Mary Our Mother
(Abbey at the Genesee, Piffard, NY -Photo©Michael Seagriff) Mary, our Most Blessed Mother, hold all of us in your loving arms as well. Protect and lead us into the Eternal embrace of Your Son. For this we pray.
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Monday Musings - For Those Of Us Disturbed By Not Being Able to Receive Holy Communion
I know I am among the throng who have increasingly complained about being unable to receive Holy Communion. (Image Source: Wikimedia Commons ) We have a right to feel that way; but let us not forget (as I have) that this painful experience is intended by God for our eternal benefit. Ponder the wisdom of these words penned by Dom Lorenzo Scupoli more than four hundred years ago - advice that our ears and hearts may need to hear today: “Show the same resignation [to God’s will] when, either under the direction of your confessor, or for some other reason, you are obliged to refrain for a time from Holy Communion. Rather than be disturbed by this loss, you should say with your heart: Were I not guilty of some failing or shortcoming before the Lord, I would not thus be deprived of receiving Him; blessed be the name of Him Who has revealed to me my true unworthiness. I know, O Lord, that in all the trials of my life I need do nothing but bear them patiently in the hope of plea...
Eucharistic Reflection - No Words Suffice
(Image Source: Wikimedia Commons ) “Of all the sacraments none is more health-giving, for by It sins are washed away, virtues are increased , and the soul is fed with an abundance of all spiritual gifts. It is offered in the Church for the living and the dead; that all may profit by that which was instituted for the salvation of all…no words suffice to describe the sweetness of this Sacrament, in which spiritual delights are tasted at their very source…” St. Thomas Aquinas