hostie (iv)

As I was in church this morning...

and followed the preparations for Holy Mass...

something very strange happened to my eyes. I natu­rally had them open, as I was watching the altar. And yet it was as though my eyes suddenly jumped open. I cannot express myself better. I also felt it physically. Then I saw the priest and the altar disappear as in a mist in the background.

​A very bright light now appeared before my eyes. In that light I saw three figures, linked with each other in a semicircle. These were of extreme whiteness - white fire, I would almost call it. It startled me [deed me schrikken], for I could not look at it. I placed my hands before my eyes and really thought: “I am going blind.” Yet interiorly, I was impelled to keep on looking, and so I did.

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Then something very peculiar took place.

The three figures expanded slowly, becoming larger and larger, until they formed in a semi-circle. After this they joined together to form a circle. The centre still appeared as a dark patch. Subsequently, the figures spread out towards the center. Now, only a tiny spot remained dark. Suddenly that spot too was filled, so that all at once a very great sphere of white fire stood before my eyes.

I cannot express it otherwise... I looked at it. All of a sudden I recognized the Sacred Host, such as I had seen it on May 31, 1958 - but without shafts of rays. I could scarcely look at it, and a most peculiar state carne over me. Thus it stayed before my eyes and I kept gazing.

It was white fire - magnificent!​

Then it seemed as if the Sacred Host slowly faded away, and the High Altar as well as the Lady-Altar were bathed in a beautiful light. That lasted for a moment.​ Suddenly, everything appeared again as usual, as it had been when I entered the church.

The priest meanwhile had arrived at the Epistle.


~17/7/1958~