Church of Jesus Christ of the Universe

By Mauro

28.3.2024

Ez 12, 1-8. 11-14; Ps. 115(116); 1Co 11, 23-26; Jn 13, 1-15

In this Triduum we want to be with Jesus. We want in this Triduum not only to contemplate the action of Jesus and Mary Most Holy, but really to be with them.

So right now, we are in the Last Supper, right now we are hearing the testament that Jesus left to each of us. In the first reading we heard about Passover as the Jews lived it, the covenant made through the sacrifice of a lamb^[1]. In the Last Supper there is the new alliance with the Body and Blood of Christ. It is the way that God chose, that Jesus chose to remain with us always. The Eucharist is also named ‘communion’, and He decided to remain in a piece of bread and in the wine – which is His Blood – precisely to demonstrate this dimension of communion even with the body, since we eat Him. A communion that is, of course, in spirit but also concrete, with Him, with a person who enters us and lives within us. He becomes one with us.

Jesus comes to the Last Supper having spoken for three years. He had explained everything. He had shown his presence in all the Scriptures, in all the prophets. He opened the way on what the Church will be. He also said everything that will happen to Him, He said it before as a testimony: “I told you, believe in me. It will happen like this, like this, like this”. He had shown the face of the Father, and in the Last Supper he prepares Himself to be a victim, a victim consumed, eaten. He prepares Himself to be that victim who will repair all sin. We know that it was not enough for Jesus alone to be that victim, humanity also had to be represented by Mary Most Holy. There are two victims. Some will say that this is heresy, but I repeat it again.

Through this passage (I know that we believe it in faith, but trying to penetrate it is another thing) that wall that prevents us from seeing the truth, that wall that prevents us from hearing the Father’s voice, that wall that prevents us from being a child of God, is broken down inside each one of us, inside every man. It is a work that He does, but we must believe in it. Jesus showed the way in everything in these three years. That is, He spoke in detail for everyone: for those who are married, for those who are not, for those who are slaves, for those who are soldiers,… He gave the way to everyone; everyone is shown the way. No one can say: “My condition prevents me”, because He indicated the way for everyone.

He showed how to live. Why did He also decide to remain in the Eucharist? He had already said everything. He remains in the Eucharist – and Peter and all the apostles show us well – because when He is detached from this Earth, when He is no longer present with His vibrations, the whole world will come into confusion. And it is only through the Eucharist that He will continue to nourish our spirit; through the Eucharist that He will continue to revive that vortex within us, that gives us light, that teaches us what to do, that reminds us what He said, who we are, where we are going: the Eucharist, Him!

When does this act powerfully? I say, it is not enough to believe in the Eucharist, it is not enough to go to mass: we must love it. You have to LOVE it! You have to love it, I don’t know how to tell you how to love it, but please: love the Eucharist, then you will see miracles. Love it! More than your life. It is not bread, it is not wine: it is Jesus! Love Him. To love Him is not just to adore Him, prostrate ourselves, whip ourselves, do what you want: it is to love Him! And each of you loves as you know how to love, but love Him.

You understand that to love Him is not just to go and ask: “Give me, do this, help me, fix this, protect me”. That is not love. If that is love for you, sorry, but that is not love. Do you think someone who comes to you every time he needs something, loves you?

The Eucharist, Jesus, stays with us, stays with men, knowing – because He knew everything – that He would stay so long in the tabernacles alone, knowing that there would be many who would abuse Him, who would take Him, who would do sacrilege, who would make black masses with Him, who would use Him in certain rites; He knew this but He stayed out of love.

We know now that He ended this whole dimension in 2012, He said: “It is enough”. The Eucharist is only consecrated in the Church of Jesus Christ, it is consecrated by priests of Jesus Christ. They receive it everywhere, but only those who want to participate in the Church of Jesus Christ, and only that host that enters those people is consecrated. It was a great blow to Lucifer’s army, without the Eucharist.

Jesus is now present in His second coming. Those vibrations that were missing have returned. He is present in the Eucharist. In the Eucharist there is the whole Trinitarian action, if you look: the Father sending His Spirit to consecrate, the Holy Spirit being obtained by the Sacrifice of Jesus, Jesus again entering the bread and wine and again offering Himself. It is all a Trinitarian action. But what should that Trinitarian action produce? That Trinitarian action must lead the Church of Christ to live what we read in the Gospel: Jesus washing feet. “What I have done to you, you do not understand”^[2]. It is not washing feet. We could say in other words that Jesus said: “Love one another as I have loved you”^[3].

Without the Eucharist it is impossible to love one another as Jesus loved us. But there is a passage, this dimension of being offered one for the other, this dimension of loving each other as Jesus loves: if we cannot do it among ourselves, if we cannot do it as the Church and we think of bringing it to others, we bring nothing. We do good works, we do works of charity, we do beautiful things, but we do not convey this spiritual dimension, this mystery that is the life of God, this mystery that is the Eucharist. We do not convey what the Eucharist produces within us, we do not convey Love – in other words, the Love of God; we convey human love, which sometimes, we know, hurts more than stones.

I do not say this to be polemical, but this dimension that Bergoglio now has of going to wash feet here and there is a sacrilege. Jesus washed them for the apostles, he did not wash them for the Muslims. He washed them for the apostles and gave the apostles the task: “Do it among yourselves^[4]. If you do not know how to do it among yourselves, you cannot go out”.

Acts of charity, when they become human and are made by Christians or – which is worse – by representatives of Christians, create confusion, and move from the level of the spirit (of life) to the level of the spirit of the world. And instead of bringing primary energy they bring destructive energy.

In the Last Supper, in this Trinitarian action, all the sacraments of the Church have their origin. But what is the Church? It is a family. The first Church was Mary, Joseph and Jesus. The Church today, if we were at the Last Supper, are the apostles, Mary, the women, the shepherds, a few people; a few people who in a few hours will all or almost all escape except Mary and John, but nevertheless they are the Church, persecuted, weak, fleeing but this is the Church. Why? Because they love Jesus. Perhaps they love Him in the wrong way, they may not be perfect, they may have weaknesses, but they love Him. Then the Sacrifice acts, the Eucharist acts. But if we do not love Jesus, if we do not know Him, nothing acts.

What the Eucharist brings is supernatural, it is a mystery. In fact, we say ‘mystery of faith’ after the consecration, but it is that mystery that, if we love and believe in it, opens the door to all mysteries. The Eucharist brings us into the mystery because it is Jesus who enters us. And from mass to mass, from Sacrifice to Sacrifice, we really begin to love one another. Then, since the Church is not a sect, as every family should not be, if that love for the Eucharist is true, if our mass is true, it leads us to others; but skipping this step is a trap. I hope I explained it well.

What I really wanted to tell you is: let us try to approach this gift with love. This will lead us not to experience the mass: “I attended mass”. Love it! There is nothing else I can say to you. Each of you, look at yourselves and love that Lord as you would love your husband, your wife, and even your children and more, since He says: “He who loves father, mother more than me is not worthy of me”^[5].

Accompany us, O Mother, to live these days as You lived them. Let the love for Jesus in the Eucharist and His presence within us help us to also pass the Cross together with Jesus, help us to look within ourselves at the betrayals we make to Jesus. Help us to see when we are the ones who scourge Him in these days, to see when we have denied Him, when we have spat on Him, when we have plucked His beard. May the Eucharist that we receive today, your protection, your love, help us to pass through these trials to rise again without remaining closed in on ourselves, on our limitations: to rise again, to enter into life, into truth, eager to meet the Resurrected Christ. May your blessing descend today on all the dying, on all the sick, on all those who have lost their lives and are at this moment in front of St Michael, in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.

^[1] See Ez 12, 1-8. 11-14

^[2] See Jn 13, 1-11

^[3] See Jn 13, 34

^[4] See Jn 13, 14-15

[5] Mt 10, 37