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[Catholic / Devotional Caucus] On this Feast of Corpus Christi, God gives Himself to man so man can give himself to God
LifeSite News ^ | June 19, 2025 | Dom Prosper Guéranger

Posted on 06/19/2025 7:48:20 PM PDT by ebb tide

Divine union – yes, such is the dignity to which man is permitted to aspire, and to this aspiration God has responded, even here below, by an invention which is all of Heaven.

A great solemnity has this day risen upon our Earth: a Feast both to God and men, for it is the Feast of Christ the Mediator who is present in the sacred Host that God may be given to man, and man to God. Divine union – yes, such is the dignity to which man is permitted to aspire, and to this aspiration, God has responded, even here below, by an invention which is all of Heaven.

It is today that man celebrates this marvel of God’s goodness. And yet, against both the Feast and its divine object there has been made the old fashioned objection: How can these things be done? (John 3:9, 4:53) It really does seem as though reason has a right to find fault with what looks like senseless pretensions of man’s heart. Every living being thirsts after happiness, and yet and because of that it only aspires after the good of which it is capable, for it is the necessary condition of happiness that in order to its existence there must be the full contentment of the creature’s desire. Hence, in that great act of creation which the Scripture so sublimely calls His playing in the world, (Proverbs 8:30-31) when with His almighty power, He prepared the heavens and enclosed the depths, and balanced the foundations of the earth, (Proverbs 8:27, 29) we are told that Divine Wisdom secured the harmony of the universe by giving to each creature, according to its degree in the scale of being, an end adequate to its powers.

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TOPICS: Catholic; Worship
KEYWORDS: corpuschristi; feastday

1 posted on 06/19/2025 7:48:20 PM PDT by ebb tide
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Feast of Corpus Christi Ping


2 posted on 06/19/2025 7:58:46 PM PDT by ebb tide (The Synodal "church" is not the Catholic Church.)
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To: ebb tide
Recent Corpus Christi procession in Spain, where it is a national holiday:


3 posted on 06/19/2025 8:10:50 PM PDT by fidelis (Ecce Crucem Domini! Fugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia!)
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To: ebb tide

I sat in my usual place, 2nd pew from the rear on the right side of the aisle, first seat. She said her name was Wanda and she told me: “It’s good to see you here”. I told her I felt compelled to come here. She said: “The Lord has been calling you”. She reached out her right arm and hand and touched me on my left shoulder. I had never seen her before and I’ve never seen her since, although I have looked for her.


4 posted on 06/19/2025 11:22:18 PM PDT by kawhill ("I'm ready to be done with this. You'll never be done with it son. It will always haunt you.")
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I had never seen her before and I’ve never seen her since, although I have looked for her.

Probably because you were out hunting coyotes instead of skipping weekly Sunday Mass.

You had best be concerned about what God thinks of you flaunting the Third Commandment, instead of what Wanda, Ben, oystir, and Daniel think of you.

None of them will be your Final Judge.

5 posted on 06/20/2025 10:07:00 PM PDT by ebb tide (The Synodal "church" is not the Catholic Church.)
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To: ebb tide

I learned that Jesus will come again, to judge the living and the dead. I also read in a book about Jesus saying something like “If two or more of you have gathered in My Name, I will be there.” So if someone endeavors to help a neighbor in need instead of going to church that day, they have sinned?


6 posted on 06/21/2025 3:15:47 PM PDT by kawhill ("I'm ready to be done with this. You'll never be done with it son. It will always haunt you.")
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