STATEMENTS BY MARIE OF THE INCARNATION IN REFERENCE TO THE EUCHARIST I adore You for all those who do not adore You. (16-09-1661)
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I know that You are my Great God, but You are also my Great Love! (Letter 2, 1626)
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Arm yourself with courage and confidence. Your salvation is in the hands of a very good Father. (12-08-1654)
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In His excessive Love, our Divine Master burns our hearts without consuming them. (01-09-1643) -----
God is immensely good to simple souls who trust in Him. (02-10-1655) -----
God is good and merciful everywhere in the world to those who wish to love and serve Him. (30-09-1665) -----
God is purity, and He wants souls that resemble Him. (22-10-1649) -----
I saw Him as wheat, as the nourishment of our souls in the Blessed Sacrament. T 186 p. 220 (no 9), E 195 (309) p. 200 (no 27). -----
Jesus is our Spouse and, as such, He wants us to love Him in return. (11-10-1646) -----
Silence is best for treating with God. (01-09-1643) -----
Through this Sacrament of Love, I felt filled with God's Unity to the depths of my soul. (T 108, p. 142) -----
After all the hardships I endured in the service of others, my broken body would find strength in feeding on this Divine Bread. (T 49 p. 83) -----
God has never led me by a spirit of fear but by one of love and confidence. (16-10-1668) -----
On one occasion, during a procession of the Blessed Sacrament, my heart and spirit were so transported in God that I was unaware of my surroundings. E 57 (171) p. 63 -----
I have no words to express the strength and sweetness of this union of my soul with Our Lord, mainly in Holy Communion. T 107 p. 141 -----
The greatest relief for the suffering of my soul was in daily Holy Communion. How I wished I could receive Holy Communion continuously, and I could never appreciate enough the happiness of the priests who touched the Blessed Sacrament of the altar and received it every day. T 48 p 82
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One day, as I was praying before the Blessed Sacrament, seated at my place in the choir, my spirit was, for a moment, ravished in God. T 194 p. 228 (no 8). -----
At Holy Communion, I felt very great graces. My familiarity with Him increased. I spoke with Him of everything, as with a dearest friend who knew that my heart totally belonged to Him and breathed for Him alone! Tem. P. 179 -----
Once, as I was prostrated before the Blessed Sacrament, offering myself and submitting myself to His Divine Will, I inwardly heard these words: "You will sow in tears and reap in joy." Tem. P. 161 -----
After all the hardships it endured in the service of others, my broken body would find strength in feeding on this Divine Bread and new courage to start all over again. Tem. P. 49 -----
How I wished I could receive Holy Communion continuously, and I could never appreciate enough the happiness of the priests who touched the Blessed Sacrament of the altar and received it every day. Tem p. 48 -----
At the time, I was before the Blessed Sacrament, and I experienced that it was the Spirit of God that had me speak in this way with the divine Mother.
Tem p. 248 -----
Through this Sacrament of Love, I felt filled with God's Unity to the depths of my soul. This made me hunger for continuous Holy Communion, had this been possible. Tem. P. 108 -----
I saw Him as wheat, as the nourishment of our souls in the Blessed Sacrament, and pressed like grapes at the wine press of the Cross. Tem. P. 186 -----
On one occasion, during a procession of the Blessed Sacrament, my heart and spirit were transported in God because of this Sacrament of love. I felt that God was becoming the absolute master of my heart. Tem. P. 11 -----
Every time I received Holy Communion, I so deeply felt the love of Our Lord in this Divine Sacrament that I cannot express all that my heart felt. Corr. P. 20 -----
For Marie of the Incarnation, the Eucharist is especially the nourishment of Christian life, principally in its highest form, the life of prayer. (Écrits Spirituels, Dom Jamet, p. 70, note a.) -----
Marie of the Incarnation ranks among the greatest Eucharistic mystiques. Her testimony is of exceptional value. (Éphrem Longpré, OFM, Eucharistie et expérience mystique.) |