"For the seven year
period prior to her death, Saint
Catherine of Siena took no
food into her body other than the
Eucharist. Her fasting did not affect
her energy, however. She maintained a
very active life during those seven
years. As a matter of fact, most of her
great accomplishments occurred during
that period. Her death had nothing to do
with malnutrition, or anything connected
with lack of food."
Not only did her
fasting not cause her to lose energy,
but became a source of extraordinary
strength, she becoming stronger in the
afternoon, after having received our
Lord in His Eucharist. One of the only
sufferings she found almost intolerable,
was to be denied Her Lord in the
Eucharist. Neither the Priests at the
Basilica of Saint Dominic, nor Catherine’s
Superior in the Mantellate approved of
her receiving the Eucharist daily. They
tried to discourage Catherine,
unsuccessfully. The Priests flatly
refused, insisting she receive solely
from her Confessor; it didn’t matter if
he was out of town. At that time,
Catherine would seek comfort looking at
the Priest during the Mass. After all,
through his consecrated hands, he was
bringing her Lord to her on the altar
where she could adore Him, even if she
could not receive Him. Catherine endured
the worst anguish over this until
Raymond came to Siena and she was able
to receive Communion daily. When he was
in town, he would only have to hear her
plea, "Father, I hunger,"
and, if
at all possible, he would celebrate Holy
Mass.
Pope Gregory XI, who
Saint Catherine of Siena convinced to return to Rome
from Avignon, later decreed a papal bull
allowing her to receive daily, her Lord
in His "Body and Blood, Soul and
Divinity"
16,
the Eucharist.
Saint Catherine
of Siena had Visions
during the consecration of the Mass,
sometimes seeing Jesus dressed as a
Priest, repeating the words He spoke at
the Last Supper. Other times, when she
gazed upon the raised Host, instead of
seeing the Consecrated Host, she saw the
Baby Jesus in the Priest’s hands. When
we hear some people say they do not need
Miracles of the Eucharist to believe in
the Lord truly Present in the
Consecrated Host, I can’t help recall
Catherine, who was strengthened in her
belief in Him when she saw the Host in
this miraculous form. She did not need
the miracle to believe, but she did not
refuse the help it gave her when she
needed strength, or maybe as Mother
Angelica said, the grace to believe.
Like with Jesus,
there are those always putting His
chosen ones to the test, possibly, as
with Jesus to trick them? One day, a
Priest who did not believe in
Catherine’s Visions and her special
relationship with the Eucharist, gave
her an unconsecrated host, under the
guise it was Holy Communion. Her angry
words lashed out at the Priest for
trying to cheat and delude someone who
hungered for Jesus, in His Body and
Blood.
Priests were touched
by happenings during Holy Mass with
Saint Catherine of Sienna. One reported he saw the Host
go to her without him moving his arm.
Other Priests said they saw the Host nod
to her, almost as if in recognition.
There were those who could feel their
arms being pulled toward her, with the
Host. Raymond of Capua reported he saw a
Host travel clear across the church to
Catherine. It was as if the Lord desired
her as much as she longed for Him. There
was a magnet between them and that
Magnet was the Eucharist.
At the moment of
receiving Communion, her face would
become transfixed, as if glorified,
surrounded by an aura. Catherine often
went into ecstasy at that time,
levitating. Her friends remained with
her so they could assist her home, as
even from childhood, Catherine was
always left weakened after an ecstasy.
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