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"Oh, dearest daughter, open well the eye of your
intellect and gaze into the abyss of My love, for
there is no rational creature whose heart would not
melt for love in contemplating and considering, among
the other benefits she receives from Me, the special
Gift that she receives in the Sacrament.
"And with what eye, dearest daughter, should you
and others look at this mystery, and how should you
touch it? Not only with the bodily sight and touch,
because in this Sacrament all bodily perceptions
fail.
"The eye can only see, and the hand can only
touch, the white substance of the bread, and the
taste can only taste the savor of the bread, so that
the grosser bodily sentiments are deceived; but the
soul cannot be deceived in her sentiments unless she
wish to be -- that is, unless she let the light of
the most holy faith be taken away from her by
infidelity.
"How is this Sacrament to be truly tasted, seen,
and touched? With the sentiment of the soul. With
what eye is It to be seen? With the eye of the
intellect if within it is the pupil of the most holy
faith. This eye sees in that whiteness whole God and
whole man, the Divine nature united with the human
nature, the Body, the Soul, and the Blood of Christ,
the Soul united to the Body, the Body and the Soul
united with My Divine nature, not detached from Me,
as I revealed to you, if you remember well, almost in
the beginning of your life; and not so much at first
through the eye of your intellect as through your
bodily eye, although the light being so great your
bodily eyes lost their vision, and only the sight of
the eye of your intellect remained. I showed it to
you for your enlightenment in the battle that the
Devil had been waging against you in this Sacrament;
and to make you increase in love in the light of the
most holy faith.
"You know that you went one morning to church at
sunrise to hear Mass, having beforehand been
tormented by the Devil, and you placed yourself
upright at the Altar of the Crucifix, while the
priest went to the Altar of Mary; you stood there to
consider your sin, fearing to have offended Me
through the vexation which the Devil had been causing
you, and to consider My love, which had made you
worthy to hear Mass, seeing that you deemed yourself
unworthy to enter into My holy temple. When the
minister came to consecrate, you raised your eyes
above his head while he was saying the words of
consecration, and I manifested Myself to you, and you
saw issue from My breast a light, like a ray from the
sun, which proceeds from the circle of the sun
without being separated from it, out of the midst of
which light came a dove and hovered over the host, in
virtue of the words which the minister was saying.
"But sight remained alone in the eye of your
intellect, because your bodily sight was not strong
enough to stand the light, and in that place you saw
and tasted the Abyss of the Trinity, whole God and
whole man concealed and veiled in that whiteness that
you saw in the bread; and you perceived that the
seeing of the Light and the presence of the Word,
which you saw intellectually in the whiteness of the
bread, did not prevent you seeing at the same time
the actual whiteness of the bread, the one vision did
not prevent the other vision, that is to say, the
sight of the God-Man revealed in the bread did not
prevent the sight of the bread, for neither its
whiteness, nor its touch, nor its savor were taken
away.
"This was shown you by My goodness, as I have said
to you. The eye of the intellect had the true vision,
using the pupil of the holy faith, for this eye
should be your principal means of vision, inasmuch as
it cannot be deceived; wherefore, with it you should
look on this Sacrament. How do you touch It?
"By the hand of love. With this hand alone can you
touch that which the eye of the intellect has
recognized in this Sacrament. The soul touches Me
with the hand of love, as if to certify to herself
that which she has seen and known through faith. How
do you taste It?
"With the palate of holy desire. The corporal
palate tastes only the savor of the bread; but the
palate of the soul, which is holy desire, tastes God
and Man. See, therefore, that the perceptions of the
body are deluded, but not those of the soul, for she
is illuminated and assured in her own perceptions,
for she touches with the hand of love that which the
eye of her intellect has seen with the pupil of holy
faith; and with her palate -- that is, with fiery
desire -- she tastes My Burning Charity, My Ineffable
Love, with which I have made her worthy to receive
the tremendous mystery of this Sacrament and the
Grace which is contained therein.
"See, therefore, that you should receive and look
on this Sacrament, not only with bodily perceptions,
but rather with your spiritual perceptions, disposing
your soul in the way that has been said, to receive,
and taste, and see this Sacrament."
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