Our Theme this Holy Thursday is “the Eucharist and the Works of Mercy.” One name for the Eucharist in our beautiful Catholic Tradition is to call it “the Sacrament of Charity.” It is almost the same thing to say that the Eucharist unites us to our Lord Jesus Christ more deeply, and to say that …
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Jesus at Three Different Dinners
In the Gospels many meals are recounted. We might think of Jesus eating with Mary, Martha, and Lazarus. We might think of Jesus making Himself known “in the breaking of the bread” as He and the two disciples were eating dinner together in Emmaus. Or we might think of those scandalous accounts where “he has …
In Celebration of the Annunciation: A Living Sacrifice
Because we are all “baptismal priests,” we therefore have the ability, and the duty, to turn our own very lives into a sacrifice.
Ubi Petrus VT 