Our Lord's Plea for Eucharistic Reparation

Picture of Alexandrina Maria da Costa (1904-1955) courtesy of The Vatican

One of the books I am currently reading this Lent is Alexandrina: The Agony and The Glory by Francis Johnson and published by Tan Books.

For those of you not familiar with Alexandrina , she was a young girl living in Portugal. At the age of 14, while attempting to escape from a rapist, she jumped from a window and was paralyzed for life. She suffered the Passion of Christ on Fridays in expiation of sins. She had conversations with our Lord and was viciously attacked by the devil for approximately 10 years. During the last 13 years of her life she ate or drank nothing but Holy Communion. Her constant message was that of Our Lady of Fatima, "Do penance, sin no more, pray the Rosary, receive the Eucharist".

The following is what our Lord told Alexandrina:

"Keep Me company in the Blessed Sacrament. I remain in the tabernacle night and day, waiting to give My love and grace to all who would visit Me. But so few come. I am so abandoned, so lonely, so offended...Pray for the unhappy sinners who, slaves of their passions, do not remember that they have a soul to save and that an eternity awaits them in a short while...Many men do not believe in My existence; they do not believe that I live in the tabernacle. They curse Me. Others believe, but do not love Me and do not visit Me; they live as if I were not there. I have chosen you to keep me company in those little refuges. Many of them are so wretched, but what riches inside!...Like Mary Magdalene, you have chosen the better part. You have chosen to love Me in the tabernacles where you can contemplate Me, not with the eyes of the body, but with those of the soul. I am truly present there as in Heaven - Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity. You have chosen that which is most sublime."