One of my rewards for attending the Eucharistic Congress International 2008 in Quebec is a memory I've bought myself, the volume "Just a faith / Mary and the Eucharist among the founders of New France", published by Anne Sigier by a group of five specialists under the direction of Mrs. Theresa Nadeau-Latour. As the title suggests, this is a series of studies on the Marian and Eucharistic faith of our founders: the first Jesuits, Marie de l'Incarnation, Catherine de St. Augustin and François de Laval.
I walk in my reading, is currently in the company of Mary of the Incarnation with Ms. Nadeau-Lacour as a guide. After exploring the relationship of Mary with the Virgin Mary Guyart, it presents an analysis of its Eucharistic spirituality. There are many long quotations from Relations and Correspondence.
I was struck by the use of the word "most adorable" I noticed in the expressions "most adorable Savior" and "most adorable Word Incarnate." This word previously unknown to me the meaning of which is obviously superlative "very cute", "extremely adorable" encouraged me to do a Google search. Marie Guyart is not the only of its time to use that word, but its use is common among them. I note, in bulk:
- unit most adorable, ineffable, incomprehensible
- the most adorable Spirit of Jesus
- the most adorable Heart of Jesus
- the most adorable person
- the most adorable and divine Master
- the most adorable mystery of the Most Holy Trinity
- the most adorable Majesty
- my most adorable Husband
Here are some things that struck me about the faith and practice of Eucharistic Marie Guyart. She took communion every day at a time when it was not usual. Her mystical experiences were so vivid that one wonders if his faith had not become a certainty. I quote: "When everybody told him all that is in the Host is not the most adorable Incarnate Word, she would die for sure it's him. "(Relation of 1654). Like Mother Teresa, she remade her strength wastewater service to the next in Holy Communion and at the foot of the Blessed Sacrament. For her, Christ in the Eucharist is the food of his interior life and apostolic life.
Nowadays, we do not take the spiritual path of the victim ("I gave myself to God victims"), but if we try to understand, we see that it is for Marie Guyart a way to unite to the Sacrifice of Jesus who is offering, perfect gift of self, she herself expresses a clear intention: "Offer me continually Host to the Eternal Father on the heart of his beloved Son. "Towards the end of her life, she insists:" I want neither for you nor for me a perpetual victimhood. "
Marie de l'Incarnation was not the kind external devotions, but it reveals, at the insistence of his son Dom Claude Martin, the "Prayer to the Eternal Father by the most adorable Heart of Jesus, prayer she does every night for more than thirty 30 years before falling asleep. Here are some excerpts that struck me: "Through the Heart of my Jesus, my Way, my Truth and my life that I approach you, O Eternal Father. [...] I am in spirit around the world to seek all the souls redeemed by the precious blood of my divine Spouse to meet you all in this divine Heart. [...] On this adorable Heart, I present all the workers of the Gospel, that through her merits you to complete your Holy Spirit. "(For the full text of this prayer called" Prayer Apostolic See http : / / www.nosracines.ca/e/page.aspx?id=3919413.)
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