As we celebrate the great Solemnity of Corpus Christi this Sunday, we are also beginning the three-year Eucharistic Revival, a national effort to invite, inspire, catechize, and renew our people in our love for the Lord in the Eucharist, to understand and believe more profoundly in the meaning and purpose of the Mass, to realize anew the depths of Christ’s love for us in the Blessed Sacrament.
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Growing our relationship with the Eucharist
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops is launching a three-year National Eucharistic Revival with a mission “to renew the Church by enkindling a living relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ in the Eucharist” and a vision of “a movement of Catholics across the United States, healed, converted, formed, and unified by an encounter with Jesus in the Eucharist — and sent out in mission for the life of the world.”
Letter to the Editor (4/28/22)
Appearance and substance in the Eucharist
Appreciating invisible grace of the Eucharist
Ever since our children were little, I’ve strived to explain to them the mystery of transubstantiation — the point at which, under the appearance of bread and wine, the substance of the Eucharist becomes the Body and Blood of Christ.
Do this in memory of me: The Holy Sacrifice
It is the fulfillment of the ritual sacrificial meal that the Israelites were asked to celebrate annually, in order to recall (“in memory of me”) the night that the Lord acted in a powerful way to set them free from Egyptian enslavement (Exodus 12).
The need for a Eucharistic revival
“The more lively the Eucharistic faith of the People of God, the deeper is its sharing in ecclesial life in steadfast commitment to the mission entrusted by Christ to his disciples,” said Pope Benedict XVI in his post-synodal apostolic exhortation Sacramentum Cartitatis.
Rite of Election set for March 6
Facing Summit Ave. in St. Paul, Minn., the University of St. Thomas boasts these magnificent arches in the Collegiate Gothic style.
Fennimore parish celebrates 25 years of Perpetual Adoration
FENNIMORE — Queen of All Saints Parish in Fennimore will celebrate its 25th Anniversary of Perpetual Adoration on Sunday, Aug. 15.
Moving on after COVID
During a conversation I had with a parishioner last week, a wonderfully dedicated medical doctor, husband, and father, he complimented the diocese on how we handled the whole challenge of COVID.
We need the Mass
We can never forget that, on the last night of His earthly life, as Jesus faced betrayal, arrest, mockery, torture, and the Cross, He was thinking of us, not Himself.