Friday, June 25, 2010
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Zenit Q & A: Interruption of Consecration & Overhead Projectors
Q: If, after the consecration of the bread, the priest dies or forgets the consecration of the wine, do we have a Mass? I know that the consecrated host is the Body of Christ. Is the consecration of the wine absolutely necessary for a valid Mass?Read the answer here.
Pope Urges Faithful to Fall in Love With Eucharist
..."Speaking of the sacraments [in the third part of the Summa], St. Thomas pauses particularly on the mystery of the Eucharist, for which he had a very great devotion, to the point that, according to the ancient biographers, he used to lean his head on the tabernacle, almost as if to hear the beating of the divine and human Heart of Jesus," the Pope recalled...Read the entire Zenit article here.
"Never Call a Man's Baby Ugly"
Matthew Warner addresses his recent post Bishops Very Troubled by Some Catholic Blogs in Bishops and Babies.
I often wonder why it is so hard for some bloggers to be civil when writing about others, especially certain bishops or priests. If in doubt whether one's words could wound or cause us to commit the sin of detraction, it may be best to keep silent. Let those words go unwritten.
I often wonder why it is so hard for some bloggers to be civil when writing about others, especially certain bishops or priests. If in doubt whether one's words could wound or cause us to commit the sin of detraction, it may be best to keep silent. Let those words go unwritten.
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
LAY CATHOLICS LAUNCH EXPANDED WEBSITE TO ENCOURAGE PRIESTS
ATLANTA, Ga. (June 22, 2010)—The new lay Catholic outreach effort EncouragePriests.org™ has just launched its new interactive and expanded website to support priests. The apostolate launched on Holy Thursday and the new interactive website went live this Father’s Day, June 20, 2010.
The new website comes on the heels of the “Year for Priests” in an effort to extend the Holy Father’s call for the laity to show our love and support for the many holy Catholic priests around the world.
“This audacity of God who entrusts himself to human beings – who, conscious of our weaknesses, nonetheless considers men capable of acting and being present in his stead – this audacity of God is the true grandeur concealed in the word ‘priesthood,’” said Pope Benedict XVI.
Collar-HollerThe mission of EncouragePriests.org™ is to promote vocations and support ordinary men who do extraordinary work as Catholic priests, celebrating Mass and the sacraments, preaching, evangelizing and tirelessly serving the needs of their communities and the world.
On the new EncouragePriests.org™ website, visitors can learn more about the priesthood and vocations through audio, visual and written material on the site and on the blog. People will also find resources to show their gratitude for the priests in their lives through spiritual bouquets, written and video greetings, and short “Collar-Holler℠” e-cards. Encourage Priests™ can also be found on Facebook and Twitter.
EncouragePriests.org™ has already been welcomed by priests and lay Catholics around the country. “Great concept…Will be a tremendous help to the morale of priests,” said Bishop Sam Jacobs from the Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux. Several Catholics have submitted words of encouragement about their priests, like Rose who said, “He is truly a great priest who is always there for God's people, no matter what. His presence alone is a blessing to his parish and ours. I pray that he stays strong throughout his priesthood to continue to be a great priest.”
St. Thomas More
On the Holy Eucharist:
Now when we have received our Lord and have him in our body, let us not then let him alone, and get us forth about other things, and look no more unto him...but let all our business be about him. Let us by devout prayer talk to him, by devout meditation talk with him. Let us say with the prophet...'I will hear what our Lord will speak within me.'"
On the Reserved Eucharist:
...just as God supported the Israelites in their earthly pilgrimage by "walking with them in the cloud by day and in the pillar of fire by night," so much more does he now "assist and comfort us with the continual presence of his precious Body in the Holy Sacrament."
On death:
He stresses the remembrance of death as a medicine for the soul, prescribed for us by God, "The Divine Physician" as an antidote to the false allurements of sin and earthly pleasure.
On devotion to the Sacred Heart:
..."think on his precious Heart carved in twain." He sees Christ's love manifested at the Last Supper as a revelation of "his wonderful loving Heart."On devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary:
In his last work The Sadness of Christ, St. Thomas More names among the greatest of our Lord's mental sufferings in Gethsemane the thought of "the ineffable grief of his beloved Mother."
In his Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation, St. Thomas More writes of the souls in purgatory receiving comfort from the Blessed Mother.
On the vocation of Marriage:
"Saint Paul here (Eph 5:25-27) exhorteth men to love their wives, so tenderly that they should be of the mind, that to bring them to heaven they could find in their hearts to die for them, as Christ hath died for Christian people to bring them to heaven, and that men, to that intent that they may bring their wives to the glorious bliss of heaven, shoudl here bring them well up in faith, in hope and charity, and in good works, like as God hath washed his Church of all Christian people..."
On fatherhood (from a letter to his children):
"It is not so strange that I love you with my whole heart, for being a father is not a tie which can be ignored. Nature in her wisdom has attached the parent to the child and bound their minds together with a Herculean knot...Ah, brutal and unworthy to be called father is he who does not himself weep at the tears of his child...But now my love has grown so much that it seems to me I did not love you at all before."
On prayer and meditation in our own home:
"Let him also choose himself some secret solitary place in his own house as far from noise and company as he conveniently can. And thither let him some time secretly resort alone, imagining himself as one going out of the world even straight unto the giving up his reckoning unto God of his sinful living. Then let him there before an altar or some pitiful image of Christ's bitter Passion, the beholding whereof may put him in remembrance of the thing and move him to devout compassion, kneel down or fall prostrate as at the feet of almighty God, verily believing him to be there invisibly present as without any doubt he is. There let him open his heart go God, and confess his faults such as he can call to mind and pray God of forgiveness. Let him call to remembrance the benefits that God hath given him, either in general among other men, or privately to himself, and give him humble hearty thanks therefore. There let him declare unto God the temptations of the devil, the suggestions of the flesh, the occasions of the world, and of his worldy friends much worse many times in drawing a man from God than are his most mortal enemies."
On his lifelong quest for heaven:
"Make us saved souls in heaven together."
Monday, June 21, 2010
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