[mlizzy]

I like your comment very much, Hieronymus. I placed a post on Free Republic from Fr. John Hardon on the Blessed Sacrament, and in it he states:

I really believe that many, if not most, Catholics do not fully realize that Jesus Christ in the Blessed Sacrament is God become man.

Now without understanding the power from the Blessed Sacrament by Catholics, nothing else down the line would make any sense to them either, and they become poor disciples of Christ. But, good/great Catholics DO (or DID) exist, Cardhu, and you'll find them in the Lives of the Saints, daily-Mass church pews, lines at Confession, in Adoration Chapels, etc. Here are just a few links to great Catholics:

Fr. Mark Kirby
Courageous Priest
Fr. John A. Hardon archives

[Hieronymus]

Thanks for the compliment.

I found your link to Fr. Kirby very interesting. How does Tulsa manage to get all the best stuff? Two good monastic foundations and a Bishop who will celebrate ad orientem (not that I should complain—my pastor decided to try ad orientem when we had an FSSP priest visiting about a year and a half ago, and after four days he was hooked).

Actually, I suppose that the answer is that grace builds upon grace, so a good relationship between Bishop Slattery and Fontgombault snowballs.