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Worth Revisiting - I Know This Is Late, But...

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Thank you once again, Allison Gingras at  Reconciled To You  and Elizabeth Riordan at  Theology Is A Verb   for hosting Worth Revisiting each week. It is a privilege to share our work with you and your followers . Here is another post from 2011:   I Know This Is Late, But... (Originally posted August 8, 2011) We hit the trifecta of Eucharistic saints last week: St. Alphonus Liguori, St. Peter Eymard, and St. John Marie Vianney, the model for all priests. I wrote about the first two Saints, but my computer got zapped at the Catholic Writers' Guild Conference. My son-in-law just removed the bugs. What follows is what I had intended to share last week. (Image Source: Wikimedia Commons ) Like Saints Alphonsus and Peter, St. John Vianney gets to the heart of what it should mean to be a Catholic. Here is a sample of his wisdom on the Eucharist. "There is nothing, so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He ...