Category: Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar

Idolators or Adorers?

31 July 2007

Monday of the Seventeenth Week of the Year I Exodus 32:15-34 Matthew 13:31-35 Idolatry Sins of idolatry and faithlessness are not as remote from us...

The Blood of the New and Eternal Covenant

28 July 2007

Saturday of the Sixteenth Week of the Year I Exodus 24:3-8 A Mystic Outline of the Mass We see in today’s lesson from the Book...

The Eucharistic Heart of Jesus

21 June 2007

On 9 November 1921, Pope Benedict XV instituted the feast of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus to be celebrated on the Thursday within the Octave...

Per antica tradizione

12 June 2007

Leafing through the 1941 edition of the Usi Monastici of our Congregazione Cistercense di San Bernardo in Italia, I happened upon this interesting prescription: Per...

The Beating Heart of the Church

10 June 2007

The Church has a beating Heart: the Eucharistic Heart of Christ. This is what Pope Benedict XVI said in today’s Angelus address: “Today’s solemnity of...

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