Attaining Union with God thru the Holy Eucharist

        Again, during today's Eucharistic Prayer at Mass, Jesus asks us to eat of his body which will be given up for us and drink the ...

        At morning Mass, Father Paul mentioned that he was in Southern California last weekend and learned that the sex abuse scandal cost ...

        A church without the Holy Eucharist in it is like an empty cross with no Jesus on it. Since the Holy Eucharist is the body and blo...

        Realization at morning Mass today, the Memorial of St. Catherine of Sienna. Having offended God, we feel sad; but there are joys to...

        I've found that it's more challenging to remain humble with your family at home than with outsiders, especially if you happ...

        Yesterday the retired bishop of the diocese celebrated Mass at my church for the confirmation of 65 young people. He gave a beautif...

        God's ways are not our ways. God wants us to be weak in him so that we may become strong; to surrender to him to become free; t...

        In the same reading from Revelation 21 I brought up in my last post, John also heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "Beh...

        Reading 2 for today's Mass comes from Revelation 21. In his vision, John saw a new heaven and a new earth. He saw a new Jerusal...

        Communion experience. It's a moment of abandoning myself in God, letting him perfect me.

        What we receive in our next life depends not upon how much we succeed or fail in this world nor how hard or easy a life we lead in ...

        Jesus' sheep recognize only his voice and follow him alone. Under his care they live for him and not for the world. This privac...

        The more you know Jesus, the more you see darkness in the world. Those who do not know Jesus do not see darkness in the world, for ...

        Today's tragic news is the collapse of a Bangladeshi garment factory, killing at least 273 people. It's believed that negle...

        Communion experience. Jesus completes me. Having him, I lack nothing. He's the one to live and die for with joy.

        The Gospel reading at Mass was from John 14. At the Last Supper, Jesus said to his disciples, "In my Father's house there ...

        "Acts 13:26-33" was the first reading at morning Mass. I am not going to reproduce it here, but what Paul said made it ab...

        I tend to see things in their simplified state. I am also a relatively short-winded person. Once I attended a piano workshop on pre...