The following are words given by participants at the streamed meeting. 1 Corinthians 14:29 says that "Two or three prophets should speak, and the others weigh carefully what is said." 1 Thess 5:19-21 tells us not to despise prophecies, but to test everything and retain what is good.
At beginning of meeting Scripture Reading John 6:32-35 - "Jesus then said to them, "Very truly, I tell you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is that which comes down from heaven and gives life to the world." Then they said to him, "Sir, give us this bread always." Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me will never be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty."
Scripture Reading Isaiah 42:5-7 - "Thus says God, the Lord, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spreads out the earth with its crops, who gives breath to its people and spirit to those who walk on it: I, the Lord, have called you for the victory of justice, I have grasped you by the hand; I formed you, and set you as a covenant of the people, a light for the nations, to open the eyes of the blind, to bring out prisoners from confinement, and from the dungeon, those who live in darkness."
Scripture Reading John 6:48-58 - "I am the bread of life. Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die. I am the living bread that came down out of heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread also which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh." Then the Jews began to argue with one another, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?" So Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in yourselves. He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him. As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so he who eats me, he also will live because of me. This is the bread which came down out of heaven; not as the fathers ate and died; he who eats this bread will live forever."
Scripture Reading Isaiah 52:7 - "How wonderful it is to see a messenger coming across the mountains, bringing good news, the news of peace! He announces victory and says to Zion, "Your God is king!"
Prophecy - "My children, you are the ones whom I have created, who I have poured my love into. You are my people, you are my children, my anointed ones. My beloved, why do you fear? Why do you doubt? Do you not know that I desire what is good for you? Do you not know that I have the power and ability to be able to help you overcome all of the weaknesses, the challenges, the brokenness, the false beliefs, your unrealistic expectations? These and many more that keep my people in bondage, I am capable of pouring my resurrection into this. Yes, my children, my flesh and my blood is the means to which, through which, this resurrection can be accomplished. But it takes courage. It takes faith to believe, to believe that I have that power, to believe that I am a good God who only wants what is best for my people, my children. Tonight, my children, I am pouring upon you a very special gift. That gift is a gift of myself. That gift is a gift of the consumption of myself within your soul. For you will find more and more, as you come to receive the Eucharist, that in the Eucharist is my flesh, is my blood that was poured out for you, to transform you, to make you into a new being, to fill you with new life. Do not fear anymore of your vulnerability. Do not fear anymore of all of your sinfulness, for I have that power and capability to forgive your sins. I have the power and the capability to make you strong in your humility, in your surrender and in your vulnerability, for it is through me that you will be made strong. It is through me that you will be made well. Doubt no more, my children, believe. I am truly alive, I truly exist and I truly do heal."
Prophecy - "Again, I come to you. I come in my whole heart to fill you again with my heart, to renew your strength, to give you more peace, to be your peace of your whole life. Marvel and think about me because I have great gifts to give you, in wisdom and power and grace. So as you go about, your light that you have from me will shine out and your love that I have given you will radiate through each and every person that you will meet. My dearest children, come. Always remember that I am closer than the next step, closer than you can ever believe because you are my self in the world."
Scripture Reading Isaiah 43:1-4 - "Now thus says the Lord, he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: "Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, you shall not drown; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you. For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I give Egypt as your ransom, Ethopia and Seba in return for you. Because you are precious in my eyes, and glorious, and because I love you."
Prophecy - I feel the Lord is saying that in these times that the Lord is purging us from our sins of our inequities, our weaknesses. I feel that he is going very deep in our hearts and in our minds and our souls and he's bring out all those things that need purifying so that we may be made strong, so that we may be his hands, his feet, his mouthpiece; that we can go out to these people, to other people who are struggling and be able to say, "Look what he's done for me. He's taken me out of this darkness, out of this place of sin and selfish, where we couldn't see the light." The Lord is just bringing his light in so that we can encourage these people who are depressed, who feel like the Lord is not there for them, that they are such bad sinners and don't deserve the Lord. And so he's really doing that in us in these times. And I feel that he is working harder than ever to purify us and to make us more like him so that we may radiate and we may show the love of God.
Fr. Robert Spitzer, S.J. on Chris Stefanik show spoke about the Eucharist. Transubstantiation means that it turns into a substance beyond itself. The essential nature is going to transform into something beyond what it was. The host and wine become the body and blood of Christ.
Jesus is living in first century Jerusalem. People thought if you relive the Passover and you do that ritual, you would actually be going back into the sacred moment and you would share the graces of that sacred moment because you actually touched it and reentered it. The time between the celebration which could be a thousand years after the Passover actually happened, the time simply collapses. Well, Jesus has this view of time. This touches on what happens at Mass.
At the Last Supper, Jesus says, "This is my body given for you." The actual Greek translation: "Take, eat. This is my body being given for you." "This is the new covenant in my blood being poured out for you." Present passive participle - it's now. When the priest says, "Do this in memory of me," he doesn't mean call it to mind intellectually. It means "Relive this. Enter into the past reality so the past reality becomes present."
When the priest says, "This is my body given up for you." It's what it is. The time between the past event of Jesus handing that transformed bread to his disciples, transformed into his body; that bread transformed into his body now becomes simultaneous with the bread that the priest is holding up. Literally, the time between the two events collapses. You are receiving the very body that Jesus handed out.
Three more recent Eucharistic miracles. 1) 1996 Buenos Aires - Actual flesh growing out of the host. An atheist scientist sent a piece of this tissue to the pathology lab at New York University 3 years after the miracle occurred. There were a prolific number of live white blood cells. White blood cells only live for a very short amount of time. Not only were they alive, but they had embedded themselves in the tissue that comes from the ventricle wall, in the upper left ventricle, from where the blood flows into the body, which means that the man had experienced something like a polytrauma. It's a wounded heart. Blood type AB - AB recipient - we don't receive him, he receives us. The scientist became a very active Catholic.
2) 2006 Mexico - Blood and tissue exuding out of indentation in the host. Super team examining. Real blood, living red and living white blood cells coming out, outward. It was still bleeding 6 years afterwards. Completely disconnected from an embodied circulatory system. It's producing new blood. The heart had experienced a polytrauma.
3) 2018 Poland - Tissue was growing out of the host. Subjected it to electronic screening. It is so finely integrated together, substance of the host and the substance of the heart tissue. It's totally intertwined; you could not produce it.
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