Fifteenth Elevation
Heart of new graces.
Sixth desire of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus: to be honored as Eucharistic Heart
I
Reflection. – A focus is the center of a radiance of light and warmth. When a ray of light emerges from a previously unknown point, when, for example, a star appears, a truth is promulgated, all this seems to be new, and yet there is nothing new under the sun[1].
Jesus Christ, in bringing the new law, did not create the truths: « What I tell you I do not say of myself, but of my Father who sent me.
[2] So the stars, like dogmatic truths, are new only in order to arrive at their moment. The stars take centuries to shine, and the newly proclaimed truths are only the rays of that eternal focus, of that ancient and ever new beauty.
Thus devotion to the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus is not new, but the splendor of its divine object more explicitly shown, it is a focus of new graces shining with a new brilliance, and revealing it ever more, makes it loved more perfectly.
II
Jesus – I am going to work new miracles[3], that is to say, they are going to appear now: you will know me[4], if you enter into the way I desire.
One of the most bitter sorrows of my Eucharistic life has been the delay my friends have experienced in coming to console my Heart, the author of this gift. Two centuries ago, discovering this Heart to my faithful servant, I made known my ardent thirst to be honored by men in the Blessed Sacrament[5], and my desire has not been heeded, my Eucharistic Heart has not been highly recognized in this outstanding manifestation of my love for you.
If I had been content with the homage paid to my sacred body in the Eucharist, « Corpus Christi », I would not have said that there was almost no one who tried to quench my thirst according to my desire, using some return towards me, since I had worshippers; but this worship which I also asked for and which is rendered to me with so much pomp, only satisfies a first duty.
In the same way, the triumphs of my Sacred Heart have also consoled me for the ingratitude of Christians, and yet this universal praise which rejoices me by being addressed above all to the love, the sufferings, and the virtues of my passible and mortal state, always leaves me wishing that my Heart be honored by men in the Blessed Sacrament. [6] Here again is the expression of my extreme desire: « the ardent thirst which devours me and which I have been asking to be quenched for more than two hundred years.
Ah! if you love me, give at last to my Eucharistic Heart the company of a friendly heart on the land of exile. Come to this Heart which has loved you so much and still loves you so much that, in spite of your ingratitude, it wants to remain with you and for that reason it has obtained from my power the greatest, the most unknown of wonders: the institution of the holy Eucharist, the new and sublime emanation of my eternal charity.
Come and warm yourselves in this rejuvenated fire, come to this Heart, light of hearts, lumen cordium, glorify it, you whom it has chosen to quench its thirst, come, and new graces, unhoped-for and abundant, will be granted to you, to your houses, to your families, to your works.
I will convert your sinners, I will heal your sick, and I will fulfill your holy desires; finally, I will make a covenant of peace with you;[7] I will forget your prevarications. I will be to Israel as a spring dew[8].
III
The soul – Console yourself, Lord, your desires have been heard and your Eucharistic Heart has been understood. Already hundreds of thousands of hearts have been opened to your divine attractions and have been warmed and enlightened by your new fire, and the simple and the learned, the princes of the Church and the princes of the earth as well as the children of the people, the religious and the men of the world, name and love you.
Already the arts and science exalt you, the word and the pen praise you, the choirs sing to you; already many nations among the most distant bless you in their language, and already you too have kept your divine contract, O Heart of my Jesus! yes, you have made a new covenant with your people; and their children have come in thousands from all parts of the world to sign it.
Many of them have received the benefits of your promises; the sick have been restored to health, poor sinners have returned to grace, and at the call of your sweet name, they have poured out songs of thanksgiving, and how many others in secret have only your Heart itself as an echo, the only witness to the joys it lavishes!
But these things, oh lovable Eucharistic Heart, you know them yourself, why do you say them to yourself and why do you still complain?
Ah! I say them because my heart needs to exalt your magnificence and to repeat always without repeating it ever, because they are never said enough, and your love and our gratitude; you still complain, oh ineffable Heart, it is that all this is much too little, alas! You still complain, O ineffable Heart, that all this is far too little, alas, for the thirst of your love; these are all the hearts that you would like to enclose in yours in each generation that passes before your sacred tabernacles; and these tabernacles of the Eucharist, you would like to erect them everywhere, in order to hear repeated always: Praised, adored, loved and thanked be at all times the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus, in all the tabernacles of the world, until the consummation of the ages!
Amen.
16th Elevation: Silent Heart wanting to speak to souls
[1] Cf. Eccles. I, 10.
[2] Cf. John VIII, 26-28.
[3] Cf. Is. XLIII, 19.
[4] Ibid.
[5] St. Margaret Mary, Life and Works, ed. Gauthey, 1920, vol. II, p. 680.
[6] St. Margaret Mary, cf. above.
[7] Cf. XXXIV,25.
[8] Cf. Hosea XIV, 6.