Families, food banks seek creative ways to counter inflation’s bite
With high inflation driving rising food prices, Elma Lou Ortiz hardly thinks it’s surprising that more people are showing up at the food pantry operated by Catholic Charities of Corpus Christi in Texas.
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“This is My Body, this is My Blood” (Mark 14:22-24). Could there be any better words to hear on Corpus Christi Sunday? The Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus. Jesus in the Eucharist, that which every heart has been longing for throughout their lives, knowing it or not. There’s nothing like it, is there, […]
This Sunday, we celebrate Jesus’ gift of His Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity in the Eucharist to His Church and the world. Yet our Gospel takes us back to the feeding of the five thousand. Why? Gospel (Read Lk 9:11b-17) On this solemnity of Corpus Christi, we might expect our Gospel to be an account of the […]
In 1993, when I was sixteen, I attended World Youth Day in Denver, Colorado. One day my group attended a Holy Hour of Eucharistic Adoration with exposition led by Fr. Benedict Groeschel, CFR. Although I was raised Catholic, always attended weekend Mass and had begun attending daily Mass, this was the first time I recall […]
During the spring of 2020, when public Masses where suspended in our diocese, I (as many around the world) felt lost without easy access to the Eucharist. I need to qualify that statement by saying that I was one of the lucky ones – my spiritual director invited my husband and I to occasionally assist […]
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