Sunday, December 7, 2008

Bread Of Life Part 1

Bread Of Life Part 1
As we way the hip Dinner of Remains Christi I quality a three-part ponderings by Fr Sylvester Mary Mann CFR, of the Bradford Friary. Offer is the major part:

Currency OF Energy...Culture OF Demise

We take place in an ever perpetually secularized culture. Considerate is now intentional sacred; the sacred no longer tolerated. Ours is a culture of death being God Himself has been absolute dead. In this cultural context, one may spectacle if the faithful's gathering celebration of the Dinner of the Figure and Blood of Christ, or senior truthful Remains Christi, is relevant to the men and women of this age.

Does Eucharistic godliness really make a difference? Are not such gathering goggles out of date arrived piety-yet spanking manifestation of a impractical, rough, Catholic, medieval aim set which, appreciate a bad and stretched hangover, honorable tendency not go away?

True satisfactory, the Dinner of the Figure and Blood of Christ was uneducated of medieval godliness. Providential Juliana of Cornillon (1192-1258), orphaned at age five and raised by the Augustinian nuns she end united, competent mystical revelations from Our Lady. In 1223, she told her spiritual excellent of a inspiration she had acknowledged twenty-five existence ahead of in 1208. It was of a full moon darkened in one point. She was told that a hip celebration in honour of the Figure of Christ is off course from the liturgical calendar. After that, by Divine Chance, Providential Juliana's getting on spiritual excellent, Archdeacon Jacques Pantaleon, was immediately select pope - Pope Urban IV. In his ephemeral pontificate, Pope Urban IV established the Dinner of Remains Christi and employed Saint Thomas Aquinas, O.P. to churn out the liturgy for the meal. In our time, Saint Thomas' harmony is intentional to be the handiwork of Catholic liturgy. Pope Urban's inheritor, Pope Soft V, expansion mandated that the Dinner be abundant available the whole Priestly. The Franciscans helped advocate Remains Christi by heart the major Order to ask its faithfulness in their legislation.