Living tabernacles...

   The LORD is near to all who call upon him, 

to all who call upon him in truth. - Psalm 145:18 

"Though I had believed in transubstantiation for more than a year,

I had no yearning to receive. But now a hunger for the Eucharist

became the last thought of the day and the first thought

of the morning.  I had received Jesus as Savior and Lord by faith

when I was a teenager, but now I longed to receive his Body and Blood.

For not only had Jesus humbled himself on our behalf in taking on

human flesh to be our perfect sacrifice, he had even condescended

lower - to offer us that same flesh to be the life and food of our souls!

All this so that we could have him within us - not only in our hearts

but in our physical bodies as well, making us living tabernacles.

I felt that my heart would burst with so much joy!"

Kimberly Hahn

Rome Sweet Home,
Our Journey to Catholicism

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Today is the FEAST DAY of 

St Bartholomew

Nee: Cana

Apostle and Martyr

"Here is a true child of Israel. 

There is no duplicity in him."

-said of St Bartholomew by Jesus - 

Gospel of St John 1:47

 

Among the twelve apostles great…There was Bartholomew…Known also as Nathanael…Among Christ’s chosen few…He too received The Holy Ghost…And he preached everywhere…That every soul might turn to God…And no one might despair…St Philip introduced him to…The Master and The Lord…And thus he came to understand…The goal he struggled toward…Bartholomew proclaimed the faith…Through all the barbarous East…And in the truest Christian sense…He was a holy priest…His death was double martyrdom…As legend now abide…Condemned to death, Bartholomew…Was flayed and crucified.  ~ James Metcalfe, Poem Portraits of the Saints

Click here: St. Bartholomew - YouTube (2 mins)

Click here: Discovering our Saints - St. Bartholomew - YouTube (3 mins)

St Bartholomew, pray for us!