Union with Christ, family, friends...

  "St John tells us that God is Love.  

Thus, God can never reveal Himself without love, 
because love is Who God is." - Fr Richard Veras

"As medieval Christians came to seek union with Christ in abiding before the reserved Blessed Sacrament, they likewise began to discover in the presence of their God a deeper union with their family and friends, as did Saint Elzear of Sabran, a Third Order Franciscan (1286 - 1323), who, in a letter to his wife, Saint Delphina, wrote: 

'You desire to hear often of me. 
Go often to visit our amiable 
Lord Jesus Christ in the Holy Sacrament.  
Enter in spirit His Sacred Heart. 
You know that to be my constant dwelling. 
You will always find me there.'"

From In the Presence of Our Lord 

The History, Theology, and Psychology of Eucharistic Devotion 
Fr Benedict J Groeschel, CFR and James Monti

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St Joachim and St Anne
Parents of the Virgin Mary 
Patron of Grandparents

Feast Day - July 26

Click here: Reflection on St Joachim/St Anne - Grandparents of Jesus - YouTube (5 mins)

Saints Anne and Joachim, parents of the Virgin Mary (19 BC) - 1000 reasons to believe

St Joachim and St Anne, pray for us!

Ever-present, as He said...

  Going  from there, he saw two other brothers, 

James son of Zebedee and his brother John.  

They were in a boat with their father Zebedee, preparing 

their nets.  Jesus called them, and immediately 

they left the boat and their father and followed him. 

Matthew 4:21, 22

"And just as He appeared before the holy Apostles 

in true flesh, so now He has us see Him in the Sacred 

Bread. Looking at Him with the eyes of their flesh, 

they saw only His Flesh, but regarding Him with the 

eyes of the spirit, they believed that He was God.

In like manner, as we see bread and wine with our 

bodily eyes, let us see and believe firmly that it is 

His Most Holy Body and Blood, True and Living.  

For in this way our Lord is ever present among 

those who believe in Him, according to what He said: 

"Behold, I am with you all days even to the 

consummation of the world" (Mt. 28, 20). 

 St. Francis of Assisi

Painting above: Christ calling the Apostles James and John ~ Edward Armitage

Saint JAMES (the Greater)

Apostle and Martyr

Son of Zebedee and Salome

Brother of apostle John

Dubbed 'Son of Thunder'

Patron of Spain and laborers
Shrine: Santiago de Compostela

+42 AD 

Feast Day - July 25

 

"Accept the help that the Virgin 

and the saints offer you.

Promise that you will press forward on 

your way to join them." - St Francis de Sales

Click here: St. James the Greater - YouTube (2 mins)

St James, pray for us!