TO writes: "This is a new one on me: Lemurian Cards. Can you help us understand what this is? I'm sure it's of the occult and new age."
The latest box office hit, Downton Abbey, starring Michelle Dockery and Hugh Bonneville, is a lavish period film set in the scenic English countryside in 1927 that might have made a terrific family movie if not for a homosexual subplot that many found offensive.
The altar in San Giovanni Rotondo where St. Pio said MassI think it is safe to say that a mystique of sorts has evolved surrounding the beloved man popularly known as Padre Pio. The fact that since 2002, he has been numbered among the canonized saints of the Catholic Church, at times appears to be a mere afterthought.
September 23
"From the depths of my heart I thank You, dear Lord, for Your infinite kindness in coming to me. I thank You for nourishing my soul with Your Sacred Body and Precious Blood. Grant that I may spend the hours of the day gladly working with You according to Your will."
-Act of Thanksgiving
Today’s Reflection:
In what other ways are you grateful for the gift of the Eucharist?
September 20
"It is through the sacraments and the exercise of the virtues that the sacred nature and organic structure of the priestly community is brought into operation. Incorporated in the Church through baptism, the faithful are destined by the baptismal character for the worship of the Christian religion; reborn as sons of God they must confess before men the faith which they have received from God through the Church. They are more perfectly bound to the Church by the sacrament of Confirmation, and the Holy Spirit endows them with special strength so that they are more strictly obliged to spread and defend the faith, both by word and by deed, as true witnesses of Christ. Taking part in the Eucharistic sacrifice, which is the fount and apex of the whole Christian life, they offer the Divine Victim to God, and offer themselves along with It. Thus both by reason of the offering and through Holy Communion all take part in this liturgical service, not indeed, all in the same way but each in that way which is proper to himself. Strengthened in Holy Communion by the Body of Christ, they then manifest in a concrete way that unity of the people of God which is suitably signified and wondrously brought about by this most august sacrament.
-Lumen Gentium, No. 11
Today’s Reflection:
Why do you think the Eucharist is the "fount and apex of the whole Christian life"?
by Serena DyksenWhen I was ten years old I began being groomed by my aunt’s husband as I babysat their children. He eventually raped me at the age of 13.
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