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Corpus Christi
St. Azariah announced himself to me with one of those very sweet, unrepeatable angelic songs which have remained in my soul as the most heavenly things I have savored. The light and song of Paradise are something indescribable in both beauty and effects. As I had already been calmed in my torment after the words of my Jesus the day before yesterday, this song ended up plunging me once more into the full, joyful - at once solemn and cheerful - peace which has been my element since I became the instrument of my beloved Jesus. And as I wrote, I listened to this song, a pure melody which is not a word, but which is only the sound of a sweetness ascending as far as blessedness. Oh, it is unutterable! I listened... and understood more things in that moment than in months of meditation entirely on my own. I knew that, once that instant was over, I could not even explain what I had understood. It was too sublime! But the fruit of what I had understood would remain in my soul.... This song made me understand what the Eucharist is for the Heavens, for those inhabiting them.... This song enlightened me on the ardent angelic desire to receive this Bread.... Oh...! 244
244 We omit over forty-six handwritten pages containing Azariah’s commentary on the Mass for Corpus Christi and then his lessons, dated June 23 and 30 and July 7, 1946, on three other Masses: for the octave of Corpus Christi, for the Sunday in the octave of the Sacred Heart, and for the commemoration of St. Paul, on the Fourth Sunday after Pentecost.