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Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you (J 6, 53)
Jesus present in the Eucharist—the greatest source of Divine Power on earth—is also the object of constant attacks by the Evil One. To cite some examples: a few years ago the Vicar General of the Diocese of Turin, Italy, Fr. Franco Peradotto, was obliged to raise the alarm over increasing instances of profanation of the Host in northern Italy.
On July 31, 2002, in the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City, Pope John Paul II solemnly canonized the Indian Juan Diego, to whom, in the dawn hours of December 9, 1531, Our Lady appeared on the hill of Tepeyac. Saint Juan Diego was born in 1474. His given name in the language of the Aztecs meant Singing Eagle. He was baptized in 1525 along with his maternal uncle, Juan Bernardino, whom he regarded as his adopted father. They were among the first Indians to be converted to Christianity by the Spanish Franciscan missionaries.
Like the posthumous impression of Christ’s body on the Shroud of Turin, the miraculous image of Our Lady of Guadalupe remains an insoluble riddle to modern science. The chronicles report that during her apparitions of 1531 Our Blessed Mother left her impress on the tilma of the Mexican Indian Juan Diego.
In his Apostolic Letter on the Year of the Eucharist, John Paul II encourages all the faithful in the ensuing months to deepen their Eucharistic devotion in a special way.
The following is taken from the writings of the Bolivian mystic Catalina Rivas. The visions described below are the product of divinely inspired mystical experiences. Through these moving images, God seeks to underscore the importance of the Sacrament of the Eucharist and tell the whole truth about what transpires during every Holy Mass.
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