The vocation to holiness, that is, to the fullness of self-giving, is a call that God extends to everyone, inviting them to remain in his love so that they may know how easy is his yoke and then radiate to others the light of his presence. To remain in his love implies familiarity with the Sacrament of the Eucharist, the foundation that no saint every lost sight of, recognizing in it a “highway to heaven,” as Blessed Carlo Acutis affirmed very effectively in these our difficult times. Mother Clelia was always anchored in the power of the sacrifice of the Mass. During her harsh exile, “her spirit raging,” she dedicated a touching reflection in her Diary to the Eucharist: “But why, O my divine Savior, did You choose to hide Yourself under the appearances of a piece of bread? This self-annihilation to which You chose to reduce Yourself, O Jesus in the Eucharist, is something too great, too deep and incomprehensible to me. What an example of the most profound humility You offer me, O Jesus! In order to remain with us, to become our food, You condemn Yourself as a prisoner of love to live in a little and perhaps very squalid tabernacle! You let Yourself be handled by both good and unworthy priests as they will, You let Yourself be carried wherever they want, deep within the most terrible prisons, in the most filthy and wretched rooms, in stables among donkeys where some sick person is lying on a little straw. There is no man, no matter how miserable or despised he is, however excluded he is from all human companionship, who will be turned away from Your table, as long as he reconciles himself with you. Even one condemned to the gallows, even the refuse of society and the wretched prisoner can approach You and receive You, O Jesus, in the Eucharist, no less than the most powerful monarch, and say to You: You, Jesus, are my food.”
