Silent Servants...

Silent Servants...

... of the Used, Abused, and Utterly Screwed Up.

A Secular Franciscan looks at the world...
with a more jaundiced eye than ever...
and lots of ellipses for you to fill in the missing text...
(with thanks to Thomas S. Klise for the title)



Showing posts with label adoration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label adoration. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

I truly believe



that if we could have more time of adoration in our parish churches we could very well see an explosion of devotion and renewal like this in many places.

'WE ARE A CHURCH ON FIRE': Eucharistic Adoration transforms Acushnet parish

God is there waiting for us, and with only short periods for Mass and the occasional day of adoration, we don't spend enough time with Him...







Thursday, August 20, 2009

Hmm...


Adoration with no end: 24-hour Eucharistic ritual returns to Boston

It's funny, but the words used in this article give the sense of either lazy reporting or subtle prejudice, and I can't decide which. Calling Perpetual Adoration an 'unusual ritual' (which is akin to calling any type of meditation, Buddhist, Catholic or Transcendental unusual no matter how commonplace), and the references to the Host as 'wafer' and the monstrance as 'wafer-holder', sound jarring and off-putting. It sounds like someone didn't take time to learn the terminology or doesn't like the Church or the practice. Just my feeling. It could just be my crade-Catholicity...

This is so true:
"You can get cigarettes 24/7, you can buy milk, and you can’t have a church open?"