{"id":4041,"date":"2011-10-02T05:51:31","date_gmt":"2011-10-02T05:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2011\/10\/the-eucharistic-humility-of-go\/"},"modified":"2011-10-02T05:51:31","modified_gmt":"2011-10-02T05:51:31","slug":"the-eucharistic-humility-of-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2011\/10\/the-eucharistic-humility-of-go\/","title":{"rendered":"The Eucharistic Humility of God"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThe 16th Sunday After Pentecost<\/strong>
\nThe Most Holy Eucharist is the Sacrament of the Divine Humility.
\nThose who partake of It worthily
\nenter into the humility of God,
\nfor one cannot eat the Bread of the Humble
\nand remain proud.
\nThose who adore this Sacrament of the Divine Humility
\nare drawn into the obedience of God,
\nwho, at the word of a man,
\nof a priest speaking and acting in the Name of Christ,
\nannihilates the substance of a little bread
\nto replace it entirely
\nwith His Divinity united to the Sacred Humanity.
\nWho can describe the Eucharistic Humility of God?
\nHere the Word made flesh,
\nborn of the Virgin Mary, and crucified,
\nHe whose side was opened by the soldier’s lance,
\nHe who rested in the darkness of the tomb,
\nHe who rose from the dead
\nand is seated in glory at the right hand of the Father,
\nhere<\/u>, He is really present:
\nsilent in the fragility of the sacred species,
\nand hidden from view not only by the sacramental veil
\n–the appearance of bread–
\nbut, more often than not, by the tabernacle as well.
\nThis is the Humility of God,
\nhidden from the eyes of the learned and the clever,
\nbut revealed to little children.
\nI think of Blessed Francisco Marto of Fatima,
\nwho, at nine years of age,
\nunderstood the mystery of the Hidden Jesus
\nand wanted nothing more than to console Him
\nby hiding himself close to the tabernacle.
\nWorldly arrogance scoffs at the folly of a God
\nhidden under the appearance of a little bread
\nand put away in a box;
\nbut this Mystery follows and completes
\nthe disconcerting logic of God who hides Himself
\nin a Virgin’s womb,
\nbecoming a man like unto other men
\nin all things, save sin.
\nThe Eucharistic Humility of God
\nis inseparable from His Eucharistic Silence.
\nThis Saint Benedict understood,
\nfor in his Rule, the silent are humble,
\nand the humble silent.
\nThis our Mother Mectilde understood
\nfor she wanted her Benedictine adorers to bury themselves
\nin the silence of the hidden God,
\nthe ineffably humble God
\nin the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar.
\nThis the little Thérèse understood
\nfor she knew that one who would find the Hidden Face of Jesus,
\nmust first hide himself.
\nThe Eucharistic Face of Jesus, His Hidden<\/em> Face,
\nis revealed only to those who themselves risk being hidden,
\nas the psalm says:
\n“Thou shalt hide them in the secret of Thy Face,
\nfrom the disturbance of men,
\nThou shalt protect them in Thy tabernacle
\nfrom the strife of tongues” (Psalm 30:20).
\nThe last place at the banquet is elusive;
\nhe who thinks he has found it
\nmay be surprised to discover
\nthat Another has taken a still lower place before him.
\nNo matter how low we think we have placed ourselves,
\nno matter how little we think we have made ourselves,
\nno matter how diligently we think we have sought the last place of all,
\nno matter how completely we imagine ourselves to be
\nburied in silence,
\nthere is Another, the Other,
\nwho has forever laid claim to the lowest place,
\nwho, though He be the infinite God,
\nCreator of all things visible and invisible,
\nhas made Himself littler than a crumb of bread.
\nHas He not made Himself
\nthe very last thing that remains
\nwhen all have left the banquet table:
\na fragment of bread to be stored away?
\nHas He not entered into an inviolable silence
\nthat astonishes even the angelic Choirs
\nand causes kings to fall silent and adore?
\nOne does not become humble by striving to be so,
\nfor all our striving is infected by an insidious pride.
\nOne does not become humble by striking humble poses,
\nby affecting a humble speech,
\nor even by thinking humble thoughts.
\nAnd why?
\nBecause humility belongs to God alone
\nwho made it His own in the mystery of the Incarnation,
\nand who continues to make it His own
\nso often as the mystic words are uttered by a priest
\nover a little bread and a little wine mixed with water:
\n“This is My Body. This is the chalice of My Blood.”
\nHere is the Mysterium Fidei<\/em>:
\nthe Eucharistic Humility of God.
\nEat the Body of Christ, and digest the Divine Humility.
\nDrink the Blood of Christ;
\nit is the elixir of those who would hide themselves with Christ in God.
\nSince the event of the Incarnation
\n–the descent of God into the Virgin’s womb,
\nin view of His descent into death’s dark tomb–
\nand so often as Holy Mass is celebrated
\n–the descent of God into the frail appearance of Bread
\nand into the taste and fragrance and wetness
\nof a few drops of wine–
\nhumility can be found nowhere else.
\nThe very least and last of the guests
\nhas become The Host,
\nand The Host
\nhas made Himself the very least and last of the guests.
\nTremble, then, to adore Him,
\nand having adored Him, receive Him,
\nthat your soul may become the throne of the Humble Hidden God,
\nand His humility your most cherished treasure.
\n“Learn from Me,” He says,
\n“for I am meek and humble of heart” (Matthew 11:29),
\nand again,
\n“Everyone that exalteth himself shall be humbled,
\nand he that humbleth himself shall be exalted” (Luke 14:11).
\nAdoremus in aeternum
\nsanctissimum et augustissimum Sacramentum.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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