26 Vol. LX, No. 1 Magnificat You know! – Oh, Little Jesus, I love You, I am Yours... Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for me, now that it is time for me to die. – When my heart hurts and beats too hard, and it feels as if it will break loose, I tell Little Jesus: “You calm it down, since You are the One who is inside.” – I am not afraid of anything, not even death, because death is the door that leads to Heaven. – Jesus and I love each other so much! He doesn’t want to cure me because He wants me for Himself!” On January 2, the First Friday of the month, Guy wanted to receive Communion in Viaticum... “Mamma,” he said, ”prepare the table, put flowers on it, and your prettiest lace, the Pope’s beautiful crucifix and lots of candles. Nothing is too beautiful for dear Little Jesus who is coming to His little Guy! Oh, I love Him! Tell Him for me, because I get so tired when I speak.” When it came time to leave his family, he showed them how much he loved them; a few moments before he breathed his last, he said to his mother, as if to console her by reminding her of the price of the Saviour’s cross: “My little mamma, when I am up there near little Jesus, I will send you some crosses.... You will have to accept them well.” What a great lesson the Lord gives us by inspiring such words in a child scarcely eleven years old, at the very moment when he is suffering the most and about to leave a tenderly loved mother. God is admirable in His saints! SOURCES: La Survie de Guy de Fontgalland, Étude documentaire – The Afterlife of Guy de Fontgalland, Documentary study (Emmanuel Vitte: Lyon-Paris, 1931; Cécile Vereertbrugghen, Saint Pie X et la Communion fréquente – Saint Pius X and frequent Communion (Bulletin of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Pius X, 2005); Countess Marie-Renée de Fontgalland, Une Âme d’enfant, Guy de Fontgalland – The Soul of a Child, Guy de Fontgalland (Bonne Presse: Paris, 1925 – reprinted by Editions Magnificat: Mont-Tremblant QC, 2003). OUR ardent faith in the Divine Sacrament of the Altar moves Us to exhort the faithful to receive Holy Communion as often as possible. It is by being nourished with God in the Eucharist that the soul is most surely vivified and transformed, provided one goes to Communion with the required dispositions. Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the Flesh of the Son of Man, and drink His Blood, you shall not have life in you. He who eats My Flesh and drinks My Blood has life everlasting, and I will raise him up on the last day. For My Flesh is food indeed, and My Blood is drink indeed. (St. John 6:54-56) LET the faithful also make it a happy duty to attend the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass daily, if possible; it is the most powerful prayer and the pre-eminent means of adoring and thanking God, of asking Him forgiveness and graces for oneself and for the whole world. The Eucharist is the center of Christianity. We will never be able to overstate the esteem one must have for it. Saint Peter Julian Eymard says, “The reign of the Eucharist is the reign of the Church, and where the Eucharist is forgotten, the Church has only unfaithful children, and soon it will be weeping over a new desolation.” IS this not the desolation We are now weeping over, for want of having used this sublime gift of the Eucharist?... We must cast off this great negligence. God wants to save the world and the Church. He will do it mainly through His Eucharist! Gregory XVII, Universal Encyclical for Christian unity, Peter Speaks to the World (Editions Magnificat: Mont-Tremblant QC, 1975, second edition 1995), Nos 451-456. The importance of the EUCHARIST
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