Showing posts with label eucharistic congresses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label eucharistic congresses. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Another photo...
... from the International Eucharistic Congress in Chicago, 1926.
We need our Catholic identity back. We need people who practice their faith inside and outside a church building. We need people who know what it means to be Catholic. We need people who know what it means to be part of the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church. In an age where the most simple, unlearned but pious peasant woman sometimes seems to know more about her faith than an educated theologian (if not priest or even bishop), we need Catholic heroes, witnesses, martyrs. And we need them now. The only places in Europe where the faith seems not to be dying are traditional communities or monasteries with a history that goes way back. This is not enough. So I encourage you to pray. I will.
We need our Catholic identity back. We need people who practice their faith inside and outside a church building. We need people who know what it means to be Catholic. We need people who know what it means to be part of the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church. In an age where the most simple, unlearned but pious peasant woman sometimes seems to know more about her faith than an educated theologian (if not priest or even bishop), we need Catholic heroes, witnesses, martyrs. And we need them now. The only places in Europe where the faith seems not to be dying are traditional communities or monasteries with a history that goes way back. This is not enough. So I encourage you to pray. I will.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Chicago 1926
Here are some more photos from the International Eucharsitic Congress in Chicago, 1926. There are many famiilar faces (Bonzano, Mundelein, Dougherty, O'Connell etc), some group shots and some more obscure prelates.
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Monday, October 13, 2008
International Eucharistic Congress, Munich. 1960
It was 1960 and everything still was kind of alright...
The masses
The young clerics in proper dress
Our Lord and King honored with all the glory and beauty that man in his insufficiency can produce
The faithful little ones
The cappa magna
It was 1960 and the horrors were just lurking around the corner:
Case in Point: The depiction of the Last Supper behind the altar. New sacred art...
The masses
The young clerics in proper dress
Our Lord and King honored with all the glory and beauty that man in his insufficiency can produce
The faithful little ones
The cappa magnaIt was 1960 and the horrors were just lurking around the corner:
Case in Point: The depiction of the Last Supper behind the altar. New sacred art...
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Eucharistic Congress in Lourdes, 1914
- “Jesus Christ, past, in the historical truth of the evening in the Upper Room, to which every celebration of holy Mass leads us back.
Jesus Christ, present, because he said to us: ‘Take and eat of this, all of you, this is my body, this is my blood’. ‘This is', in the present, here and now, as in every here and now throughout human history. The real presence, the presence which surpasses our poor lips, our poor hearts, our poor thoughts. The presence offered for us to gaze upon as we do here, this evening, close to the grotto where Mary revealed herself as the Immaculate Conception.
The Eucharist is also Jesus Christ, future, Jesus Christ to come.
When we contemplate the sacred host, his glorious transfigured and risen Body, we contemplate what we shall contemplate in eternity, where we shall discover that the whole world has been carried by its Creator during every second of its history. Each time we consume him, but also each time we contemplate him, we proclaim him until he comes again, donec veniat. That is why we receive him with infinite respect.”
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