obtain by intercession; rendered as 'obtain for me' to keep Marian mediation clear without archaic 'impetrate'.
  19. 19Source is only the Italian biblical book abbreviation 'Giac.' (Giacomo = James). No verse text or chapter/verse accompanies this sentence; treated as a citation fragment.

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