Dear brothers and sisters we had watched the CSA Video and we have listened to our Bishop Powers and some of our priests about what’s happening in our diocese, parishes…
Read More >The word “Advent” is derived from the Latin word adventus, meaning “coming,” which is a translation of the Greek word Parousia. Christians often speak of Christ’s “first advent” as a…
Read More >12th – 20th CENTURIES: Then things changed as some said Christ was only symbolically present, as a mere memorial, not as a way of participating in His Sacrifice. This ‘forced’…
Read More >What stays the same: In 2024, December 8 falls on the Second Sunday of Advent. Because the Sundays of Advent rank higher, the date of solemnity of the Immaculate Conception…
Read More >Dear Brothers and sisters, as you all know its election time. Though I am not a US Citizen yet since I have been here in the USA for the last…
Read More >I would like to reflect on the third essential truth about the Eucharist from “The Mystery of the Eucharist in the Life of the Church document. The Eucharist is Communion…
Read More >BE TRULY PRESENT TO THE REAL PRESENCE. At the 1960’s Second Vatican Council, Saint Paul VI wrote, “This presence is called ‘real’ not to exclude the idea that the others…
Read More >To understand why the Church so firmly teaches that the Eucharist truly is the Real Presence of Jesus Christ, Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity, it would help if you…
Read More >“Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life and I will raise him on the last day. For my flesh is true food, and my blood is…
Read More >In John’s Gospel, which is rich in symbolism, it says that when the Crucified Christ was thirsty, “they put a sponge soaked in wine on a sprig of hyssop and…
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