Eucharistic Reflection - "The Desensitization to the Most Holy Eucharist"
[ What follows is one of the many painful but necessary Truths to ponder if we are to to re-establish awe, amazement, and belief in, and reverence for, our loving Lord physically present in the Holy Eucharist. ] ( Bibliothèque Municipale de Reims, ms. 993, Folio 158v) "…we did not wake up one fine day in 2016 and find ourselves suddenly confronted with Eucharistic sacrilege being promoted from on high. It was a long, slow process that led to this moment. It consisted in the gradual dilution of the sacredness of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and of the Blessed Sacrament at its heart, with institutionally tolerated sacrilege along the way. Fifty years of desacralization has ended in the temerity of contradicting the entire Catholic tradition about the most holy of all of the Church’s mysteries. The first major step was the allowance of Communion in the hand while standing - a sharp break from the deeply ingrained practice of many centuries of kneeling in ador...