The Blood of Christ and the Handmaid of the Lord 

As I pondered the beautiful black marble Church in my dream, which I shared with you in my first meditation entitled To Work for the Glory of Holy Church, I noticed that there wasn't a statue of Mary in the Church. There was no statue of her--that's true, but I knew she was present. But where?

And then the Holy Spirit showed me that she was down on her hands and knees, cleaning the floor of the Church beside me. She is the handmaid of the Lord, and I am her daughter, her little handmaid, helping her to clean the Church. 

Some would say that that's not a very dignified image of Mary, but still it is a true image, perhaps truer than many conventional images of her. I did a search on the internet and found one image of Mary cleaning a floor. It is in the movie The Passion of the Christ, the scene in which Mary, with Mary Magdalene beside her, both on their hands and knees,  using the fine linen cloths that Pilate's wife had brought to her, to wipe up the Blood of Jesus from the floor where He was just scourged and dragged to the dungeon where He was shackled. 

 

I am your little handmaid, Mother. I want to be your Mary Magdalene, beside you to accompany and honor Jesus in His Passion, and to receive and carry His Precious Blood, to save souls on earth and liberate those suffering in purgatory. 

O my God! Most Blessed Trinity! I desire to love You and to make You loved; to work for the glory of Holy Church by saving souls on earth

and liberating those suffering in purgatory.

(Act of Oblation to Merciful Love of St. Therese of Lisieux) 

In Jesus' Agony in the Garden of Gethsemane on the night that He was arrested, He sweated drops of Blood, so great was His grief at the thought of the souls who would reject the salvation that He would obtain for them through the pouring out of His Precious Blood. 

And being in an agony He prayed more earnestly; and His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down upon the ground. (Luke 22:44) 

In my dream, Mary, who could not be seen, was soaking up Jesus' Precious Blood with the linen cloths of Her Immaculate and Sorrowful Heart. Who inflicted the wounds upon Our Lord's Body, which caused His Blood to be spilled out upon the floor of the Church, wasted? In my dream there were little groups of people standing around after Mass, chatting as if at a cocktail party. 

This Scripture comes to mind: 

Whoever, therefore, eats the Bread or drinks the Cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of profaning the Body and Blood of the Lord.  Let a man examine himself, and so eat of the Bread and drink of the Cup.  For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the Body eats and drinks judgment upon himself.. But if we judged ourselves truly, we should not be judged.  But when we are judged by the Lord, we are chastened so that we may not be condemned along with the world. 

(I Cor 11:27-29..31-32) 

In a Pew Survey in 2019, only 31% of Catholics believed that the bread and wine become the Body and Blood of Jesus when the priest consecrates them. 63% of Catholics who attend Mass at least once a week believe that the consecrated bread and wine are the Body and Blood of Jesus; 37% of faithful Mass attenders believe it is just a symbol. 

It is the scourging of Our Lord's Eucharistic Heart! Those who receive Holy Communion with mortal sin on their souls eat and drink judgment upon themselves...But when we are judged by the Lord, we are chastened so that that we may not be condemned along with the world. 

Sorrowful Mother, handmaid of the Lord, with you I pray in reparation for the sins of those of my brothers and sisters who profane the Body and Blood of Jesus! I pray that, through you, they will receive the light of the Holy Spirit, to discern the Body of Christ and judge themselves truly. Lord have mercy on us! 

Cami little handmaid

February 1, 2021