Do This in Memory of Me: Witness my Love

By: Laura Catherine Worhacz

Dearest Eucharistic Family.  

In 1999 I became a member of the Legion of Mary. We had weekly meetings, rosary, and reports of good works with prayers to unite us. Most importantly a bond of love was formed with the presidium members as we worked together for Christ’s mission of His Church through the heart of our Blessed Mother.  

Our Legion president was a humble man, docile, and carried a gentleness of spirit. I remember hearing “his story” and I loved him even more. This gentleman lost his only son, a young boy around twelve years old, and his wife soon after. The boy was hit by a car while riding his bicycle, his wife became ill. Close to her death at the bedside of his wife, sharing his grief and expressing to her:

“What am I going to do?  

How will I survive?   

How will I go on living?”   

The wife took hold of his hand and said, “Listen to me, you will go to the Church, join the Legion, and work for Mary (our mother) she will take care of you. She will keep you busy, and you will be OK”. And so it happened, a witness of love and a remarkable life of the president of the Legion was carried out until his old age and death.   

Amazing grace, by divine intervention and consenting to God’s will birthed a witness of what it means to be a disciple of Jesus and to follow Him. Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, invites us into the moving mystery of His love. Jesus gave us an example the night before He died.  

“...fully aware that the Father had put everything into his power and that he had come from God and was returning to God, he rose from supper and took off his outer garments. He took a towel and tied it around his waist. Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and dry them with the towel around his waist. He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, ‘Master, are you going to wash my feet?’ Jesus answered and said to him, ‘What I am doing, you do not understand now, but you will understand later.’ Peter said to him, ‘You will never wash my feet.’ Jesus answered him, ‘Unless I wash you, you will have no inheritance with me.’ Simon Peter said to him, ‘Master, then not only my feet, but my hands and head as well.’” (John 13:3-9)  

Sharing in the grief and in the joy of others, uniting to their life story strengthens the Body of Christ, this act keeps the Body functioning well. We fall in love with our brothers and sisters of grace united through the beating heart of the Eucharist. This love is the love which enables us to live. We hold one another in the grace that saves us. It is important to remember.  

“Then he took the bread, said the blessing, broke it, and gave it to them, saying, ‘This is my body, which will be given for you; do this in memory of me. And likewise, the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which will be shed for you.”’ (Luke 22:19-20)

Jesus invites us to remember.

In the Eucharist, we remember the Life, Death, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ. Our lives are made one with Jesus in the Breaking of the Bread. How blessed we are to place upon the Altar of God daily all that we live for, all that we die for, and all that we hope for. To live a Sacramental life is a blessing for a joy of completeness and a gift to pray is found. An activity of life in the breadth of the Holy Spirit fills the house, our house, our spirit, our lives. I thank God for the Legion of Mary, it led me to later become a Lay Associate of the Blessed Sacrament, in the Charism of Saint Peter Julian Eymard, to make God’s love greatly known in the Eucharist.   

“Then how does each of us hear them in his own native language?” (Acts of the Apostles 2:8) 

It is love that enables us to hear others. A daily communicant from my parish speaks another language than me. We embrace one another daily with a sincere smile from each of us. Our words are very few to understand. Yet the heart unites us so deeply in all that we believe, all that we witness. GOD’S LOVE IS A MYSTERY. WE WALK TOGETHER IN FAITH and profess the witness of one another's lives, we never forget, that LOVE IS ETERNAL.
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​Laura Catherine Worhacz

Laura Catherine Worhacz is a Lay Associate of the Blessed Sacrament and author of Consecration to Jesus Through Our Lady of The Blessed Sacrament. She is also the Director of Mothers of The Blessed Sacrament. She lives in Trinity, FL with her husband and their two daughters.