Friday, May 8, 2015

Receive frequently, very frequently!

 ...Conduct yourselves with reverence during the time of your sojourning,
 realizing that you were ransomed from your futile conduct,
handed on by your ancestors, 
not with perishable things like silver or gold
but with the
 precious blood of Christ...
 I Peter 1:17-19



"Receive the Body and Blood of Christ 
very frequently.
The sight of a Christian's lips red 
with the Blood of Christ terrifies the enemy. 
He immediately recognizes the sign of his own ruin.
He cannot stand the instrument of divine victory
by which he was taken captive and cast down."

St. Peter Damian


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A day in HISTORY Today, May 8, is the Birthday Anniversary of St John Vianney - and also the Anniversary of my First Holy Communion - oh-so-many years ago. Earlier in that week I had contracted the measles, so was home convalescing, but I remember the day vividly! 

When our parish priest brought the Blessed Sacrament into our home a sweet, holy hush  blanketed the living room. The relatives that had gathered to celebrate my private First Holy Communion, reverently bowed very low.  I listened, I watched and I pondered all - fittingly dressed in my white dress and veil.  My polka-dotted face held beaming grin and my heart nearly burst! ~ Janette

Oh, happy, holy day!


Do you remember/can you figure out 
your First Holy Communion date? 

Do HEARTILY celebrate it!

Translation holy card: "The things of earth seem of little account
when one possesses the highest good."

2 comments:

  1. Today is also the anniversary of MY first holy communion, 60 years ago. I just received a copy of the photo of our class -- there were more than 60 of us. IF we had received communion ONLY on Sundays since that date, we would have received 3,120 times. Praise God we can receive more often than that if we choose.

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  2. God be praised! I love your math, Anonymous! When we consider such a calculation in the context of God's economy it is truly exponential!! God be praised - again and again! It bears repeating!

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