Comments on: Do You Still Not See or Understand? http://catholicexchange.com/2009/07/25/120063/ Catholic News, Catholic Articles, Catholic Apologetics, Catholic Content, Catholic Information Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:46:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2 By: Warren Jewell http://catholicexchange.com/2009/07/25/120063/comment-page-1/#comment-41452 Warren Jewell Sun, 26 Jul 2009 05:01:25 +0000 http://catholicexchange.com/2009/07/25/120063/#comment-41452 As one very old, REALLY old, priest-chaplain used to counsel us brain-damaged Catholic-high-school boys: "Make every step toward the Communion rail a pilgrimage to meet Christ". (Uh, yeah, we knelt at a rail for Communion, back then, for on-the-tongue-only reception of Jesus' Body - when the Conestoga wagons would pick us up to get us to church and school. [Last part, just kidding]) As one very old, REALLY old, priest-chaplain used to counsel us brain-damaged Catholic-high-school boys:

“Make every step toward the Communion rail a pilgrimage to meet Christ”.

(Uh, yeah, we knelt at a rail for Communion, back then, for on-the-tongue-only reception of Jesus’ Body – when the Conestoga wagons would pick us up to get us to church and school. [Last part, just kidding])

]]> By: laurak http://catholicexchange.com/2009/07/25/120063/comment-page-1/#comment-41448 laurak Sat, 25 Jul 2009 19:42:16 +0000 http://catholicexchange.com/2009/07/25/120063/#comment-41448 What an absolutely beautiful article. The mass is the holiest hour of our week and receiving Jesus in communion is the highest privilege of our lives. We participate in an event, in which heaven and earth are joined together as one body in that exact moment in time. I wish more people understood that we walk on holy ground when we enter the church for mass on Sunday. Moses removed his sandals when he came into the presence of God and yet, we can't seem to stop visiting long enough to even notice his presence in the tabernacle when we come to mass. I think it says somewhere in the bible, to be still and know that I am God. The silence of the heart is where He speaks. I became a Catholic because of the beauty of the mass. From the outside looking in, it was the highest, greatest, holiest sense of worship that I had ever experienced. It still is. Pope John Paul II asked us to fully participate in the mass. That's hard to do if we are distracted, talking, looking at what everyone is wearing or who is at mass today, etc. The quiet before mass allows us to enter into the mass more fully and participate not only in body, but also in mind, heart and spirit. If we allow it to, the mass is healing, life giving and it changes our lives forever. Laura K. What an absolutely beautiful article. The mass is the holiest hour of our week and receiving Jesus in communion is the highest privilege of our lives. We participate in an event, in which heaven and earth are joined together as one body in that exact moment in time. I wish more people understood that we walk on holy ground when we enter the church for mass on Sunday. Moses removed his sandals when he came into the presence of God and yet, we can’t seem to stop visiting long enough to even notice his presence in the tabernacle when we come to mass. I think it says somewhere in the bible, to be still and know that I am God. The silence of the heart is where He speaks.

I became a Catholic because of the beauty of the mass. From the outside looking in, it was the highest, greatest, holiest sense of worship that I had ever experienced. It still is. Pope John Paul II asked us to fully participate in the mass. That’s hard to do if we are distracted, talking, looking at what everyone is wearing or who is at mass today, etc. The quiet before mass allows us to enter into the mass more fully and participate not only in body, but also in mind, heart and spirit.

If we allow it to, the mass is healing, life giving and it changes our lives forever.

Laura K.

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