Bishop Barron on the Spiritual Crisis: Get In the Army of Christ
Bishop Barron emphasizes the urgent need to engage and challenge youth, and for all the faithful to draw strength from the Eucharist.
Bishop Barron emphasizes the urgent need to engage and challenge youth, and for all the faithful to draw strength from the Eucharist.
Although my father passed away Oct. 1, I just heard from a maternity home staffer who told me stories I had never heard — so many calls received from my dad about women needing help.
After the excerpt of that video podcast circulated on social media, Father Luis Gaspar warned that ‘they’re promoting sacrilege, inducing people to go to Mass, take the consecrated host in their hands [to take it home to do the ritual].’
COMMENTARY: Thanking God in response to all he has done should influence us every November as we observe the national celebration of Thanksgiving. These are also thoughts that must characterize the Eucharistic Revival.
‘Jesus waits for us in this sacrament of love.’
Widespread reception of Communion with insufficient worthiness ‘concerns me greatly,’ says the prefect emeritus of the Apostolic Signatura.
The bishop was among the keynote speakers at Philadelphia’s Eucharistic Congress.
While some have criticized the ongoing Eucharistic Revival for drawing attention away from works of mercy and acts of justice, the lives of Catholics devoted to both the poor and the Eucharist show they go hand in hand.
‘I believe that we have lost the sense of adoration in our day,’ he said. ‘We must rediscover the sense of adoration in silence. It is up to the bishops to catechize the faithful about praying through adoration.'
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