“o My God I believe in Thee, I adore in Thee, I hope in Thee and I love Thee and I beg pardon for all of those who do not Believe in Thee, do not adore Thee do not hope in Thee and to not Love Thee.

This past Sunday, as you know, we celebrated the Solemnity of the Most Blessed Trinity. The true God is not an isolated Being but a Trinity of Divine Persons so intimately and perfectly united in Love that they are One God. And we, each one of us, are called to share in this intimate union of the Three Persons of the Blessed Trinity; we are called to unity, to communion, to be one with God and one another in Love through grace.

And what is the source of this Grace? The answer to this question brings us to today’s great Solemnity. The source is Jesus Christ, truly and physically present in the Holy Eucharist, the Most Blessed Sacrament of the Altar. It is the source of all grace, because the Holy Eucharist is Jesus, along with His Sacred Heart pierced for love of us. It is from this pierce Heart that flows the Sacramental Graces, the living waters needed for the healing and salvation of the world. It is through this pierce Heart, therefore, that God calls all men to Himself.

God, the Most Blessed Trinity, is by His Nature inaccessible to us and to our sinful human nature. And so the Father—the first Person of the Blessed Trinity, in His infinite Mercy and love for us sent His Son, Jesus—the Second Person of the Holy Trinity, to take on our Human Nature, in order to redeem it, to heal it of its sinfulness, to save it and then elevate it to God through the Power of the Holy Spirit--the Third Person of the Blessed Trinity. It is through the Holy Eucharist then that our love is elevated and united to Divine Love so that we can live and love with Charity—God’s love and life alive in our hearts, our heart one with His. The Holy Eucharist is the Doorway to the Blessed Trinity.

And so, today’s Feast reminds us of our core belief in the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist. The Holy Eucharist makes the incarnation of Jesus truly present in our time and in midst because it makes Jesus present in the flesh, Jesus in His human Nature, God as man truly present in our midst. This Presence is the “presence par excellence,” of Jesus Christ to the Catholic Church (The Mystery of Faith no. 39 Paul VI).

Jesus as God, in His divine nature is truly present everywhere, it is true. But Jesus as man, Jesus in His corporal body and blood, Jesus in His human nature, the human nature by, through and with which we are truly saved, is only present in the Holy Eucharist. And this true Presence occurs at the Holy Mass and only at the Holy Mass through the words of consecration, “This is my body,” “This is my blood,”.

At these words said by a priest (and only by a priest), by the power of the Holy Spirit, the miracle of Transubstantiation takes place. In this Miracle of all miracles, “… the physical host is changed into the “physical reality” of Jesus Christ, which is “bodily present”—“whole and entire God and man.” There is a physical change—i.e., Christ Himself replaces the physical bread, which no longer exists (no 46).

“This a true miracle—awesome and unexplainable in human terms. It is the most complete manifestation of God’s love for the world. It is God saying to us, ‘I love you! I will not leave you alone. I will be with you until the end of time, yes, even in my physical body!’ (Fr. Regis Scanlon O.F.M. Cap).” I think it was Blessed Theresa of Calcutta who said, “When we look at the crucifix we see the love that God had for us, when we look at the Holy Eucharist we see the love God has for us.”

A few weeks ago, on May 13th, we celebrated the 99th anniversary of the first apparition of the Blessed Mother to the three shepherd Children of Fatima. The message of Our Lady of Fatima to these three children—Lucia, Francesco and Jacinta is more relevant today than ever before. Why? Well because our Lady warned that if mankind did not turn away from sin and back to God the world would face a dire crisis resulting from a loss of faith. This crisis would lead to a “great chastisement on the world; it would be a punish of man’s own making which would be in scope, “greater than the flood.”

But this “loss of faith,” would be not just a loss of faith in the existence of God, but more particularly a loss of faith in Holy Eucharist as the true and living God in the flesh, in His human nature among us. This would be the great apostasy of John 6:66, seen on a world wide level…(Jn6:66; when the 5,000 men left him after the teaching of the Holy Eucharist). The majority of men and woman would lose faith in Jesus in the Holy Eucharist and so follow Him no more…this loss of faith in the Holy Eucharist as the true and living God in our midst would be proceeded by a loss of a faith by many members of the clergy (as foretold by Our Lady at LaSalette France).

To prevent this from our occurring out Lady told the world through these little Children that our Lord wished to promote devotion to the Mary’s Immaculate heart. By devotion to her Immaculate Heart she would lead those who consecrated themselves to Jesus through Her to offer themselves fully to Jesus in the Holy Eucharist so that they would enter more and more into a loving union with God and with one another.

By this loving union, these “little ones,” of hers would be transformed through adoration of the Eucharist into living images of Jesus thus becoming in their daily lives instruments of mercy for their families, friends, communities and for the world. Through these instruments of Divine Mercy God would transform the world. Pope Emeritus Benedict put it this way when discussing adoration of the Eucharist in relation to changing the world: “Without adoration there is no transformation.”

As we loose our emphasis on the Real Presence in our day, as so many lose the faith in this fundamental truth of our Catholic Christian faith—the reality of Jesus Christ, truly in our midst—we lose the very Light that illuminates our world, the light that illuminates the way we must go in this world, because we lose faith in the He who is the Truth in our midst, Jesus Christ truly and physically present in the Holy Eucharist.

Jesus in the Holy Eucharist is the light of humanity…which shines out visible from the Catholic Church (Dogmatic Constitution of the Church no.1). Jesus is the Son of the Father and so the Son of the Living God. Jesus—God, light from light, true God from True God, begotten not made, consubstantial with the Father…The Holy Eucharist is this Jesus-the Holy Eucharist is God! And so the Holy Eucharist is the center of everything; He holds all things together; He is our source and He is our goal; He is our beginning and our end…An it is only through Jesus that anyone can come to the Father; and so, it is only through the Holy Eucharist that anyone, anyone can go to the Father.

Mankind was made for the Son, by the Son and through the Son. All men and woman whether they know it or not were made for relationship and communion with Jesus and through Jesus with the Father in the unity of the Holy Spirit; it is a communion of love with Love Itself—the Blessed Trinity. And this communion with the Blessed Trinity is brought about through, with and in Jesus truly present in the Holy Eucharist the most Blessed Sacrament of the Altar. But we for our part must have a true and living faith, we must take Him and His word (see John 6) and believe that He is really there.”

One little know fact about the apparitions of our Lady of Fatima is that a year before our lady appeared to the little Children (100 year anniversary of which is this year), a Angel of God appear to the children first. In fact the angel appear three times, each time emphasizing the real presence of God in the Holy Eucharist. During one of these apparitions the Angel suspended in mid air a consecrated Host over a chalice containing the Most Precious Blood of Jesus.

The Angel then, did not bowed, did not kneeled but prostrated Himself before Jesus, the God-Man truly and physically present before Him. And then the angel cried out three times the following prayer, a prayer which the Children heard in the depths of their soul: “o My God I believe in Thee, I adore in Thee, I hope in Thee and I love Thee and I beg pardon for all of those who do not Believe in Thee, do not adore Thee do not hope in Thee and to not Love Thee.

IN this prayer we make an act of faith that the Holy Eucharist is Our Lord and our God truly present, We adore Him as the true and living God, trusting Him completely by offering ourselves, our lives, all that we have and possess in and oblation of love. And at the same time, making an act of atonement for all of those who (including our own lack of) faith, adoration, trust and love. This prayer is the essential action of the Holy Mass in which we are to offer our total self to God in union with the once and for all sacrifice of Jesus offered on our behalf to His heavenly Father.

Until enough souls, until you and I, become little children of our Lady, taking her hand and letting her lead us to offering ourselves total Her Son in the Holy Eucharist, our world will continue its downward spiral into disunity, darkness and despair. St. Peter Julian Eymard, who is known as the “Apostle of the Holy Eucharist” said, “Let us never forget that an age prospers or dwindles in proportion to its devotion to the Holy Eucharist.”

Our Lady of Fatima continues to speak to our hearts today, and through her Divine spouse, the Holy Spirit, she points us to the Truth, that her Son Jesus in the Holy Eucharist is the only answer to the world’s problems; especially the problems in the family, which is at the heart of our world’s problems. In the end her Immaculate will Triumph and the world will be converted to the Holy Eucharist. Let this conversion begin with us. Let us adore, hope and love Jesus in the Holy Eucharist so that He can change our hearts like unto His own, so that He can transform out lives in order that we may live them in imitation of His, thus becoming His instruments of Divine Mercy on the world. Then on only then will our world be changed.