Twenty-Fifth Week of Ordinary Time September 22, 2024 Year of the Most Holy Eucharist Reflection #39
“And when he saw them, he said unto them, ‘Go shew yourselves unto the priests.’ And it came to pass, that, as they went, they were cleansed.” (Luke 17:14 KJV)
Twenty-Fourth Week of Ordinary Time September 15, 2024 Year of the Most Holy Eucharist Reflection #38
“So long as a man is ignorant of his defects and of their real nature, all his endeavor (be it ever so laudable) to overcome those defects will end in failure. Not infrequently we meet persons who, while sincerely bent on reforming, direct all their attention to merely imaginary faults of theirs, thus fighting against windmills and leaving their real defects untouched.”
(Dietrich von Hildebrand, Transformation in Christ, p.43)
Twenty-Third Week of Ordinary Time September 8, 2024 Year of the Most Holy Eucharist Reflection #37
“For the Christian — not only for the contemplative, but for every Christian — the purpose of life is union with Christ.”
(Dom Hubert van Zeller, How to find God, p.3)
Twenty-Second Week of Ordinary Time September 1, 2024 Year of the Most Holy Eucharist Reflection #36
“No one has ever trusted in the Lord and been abandoned.”
(John A. Kane, Transforming Your Life through the Eucharist, p.38)
Twenty-First Week of Ordinary Time August 25, 2024 Year of the Most Holy Eucharist Reflection #35
“Man will never yield to, much less be inspired by, what is no better than himself.”
(John A. Kane, Transforming Your Life through the Eucharist, p.19)
Twentieth Week of Ordinary Time August 18, 2024 Year of the Most Holy Eucharist Reflection #34
“A holy soul is but a soul freely submitted to the divine will with the help of grace.” (Father J.P. de Caussade, S.J., Self-Abandonment to Divine Providence, p. 55)
Nineteenth Week of Ordinary Time August 11, 2024 Year of the Most Holy Eucharist Reflection #33
“The Holy Eucharist is, then, the flower of the Incarnation, the completion of all the mysteries of the Redeemer’s life as Man. The institution of the Blessed Sacrament was the consummation of the stupendous series of God’s merciful dispensations to His fallen creatures, for Christ came ‘to seek and to save that which was lost’ by giving Himself to man. The end of His Passion, death, and glorification in our nature was that He might forever dwell in His Mystical Body, and therefore in us, members of that Mystical Body, the Church.” (John A. Kane, Transforming Your Life through the Eucharist, p.6)
Eighteenth Week of Ordinary Time Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost (Latin Mass) August 4, 2024 Year of the Most Holy Eucharist Reflection #32
Saint Justin Martyr (100-165 AD) — The First Apology Chapters 65, 66, 67
Seventeenth Week of Ordinary Time July 28, 2024 Year of the Most Holy Eucharist Reflection #31
“Assemble on the Lord’s Day, and break bread and offer the Eucharist; but first make confession of your faults, so that your sacrifice may be a pure one.” (The Didache 50-100 AD) “Make certain, therefore, that you all observe one common Eucharist; for there is but one Body of our Lord Jesus Christ, and but one cup of union with His Blood, and one single altar of sacrifice – even as also there is but one bishop, with his clergy and my own fellow-servitors the deacons. This will insure that all your doings are in full accord with the will of God.” (Saint Ignatius of Antioch 35-107 AD)
Sixteenth Week of Ordinary Time July 21, 2024 Year of the Most Holy Eucharist Reflection #30
“And they continued stedfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.” (Acts of the Apostles 2:42 KJV)
“And they continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart,” (Acts of the Apostles 2:46 KJV)
“And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.”
(Acts of the Apostles 20:7 KJV)