The other evening at Blackfen, Raymond De Souza gave an excellent talk on "Jesus Presence in the Eucharist - real or just symbolic." The talk was excellent, demonstrating that Jesus used both literal and figurative language in his teaching, and that when he spoke of giving us his flesh and blood in John 6, he was clearly speaking literally and not figuratively. We finished off, appropriately, with Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament.You can find out more about Raymond at the website of Saint Gabriel Communications. He is well-known across the world from his various series on EWTN.
Bernadette and Gary Bevans of Mary's Dowry Productions kindly brought Raymond along and it was good to meet them too.
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Can't wait to meet them all on Wednesday!
Oh dear! Why do I so rarely, if at all, hear anything like this in my local church? And I mean from the regular clergy, as in during the Mass, as in the actual homily. And it is NOT being taught in the schools, as I know from young/teenage members of my family despite said schools being under Catholic auspices and the Diocese (i.e. us) having to pay quite a whack for same.
Plenty of badly-executed banners for the confirmation season are currently cluttering up the place, though. The legend on one reads: "we are the greatest". Yeah. And then they wonder why none of those young teenagers (or their parents, come to that) ever comes back?
Must be the new springtime or something... :(
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