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Lourdes Pinto, July 13, 1917 Why I Chose to Remain on Earth in a Host, Path #50- Why did I choose to remain on earth in a Host? In this way, I am present to all, for you to contemplate and to receive Me as living Bread. I remained with you to nourish your life with Divine life. To prepare you, to strengthen you, and to become one with you as you journey the path to eternal life in God. I remain in this hidden and ordinary way so that your hidden and ordinary life can be transformed into Divinity and thus participate here on earth in the unity and Divine life of the Most Holy Trinity. The Eucharist is the life of God that has the power to heal and to transform you from within. In the smallness of the Host is revealed the grandeur, majesty, and greatness of God. The Eucharist is the greatest miracle of God for humanity. The Eucharist reveals God’s faithfulness to His people. The Eucharist reveals what each of you is called to become. CCC 1368:  The Eucharist is also the sacrifice of the Church. The Church, which is the Body of Christ, participates in the offering of her Head. With him, she herself is offered whole and entire. She unites herself to his intercession with the Father for all men. In the Eucharist, the sacrifice of Christ becomes also the sacrifice of the members of his Body. The lives of the faithful, their praise, sufferings, prayer, and work, are united with those of Christ and with his total offering, and so acquire a new value. Christ’s sacrifice present on the altar makes it possible for all generations of Christians to be united with his offering. The Angel of Fatima told the children: Make everything you do a sacrifice, and offer it as an act of reparation for the sins by which He is offended and in supplication for the conversion of sinners… Above all, accept and bear with submission the sufferings sent you by Our Lord.  (see Path p. 164-165) In the next apparition, the angel said that those sacrifices and suffering are effective “by offering them in union with the Eucharistic Sacrifice. Before we can enter a PURE PARTICIPATION in the sacrifice of Jesus, we must come to know ourselves: our wounds, disorders, sin patterns, lies, distorted identity, hardness of heart….  If we don’t, our participation in the life of Christ in the Eucharist will also be disordered participation –  a participation as the wrong kind of victim – enablers, people-pleasers, codependent…. Therefore, The Path brings us to know our TRUE IDENTITIES IN CHRIST and the mission He has given us. As we come to know who we are and our mission in life, we can enter a PURE PARTICIPATION in the sacrifice of Christ as His hidden victims of love.  Trust, I Am the Power of the Hidden Life Path p.165:  51. Trust and place all your confidence in the power of the hidden life being revealed to you now in MyEucharistic presence. I am the power of the hidden life. I want to possess you with My hidden life, whichis the Eucharist, transforming you into living hosts.He Leadeth Me: An Extraordinary Testament of Faith by Walter J. Ciszek, S. J. We had entered upon what we thought was a great missionary endeavor, full of zeal and enthusiasm, only to come smack up against reality. Things here were not at all as we had envisioned them, and we were not at all equipped to face things as we found them. So much for our hopes, our expectations, our dreams, our convictions, above all, our enthusiasm! This whole Russian venture seemed now to have been a mistake, an ill-conceived missionary effort based on hopes and dreams rather than on hard facts, a plan born of insufficient information and misinformation.  That was the temptation that Father Nestrov and I faced at Teplaya-Gora. And though our situation may have been somewhat unique, the...