Tag Archives: Liturgy and Sacraments

Valentin Tomberg and the Holy Father on the Moral Energy of the Eucharist

Personal Memorandum: My book Cor Jesu Sacratissimum is going through unanticipated revision and expansion. The result is more delay than I would like, but what emerges has, I think, greater clarity, passion and strength. One thing that has hit me in this process is the need to speak of the Eucharist as clearly as possible – [...]
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Feast of the Sacred Heart

The Feast of the Sacred Heart is upon us. After the weekly Holy Hour and the monthly First Friday, this is the third and annual element of a Sacred Triad, called for by Our Lord in Paray-le-Monial, France. Here is how in the late seventeenth century, Saint Claude de la Columbiere related the origins [...]
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Judgment, the New Age and the Christian Difference

I had a dream of infidelity this night. Were I to bear the contents of this dream, the response of many I suppose would be: “So what? It was only a dream.” In the dream, in fact, it was “only” a few moments of infidelity. I pulled back and perhaps began a somewhat partial and confused process [...]
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To Suffer Liturgical Abuse and not to Fume in Anger …

I have just returned from Holy Mass with the Institute of Christ the King, here in Madrid. I feel so nourished by this Mass. So deeply nourished, physically and spiritually, that my soul is singing. Nourished by the beauty of the chapel. Nourished by the beauty of the vestments and altar. Nourished by the beauty of the [...]
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The Sanctifying Fire of Frequent Communion II

“I am come to cast fire on the earth; and what will I, but that it be kindled?” (Luke xii 49 from the Douay-Rheims) In my last entry I wrote: “As the Sanctifying Grace of the Church is spurned on countless fronts, we develop a world civilisation which is ever more materialistic and beginning to literally burn [...]
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The Sanctifying Fire of Frequent Communion

It was in the late seventeenth century in France in Paray-le-Monial that St Margaret Mary was to receive not only visions of the Sacred Heart, but from That Heart many commandments, encouragements and promises. These would form the basis of the public cult of the Sacred Heart, whose elements were once well-known in the Church before [...]
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