I took every one of you who love and miss Our Lord both in the Holy Mass and His Real Presence reposed in the Tabernacle to prayer and Mass with me today. I also made a Sacramental Communion and asked Our Lord to “multiply” His Infinite Love to all of you just as He multiplied the loaves and the fishes.
I especially loved the Wednesday of the Fourth Week of Lent Post-Communion (said as a commemoration on this Feast of the Annunciation):
Let us pray.
May the sacrament we have received, O Lord, both fill us with spiritual nourishment and sustain us with bodily aid.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end.
R. Amen.
Bodily aid.
And how can any of us fear anything with Gabriel on our side… and he is just an Archangel!
As I have said for many years, THIS is who I want to be when I grow up. I want to love… LIKE THIS:
The Annunciation (detail of the Archangel Gabriel), Leonardo da Vinci, ARSH 1472, Uffizi Gallery, Florence
And I want to submit to God’s will like THIS:
The Annunciation (detail of the Blessed Virgin), Leonardo da Vinci, ARSH 1472, Uffizi Gallery, Florence