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

Tuesday, March 20, 2018

How Much Evil Comes about Through Sacrilegious Communions?


Catherine of Siena, Saint of
the Eucharist, pray for us.
That's a good question and I don't know the answer, but how can this grave sin not bring destruction on the one who commits it and on those around him and the community? Think of the destruction that fell on Sodom and Gomorrah. Will sacrilege against Jesus Christ Himself not bring about moral destruction?

In 2011, Fr. Tom Collins sent two letters to Archbishop Timothy Dolan while he was head of the USCCB (U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops) raising some important issues about the Holy Eucharist. They remain relevant, and, in fact, are even more important considering that sacrilegious Communions are actively encouraged since the publication of Amoris Laetitia.  And so, I offer excerpts from Father's letters while encouraging Catholics to meditate on Jesus' Real Presence in the Eucharist.  

Do we approach Communion in fear and trembling? We certainly should!

Here are Father's thoughts from his letter of August, 2011:   

Monday, January 19, 2015

Is This the Liturgical Version of the Mash Pit?

Make reparation for the Eucharistic sacrilege at the papal Mass in Manila. Have mercy on us, O Lord.