[Siobhan]

Bump.

In our new parish (--where the pastor is getting to know me. ;^) --) there is an ancient aboriginal woman who receives the Lord directly upon her tongue (standing as demanded by the pastor) and then she steps up to where the altar rail was and drops quietly to her knees.

Our family and others now join her in this practice, and by e-mail the word is beginning to spread to other places. So I pass this on to you in America.

[Salvation]

What a testimonial you are giving in your church. God bless you all.

[AAABEST]

Wow, what a great statement of dedication and devotion that is.

That takes guts.

[Phx_RC]

Thank you very much.

Have we noticed that every time we see something like this
that it stirs our love for our Catholic Faith and for its devotions and traditions.

Each of these is an instance of the beauty of holiness
- however brief or seemingly private that it was intended to be, an image is impressed on our hearts to be long remembered.

What a blessing it would be if there were a place that could be visited whenever someone wanted to dwell for a while on experiences such as these.
As a place in FreeRepublic it might be called the: "Catholic Traditions in Daily Life Canteen".

A bit of an example elsewhere might be: the Reader's Digest feature- "Life in these United States". These brief stories always left me with a smile and a warm feeling of thank you to whomever took the time to prepare and submit the item.

Each remembered experience could convey the specialness of the moment as much as possible including the thoughts and actions and perhaps what it meant to the observer or participant and to any other people nearby.

These little sharings of Catholic Tradition in daily life might include:
-An interaction between Denise and her friends about chapel veils.
-A special response or interaction upon giving a holycard to someone.
-A story about four little children all dressed up on Easter Sunday going around distributing brightly colored packets of candy - and what fortunately was on hand to give them in return.
-Thoughts about the approaching moment of the reception of Jesus onto your tongue.
-About the inspiration received when a priest came into the perpetual adoration room late at night.
-About a successful effort to restore to a parish the singing of hymns like: O Sacrament Most Holy...

May you edify others and pray that they might edify you.
Let all be lifted up just a little bit higher.