I'm not getting through to the person who corresponds and has tremendous devotion to writing biographies of what a lengthy process that has evolved and expanded since the third century--that of, for want of better explanation: saint-making. It has become known in recent centuries a "canonization process."
My interest, of course, is His Real Presence in me and me in His Real Presence and living the Law of God--the Law of Love.
This is how I responded, for I tried to encourage the person to consider coming alive in His Living Word and us writing of His Real Presence Who sustains us in His Living Word, but the friend's heart obviously remains in that of these people, good Christians in life they are, but most in the last few centuries having been elevated through a process they on earth would shun--but are now labeled after a massive ceremony after years of a group of people earning salaries and putting in full-time work for those years, so these people can be "canonized" and called saint-this and saint -that.
And where does that leave many people? Their hearts and minds more into these saints than in His Real Presence, even though they might say that theses "saints" show them how to live a Christian life. But why cannot, since we are in His Real Presence and His Real Presence is in us, we live as followers of Christ Who Is His Real Presence, Who in full is the Trinity: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit?
Here's what I wrote in response to biographical sketch written to me of Peter Julian Eymard, a wonderful Christian man, I'm sure in life and now deceased to the temporal but enjoying eternal life!
Dear X,
Your trips to Kroger are productive, I'm sure, and maybe partly the need for pumpkin bread ingredients or even the healthy additions baked in by your talented hands! "May the Lord grant success to the work of your hands!" (I have always loved that Psalm-forget which one by number but content matters, I suppose.)
I have been pondering how we as humans are so attached to the temporal and have trouble detaching but seems the work of life to learn to detach as we are dying every moment physically, and our souls and hearts and minds though, can be growing and all in preparation for eternity or "Heaven." And I am noticing that in recognizing His Real Presence in me at all times and places no matter my thoughts, emotions, and bodily condition, and I am in His Real Presence (Trinity which includes Jesus, of course, which then includes His Body and Blood or what is termed in the Catholic church, in substance, the Eucharist but in tangible also known as the consecrated Host)--that the signs and wonders no longer matter as far as His Real Presence always being in me and me in HRP.
However, they provide some encouragement, for sure, and are helpful--such as the Holy Spirit having sprinkler Station Three of all those heads spraying and turning off properly, automatically, and the constant gurgling stopped. I had asked the Holy Spirit and also Jesus, my Spouse, to please help as I was overburdened and overwhelmed with the added maintenance problem. God provided, and I praised them for it and am sharing that most helpful miracle with you now. Praise HRP! (His Real Presence!)
So Peter Julian Eymard actually had devotion to the Eucharist as a stepping stone to at some point if not on earth but in heaven then, not having devotion to the "Eucharist" per say but to His Real Presence who we realize either here or at death or after progressing farther after we die but before we are in fullness of life, truth, beauty, goodness and the Light of the HRP, the Trinity. I had always had a tremendous devotion to the Eucharist until now for 13 years ago with the onset of the mystical ecstasy, I was in the gradual progression and understanding my intense devotion is actually to and in and with and through His Real Presence who is in me constantly and I am in His Real Presence constantly. No longer is the devotion to a consecrated tangible--however, and this is important, from birth on we start to attach and be dependent after the great detachment of sorts when we are born--detach from His Real Presence in mystical and spiritual, and we are born into bodies and minds and emotions with souls but we are taught this and that attachment to function in this life, and to learn the ways of the temporal existence while still having minds, emotions and very importantly souls.
So in part of religious training and to get the idea so that we can grasp His Real Presence in us and Us in Him, Jesus used bread and wine to help us learn faith and that the bread is His Body and the wine is His blood, and we are to break bread and drink one one with another in prayerful and holy intent of love of God and in remembrance of HIM. A transubstantiation occurs. Jesus knew and knows how it is us humans immersed in temporal life and our spiritual reality clouded if not shrouded. Even the Disciples had a terrible time understanding some parables and asked him to explain, or did not grasp the power of God's law of love and of great faith in God and the ability then to drive out demons and to perform miracles. But they started to learn and especially with the help and grasp of the Holy Spirit Who Jesus gave to humankind at Pentecost as yet another way and means and to visualize, with the dove as a symbol, or fire like thousands of tongues, and the miracles that occurred in that event alone. Faith and understanding kind of grow together.
It is a matter of progression, and of opening ourselves to the acceptance of His Real Presence without the need remaining of the tangible and temporal at some point, and of course it will definitely be for everyone when they die, but it is all right and helpful to grasp when younger than I am, that is for sure. I have been not letting go of that tangible but was forced by God to let go and in the ecstasy be shown how His Real Presence is sustaining me in the elements that we otherwise know as His Living Word, and Eucharist without a tangible Host at all, but fed spiritually more effective and efficient in that way as we are in HIs Real Presence all the time and HIs REal Presence is in us), plus in conversation with God--Prayer. We are sustained by this Trinity that comprises the Mass, so in that way the Mass is always in us and we are in the Mass.
I considered how Jesus went to a distant spot to be alone and away from people to ponder and mourn the death of John the Baptist, but His Real Presence always exemplifies, and actually makes REAL, the Law of Love, so when all those people figure out his location and many were there waiting for him--imagine the human might have the "uh-oh" moment of "here we go again--no time for myself to even grieve," and yet the His Real Presence of the Father, Jesus, and Holy Spirit, the Trinity, immediately goes into loving and having compassion and concern for them so began teaching and explaining in whatever ways humans can generally grasp when beginning to learn spiritual truths--through parables, as they were hungry spiritually, and after some time of teaching, their temporal bodies were hungry, also.
So a miracle provided for the temporal, but mainly it was to help solidify what He'd taught them, so that their faith could be increased--kind of like a benchmark or a blessing, the miracle of bread and fish--feeding them what in essence was spiritual for the temporal increased miraculously, spiritually, mystically. Jesus was teaching what God had tried to impart upon Ezekiel, when God had Ezekiel eat the scroll of Scripture, Living Word of God. That, too, was a tangible form of "Eucharist" in a way, but the spiritual reality is that of consuming HIs Real Presence is superfluous once we have "consumed" the reality that HRP is in us already, always, everywhere, in all ways--and we are in HRP, as well.
That is why in he ecstasy I began experiencing in any and every Mass beginning nearly 13 years ago, I never had any hunger for the tangible host and never was lacking, and have not been since in that way--but I was hindering the progression by my not getting it not realizing that God was leading me on and to grasp the ways in which HIs Real Presence sustains us in our very SOULS, in all ways and always. But we have to get to that point of grasping, and His Real Presence provided temporal-spiritual method in the Last Supper, and taught much of the spiritual in what has been termed the Last Supper Discourses.
The great devotion, of course, is actually a devotion to His Real Presence Who Is in us and we are in HRP, and to exhibit and the overflow extending out to all souls and creation is that of HRP's (and our--since we are in HRP and HRP in us): LOVE.
Love in His Love, and God Bless His Real Presence in us!
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