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JESUS
RESTORES THE PRIESTHOOD
Christians
recur to priests in order to feed themselves with Jesus'
Body and Blood. In these apocalyptic times, Jesus comes
back to restore everything. He institutes, in our times,
an independent priesthood, accessible to men and women
who believe in the apocalyptic message, revealed by Jesus
Himself on the 13th of May 1970. In our
apocalyptic times, it is Jesus Himself who chooses His
new priests:
"He
(Jesus) loves us and has washed away our sins with His
Blood, and made us a kingdom and priests to serve
His God and Father" (Revelation 1,5).
"You
(Jesus) are worthy to take the Scroll (the book
Revelation) and to break its seals, because you were
sacrificed, and with your blood you bought for God people
of every race, language, people and nation and made them
a line of kings and priests for God, to rule
the world" (Revelation 5,9).
This
priesthood is open to every man and woman, listening to
Jesus knocking at their heart door: "Look, I am standing
at the door, knocking. If one of you hears me calling and
opens the door, I will come in to share a meal at that
person's side" (Rev 3,20).
Jesus,
in the Gospel, had already announced that, at His return,
He will come in and "sit down at the table" with the ones
opening the door to Him: "Be like people waiting for
their master to return from the wedding feast, ready to
open the door as soon as he comes … in truth
I tell you, he will do up his belt sit them down at
table and wait on them" (Luke 12,36-37).
"To
share a meal" and "sit down at table" mean the Mystic
Meal of Jesus' Body and Blood. In this New Time, this
Meal is taken no more exclusively into the religious
buildings, but in the families of those who become
priests by spontaneously opening their doors to Christ
"as soon as He knocks".
Of
course, this new priesthood is not accepted by the
traditional priests!
Jesus,
and Him only, has the power to change the bread and the
wine into His Body and His Blood. No man has this power,
not even the traditional priest. This latter, actually,
is nothing but an instrument of Christ. It is Jesus, who,
through the priest, makes Himself present in the bread
and in the wine changed, by His Power, into His divine
Body and Blood. Now, what Christ can do through the
priests -often unworthy-, He can also do through the
apocalyptic priests, men or women, of His choice. The
only condition is to have faith and to do that with
love.
The
first Christians already shared, in the intimacy of
the family, Jesus' Meal, with simplicity, as Jesus
had instituted it, without rites, without ceremonies,
with great love: "Each day, with one heart …
they broke the bread (Christ's Body) in their
houses, they shared the Food (Christ's Body and
Blood) joyfully and generously" (Acts 2,46).
Through
the centuries, the different Christian confessions have
unfortunately complicated these simple practices,
instituting rules, conditions, rites, cults with
sacerdotal clothes opposed to the Spirit of
Christ. It is the moment for Jesus to restore
everything (see our text "The Universal
Restoration"):
Jesus
already desires ardently to share this Meal with
us, as He had done in the past with His apostles. He told
them: "I have ardently desired to eat this
Passover with you" (Luke 22,15). With this meal, Jesus
re-establish and reinforces an intimate, interior,
relationship with His new priests: "Whoever eats my flesh
and drinks my Blood lives in Me and I live in that
person (him or her)" (John 6,56).
It
is left to everyone to choose, in complete freedom and
responsibility, whether to answer or not to this last
divine invitation: "Everyone is to examine himself and
only then eat of the Bread and drink from the Cup;
because a person who eats and drinks without recognising
the Body is eating and drinking his own condemnation" (1
Corinthians 11,28-29).
With
this direct link to Him, Jesus makes us independent
believers and priests. He frees us even from the clerical
chains that keep us far away from Him.
What
must be done to take this spiritual Meal with
Jesus?
Jesus
asks us to do what He Himself had done during the last
Easter Meal with His apostles, repeating the words He had
pronounced.
He
took some bread, brought it to them saying : "Take it and
eat, this is my Body offered for many for the
forgiveness of sins".
Then
He took a cup of wine, brought it to them saying : "Drink
from this, all of you, for this is my Blood, the
Blood of the Covenant, poured out for many for the
forgiveness of sins. Do this in remembrance of me"
(Matthew 26,26-28 / Luke 22,19-20 / Mark 14,22-24 / 1
Corinthians 11, 23-26).
The
essential words are in bold.
We
share this Heavenly Table of the Lamb's Wedding Feast
(Matthew 22,1-14) every day in the following
way:
Gathered
round a table, we put a piece of bread per person on a
plate and a little bit of wine into a cup. We keep them
for this purpose. We pray the "Our Father" and we honour
the Virgin Mary with the angel's "Hail Mary" (Luke
1,26-38). We read a text of the Holy Scriptures in a
regular way. We make an effort to be conscious of what we
are doing. Where there is no wine, it can be replaced by
a fruit juice -grape juice for example- or even
just water. The important factor is not the material
substance, but the Spirit).
We
are together with Our Heavenly Father, with the Messiah
and with all of our heavenly and earthly family, then we
pronounce the words written above. We take the Body and
the Blood of Jesus with Love and emotion, passing each
other the plate and the cup. We take the cup with care
and we rinse it with some water, which one of us will
drink afterwards.
Then
we dry the cup with a special napkin (to be washed when
necessary).
Finally
we thank God for this holy daily gift by which we receive
the Holy Spirit.
We
pray our heavenly Father to protect us and to keep us
united in His love and at His service, in order to spread
His Light and to blaze up the hearts of those who want to
know Him. We pray for all those who are persecuted for
the sake of justice. Each one is free to pray for one's
own spiritual necessities, for the sanctification of
one's self and of the others, for the dead,
etc…
The
Divine Koran does not fail to signal the spiritual
importance of this "Table" that comes down from Heaven
(see our text "Look of faith at the Koran", chapter III,
The Heavenly Table).
A
good thing to practice during the day is to desire a
spiritual union with Jesus' Body and Blood.
Day
by day, with love and through meditation, our soul
quenches its thirst with this source of Divine
Life:
"Let
all those who are thirsty come close
and
let all men of desire receive
the
Water of Life freely" (Rev
22,17).
Prayer
of the monk Hermann Cohen
"
May the divine Eucharist be your light, your heat, your
strength and your life!
I
would so much like you to live by the Eucharist so that
all your thoughts, affections, words and actions would be
inspired by It ".
"
Jesus Christ today is the divine Eucharist… today I
am weak, I need a strength that comes from above to
support me, and Jesus comes down from Heaven and becomes
Eucharist, this is the Bread of the
strong.
Today
I am poor… I need a shelter to take cover, and Jesus
makes Himself a home… He is God's home, He is the
gate of Heaven, He is the Eucharist…
Today
I am hungry and thirsty, I need food to satiate my spirit
and my heart, a beverage to quench my ardor, and Jesus
makes Himself wheat, makes Himself wine of the
Eucharist…
Today
I am sick… I need a beneficent balm to dress wounds
of my soul, and Jesus spreads like a precious ointment on
my soul while giving Himself to me in the
Eucharist…
I
am discouraged, He raises me; I am saddened, He rejoices
me; I am lonely, He comes to stay with me until the
consumption of centuries; I am in ignorance, He instructs
me and enlightens me; I am cold, He warms me of a
penetrating fire, but above all that, I need love and no
love on earth had satisfied my heart, and it is thaen
that He becomes Eucharist. And He loves me, and His love
satiates me, fills me up and makess me dive in an ocean
of charity. Yes, I love Jesus, I love the Eucharist.
Jesus, Jesus today, is Jesus with me… This morning,
at the altar, He came, He gave Himself, I have Him, I
hold Him, I adore Him. He has incarnated Himself in my
hands… He is my Emmanuel, He is my love, He is my
Eucharist".
Hermann
Cohen
This
prayer has been translated from the French book:
"L'etonnant secret des Ames du Purgatoire"
(The
astonishing secret of Souls of the Purgatory) by Sister
Emmanuel Maria Simma, Published by "Editions des
Béatitudes", 1998:
"
I would hereby like to give the testimony of Hermann
Cohen, a Jewish artist converted to Catholicism, who
deeply venerated the Eucharis.
It
happened in 1864. He had left the world, had gone in a
very austere religious order and adored very frequently
the Holy Sacrament for which he had a big
veneration.
During
his worships he implored the Lord to convert his mother
whom he loved a lot.
But
his mother died without being converted. Hermann became
mad of pain because of this. He prostrated before the
Holy Sacrament and, giving free course to his complaints,
prayed thus: "Lord, it is true that I owe you all, but
what did I refuse you? My youth, my expectations in the
world, the well-being, the family's joys, aprobable
legitimate rest? I sacrificed everything as soon as you
called me. My blood? I would have given it just the same;
and You Lord, You Eternal Goodness who promised to return
to the hundredfold, you refused me my mother's soul... My
God, I succumb to this martyr, the whisper is going to
exhale of my lips ". Sobs stifled this poor heart. All of
a sudden, a mysterious voice struck his ear and says: "
Man of little faith, your mother is saved, know that your
prayers have absolute power beside me. I received all the
prayers you addressed to me for your mother and my
Providence took account of it at her last hour. As she
expired, I presented myself to her, she saw me and
exclaimed: " My Lord and my God "! Raise up therefore
your courage, your mother avoided the damnation and your
fervent supplications will soon deliver her soul of the
jail of the purgatory ".
A
very short time after, father Hermann Cohen learned by a
second apparition that his mother was on her way up to
Heaven ".
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