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What inspired Archbishop Sheen to make a Holy Hour before Our Lord in the Most Blessed Sacrament each day?
"Again and again I wander to and fro directing My children to
remain close to the Eucharist, the Bread of life. But do not become
misguided: Do not accept My Son's Body in your hands." - Our Lady
of the Roses, July 15, 1978 |
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THIS
GREAT SACRAMENT OF LOVE
A
couple of months before his death Bishop Fulton J. Sheen was
interviewed
on national television. One of the questions was this:
"Bishop
Sheen, you have inspired millions of people all over the world.
Who inspired you? Was it a Pope?"
Bishop
Sheen responded that it was not a Pope, a cardinal, another bishop,
or even a priest or a nun. It was a little Chinese girl of eleven
years of age. He explained that when the Communists took over
China, they imprisoned a priest in his own rectory near the
Church. After they locked him up in his own house, the
priest was horrified to look out of his window and see the
Communists proceed into the Church, where they went into the
sanctuary and broke into the tabernacle. In an act of hateful
desecration, they took the ciborium and threw it on the floor with
all of the Sacred Hosts spilling out. The priest knew exactly how
many Hosts were in the ciborium: thirty-two.
When
the Communists left, they either did not notice, or didn't pay
any
attention to a small girl praying in the back of the Church who
saw everything that had happened. That night the little girl
came back. Slipping past the guard at the priest's house, she went
inside the Church. There she made a holy hour of prayer, an act of
love to make up for the act of hatred.
After
her holy hour she went into the sanctuary, knelt down, bent over
and with her tongue received Jesus in Holy Communion, (since it
was not permissible for laymen to touch the Sacred Host with their
hands.)
The
little girl continued to come back each night to make her holy
hour and receive Jesus in Holy Communion on her tongue. On the
thirty-second
night, after she had consumed the last and thirty-second host, she
accidentally made a noise and woke the guard who was sleeping. He
ran after her, caught her, and beat her to death with the
butt of his rifle. This act of heroic martyrdom was witnessed by
the priest as he watched grief-stricken from his bedroom window.
When
Bishop Sheen heard the story he was so inspired that he promised
God he would make a holy hour of prayer before Jesus in the
Blessed Sacrament everyday of his life. If this frail,
little child could
give testimony and witness to the world concerning the real and
wonderful Presence of her Savior in the Blessed Sacrament, then
the Bishop was absolutely bound by all that was right and true, to
do the same. His sole desire from then on was to bring the world
to the burning Heart of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.
The
little girl showed the Bishop what true courage and zeal really
is;
how faith could overcome all fear, how true love for Jesus in the
Eucharist
must transcend life itself. What is hidden in the Sacred Host
is
the glory of His love. The sun in the sky is symbolic of the Son
of God in the Blessed Sacrament. This is why most monstrances are
in the form of a sunburst. As the sun is the natural source of all
energy, the Blessed Sacrament is the supernatural source of
all grace and love. The Blessed Sacrament is JESUS, the Light of
the world.
Excerpt
from an article "Let the SON shine out" by Rev. Martin
Lucia
*Note:
Communion should never be taken in the hand. (Read
more...)
If you wish to make a holy hour before the blessed Sacrament, visit this site that has a listing of all the adoration chapels in the United States: http://www.therealpresence.org/chap_fr.htm Links
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