Holy imprint...

   ...He rewards those who earnestly seek Him.

 Hebrews 11:6b

Viaticum - Antique print

On her deathbed, St Juliana...

    "...begged that the Sacred Host might be laid upon her breast, in order that her heart might feel some refreshment from being near to Jesus; and  when the priest, in compliance with her request, spread the corporal (cloth) on her breast and laid Our Lord upon it, she exclaimed with the greatest delight:  'O my sweet Jesus!'

    As she drew her last breath, the Sacred Host disappeared, and as it was not to be found, the bystanders were sure that our Saviour, in the Blessed Sacrament, had united Himself to her heart, to strengthen her in her passage and accompany her to Heaven.

     After her death the form of the Host was found stamped upon her chest in the exact spot over her heart over which the Blessed Sacrament had been placed."

Excerpt from Fr Michael Muller, CSSR

The Blessed Eucharist, Our Greatest Treasure

St Juliana Falconieri

Florence, Italy ~ 1270-1341

Foundress - Sisters of the Third Order of Servites

Patron of Sufferers of chronic illness

Exemplary devotion to Our Lady of Sorrows 

and the Eucharist

"Handmaid of the Holy Eucharist"

Incorrupt

Feast Day (traditional) - June 19

 

 

 

  "Juliana grew up more like an angel 

than a human being."

~Blessed Alexius Falconieri, 

one of the seven founders of the Servite Order

and uncle to St Juliana

 

St Juliana Falconieri, pray for us!

Finding all the love I need...

 "The garden of the Blessed Sacrament is 

the treasure of your heart."

St Luigi Guanella

"Praying before the Blessed Sacrament 

I find strength, courage, light and 

all the love I need

to help those entrusted to me

on the way of salvation."

Bl Victoria Diez Bustos de Molina

Understanding the value...

"It would be easier for the world to survive without 

the sun than to do so without the Holy Mass."

St. Pio of Pietrelcina

"I think that many people do not fully

understand the value of Mass,

because if they recognized the enormous blessing 

we have in a Lord who gives Himself

as our food and drink in the Sacred Host, 

they would go to Mass every day

to participate in the fruits of the sacrifice

and let go of so many superfluous things."

St Carlo Acutis

Renewing strength and grace...

 "At the blessing, we should think that Jesus Christ is 

at that moment giving us His own blessing." 

St Francis de Sales

 

Fr George Welzbacher ~ Final blessing after holy Mass, St John of St Paul Catholic Church (East side - St Paul , MN - USA)

Happy fact:  Fr Welzbacher celebrates 75 years of priesthood this June 2026!!
He celebrated his 98th birthday on 13 June 2026
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"The Cross is where the Church finds her mission.  ... At the beginning of Mass, we make the Sign of the Cross as a way of showing our solidarity with the suffering of Christ, into Whose death we were baptized, taking up our crosses and following Him.  At the end of Mass, we reaffirm that solidarity and once more take up our crosses, with renewed strength and grace because of our devout participation in the Sacrifice of the Mass." 

 Jeffrey Pinyan

Excerpt: Praying the Mass, 2nd Ed (2010)

 

 

"The last blessing over the people represents the sending of the Holy Spirit, whom our Lord sent among the apostles after He had ascended into heaven, according to His promise, You shall receive the power of the Holy Ghost coming upon you.  It also recalls the last blessing that will be given when Christ says, Come, ye blessed of my Father, possess you the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.”

Durandus

Bishop of Mende (France)

c.1230-1296

The secret of my day...

"The Eucharist is the secret of my day.  

It gives strength and meaning 

to all my activities of service 

to the Church and to the world."  

Pope Saint John Paul II 

“The Blessed Sacrament is the invention of love. 

It is life and fortitude for souls, 

a remedy for every fault, and a 

viaticum for the last passage from time and eternity. 

In it sinners recover life for their souls;

tepid souls, true warmth;

 fervent souls, tranquility and satisfaction of every longing…

saintly souls, wings to fly towards perfection…

pure souls, sweet honey and rarest sustenance."

The Way of Divine Love
Words of Our Lord to Sr Josefa Menendez