The Communion of Mary, Pt. 1, Ch. 6

The Communion of Mary

Part 1, Chapter 6

In instituting the most Holy Eucharist, Jesus Christ thought of the worthy dwelling for His majesty and holiness, which He would find
in the womb of Mary through Communion.

Among the designs that the love of the Son of God formed in the institution of the divine Eucharist, the most truly worthy of His tenderness and His merciful love is that of living in us, with us, and of taking His delights in the company of the children of men. But if He considers the interests of His glory, His majesty and His holiness, and the condition of those with whom He wants to remain, it seems that He must always remain in heaven, as a worthy dwelling for Himself, and never come to dwell on earth, where there is only unworthiness and degrading baseness. Are our altars and our tabernacles fitting thrones for His majesty and divinity? They cannot dwell there without this august majesty being humbled and His divinity lowered in them.

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Furthermore, will Jesus, passing from our altars into our hearts through Holy Communion, find among us many Christians who will give Him a sweet joy and a perfect complacency? Jesus loves purity, He is only pleased among the lilies, and He often encounters in these hearts only filth; Jesus cherishes innocence and often discovers there crimes which offend Him. If happiness is born from the sympathy between two souls who have the same tastes and the same attractions, how could Jesus Christ, who is the God of all purity, find His delight in a heart where He only sees desires which He forbids, and affections which He condemns?

Jesus Christ, whose gaze penetrates the future, foreseeing in His infinite wisdom all the indignities of which He should be the object in the sacrament of the Eucharist, had to prepare for Himself, through the interest of His glory, a dwelling truly worthy of Him. He has chosen two of them, His bosom and that of His Mother. Jesus Christ, in giving Himself in Communion with His own hands, finds in her august bosom a dwelling as delightful as that which He finds in the bosom of His Father, and in which He was so pleased, because He found there the same divinity and the same holiness as in Heaven.

After this divine sanctuary, it is in the womb of Mary His Mother, who is elevated as much by her Divine Maternity as He is holy by her virginal purity and the fullness of her sanctifying grace, that Jesus Christ finds a dwelling truly worthy of Him. It is true that there are souls who have made their hearts sanctuaries holy enough to give Jesus Christ some pleasure, but, not being freed from the bondage of sin, He can encounter some stains in them which, although slight, do not appear unpleasant to the eyes of this God of all holiness. It is only Mary who is the single spotless and unblemished dove.

It is therefore her innocence which has already attracted the Son of the God from the bosom of His Father into her womb by the Incarnation, and which still attracts Him into her heart by Communion. It is the holiness of Mary’s heart which prepares for Him this sanctuary where Jesus Christ takes all His delight. In this immaculate heart of Mary, the infinitely holy God discovers nothing which displeases Him, everything delights Him, everything in Mary is infinitely agreeable to Him. That’s why a learned Father, St. Proclus, called the heavenly Virgin the Paradise of delights of the second Adam. “Do you think,” St. Cardinal Peter Damian said excellently, “that Jesus can take His delights in the angels where He found failings and revolts? No, in truth, it is only the heart of Mary which is a true paradise of the delights of the Lord.”*

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