Harvesting The Fruits of Contemplation

(Photo by Michael Seagriff) Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration offers to our people the opportunity to join those in religious life to pray for the salvation of the world, souls everywhere and peace on earth. We cannot underestimate the power of prayer and the difference it will make in our world. Jesus has made Himself the Bread of Life to give us life. Night and day, He is there. (Attributed to St. Teresa of Calcutta)

(Image Source: Wikimedia Commons ) Today is the feast day of St. Albert the Great (1206-1280). Who was this noted Dominican friar?    The following brief summary from the Lay Fraternities of St. Dominic ( St. Joseph ’s Province) highlights some of his accomplishments: “German Bishop, theologian of renown, philosopher, scientist, diplomat, inventor, teacher of St. Thomas Aquinas…crisscrossed his diocese on foot and so nicknamed “Doctor Boots by his contemporaries. “Universal Doctor’ of the Church…”     He was also the teacher of St. Thomas Aquinas! Today also marks the beginning of the fifteenth year of Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration at St. Agatha's parish! Praise God for such a inestimable Gift!   May I suggest we commemorate both of these great occasions by taking a look at what St. Albert the Great had to say about the Eucharist: “This sacrament [the Eucharist] is profitable because it grants remissions of sins; it ...