{"id":477,"date":"2018-04-05T04:00:19","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T08:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/?p=477"},"modified":"2018-04-05T04:00:19","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T08:00:19","slug":"day-30-knowledge-of-jesus-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/spiritual-practices\/marian-consecration\/day-30-knowledge-of-jesus-christ\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 30 – Knowledge of Jesus Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"

Day 30 – Mary, the Eucharist and the Incarnation<\/strong><\/p>\n

A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke:<\/p>\n

And Mary said to the angel, \u201cHow can this be, since I have no husband?\u201d And the angel said to her, \u201cThe Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy, the Son of God. (Luke 1:34-35)<\/p>\n

And he took bread, and when he had given thanks he broke it and gave it to them, saying, \u201cThis is my body which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.\u201d And likewise the chalice after supper, saying, \u201cThis chalice which is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood.\u201d (Luke 22:19-20)<\/p>\n

From Pope Saint John Paul II\u2019s Apostolic Letter Ecclesia de Eucharistia<\/em> #55:<\/p>\n

In a certain sense Mary lived her Eucharistic faith even before the institution of the Eucharist, by the very fact that she offered her virginal womb for the Incarnation of God’s Word. The Eucharist, while commemorating the passion and resurrection, is also in continuity with the incarnation. At the Annunciation Mary conceived the Son of God in the physical reality of his body and blood, thus anticipating within herself what to some degree happens sacramentally in every believer who receives, under the signs of bread and wine, the Lord’s body and blood.<\/p>\n

As a result, there is a profound analogy between the Fiat which Mary said in reply to the angel, and the Amen which every believer says when receiving the body of the Lord. Mary was asked to believe that the One whom she conceived \u201cthrough the Holy Spirit\u201d was \u201cthe Son of God\u201d (Lk 1:30-35). In continuity with the Virgin’s faith, in the Eucharistic mystery we are asked to believe that the same Jesus Christ, Son of God and Son of Mary, becomes present in his full humanity and divinity under the signs of bread and wine.<\/p>\n

\u201cBlessed is she who believed\u201d (Lk 1:45). Mary also anticipated, in the mystery of the incarnation, the Church’s Eucharistic faith. When, at the Visitation, she bore in her womb the Word made flesh, she became in some way a \u201ctabernacle\u201d \u2013 the first \u201ctabernacle\u201d in history \u2013 in which the Son of God, still invisible to our human gaze, allowed himself to be adored by Elizabeth, radiating his light as it were through the eyes and the voice of Mary. And is not the enraptured gaze of Mary as she contemplated the face of the newborn Christ and cradled him in her arms that unparalleled model of love which should inspire us every time we receive Eucharistic communion?<\/p>\n

\u2026<\/p>\n

What must Mary have felt as she heard from the mouth of Peter, John, James and the other Apostles the words spoken at the Last Supper: \u201cThis is my body which is given for you\u201d (Lk 22:19)? The body given up for us and made present under sacramental signs was the same body which she had conceived in her womb! For Mary, receiving the Eucharist must have somehow meant welcoming once more into her womb that heart which had beat in unison with hers and reliving what she had experienced at the foot of the Cross.<\/p>\n

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Reflection:<\/p>\n

Every Mass brings us to the womb of Mary, where Christ first became present in His Body and Blood. Every Tabernacle is a copy of that first Tabernacle, which is Mary\u2019s womb, where Christ spent the first nine months of His life. If we want to be close to Jesus in His Body and Blood, even to hide ourselves away in the Tabernacle with Him, then we can do that by consecrating ourselves to Mary, by hiding away in her womb. Jesus remains there in all His hiddenness and littleness, in that first Tabernacle. Are we too big too fit, too full of ourselves, too busy with the things of the world? Or can we let ourselves be hidden in love to find the Hidden Love who remains wrapped in love? Can we allow ourselves to be confined to God\u2019s will, which is nothing other than the womb, than the heart of Mary, who was always freely confined to God\u2019s will? Mary teaches us to make a home in ourselves for Jesus, a Tabernacle, a womb in our hearts for Him to remain always. We do that by uttering with her our Yes to God\u2019s will\u2026Fiat.<\/p>\n

Prayers:<\/a><\/p>\n

Litany of the Powerlessness of Jesus<\/p>\n

Litany of Christ Living in the Womb of Mary<\/p>\n

Prayer of St Thomas Aquinas before Holy Communion<\/p>\n

Prayer of Entrustment to the Womb of Mary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Day 30 – Mary, the Eucharist and the Incarnation A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke: And Mary said to the angel, \u201cHow can this be, since I have no husband?\u201d And the angel said to her, \u201cThe Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[49],"tags":[30,12,5,40],"class_list":["post-477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marian-consecration","tag-eucharist","tag-mary","tag-pope-st-john-paul-ii","tag-prayer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/img_2500.jpg?fit=865%2C1015&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7bfMR-7H","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":335,"url":"https:\/\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/spiritual-practices\/marian-consecration\/day-21-knowledge-of-mary\/","url_meta":{"origin":477,"position":0},"title":"Day 21 – Knowledge of Mary","author":"Father Boniface Hicks, O.S.B.","date":"March 27, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Day 21 - Mary - abandoned to God becomes our Mother A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke: In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Marian Consecration"","block_context":{"text":"Marian Consecration","link":"https:\/\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/category\/spiritual-practices\/marian-consecration\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Virgin-and-Child-Domenico-Corvi-oil-painting-Edit.jpg?fit=860%2C1062&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Virgin-and-Child-Domenico-Corvi-oil-painting-Edit.jpg?fit=860%2C1062&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Virgin-and-Child-Domenico-Corvi-oil-painting-Edit.jpg?fit=860%2C1062&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Virgin-and-Child-Domenico-Corvi-oil-painting-Edit.jpg?fit=860%2C1062&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":9603,"url":"https:\/\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/consecration-to-the-hearts-of-jesus-mary-and-joseph\/day-17-the-great-love-of-josephs-heart-for-mary-and-jesus\/","url_meta":{"origin":477,"position":1},"title":"Day 17: The Great Love of Joseph’s Heart for Mary and Jesus","author":"Father Boniface Hicks, O.S.B.","date":"May 25, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"READING 1Matthew 1:18-25 Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way. 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