Oh God, One and Triune, thank you, because once more you have given us the opportunity to be before your Divine Presence. Men have not yet understood how beautiful, sweet, important it is to be before You. It is a gift, it is a privilege, but it is also a responsibility. Moses pointed it out by covering his face and taking off his footwear. We instead, people of earth, when we stand before You, are distracted, engrossed in earthly realities and do not understand that Your presence is a gift that is renewed every time You show Yourself before us.
To You, Father, who allowed us to informally call you Dad, to You, God the Son, who wanted that we consider ourselves your brethren, to You, God the Holy Spirit, who introduced Yourself as a friend of our soul, to You, One and Triune God, and by uttering this name I would like that all the love of Heaven, Earth and Purgatory were present at this time within me to be less unworthy to utter Your holy name, on behalf of the new Church I represent, I promise loyalty, obedience and docility.
The old Church is showing the world, not the divine face, but the human one because within it, and we have gained knowledge of it, first through Your letters and now through the media; today there is struggle, division, pride and filth.
All this, my God, we must stop and we know to whom You have given the onerous and difficult task to clean up the Church and to renew it, but the Church is renewed only for Your action and Your power. If You will not be present, nothing will be renewed, but You will be present and all will be renewed, warmed up by Your love, enlivened by Your grace. The new Church is about to be reborn and today we are more confident and aware of it. For this rebirth, we, the Bishop and the Victim, have lived and suffered for about 38 years. Long, difficult years, where everything was unleashed: betrayal, desertion, slander, insults, plots, diabolical machinations. If we are still standing, even if tried and exhausted, it is because You have been helping and sustaining us, and for that I thank You on my behalf and Marisa's.
Here, even with just a few of us, albeit small, even if weak, there is the germ, the seed of the new Church. We acknowledge we are sinners, for You said: "I came for sinners". We cannot but bear in mind that, were it not for Your redemption, Your Passion and Your death, we would be crushed by the original sin and we would feel the consequences of this sin. Today, though lived meekly, is a day with a prophetic meaning, a day that prepares Your triumphant entry into the Church. You have achieved the triumph of the Eucharist, but this triumph must be felt by everybody in a conscious and acquainted way. It is true, You overturned and undid the plans of men who, in spite of their ecclesiastical offices, were plotting against You and bring Your Ship away from the truth, grace and love, but they did not succeed, because the two pillars, to which this Ship was anchored, stood up against the waves, storms, and even if she suffered some damage, she is still there ready to set sail for distant seas.
My God, I know that for You this is an important day and I would like that also those listening to me would be aware and conscious of it, because it is also for their prayers, their fasting, their sacrifices, that Your day is coming. The fight, however, will not cease, because, my God, lately You have been telling me often that even when You will have placed me at unreachable heights, for some time I will still have to fight, but I am sure to carry off the victory, because You promised that with me, besides You, there will be the Mother of the Eucharist, the Guardian of the Eucharist, the victim of the Eucharist and grandmother Iolanda, who are preparing this event with their prayers.
My God, we love You. Oh yes, we faltered, sometimes we gave vent to our feelings towards You in a tumultuous way, but You have always listened patiently and You understood the good reasons for our venting, You never blamed us for it, but You considered it a manifestation of significant exhaustion, of impressive suffering.
My God, embrace each of us, give a caress to each of us, give Your kiss, but above all give us a tiny bit, even if infinitesimal, of Your strength and Your courage; now, and above all in the future, we need to be strong and brave: there is still so much evil in the Church and to remove it we must have muscles of steel and an iron character.
My God, I would like to shout to the whole world that we love You. I promise to be loyal to You, it is not only me vowing loyalty, but I am convinced that I will be followed in this path by Marisa, my younger children, my adult brethren and all the people, and there are many of them, who in the world know what You have worked in this place. A great deal of people know your Bishop, know your Seer and, at this moment, I think about those bishops and priests whom, in bilocation, You allowed me to ordain and are just waiting for me, at the right time, to call them to Rome, for it is from Rome that the renewal must begin and it will gradually embrace every local Church, each diocese, each parish, each center, so that eventually the Eucharist may dominate the whole Church and may be loved.
Thank you, Daddy God, thank you, God the Son, thank you, God the Holy Spirit, because with patient and a smile You are listening to the Bishop whom You, God, have ordained. Finally, thank you, my God, because against any human logic, today You allowed, since a long time, the Victim to be physically close to the Bishop. Unfortunately Marisa is not feeling well, even today her ordeal goes on, and if she will be coming down, it is because of Your help. My God, if possible, at least during the Eucharistic celebration, let her feel Your presence by decreasing, if possible, and if this is Your will, the suffering that minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day, and let us not dwell on it, year by year, she is tasting daily since a long time and every day she eats the Eucharistic Bread and the bread of suffering.
Thank you, my God, to You the honor and glory in Heaven, earth and in any place. Before you, all creatures, beginning from the Mother of the Eucharist, kneel down and say in harmony: "God, bless humanity".

+ Claudio Gatti
Bishop ordained by God
Bishop of the Eucharist