True Power

FEAST OF THE TRANSFIGURATION,

6 AUGUST

J.M.J.

Dear Father Thomas,

It seems that WWII happened long time ago and that is now far away. In 1945, a day like today, it were launched two bombs to Japan. The war finished. Back then a young man named Douglas Valentine was in a Japanese concentration camp. many years later, he wrote a book titled 'Hotel Tacloban', nickname of the concentration camp.

Due to critics to the American government, the book was not sold well, except in places such as Nigeria. In this country, in the Awka cathedral, someone forgot a copy of the book in one of the benches. When Fr. Martin entered for his Holy Hour, he found the book. As the title of the book had the name of one of the cities of The Philippines, he opened and read one page.

It talked about a Philippine deacon that had visited Douglas Valentine after the liberation, when he as convalescent in a ship. The deacon wanted that Valentine had a perdurable and happy souvenir from The Philippines so he could forget about bad memories from the concentration camp.

With this said, he took the guitar and tuned the Spanish song "Sólo uno vez". The title of the song in English is "You Belong To My Hearth" that translated to Castillian is "Tú Perteneces a Mi Corazón".

The translation of the magnificent letter of the song it was found in the following page.

What was the inspiration that Fr. Martin get in that moment? The one of us belonged to the Hearth of Jesus. Through the power of the Perpetual Adoration, each one of us will return to His Hearth. It's needed a community of priests dedicated to spread the Perpetual adoration through the world.

Fr. Martin told this story to two of the first Holy Sacrament missionaries that were to get ordained and that were in the airport of Cebú waiting their flight towards Tagbilaran. In that precise moment a young man reach them with a guitar and asked if he could sing them a song. The song that he tuned was "Solamente una Vez".

In this anniversary of the bomb launching, don't we have to reflect on this? If something man made can be used with such a destructive power, we haven't begun to understand the creative power of Love of God in the Holy Sacrament.

Peter, James and John witnessed Christs Transfiguration in Mount Talbor. The world will witness the glorious transfiguration of Christ in the Holy Sacrament and will have the exact opposite effect to the bomb launched in Nagasaki. In the Transfiguration of Christ in the Holy Sacrament, will be an explosion of energy that will free the power of His Love and will renew the face of the earth. Then the world the true power! Everything will be renewed. Everything will belong to His Hearth. Everything will be one thing.

In the mean time, there are five graces that we receive every time that we visit Jesus in the Holy Sacrament. For His glorious wounds we're transfigured and transformed through His healing love.

The graces that He generously spills over us for every Holy Hour that we made are: renovation, holiness, conversion, atonement, and salvation.

This is the reason, dear Thomas, for like Peter we should exclaim before His Divine presence: "Lord, how well we're here!"

Fraternally yours in His Eucharistic Love,

Mgr. Pepe