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Eucharistic Reflection - What Good is a Holy Hour?

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A Call To Be A Militant Catholic   How will these words impact the way you live your Faith?  “If I am truly grateful for the fact that our Lord is my God and my Savior, Who shed His blood to the last drop for me and would have done it for me alone, I must react, when I see Him attacked, insulted, derided, blasphemed and His Church persecuted. That is the logical consequence of adoration. "What good is a Holy Hour, filled with good feelings and emotion, if, as I come out and witness an offence to God, I do not take a stand? What is the sincerity of that love I pledged to Our Lord, if I remain indifferent when I see Him attacked? If my adoration is sincere, I must be ready to fight for His cause to the last breath. If we consider that our Lord Jesus Christ is the head of the Mystical Body, which is the Catholic Church, and that the Church on earth is called the Church Militant; if we consider that it has been the Church's lot to be attacked, contested, denied, betrayed and p...

Eucharistic Reflection - Captain of the Church Militant

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(Image source: Wikimedia Commons ) "The Son of God is as it were the Captain of the Church Militant. It is needful now that He be a warrior. He resides there in the Tabernacle, as in the Ark [of the Covenant], as in His pavilion of war. This then is the God of armies, He is there like the angel in the pillar [of cloud] in the desert who marches at the head of His squadrons ranged in battle. This then is He who presides over our combats, and who renders us victorious over our invisible enemies." (Father Jacques Nouet, S.J. from The Mystical Life of Jesus in the Most Holy Sacrament )

Monday Musings - Put On Your Boots!

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Our failure to live this Truth has contributed to the destruction of our culture and  the loss of countless souls. It is time to engage the enemy...