XX Edition October
2005
Heart to heart
"The
Father Seeks True Worshipers"
EDITORIAL Mother Adela Galindo,
Foundress, SCTJM
© Only for
personal use
Dear Family in
the Two Hearts:
“But the hour is
coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers, will worship the
Father in spirit and truth.. for the Father seeks such as these to
worship him.” (John 4, 23).
The hour has come, Jesus says to the Samaritan woman, and with the
word «hour», He wants to show us a specific moment in time chosen by
the Father for the fulfillment of his plan for salvation. “Hour” is
a particular important time, of singular grace; a precise moment in
which God manifests His designs upon mankind.
Each generation
has the responsibility to identify “their particular hour”,
in God’s plan, to be able to understand it, embrace the graces that
come along with it, and be able to respond responsibly to God’s
will. In other words, each generation is responsible for identifying
the signs which manifest at their particular time, just as the
Second Vatican Council teaches us in the Constitution GS, 4: “ it
belongs to the Church the permanent duty of being able to scrutinize
thoroughly the signs of the times, and be able to interpret them in
the light of the Gospel, in such a way that each generation can
respond accordingly.”
God’s word is
eternal, it is the same for each generation, however, in each of
them, it accentuates a particular dimension, depending on the
historical circumstances. Our generation, very secularized,
disoriented and threatened by so many dark shadows, hears today the
exact same words which Christ spoke to the Samaritan woman: ¡The
time has come to be true worshipers!... to recognize Jesus as
our Lord, “ the center of the history of the Church and the history
of humanity” (MND,6), and of your personal history, too. This is
the time to truly open our hearts, in order to be able to
contemplate the face of Christ, to worship his real presence, to
penetrate in his mysteries, and be in the world, illumined and
authentic witnesses of his love and life.
Therefore, our time, is a time particularly Eucharistic, a time in
which we should be formed in the school of the Heart of Mary, and to
enter deeply, guided by Her hand, into the Mysteries of love of the
Eucharistic Heart. it within the power of the Holy Spirit. It is a
time of special graces. A time which is Eucharistic, Marian and
Charismatic. We will be able to experience the graces of this time
if we live it in the cenacle of the heart of the Church.
The Holy Spirit
has taken us to this “Eucharistic time" through a spiritual
path led by the Servant of God, John Paul II, and which our Holy
Father Pope Benedict XVI, with sharp intuition has taking into his
own hands to carry it through. Through this journey, Pope John Paul
II, guided the attention of the entire Church, through our
Blessed Mother, the ever-virgin Mary, to the meditation and the
worship of our Eucharistic Christ. In the year 2000, the Jubilee
Year, a particular year of mercy and grace, he called us to
contemplate the face of Christ, to encounter Him and from Him to
embark on the road to the history of the Third Millennium.
In the year
2002, he proclaimed the Year of the Holy Rosary, exhorting us to
contemplate the face of Christ in union with the Blessed Mother. He
introduced us to the Luminous Mysteries which reveal the salvific
and luminous presence of the Word made flesh among us. How could
these luminous mysteries not culminate with the Institution of the
Eucharist ?
Within the Year
of the Rosary, John Paul II, promulgated the encyclical: “Ecclesia
de Eucharistia, "The Church Lives of the Eucharist", with the
intention of enlightening the mystery of the Eucharist, and it’s
inseparable and vital relationship with the Life of the Church. Most
importantly, the Holy Father, suggested that all of us in the Church
should have a dire need of having a “Eucharistic Spirituality”,
and He showed us, the Blessed Virgin Mary, as the perfect example,
of a truly “Eucharistic woman” (EE. n.53). She is the incomparable
model.
On October 7,
2004, the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, He gave us the apostolic
letter, Mame Nobiscum Domine, “Stay with us, oh, Lord”,
in which He exhorts us to “rediscover the mystery of love of the
Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist”, and, proclaimed for the
entire Church: “The Year of the Eucharist”. This would be
from October-2004 to October-2005, concluding with the Synod of
Bishops in Rome, which theme was: “ The Eucharist source and
summit of the life and mission of the Church”.
Just as Pope
John Paul II said in his Apostolic Letter: “The Year of the
Eucharist has a background which has been enriching itself year by
year, firmly centered on the topic of Christ, and the contemplation
of His Holy Face. In other words, this particular year is seen as
the culmination of the entire road taken”. Just as the shining star
which guided the three Kings, our Holy Father, through his
Pontificate, made us walk a road which would culminate at the foot
of our Savior, at the foot of our Eucharistic Jesus, so that we
could prostrate ourselves in His Holy Presence and worship Him. I
believe this to be another sign (of many) which revolved around the
life of this Great Pope. The fact that He died during the Year of
the Eucharist, and that He was able to accomplish his mission,
always holding on tight to Mary’s hand. Also, the fact that He was
able to take the entire Church, in front of the Lord, in front of
our Eucharistic Jesus. This is the reason why, his last word, before
entering the House of the Father, was Amen!
He was known as
the Pope who lived prostrated in front of the Eucharist. He lived
having the Eucharist as the center of the life of the Church, and He
died guiding the eyes of the Church to contemplate Our Eucharistic
Lord. Another sign, which for me is very clear, of this journey by
which John Paul II took us to the feet of the Blessed Sacrament, is
the fact that the theme which he chose for World Youth Day in
Cologne, (precisely where the remains of the Three Kings are
located) was: “ We have come to worship Him”. This
particular event would become for Pope Benedict XVI, his
first apostolic trip outside of Italy. He knelt with the
youth, and overall, with the entire Church, at the
feet of our Lord, the Eucharistic Christ.
This Eucharistic
mission, Pope John Paul II, placed it in the hands of his great
successor, who will gather the entire Church together at the foot of
our Eucharistic Christ, and from there, with the power which flows
from the Real Presence of Christ in the Blessed Sacrament, he will
take the Church through the dark and dangerous desert by which the
Church walks at the beginning of the Third Millennium. At the
conclusion of the Eucharistic Congress, during his homily, Pope
Benedict XVI told us: “the world which we live in, many times
characterized by it’s out of control consumerism, by it’s religious
indifference, by it’s secularism which is closed to it’s
consequences, could appear as a harsh desert, just as the great and
terrible desert described on the first reading, taken from the book
of Deuteronomy. God set out to help the Jewish people who were in
trouble with the gift of manna. We need this Bread of Life to
confront the efforts and weariness of this journey. If the
Church lives of the Eucharist, how can we live without it ?
The Holy Spirit
has desired to take the Church of these times, to a deep Eucharistic
spirituality, because it is precisely here whereby lies the “key” to
the new Springtime of the Church:
¡The Church
lives of the Eucharist!
May the
worship and meditation of the Eucharistic Jesus be the center of the
life of the Church and of our lives !
In order to be
able to learn this spirituality, John Paul II told us that we should
enter into the school of the Heart of Mary, for her heart is so
perfectly united to Christ. She is the woman of the Eucharist, the
one that contemplated the mysteries of her Son with her immaculate
eyes and pondered them and kept them carefully, in Her Maternal
Heart. Therefore, the Church and everyone of us, must at the cenacle
of her Maternal Heart learn to contemplate the profound mysteries of
love of the Heart of Her Son.
In the love of the Eucharistic Heart,
Mother Adela, SCTJM
Foundress
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