Facebook Twitter Pinterest Gmail LinkedIn   There has been criticism of the Church’s implementation of a decades old papal document regarding Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion on the parish level. Critics feel that the over reliance on Eucharistic Ministers (EM) violates the Pope’s original intention. This ignores the fact that there aren’t enough priests and deacons […]

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Gmail LinkedIn “If this is going to be a revival, if it’s going to be a real revival, here’s the reality. In the history of Christianity, you can never have a revival without repentance.” Fr. Mike Schmitz This is a quote from Fr. Mike Schmitz’s talk at the National Eucharistic Congress. Listen […]

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Gmail LinkedIn “If a person cannot recognize the obvious presence of God in a living baby in the womb of its mother, then how would they ever discover the presence of God in the mystery of the Eucharist?” – Bishop David Konderla Photo by Omar Lopez on Unsplash

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Gmail LinkedIn Because Christ himself is present in the sacrament of the altar, he is to be honored with the worship of adoration. “To visit the Blessed Sacrament is . . . a proof of gratitude, an expression of love, and a duty of adoration toward Christ our Lord” (Paul VI, MF […]

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Gmail LinkedIn “I will not allow myself to be so absorbed in the whirlwind of work as to forget about God. I will spend all my free moments at the feet of the Master hidden in the Blessed Sacrament. He has been tutoring me from my most tender years.” – St. Faustina […]

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Gmail LinkedIn What are the National Eucharistic Revival and National Eucharistic Congress? Sister Alicia Torres of the Franciscans of the Eucharist of Chicago from the executive board for the National Eucharistic Revival answers all this and more. How can you be a part of the Eucharistic revival and what is a national […]

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Facebook Twitter Pinterest Gmail LinkedIn O God, who in this wonderful Sacrament have left us a memorial of your passion, grant us, we pray, so to revere the Sacred Mysteries of Your Body and Blood that we may always experience in ourselves the fruits of your redemtion. Who live and reight with God the Father […]

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Gmail LinkedIn “The Eucharist is the Sacrament of Love; It signifies Love, It produces love. The Eucharist is the consummation of the whole spiritual life.” — St. Thomas Aquinas Image: Photo by Matea Gregg on Unsplash

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Gmail LinkedIn I’ve always wondered why in the world God wants us to worship Him. It never quite made sense to me that a loving God would possess an ego so big that He’d ask His kids to fall down at his feet. But then, one day, I heard an analogy that […]

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Gmail LinkedIn More Resources On The Eucharist Your Guide To The National Eucharistic Revival “What does Jesus Christ do in the Eucharist? It is God who, as our Savior, offers himself each day for us to his Father’s justice. If you are in difficulties and sorrows, he will comfort and relieve you. […]

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Gmail LinkedIn “The Holy Eucharist is the perfect expression of the love of Jesus Christ for man.” St. Maria Goretti Photo by Eric Mok on Unsplash

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Gmail LinkedIn But our opinion is in accordance with the Eucharist, and the Eucharist in turn establishes our opinion. For we offer to Him His own, announcing consistently the fellowship and union of the flesh and Spirit. For as the bread, which is produced from the earth, when it receives the invocation […]

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Gmail LinkedIn “For He became man that we might become divine; and He revealed Himself through a body that we might receive an idea of the invisible Father; and He endured insults from men that we might inherit incorruption.” — St. Athanasius of Alexandria Image: https://unsplash.com/photos/brown-wooden-cross-under-blue-sky-during-daytime-pw1Sbv1XK-0

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Gmail LinkedIn John 6: 22-59 The Bread of Life Discourse The next day, the crowd that remained across the sea saw that there had been only one boat there, and that Jesus had not gone along with his disciples in the boat, but only his disciples had left.  Other boats came from […]