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the Mass there is the whole depth of our Sacrosanct Religion.
Ah! yes, the Mass tells us everything and speaks to us about

everything. The Mass reminds us of our Redemption; It
speaks to us, step by step, of the pains that Jesus suffered for
us; It also manifests to us His Immense Love, for He was not
content with dying on the Cross, but He wanted to continue

His state of victim in the Most Holy Eucharist. The Mass
also tells us that our bodies, decayed, reduced to ashes by

death, will rise again on the Day of the Judgment, together
with Christ, to Immortal and Glorious Life. Jesus made me
comprehend that the most consoling thing for a Christian,
and the highest and most sublime Mysteries of our Holy

Religion are: Jesus in the Sacrament and the Resurrection
of our bodies to Glory. These are profound Mysteries, which
we will comprehend only beyond the stars; but Jesus in the

Sacrament makes us almost touch them with our own hands,
in different ways. First, His Resurrection; second, His State
of Annihilation under those species, though it is certain that
Jesus is there Present, Alive and Real. Then, once those

species are consumed, His Real Presence no longer exists.
And as the species are consecrated again, He comes again to
assume His Sacramental State. So, Jesus in the Sacrament

reminds us of the Resurrection of our bodies to Glory: just
as Jesus, when His Sacramental State ceases, resides in the
Womb of God, His Father, the same for us when our lives

cease, our souls go to make their dwelling in Heaven, in the
Womb of God, while our bodies are consumed. So, it can be

said that they will no longer exist; but then, with a Prodigy
of the Omnipotence of God, our bodies will acquire New
Life, and uniting with the soul, will go together to enjoy the
Eternal Beatitude. Can there be anything more consoling for

a human heart than the fact that not only the soul, but also the
body will delight in the Eternal Contentments? It seems to
me that, on that day, it will happen as when the sky is starry

and the sun comes out. What happens? The sun, with its
immense light, absorbs the stars and makes them disappear;
yet the stars exist. The sun is God, and all the Blessed souls

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