Sacrament of awesome might...

   As you have heard from the beginning,

His command is that you walk in love. - II John 6

"Hail, Thou Living Bread from heaven!

Sacrament of awesome might!

I adore Thee - I adore Thee!

Every moment, day and night.

Holiest Jesu! - Heart of Mary!

O'er me shed your gifts divine:

Holiest Jesu! my Redeemer!

All my heart and soul are Thine."

Edward Caswall

Painting: St Therese strewing roses.  Artist unknown

Good and holy places...

  I rejoiced with those who said to me, 

"Let us go to the house of the LORD."

Our feet are standing in your gates, O Jerusalem. 

Psalm 122:1-2

Non enim pro locis res, 

sed pro bonis rebus loca amanda sunt –

"Things are not to be loved 

for the sake of a place,

but places are to be loved

for the sake of their good things."

 Pope St Gregory the Great

Italy ~ 540-604

Doctor of the Church

Prolific writer, untiring servant for Christ

Compiled Antiphony (chants of Church used for Liturgy)

Established Schola Cantorum 

(Rome's training school for choristers)

Patron:  Popes, Teachers, Choirboys, Musicians, Singers

Feast Day - September 3 

Photo credit: Church Kneeling, Lawrence, OP

“It is not by faith that you will come 

to know [God] but by love;

not by mere conviction, but by action.”

 St Gregory the Great

"The sacred Scriptures grow with
the one who reads them."

St Gregory the Great

"You don't climb a mountain in leaps and bounds, 
but by taking it slowly."- St Gregory the Great

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St Gregory the Great, pray for us!

Caught up into a rhythm...

 "The grace flowing from this wellspring (Eucharist)

renews mankind, life and history."

 St John Paul II, Dies Domini, Pentecost Sunday, 31 May 1998

"The Blessed Sacrament is the 

Sacrament of Unity; and when you receive it, it 

does not merely produce in you more charity toward 

your neighbor, more loyalty toward the Church,

more unselfishness in your human attachments.

It makes you more at unity with yourself;

it catches up our life into a rhythm 

that echoes the heavenly music...

It comes to you... full of that unifying love

which is the bond of the Blessed Trinity."

Msgr Ronald Knox

Painting above: Memoir Writing ~ August Muller

Tidying up...

  "Speak for your servant is listening." 

 I Samuel 3:10b

"Above all, we must get to church early 

in order to 'tidy up' inwardly.  

We must have no illusions about our condition when 

we enter the church; we must frankly face our 

restlessness, confusion, disorder. To be exact, 

we do not yet really exist as persons - at least not as 

persons God can address, expecting a fitting response.  

We are bundles of feelings, fancies, thoughts, 

and plans all at cross-purposes with each other. 

The first thing to do, then, is to quiet and 

collect ourselves.  We must be able to say honestly:  

Now I am here.  I have only one thing to do - participate 

with my whole being in the only thing that counts, 

the sacred celebration. I am entirely ready."

Romano Guardini

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What union can compare?...

   "Our present time and the future of the world

are illuminated by Christ's Eucharistic presence and

are desperate for His action." - Bl James Alberione 

"Jesus is present and 
lives in our midst in the Eucharist. 

Let us listen to Him for He is truth.

Let us look at Him, for He is the face of the Father.

Let us love Him, for He is love giving Himself 

to His creatures. He comes to our soul so that 

it may disappear in Him and become divine.

What union, however great, can compare to this?

St Teresa de Los Andes

(+1920)

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