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executed in obedience to saint John; for She did all
things as an humble inferior and as a subject of those
by whom She was to be governed in such things.
606. Therefore She did not herself tell saint John of
what She had recognized as the will of God. But it
hap
pened one day that the Evangelist was very much taken
up with preaching and he let the hour for Communion
pass. She spoke to her holy angels, asking their advice;
and they answered, that the command of her divine Son
ought to be fulfilled, and that they would inform saint
John and intimate to him this order of his Master. Then
one of the angels manifested himself to saint John where
he was preaching and said the Most :
High wishes
"John,
that his Mother, our Queen, receive Him sacramentally
every day during her life upon the Thus earth." reminded,
the Evangelist immediately returned to the Cenacle,
where the most blessed Mary was waiting for holy Com
munion, and said : Mother and
"My Lady, the angel
has told me of the command of the Lord, that I administer
his sacramental body to Thee each day without excep
tion/ The most blessed Mother answered : "And thou,
Sir : what dost thou command in regard to this?" Saint
John replied : "That the command of thy Son, my Lord,
be fulfilled." And the Queen said me : "Behold ready
to obey in all things as thy From servant."
that day on
She received holy Communion every day without excep
tion to the end of her life. Fridays and Saturdays, the
days of her exercises, were not excepted while on Sun
;
days, instead of holy Communion, She was raised to
the empyrean heavens.
607. At the moment when She received in her heart
the sacramental species, the sacred humanity
of Christ
manifested itself through them in the form He had when
He instituted the blessed Sacrament. Although the
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