Another Perspective

What’s in an image? An image can imprint itself indelibly into our consciousness so that we cannot not picture a thing except in a certain way.

Bishop Robert E. Tracy wrote in his book, “American Bishop at Vatican II,”  that when fathers of the council received the original schema on the church, which had been prepared by the Vatican Theological Commission under Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviani, they found it to be “another carbon copy of a theological textbook, calculated to freeze and harden forever the positions at Trent (1565) and Vatican I (1870)

Since we cannot at this time receive the blood of Christ at Mass, am I missing out on any graces by only receiving the consecrated host at holy Communion?

A wise old Augustinian priest once shared this in class. “There are days in my life when everything from the pressures of my work, to tiredness, to depression, to distraction, to flat-out laziness make it difficult for me to pray. But, no matter what, I always try to pray at least one sincere, focused Our Father every day.”