What is the Miraculous Medal?
Q: I received a Miraculous Medal for Confirmation. Where does this come from and what does this mean? The story of the Miraculous Medal arises from the apparitions of our Blessed Mother to St. Catherine Laboure, a novice at the motherhouse of the Daughters of Charity in Paris (where it still stands today at 140 […]
“We see some one thing in this world, and suddenly it becomes particular and sacramental;…(and) there is a resurrection, and we are refreshed and renewed.” — Hilaire Belloc, “On Sacramental Things” In his luminous and reflective 1910 essay entitled “On Sacramental Things”, the Catholic writer Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953) explores the phenomenon of recollection and communion. […]
God’s plan of salvation is presented through the physical consumption of bread, and the physical drinking of wine. May we forever “eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all our toil, for this is the gift of God (Ecclesiastes 3:13).”
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