The Eucharist as the Real Presence is the touchstone of sanctity. As evidence of this fact we have the witness of the saints who, when they speak or write about the power of the Blessed Sacrament to sanctify, seem to be positively extreme in their claims about what the Real Presence can achieve in making a sinful person holy. In order to appreciate the value of the Real Presence in the spiritual life, we must go back in spirit to the event described by St. John when our Lord, after He had worked the miracle of the multiplication of the …
Category: Holy Eucharist
The True Presence: Eucharistic Miracles Over the Centuries for Corpus Christi
The ‘Miracle of Lanciano’ — the relic of the miraculous Host is shown — continues to fascinate Catholics the world over. (Wikipedia/public domain) Culture of Life | Jun. 20, 2019 The True Presence: Eucharistic Miracles Over the Centuries for Corpus Christi Lanciano might be the most famous of all Eucharistic miracles, but there have been many over the centuries, including recent ones. Joseph Pronechen During the middle of the eighth century, a Basilian monk who was more oriented toward science than faith had persistent doubts about the reality of the bread and wine becoming Christ’s true body and true blood at …
Instruction on the Mass
THE ORDER OF MASS As of Nov. 27, 2011, English-speaking Catholics are using a new English Translation of the Third Edition of The Roman Missal. This webpage is intended to help you become familiar with the “Order of Mass” used in the Catholic Church. The texts and responses spoken by all the people are indicated in bold type below. Some of the greetings and prayers spoken by the presider (the priest or bishop) at each Mass are also included, in order to help you understand the structure and flow of the Mass more fully. The postures prescribed for Masses in …
Perpetual Adoration
Isidoro Arredondo, “St. Clare and the Holy Eucharist”, 1693 From Shortage to a Wealth of Vocations Through Prayers When dioceses institute Eucharistic adoration for vocations, an increase in priests generally follows “The average age of our priests in the diocese is in their fifties,” Father Thomas Kramer, (now deceased) the pastor of the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit in Bismarck, North Dakota explained during a Sunday homily around 24 years ago. Factoring in the number of seminarians at the time and those expected to retire, he explained that the 5-year projection was bleak. “Pray for vocations,” Fr. Kramer pleaded And …