Eucharistic Reflection - The Gift of Awe and Wonder

If we are to restore a sense of the Sacred to our Churches and rediscover a sense of awe and wonder in the Eucharist as Father  Richard Heilman recently suggested  [and we must], we have a long way to go.

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"Man should tremble, the world should quake, all Heaven should be deeply moved when the Son of God appears on the altar in the hands of the priest."

St.  Francis of Assisi

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