Grassroots Films, the same company that created Fishers of Men, has another new video - this one on Eucharistic processions. Image Source: Believed to be in the Public Domain
Monday, June 19, 2006
Grassroots Films, the same company that created Fishers of Men, has another new video - this one on Eucharistic processions. Image Source: Believed to be in the Public Domain
Please pray for Auxiliary Bishop Richard Sklba of the Milwaukee Roman Catholic Archdiocese. He was in a car accident yesterday shortly after 1 PM. Retired Deacon John Wargin, 68, was driving and later died at St. Agnes Hospital in Fond du Lac. Please pray for his soul.
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This is the second day of the Novena to Our Mother of Perpetual Help. This Novena is prayed for leading up to the feast on June 27.Here is a novena prayer from a booklet of mine called Novena:
See at your feet, O Mother of Perpetual Help, a poor sinner who has recourse to you and confides in you.
O Mother of Mercy, have pity on me! You are called the refuge and the hope of sinners; be my refuge and my hope. Help me, for the love of Jesus Christ; stretch forth your hand to a poor, fallen creature. I recommend myself to you, and I want to devote myself to your service forever. I bless and thank almighty God, who is his mercy has given me this confidence in you, which I hold to be a pledge of my eternal salvation.
(Mention your request)
Mary, help me. Mother of Perpetual Help, never allow me to lose my God.
(Recite the Our Father, Hail Mary, and Glory Be three times each)
"Christ has no body now but yours No hands, no feet on earth but yours, Yours are the eyes through which He looks compassion on this world, Christ has no body now on earth but yours" St. Teresa of Jesus (Avila)
Sunday, June 18, 2006
This Novena starts today and is prayed for the next nine days leading up to the feast on June 27.Here is a novena prayer from a booklet of mine called Novena:
See at your feet, O Mother of Perpetual Help, a poor sinner who has recourse to you and confides in you.
O Mother of Mercy, have pity on me! You are called the refuge and the hope of sinners; be my refuge and my hope. Help me, for the love of Jesus Christ; stretch forth your hand to a poor, fallen creature. I recommend myself to you, and I want to devote myself to your service forever. I bless and thank almighty God, who is his mercy has given me this confidence in you, which I hold to be a pledge of my eternal salvation.
Mention your request
Mary, help me. Mother of Perpetual Help, never allow me to lose my God.
(Recite the Our Father, Hail Mary, and Glory Be three times each)
Trigger Laws: An Overview
There are now 7 states with such trigger laws in effect that will ban abortion-on-demand as soon as Roe v. Wade is overturned. They are Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Nebraska, and Utah.
Louisiana Trigger Law:
Photo: (Lee Celano/Reuters)
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There are now 7 states with such trigger laws in effect that will ban abortion-on-demand as soon as Roe v. Wade is overturned. They are Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Nebraska, and Utah.
Louisiana Trigger Law:
Photo: (Lee Celano/Reuters)
"My Jesus, my sweetness, how can I live without You? Come always, My Jesus, come; You alone take possession of my heart"St. Padre Pio
love, my joys and my
challenges. Lord, accept this
offering.
May the Light of faith
enlighten our days, Lord.
May joy and hope comfort us,
Lord
May peace and charity, fill our
lives, Lord.
For having listened to our
prayers, we say: thank You,
Lord.
I'm back from our Eucharistic procession and it was so solemn and beautiful. We only went around one block, but that time was filled with prayer. For my Lord led the way. He was there! My God was leading the way passed businesses, homes, and parking lots. And, what did I realize? That others do not know Him! He died for them in torments unutterable and they don't know Him! Some would slow down in their cars and glance at us. Most would keep on talking on their cellphones and drive on. Some would stop and look but no one else joined in. Our Lord was there and they did not know Him. And we, miserable sinners, continue to offend Him.How merciful Our Lord is...
Photo Source: Notre Dame
Prayer for the Spread of Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration
Heavenly Father, increase our faith in the Real Presence of Your Son, Jesus Christ in the Holy Eucharist. We are obliged to adore Him, to give Him thanks and to make reparation for sins. We need Your peace in our hearts and among nations. We need converstion from our sins and the mercy of Your forgiveness. May we obtain this through prayer and our union with the Eucharistic Lord. Please send down the Holy Spirit upon all peoples to give them the love, courage, strength and willingness to respond to the invitation to Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration. We beseech You to spread Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament in parishes around the world. We ask this in the name of Jesus the Lord. Amen
Our Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament help us to spread the glory of Your Son through Perpetual Eucharisitic Adoration.
Eucharistic Prayer
Most Holy Trinity, I adore Thee! My God, My God, I love Thee in the Most Blessed Sacrament!
"Could you not watch one hour with Me..."
(Matthew 6:21, 26:40)
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Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink His blood, you have no life in you; he who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day."-- John 6:53, 54On Corpus Christi, we remember and again celebrate this true and lasting miracle. Think about it, we can receive the flesh and blood of Our God! We can truly receive our Creator in a way so that we might have life within us! The Institution of the Eucharist changed the world. We must contemplate this miracle before receiving Our Lord at every single Mass. How can we not share the sentiments of Archbishop Sheen who said, "The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny, white Host."
Dom Gueranger writes, "A great solemnity has this day risen upon our earth: a feast both to God and to men: for it is the feast of Christ the Mediator, who is present in the sacred Host, that God may be given to man, and man to God. Divine union—such is the dignity to which man is permitted to aspire; and to this aspiration God has responded, even here below, by an invention which is all of heaven. It is to-day that man celebrates this marvel of God’s goodness."
History of the Feast of Corpus Christi
Around the early 1200s, Saint Juliana of Mont Cornillon received a vision concerning this feast at a young age. St. Juliana always had a strong devotion to the Blessed Sacrament. In her vision, she saw the Church under the appearance of the full moon. One large, dark spot was in the moon - symbolic of the absence of a solemnity to honor the Holy Eucharist. St. Juliana became an Augustinian nun in Liége, France, in 1206. Corpus Christi became a feast for the Diocese of Liege in 1246, and later in 1264, after having seen the Eucharistic Miracle in Orvieto, Pope Urban IV issued “Transiturus de hoc mundo” establishing it as a feast for the Universal Church. Pope Urban IV's order was confirmed by Pope Clement V in the Clementines Laws and promulgated by his successor, Pope John XXII in 1317.
In 1970 the name was changed from Corpus Christi to the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ when Corpus Christi and the Feast of the Precious Blood (July 1) were joined. The feast of the Most Precious Blood of Our Lord was suppressed in the Novus Ordo when the new calendar was promulgated in 1969, and not twenty-plus years later when Corpus Christi was renamed in the USA. The reason for its suppression was the alleged promotion of the understanding of Corpus Christi in terms of both Sacred Species. However, this is highly unfortunate because the feast of the Precious Blood (still observed at all Masses said according to the Liturgical Books of 1962 or previously) was not, strictly speaking, eucharistic in nature, but theological/devotional, and referred more to the Sacred Wounds of Our Lord and the hypostatic union of Our Lord's divine and human natures. The Feast of Corpus Christi has always honored the fullness of Christ - Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity - in the Eucharist. This is just another reminder of why we should stay clear of the Novus Ordo and remain attached to the Church's Traditional Calendar.
Additionally, up until changes to the Roman Calendar in 1955 by Pope Pius XII, today's feast had an Octave associated with it.
Corpus Christi as a Holy Day of Obligation
The first catalog of Holy Days comes from the Decretals of Gregory IX in 1234, which listed 45 Holy Days. In 1642, His Holiness Pope Urban VIII issued the papal bull "Universa Per Orbem" which altered the required Holy Days of Obligation for the Universal Church to consist of 35 such days as well as the principal patrons of one's locality. Corpus Christi was included in that list from 1642. It had not previously been in the list from 1234 since it was not established until after that time. By the 15th century, Corpus Christi became one of the Church's principal feasts and was likely added as a Holy Day of Obligation around that time.
Corpus Christi is still a Holy Day of Obligation in many countries. The United States received permission to transfer the celebration of the Mass to the Sunday after Corpus Christi in 1885 by Pope Leo XIII, in a concession to the modern world. This permission remains; however, those who pray the Divine Office will keep the Divine Office on Thursday.
3 Purposes for Today's Feast
1) To honor Our Lord, who is truly present in the Holy Eucharist
2) To instruct others on the faith, mystery, and devotion concerning the Holy Eucharist
3) To show our appreciation for the great gift of the Holy Eucharist
Eucharistic Processions
Many parishes will have Eucharistic processions. These processions are endowed with indulgences by Pope Martin V and Pope Eugene IV.
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