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Relative Trivia

11/29/2018

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You may wonder why I am writing about relative trivia in the midst of the awful crisis in the Church. This is because I refer everyone on this subject to Raymond Arroyo’s fantastic programs on The World Over where he and Robert  Royal and Fr. Murray help us through and tell us how to support the good priests and bishops.
​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JIft9ZsGlc
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A precedent? 
I am thinking of how Padre Pio was so persecuted by the Vatican in his day – imagine the priest who would be one of the most famous saints of the 20th century forbidden to celebrate Mass publicly for years and years!
And how the miracles, on-going, of Padre Pio are, in certain ways, over-arching our Church in crisis to give us hope.  For a web-site with some of these miracle google Cindy Russo
​Padre Pio Prayer Group Cleveland, Ohio. https://www.padrepiocleveland.org/
15 people came to our Thanksgiving Mass at 8 AM!
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How convenient – on both “sides” of the Church we often hate the things we think are sins that we have no temptation to commit and make excuses for the ones we are tempted to and fall into!!!! 
As in on one side all the hate is against Trump’s immigration policies, which we think are in themselves good in the main. I mean how many left-wingers are having daily temptations to send back illegal immigrants, but many excuse so many sexual sins and we, many of whom have no temptation to same-sex sins, excuse your prideful self-righteous rage against them!
So, we think rage against same-sex sins is simply righteous anger...what makes it self-righteous is this feeling of superiority some of us get ridiculing them  vs. Kierkegaard saying the sins of others should make us weep vs. gossip and ridicule. Righteous anger would hate the sin but not ridicule the sinner.  

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Here are some wonderful experiences
of a new friend of mine here, Tabitha:
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 I feel like sharing 3 of my favorite Eucharistic experiences.
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My latest experience just happened a few days ago. I'm going to tell them in chronological order. The first 2 are incredible for me because I did not know the Eucharist was near me. The most recent one the Eucharist wasn't near me, but it was "there".
The first one happened almost 7 years ago. The first weekend in December. We were invited to go to a weekend marriage retreat. This is when I first started giving myself more fully to Jesus by getting rid of my sinful habits, going to daily Mass, and regular Eucharistic Adoration. I started to develop a closeness to God that was different than before. I had times that I felt Jesus wanting me to visit Him. The marriage retreat was 3 hours from home and held at a lodge. I'm there for less than 5 minutes and I'm anxious. I strongly feel like I need to be with Jesus in His Eucharistic Presence. I told my husband and he's says, "what do you want me to do about it, I don't know where a chapel is and we're 3 hours from home." I said, "I don't know, I just feel like He wants me to be with Him" I then tried putting it out of my mind and continued waiting for our retreat leaders. I then have this really strong physical feeling all through my body. It felt like menthol...a burning/cooling feeling. It felt like a liquid muscle ointment going through my veins. I had no clue what this was and I even thought maybe I was having a stroke or heart attack and had medical staff check my vitals. This burning/cooling sensation went on for the rest of the weekend, starting Friday night. The day hours felt stronger than the evening hours. Sunday morning is when they announced, "we have a surprise for you, we set up a chapel in that room right there with the blessed Sacrament and the leaders have been taking turns praying for you in front of Jesus and His real Presence!!!" My eyeballs just about jumped out of their sockets and my jaw hit the floor. I knew then what the feeling was about and why. He was there in His Eucharistic Presence all along and I didn't know.
A few years later, I'm in the hospital with my newborn baby. I'm fearing I'm going to lose her. I start requesting a Catholic chaplain and was told that a Catholic chaplain was not available. After a few days of this, I finally said, "just send anyone then". Later on, a man in a suit comes to my room. As soon as he gets there, I feel Jesus, just as I did at the lodge. I said to Jesus, "ok Jesus, I feel you, but what are you telling me? Am I supposed to listen to this guy intently?" So I listen very carefully to this guy. I had no idea what I'm supposed to listen for and nothing he says is significant, except..."would you like to receive Communion?" I almost fell over. I said, "are you Catholic" He said, "yes. They said you requested a Catholic chaplain" I said, "yes, but I was told a Catholic chaplain was not available, so I thought they sent me a Protestant chaplain, and you have had the Sacred Hosts on you this whole time?" "Yes, would you like to receive Communion?" :)
This week. I believe it was Wednesday. My husband and I were at home getting ready to say prayers for someone who just died. I decide to turn on a live video feed of the Host. Shot live at a Perpetual Adoration Chapel. There's several on YouTube. Soon after I turned it on I began to feel Him. I started playing the feed too early, I wasn't ready. I still had to get the prayers set up on my husband's phone. Something that should have taken a minute or 2 is now taking several minutes. I was so distracted because the burning/cooling feeling was getting stronger and stronger. I left the room and went to the kitchen. Just then my 15 yr old son comes home from school and he barely walks passed the door, stops, has a confused look on his face and says, "why does it feel like church in here? Smells like it too." I said, "it feels like church in here? Go in the living room around the corner and look at the screen!!!" He looks and with a big smile he says, "Oh, WOW!!!"
The Eucharist is real!!! It's really, Truly Jesus!!! I will believe that forever. It's always been the Summit of Christian faith. Only in the last 500 years has it been taught as an insignificant symbol.    
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