The chapter I am referring to is ‘The Mystic Body of Holy Church’. The writing is in the first person of Jesus Christ. It begins, ‘Now I will answer what you asked me concerning the ministers of holy Church. First, so you may better come to know the truth,…and consider their excellence and the great dignity in which I have placed them.’
First God refers to Himself. '…I want to tell you of the dignity in which my goodness has established them. This is beyond the love that I have shown in general to all my creatures by creating you in my image and likeness and re-creating all of you in grace through my only begotten Son’s blood. You attained such excellence because of the union I effected between my Godhead and human nature that your excellence and dignity is greater than that of the angels. For it was your nature I assumed, not that of the angels. So, as I told you, I, God, became a man and humanity became God through the union of my divine nature with your human nature.
This greatness is given to every person in general, but from among the rest I have chosen my ministers for your salvation, so that through them the blood of the humble spotless Lamb, my only-begotten Son, might be administered to you. It is the sun I have given them to administer, for I have given them the light of learning, the heat of divine charity, and the color that is fused with the heat and the light, the blood and body of my Son. His body is indeed a sun, for it is one thing with me, the true Sun…the unity that can neither be separated nor cut off from the other…’
‘I am that Sun, God eternal, whence proceed the Son and the Holy Spirit. To the Holy Spirit is appropriated fire, and to the Son, wisdom…And in that wisdom my ministers receive a gracious light for administering this light with lightsome gratitude for the blessing they received from me the eternal Father when they followed the teaching of this Wisdom, my only-begotten Son…’
‘Each one of you bring your own candle, that is, holy desire with which you receive and eat this sacrament…It is I who have given you the candle with which you can receive this light and nourish it within you. And your candle is love, because it is for love that I created you, so without love you cannot have life.’
He goes on to say that when we approach the Eucharist while guilty of deadly sin would receive no grace from it…The passage goes on to describe the reception of the Eucharist with holy desire. When we receive this sacrament, Christ lives in us and we in Him. 'When this appearance of bread has been consumed, I leave behind the imprint of my grace, just as a seal that is pressed into warm wax leaves its imprint when it is lifted off…the power of the sacrament remains there, the wisdom of the Son remains there, leaving the soul with strength ‘and power, which make her strong and powerful against her selfish sensuality and against the devil and the world.’
‘I told you this so you may better know how I have dignified my ministers, and thus grieve the more over their wickedness. If they themselves had considered their dignity, they would not have fallen into the darkness of deadly sin nor muddied the face of their souls. Not only have they sinned against me and against their own dignity,l but even had they given their bodies to be burned they would not have been able to repay me for the tremendous grace and blessing they have received, for it is impossible to have a greater dignity than theirs’.
‘They are my anointed ones and I call them my ‘christs’ because I have appointed them to be my ministers to you and have sent them like fragrant flowers into the mystic body of holy Church.’
