Showing posts with label Eucharistic Adoration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Eucharistic Adoration. Show all posts

Sunday, June 11, 2023

from CNA - Corpus Christi Sunday 2023: Inspiring words from the saints about the Eucharist

 https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/251543/corpus-christi-sunday-2022-inspiring-words-from-the-saints-on-the-eucharist

St. Thomas Aquinas: “The Eucharist is the sacrament of love: It signifies love, it produces love. The Eucharist is the consummation of the whole spiritual life.”

St. Euphrasia: “To speak of the Blessed Sacrament is to speak of what is most sacred. How often, when we are in a state of distress, those to whom we look for help leave us; or what is worse, add to our affliction by heaping fresh troubles upon us. He is ever there, waiting to help us.

St. Francis de Sales: “When the bee has gathered the dew of heaven and the earth’s sweetest nectar from the flowers, it turns it into honey, then hastens to its hive. In the same way, the priest, having taken from the altar the Son of God (who is as the dew from heaven and true son of Mary, flower of our humanity), gives him to you as delicious food.”

St. John Chrysostom: “It is not the man who is responsible for the offerings as they become Christ’s Body and Blood; it is Christ himself who was crucified for us. The standing figure belongs to the priest who speaks these words. The power and the grace belong to God. ‘This is my Body,’ he says. And these words transform the offerings.”

St. Cyril of Jerusalem: “Since Christ himself has said, ‘This is my Body,’ who shall dare to doubt that it is his Body?”

St. Maximilian Kolbe: “If angels could be jealous of men, they would be so for one reason: holy Communion.”

St. John Vianney: “I throw myself at the foot of the tabernacle like a dog at the foot of his master.”

St. Pio of Pietrelcina: “A thousand years of enjoying human glory is not worth even an hour spent sweetly communing with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.”

St. Angela of Foligno: “If we paused for a moment to consider attentively what takes place in this Sacrament, I am sure that the thought of Christ’s love for us would transform the coldness of our hearts into a fire of love and gratitude.”

St. Francis of Assisi: “O sublime humility! O humble sublimity! That the Lord of the whole universe, God and the Son of God, should humble himself like this and hide under the form of a little bread, for our salvation.”

St. Augustine: “What you see is the bread and the chalice; that is what your own eyes report to you. But what your faith obliges you to accept is that the bread is the body of Christ, and the chalice is the blood of Christ. This has been said very briefly, which may perhaps be sufficient for faith; yet faith does not desire instruction.”

This article was originally published June 14, 2022, and was updated June 9, 2023.

Thursday, March 5, 2020

Process/Pattern of Increase - Deacon Marc Gauthier

I asked Deacon Marc if I could post the homily he gave at the Tuesday morning mass this week and here it is: 

Thank you Deacon Marc

Processes of Failure and Increase

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The foundation of the two processes mentioned below are based on the Kingdom Principle that God’s gauge for faithfulness is character development and cooperation with the ministry of the Holy Spirit.

The following are two Kingdom of God processes, or we could call them Character Processes - one that leads to failure and the other leads to increase, especially an increase in God’s grace in our lives so that we may live as faithful disciples. The word process best describes what happens, as one stage leads to another. I give you both so that you can appreciate the difference, but I will lay out a more detailed description of the Process for Increase.

First, the Process of Failure: four stages, or whatever you want to refer to them as, roughly happening sequentially - Deception, Distraction, Dislocation and Destruction.

The Process of Increase involves Identification, Involvement, Investment and Increase.

The process produces an increase of Sanctifying grace within us - the work of the Holy Spirit bringing about holiness and communion with the Trinity of Love.

We must first Identify with our Lord as the disciples did - in the first chapter of St. John’s gospel when they chose to seek out the Lord. Jesus awakens in them a desire to know more about Him, and He invites them to follow Him.

As the disciples watched and listened, day by day, they, and we, begin to get involved. I’m reminded of the distribution duties the apostles had at the event we know as the multiplication of loaves and fishes (see Matthew 14).We should want to be Jesus’ hands and feet, and spread the wonders of His love with others.

Then comes the Lord’s prayer into our lives.

“One day He was praying in a certain place. When He had finished, one of His disciples asked Him, ‘Lord, teach us to pray as John taught his disciples.’” (Luke 11:1)

Jesus was/is a Rabbi in so many ways. His disciples, like the disciples of any Rabbi, wanted to know the prayer of their Rabbi. In this way,  as Jesus offered them His prayer, they would be welcomed deeper into His life (“Put out into the deep…” Luke 5). They, we, would need to invest ourselves, go “all-in” as it were, and call God our Father.  Bit by bit we begin to discover what it means to live as His children, to seek His way of righteousness in all things and to trust in Him for all things.

We learn to live in ways that others will know that we receive the grace to love, as He loves us, from Him. Then, as He sends us out with His message of reconciliation (see 2 Corinthians 5:19), His Sanctifying grace increases in us so that He may be glorified.

Deacon Marc Gauthier

Tuesday, October 9, 2018

Eucharistic Adoration at the Annunciation of the Lord Parish

When I arrived for mass this morning, Deacon Marc Gauthier mentioned to me that today is the first anniversary of Tuesday Adoration in our Parish of the Annunciation of the Lord in Ottawa. Every Tuesday we have the Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament which begins after the 9:00am Mass and concludes with Benediction and the Divine Praises around 4:00pm. What a Grace this has been for our parish.

A few weeks ago Father Rob said it doesn't have to be complicated when praying before Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. "Look at Jesus as he looks to you and talk to Him"


And today in his homily Deacon Marc said "how wonderful it is to be in the presence of someone who really loves you, and Jesus really loves you!"


Thank you Jesus!


I believe, I adore, I trust and I love You. 
I beg pardon for those who do not believe, 
do not adore, do not trust and do not love You


I believe, I adore, I trust and I love You. 
I beg pardon for those who do not believe, 
do not adore, do not trust and do not love You


I believe, I adore, I trust and I love You. 
I beg pardon for those who do not believe, 
do not adore, do not trust and do not love You

Sunday, June 2, 2013

Worldwide Eucharistic Adoration

Homily of Father Terry Donahue C.C on the Feast of Corpus Christi
http://www.youtube.com/embed/5QHbpZjkFq0?feature=player_detailpage"

 
http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2013/06/02/catholics_prepare_for_worldwide_eucharistic_adoration/en1-697682
Catholics around the world prepared to join Pope Francis today for an unprecedented, worldwide hour of prayer and adoration before the Blessed Sacrament during celebrations for the Feast of Corpus Christi.

From 5-6 pm Rome time, cathedrals and churches throughout the world will be hosting Eucharistic Adoration, led by the Holy Father in Saint Peter’s Basilica.

This year’s Corpus Christi celebrations are tied in to the Year of Faith with the theme “One Lord, one faith.”








Here at the Annunciation of the Lord Parish in Ottawa, numerous  parishioners attended the holy hour which began after the 10:00 Am mass and  ended with Benediction at noon