Be His Monstrance!
July 7, 2025
Dear Family of Mary!
I want to share with you a dream I had on early Sunday Morning (July 6). I was in a deep sleep, and a dream began to form in my mind. In that dream I was in a prison, and they were going to cut off my hands. It was very vivid, and I didn’t know what to do. I just remember lifting my arms up and my hands were already cut off. Then I woke up! Startled and a bit frightened, I said a Hail Mary, and went back to sleep.
I forgot about that dream until later that mornng when I was praying with my Magnificat. As I read the Meditation of the Day for July 6, I was amazed. The meditation was written by Carol Houselander. She is a wonderful Catholic mystic from the early 1900’s who has a way of capturing the truths of the faith in a very unique way! Here is what I read:
The missionary takes more than the knowledge of Christ: he or she takes Christ himself! Priests take Christ in the sacraments. But women take Christ too. To make this clear I will tell you what a priest said to me once, years ago. He had been in a persecuting country and imprisioned. He escaped, but with both his hands cut off. He said, “Never again can I lift up Christ in my hands, but I can lift him up in my heart and so can you. You can take Christ everywhere, show him to everyone. Be his monstrance.”
The priest’s words hit me deeply! The Lord wanted me to pay close attention to what Carol Housleander had written all those years ago. Without hands, that dear priest could no longer perform the Consecration, but he could bring Christ in his heart to all those in need. In my dream, my severed hands united me with him. But even more, I realized that my being a woman was not a barrier to bringing Christ to others. I felt very deeply the call to carry Christ to others at all times. It is so very necessary!
Carol went on to say something very beautiful:
“The first woman who was Christ’s monstrance, who had a missionary heart, was Our Lady. This is why it is natural to pray to her for the missions and for missionaries. When we do so we are not even asking a favor of her, but are only asking her to do what is clearly her own desire. She was, and of course is, compelled by a twofold love, which is the key to her human personality, two loves so inseparabble that in her they are one love. The love of God and the love of man.
Her own glorious expression of this love in words is the Magnificat in which Our Lady, rejoicing in the wonder of her motherhood, rejoices most of all, not in her personal delight, but in the fact that her son will go on his quest of the human heart from generation to generation.”
We are so blessed in our day to have Our Lady so very present to us through the visionaries in Medjugorje. The entire village contains the powerful presence of Mary. She wants us to come to her Son. And this happens in power, there where She lives now!! The Maginificat resounds in Medjugorje!! May our souls proclaim the greatness of the Lord, and our spirits rejoice in God our Savior! May we become living monstrances! May we lift Jesus for all to see!
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
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