“The Eucharist is a remedy”

 

A)  The text of the speech by J.M.Bergoglio:

Matthew was a “publican”, namely, a tax collector on behalf of the Roman Empire, and for this reason was considered a public sinner. But Jesus calls Matthew to follow him and to become his disciple. Matthew accepts, and invites Jesus along with the disciples to have dinner at his house. Thus an argument arises between the Pharisees and the disciples of Jesus over the fact that the latter sit at the table with tax collectors and sinners. “You cannot go to these people’s homes!”, they said. Jesus does not stay away from them, but instead goes to their houses and sits beside them; this means that they too can become his disciples. It is likewise true that being Christian does not render us flawless……
By calling sinners to his table, he heals them, restoring to them the vocation that they believed had been lost and which the Pharisees had forgotten: that of being guests at God’s banquet. According to the prophecy of Isaiah: “On this mountain the Lord of hosts will make for all peoples a feast of fat things, a feast of wine on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wine on the lees well refined…. It will be said on that day, ‘Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, that he might save us. This is the Lord; we have waited for him; let us be glad and rejoice in his salvation” (25:6, 9).
When the Pharisees see only sinners among the invited, and refuse to be seated with them, Jesus to the contrary reminds them that they too are guests at God’s table. Thus, sitting at the table with Jesus means being transformed and saved by him. In the Christian community the table of Jesus is twofold: there is the table of the Word and there is the table of the Eucharist (cf. Dei Verbum, n. 21). These are the medicines with which the Divine Physician heals us and nourishes us…. The Eucharist, for its part, nourishes us with the very life of Jesus, like an immensely powerful remedy and, in a mysterious way, it continuously renews the grace of our Baptism. By approaching the Eucharist we are nourished of the Body and Blood of Jesus, and by entering us, Jesus joins us to his Body!” (General Audience – Saint Peter’s Square – Wednesday, 13 April 2016)

 

B) References to Scriptures:

In all truth I tell you, everyone who believes has eternal life. I am the bread of life. Your fathers ate manna in the desert and they are dead; but this is the bread which comes down from heaven, so that a person may eat it and not die.I am the living bread which has come down from heaven. Anyone who eats this bread will live for ever; and the bread that I shall give is my flesh, for the life of the world” (Joh 6:47-51)

As the living Father send me and I draw life from the Father, so whoever eats me will life from me. This is the bread which has come down from heaven; it is not like the bread our ancestors ate: they are dead, but anyone who eats this bread will live for ever” (Joh 6:57-58)

 

C) Comment:

For Bergoglio the Eucharist is “a remedy.” However powerful, just “a remedy.” But the Eucharist is Christ, the living and true Bread.

Christ can never be described as “a remedy.” Who says such, blasphemes and despises the gift that the Father has given to mankind. Christ is OUR ALL, He that can do everything! Other than remedy!

Christ, the living Bread that came down from heaven, becomes flesh and blood to give His life to those who, being in the state of grace, want to take part of Him, to deify themselves more and more and to live right from now, the true Life.

Wanting holiness and to escape from all that is sinful is neither pride nor presumption. It is wanting to die to all that is world, to live in the fullness Christ, living Bread came down from heaven.

The Christian who wants to be authentic, is opposed to what Bergoglio says, lives to be “flawless” and so “without sin”.

Just as Christ and Mary, the Immaculate, are without sin, the children of Christ and Mary, after being born again from above, in the Spirit, want to live to be “impeccable”, “without sin.”

The children of the evil one, instead, would have one falsely believe that it is not possible to live without sinning. And teaching so, makes many think that it is impossible to live without sin, they give up and stop fighting against the evil one, resigning without fighting it.

Here is the subtle deception that tries to make sleep and stop the children of God.

Never God’s children will stop fighting the evil one and his children! The children of God, in communion with Christ, the living Bread come down from Heaven, are and always will be, to win the iniquity and make triumph the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Mother Church, New Jerusalem, for the glory and honour of Almighty God, Good and Just Father.