Video of Complete Holy Mass (Roman Catholic Rite)

This is for those who cannot make it physically to Church. 

If video fails, click here or go to http://divine-ripples.blogspot.com/2011/09/video-of-complete-holy-mass-roman.html


Holy Mass at Corpus Christi Church on Oct. 3, 2010 from Andrew Golebiowski on Vimeo.

This is a Holy Mass from Corpus Christ Church in Buffalo, N.Y. celebrated by Fr. Mateusz Wydmański with a Homily given by Fr. Simon Shaner, both of the Pauline Order.
For more information about Corpus Christi Church, please visit our website at: CorpusChristiBuffalo.org

Video: My body, my choice

A man and woman alternate in singing "This is my body." The man like Jesus puts us at the Cenacle when Jesus chose to follow God's will and offer His body as a sacrifice. The woman like someone who chose to abort her child also as a sacrifice to herself as she enthrones herself in place of God. Dramatic, artistic, inspiring and thought provoking.

Source:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VJMUS9AJHw or click here

Eucharistic Miracle in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Video has english subtitles. Medical testimony and scientific findings on a consecrated host. If you believe in the Eucharist, I guarantee that this is worth 9 minutes of your time.




Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbg_dhI4XCs

Video description:
En Buenos Aires, Argentina se ha puesto de moda el recibir la Eucaristía en la mano (la obra sacrílega de satanás), y a una persona que recibió la eucaristía en la mano se le cae la Hostia Consagrada al suelo y no la quiere tomar porque decía que estaba sucia, y se rehusó a tomar esa eucaristía del suelo. Otra persona más piadosa la colocó a un lado con más cuidado y le avisó al sacerdote lo ocurrido.

El sacerdote siguió el procedimiento para estos casos y colocó la Hostia en un recipiente con agua para que se disuelva, para luego echar dicha agua en una planta (como es el procedimiento a seguir), y la coloca dentro del Sagrario. Pasado un tiempo abre el Sagrario para desechar dicha agua donde se debía haber disuelto la Hostia y lo que vió fue que la Hostia no se disolvió sino que tenía manchas rojas de diversos tamaños.

Cuando dichas manchas rojas se llevan a un laboratorio para ser analizadas, el laboratorista confirma que contienen sangre humana del tipo AB, y que el tejido que se le ha entregado (era un pedazo de Hostia) corresponde a tejidos del miocardio de un corazón humano; pero lo que más sorprendió al laboratorista fue que el tejido humano latía, las células humanas seguían vivas (a pesar que todo científico sabe que los glóbulos rojos empiezan a morir a los 5 minutos de la muerte del ser humano).

Esta es la historia del milagro eucarístico de Buenos Aires.

Jesus in the Holy Eucharist

When I heard of an alleged apparition of our Lady in Conyers, GA, I went there but saw nothing.

Come to think about it, there is something more than an apparition and that is the transubstantiation of ordinary bread into the living Lord.  At the last supper when Jesus said, “This is my body.”  He did not say, “This is like my body” or “This is a symbol of my body.”  So, while the look and feel, “accidents”, of the bread stays the same, the substance has changed from bread to the Lord.  Over the course of history, there have been numerous miracles to confirming this – like bleeding hosts.  Just scour the web and see.

How much more intimate can one get with the Lord than to absorb and assimilate Him bodily.  And in the process, one receives the life of God, grace, to get transformed into the Lord.  That part is not automatic; it requires our disposition and cooperation.    To this end, St. John Bosco encouraged his students to receive Communion frequently i.e. daily.  That practice has produced 29 canonized saints or candidates for canonization.

What if the Lord had limited the power of consecrating the Eucharist to St. Peter on Holy Thursday?  People will save the whole year just to afford the fare to go to Rome that day and receive Him.  But the Lord knew how much we needed him so he had given that power to priests, even sinful ones, so that he can nourish us spiritually.

The left-over are put in the tabernacle.  The lighted votive lamp indicates the presence of the Lord in the Blessed Sacrament.  And that is why St. John Bosco encouraged his students to visit the Blessed Sacrament many times during the day – to meet the Lord.

 

The Church has built rules so that the Eucharist will be respected appropriately.  No one in grave sin is allowed to receive the Lord without prior reconciliation.  That is why some bishops have suggested to pro-abortion lawmakers to stay away until they repent and reverse their positions. 

 

This Lent, I’ve resolved to go to an extra Mass and receive the Lord.  Then I’ll take my son along.  The life of God, grace, given in this sacrament will help us both to follow the Lord faithfully and grow into his likeness.

 

 

Short visits & prayers to the Blessed Sacrament

St. John Bosco (1888) did not make his boys do long prayers. Instead he encouraged short visits to the Blessed Sacrament & ejaculatory prayers (one liners).

With regards to the quick visits, Fr. Jimmy Hernandez from the Archdiocese of Washington D.C. shared this to me. A construction worker would use his lunch breaks to visit a nearby church. It took him half an hour to get there, so all that he can do is knell and pray, "Lord, this is Jose. I just dropped by to say hello." Then he'd hurry back to the site.

One day he had an accident and was hospitalized. When his friends stopped over, they found him laughing. He said the Lord stopped by saying, "Jose, this is the Lord. I just dropped by to say hello."

While most churches are closed when there’s no service precluding a chance visit, we can at least say an ejaculatory prayer like “O Sacrament Most Holy, O Sacrament Divine, all praise & all thanksgiving be every moment Thine.” as we drive by.