Mystical Body the Church and through the 7 channels of grace we call SACRAMENTS!
sacramentals.
Holy Communion, and Confirmation. Upon receiving these three one should be a
mature adult in the faith; b) Sacraments of Healing which are the Sacraments of Penance and the Anointing of the Sick; c) Finally, the last category of Sacraments as divided in traditional terms, are the Sacraments of service and they are Holy Orders and Holy
Matrimony. There we have it!
graces communicated through the sacramental system are infinitely more
powerful, like the difference between children playing Little-League baseball
and the Major Leagues. Therefore, we should take advantage of the spiritual “Powerhouses” that are at our disposal.
diamonds and rubies and gold in which the owner gave you permission to dig in and take as much as your heart desired!
How foolish not to take as much as we desire!
Faith indeed can move mountains! Faith can raise the dead! Faith can transform lives!
to Mass on Sunday fighting with his siblings in the car on the way to Mass, arrives late, is on his cell-phone texting during Mass, during Mass he is thinking about what he will eat after Mass; finally, receives Holy Communion without any thought and leaves Mass even before it is over. On the other hand a prayerful and pious Mother comes to Mass 30 minutes early praying fervently before Mass for her family, her own conversion, for the souls in Purgatory and loading the altar with many intentions. (The movie: the Great Miracle). Every part of the Mass is’ important to her and she is participating fully, actively and consciously. (Vat. II, Sacrosanctum Concilium). As she approaches Holy Communion she humbly begs the Blessed Virgin Mary to intercede for her so that she might make the most
fervent Holy Communion in her life. With faith, reverence, humility, and love she receives Holy Communion: the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus the Lord of Lords and King of Kings. After Mass she stays to prolong her thanksgiving, thanking and loving the Lord abundantly and praying the Rosary, imploring the Blessed Virgin Mary to help her to offer due thanksgiving to the
Lord. These two scenarios are all too common in the reception of the greatest of all Sacraments, the Most Holy Eucharist. The teen receives the Eucharist but with little or no benefit at all. The pious woman receives Holy Communion and an explosion of grace and sanctification occurs in her heart and soul. Where do you fall in these scenarios? Probably in between the two extremes! Another even more marked contrast would be Judas Iscariot receiving Holy Communion at the Last Supper, rushing out into the night to betray Jesus; then imagine the Blessed Virgin Mary receiving the Body and Blood of Jesus from the hands of the Apostle St John! One received unto his own condemnation the other for her sanctification and that of the whole world!
and Fatima, Mary asked that a church be built. Why? Because in the churches the SACRAMENTS are celebrated and offered to
the people of God, especially Confession and the Eucharist. Mary never distances us from Jesus but always brings us to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, truly present in every Holy Mass.