Monday Musings - Important Questions

Eucharistic Reflection - Poor, Blind and Miserable Creatures

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One day, when I was assisting at the Holy Sacrifice, I saw an immense number of Holy Angels descend and gather around the altar, contemplating the priest. They sang heavenly canticles that ravished my heart; Heaven itself seemed to be contemplating the great Sacrifice. And yet we poor blind and miserable creatures assist at Mass with so little love, relish and respect.

(St Bridget from All About Angels)

Eucharistic Reflection - Prepare For Something Great

Monday Musings - So What’s the Rush?

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Many professing to be Catholic - even among those who attend Sunday Mass regularly - have lost the sense of the Sacred and their belief in the Real Presence of our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament.

The many reasons for this are beyond the scope of this brief reflection.

Let me mention just two  (1) the misuse of Extraordinary Ministers of the Eucharist whose assistance at Mass should be restricted to those very rare occasions “whenever the number of faithful wishing to receive Communion is so great that the celebration of Mass would be unduly long (emphasis added); and (2) the failure of so many of us to spend sufficient time in thanksgiving and conversation with the Lord whose Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity we consume.

Since reception under both species is neither required nor recommended for frequent use, can anyone truthfully say that their Sunday Mass would be unduly prolonged if there were no Extraordinary Ministers of the Eucharist? What is so wrong about extending the time during which silent conversation can take place between we sinners and the Divine Physician now present within our fleshly temples?

Do We Really Appreciate and Revere the Holy Eucharist?

Have we become too casual in the way we view and treat the Sacred species?

Can we ever be too reverent in His Presence?

May the brief video that follows cause each of us to pause and reflect on the awesomenesss of the Eucharistic gift and our response to He Who loves us so much that He feeds us with His Body and Blood.

(Video credit: True Faith TV by kolbe 1019 on You Tube)