One day while attending daily Mass at a certain Roman Catholic Church in a town in northern New Jersey, a “priest-celebrant” said the Mass, dressed in the full vestments required of a regular Mass. I noted that the Mass was being well said and thought it was nice to have such a priest who seemed so able to say the Mass so well and seemingly in communion with the attendees.
All went well and I was completely involved with the Mass and it was time to receive Holy Communion. When I knelt to receive the Host, my thought was I really want to receive Jesus in Communion. What happened was a combination of two powerful forces colliding in front of me in a way I was not quick enough to understand, or want to understand. I just wanted to receive Communion.
What happened was that I felt and saw, someone hitting the Host out of the hand of the “priest” and otherwise “fussing up,” and myself truly not quite understanding the whole thing, received the Host from the “priest’s” hand.
The person “fussing up” was Jesus, of course, in Eternity. When the Mass was over, the church building suddenly cleared of people and the cars in the parking lot disappeared. I was not sure of what was happening so I stayed in the church and watched what was happening. My thought was to “take the Tabernacle and run.” What I also noticed was an intensely angry Jesus, Who seemed to be some sort of squawking bird, flying round and round the top of the ceiling inside the church. He was an ugly (surprisingly ugly as only can be in Eternity), angry “Squawker”.
The thing is if you are ever at a Mass or any kind of Church service where things are not being said as they should be, that is, according to the rites and rituals approved by Jesus and His Father for their church, be wise if you think someone is pushing you away from Holy Communion. And watch and listen for the Squawker.
2022 Not too long ago, I was remembering the above incident. I was thinking of why Jesus, the human being was so upset and thought about the “priest-celebrant” who had been on the altar. And then I thought of the “Bridge Prayer” and prayed to Jesus, the Squawker:
“And may You use all for Your good, for Yours is the greater good.”
The thing is between my good and Jesus’s good, Jesus’s good is the greater good.
What
I saw was that Jesus, in His terrible upset, was calming down. Even though there may have been a terrible
sacrilege done by the “priest-celebrant” on the altar that day, when you ask of
Him, Jesus can use it for His good. The thing
is God, the Father can create only good and Jesus, His Son, can do only good.
We may recall the following:
“The
past is done and it cannot be changed or undone. And so we must leave it to His Mercy and ask
that He use all for His good, for His is the greater good.
“And the future we may not know and so must leave to His Divine Providence.
“Which leaves us right here in the present time, which is where Jesus is. For He is Yahweh, I am. For He and the Father are as one.”
Amen.
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