MARY,
THE MODEL OF THE EUCHARIST
"In the Cenacle, Mary devoted herself entirely to the
Eucharistic glory of Jesus. She new that the wish of the Heavenly
Father was to see His Divine Son known, loved and served by all; that
it was a need for the Heart of Jesus to communicate to men all its
gifts of grace and glory - Mary's one desire was then to glorify Jesus
in the Most Blessed Sacrament, to make Him known, loved and served
by all.
"Moreover, on Calvary, men had become her children;
she loved them with all the tenderness of a Mother, and wanted their
sovereign good as much as her own. That is why she was so eager to
make Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament known by all, to enkindle all
hearts with His love, to see them all bound and chained at His loving
service, to group them into a Eucharistic guard of Honor, a court
of faithful and devoted adorers.
"To obtain that grace, Mary carried out a perpetual
mission of prayer and of penance in the present of the Most Holy and
Adorable Eucharist pleading for the salvation of a world redeemed
by Divine Blood and, in her boundless zeal, including the needs of
the faithful of every age and place who would ever share in the heritage
of the Divine Eucharist.
"The adorers share Mary's mission of prayer in the Presence
of the Most Blessed Sacrament. It is the most beautiful of all missions
- Today more than ever, we need men and women who by self-immolation
disarm the wrath of God angered by the ever-increasing crimes of nations;
we need souls who by their earnest prayers reopen the treasures of
grace which had been closed by general indifference; we need true
adorers, that is, persons of fire and of sacrifice. When their numbers
multiply around their Divine Leader, God will be gloried, Jesus will
be loved, and society will again become Christian, won to Jesus Christ
by the apostolate of Eucharistic prayer."
-by St. Peter Julian Eymard
