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The Thea Bowman Center The Thea Bowman Center Staff and Board and
participants wants to thank all the parishioners of Saints Cosmas and Damian
for their generosity over the Christmas holidays. The Thea Bowman Center has
identified some new needs. Invitation to Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration “No mention is made of the place or circumstances connected with her birth, but we may readily suppose that, like her Divine Son, she was born in poverty. St Joachim and St. Anne were poor. . However, Mary was born with a splendor far surpassing all the riches of the daughters of the world … she was enriched with God’ choicest gifts. . .. (St. Peter Julian Eymard) Can you give an hour of prayer before Jesus in
the Blessed Sacrament? Call Teresa Jindra at (330) 487-0956 for your special
Holy Hour with Jesus. Sunday – 2 am, 4 am, 1 pm, 2 pm, 4 pm “The Eucharist is that love which surpasses all
loves in Heaven and on earth.” “Lord, You will reign in the Host; You will conquer from Your radiating tabernacle; You will dominate the earth by the lovable omnipotence of the Holy Eucharist. (Fr. Mateo Crawley-Boevey) “The devotion to the Eucharist, together with the devotion to the Blessed Mother, is the devotion of Paradise, because it is the devotion which the Angels and Saints of Heaven also have.” (Fr. Stephano Manelli, O.F.M.) “Jesus is not an idea or a feeling or a memory. Jesus is a living “person” always present among us. Love Jesus present in the Eucharist.” (Pope John Paul II) “The eternal spring is hidden in this living bread for our life’s sake…It is here calling out to creatures; and they satisfy their thirst…” (St. John of the Cross) “All life and all good comes to us through Jesus Christ…The fountain and origin of all this is chiefly the Holy Eucharist; It even makes us partakers of the Divine nature…The Holy Eucharist gives growth in virtue; It is the pledge of glory for body and soul…The Holy Eucharist gives an increase of love-the love of God and the love of our neighbor…” (Pope Leo XIII) “My day must be one long prayer: prayer is the breath of my life. I propose to recite all fifteen decades of the Rosary every day, if possible in the chapel before the Blessed Sacrament… Lord, may I have the grace to do two things well; my visit, and the Rosary. All the rest will follow.” (Bl. John XXIII, Pope) If Christ did not want to dismiss the Jews without food in the desert for fear that they would collapse on the way, it was to teach us that it is dangerous to try to get to heaven without the Bread of Heaven.” (St. Jerome) “The time you spend with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament is the best time that you will spend on earth. Each moment that you spend with Jesus will deepen your union with Him and make your soul everlastingly more glorious and beautiful in heaven, and will help bring about an everlasting peace on earth.” (Mother Teresa) “Christ held Himself in His hands when He gave His Body to His disciples saying: ‘This is My Body.’ No one partakes of this Flesh before he has adored it.” (St. Augustine) “When I stand up to talk, people listen to me; they will follow what I have to say. Is it any power of mine? Of course not. St. Paul says, ‘What have you that you have not received and you who have received, why do you glory as if you had not?’ But the secret of my power is that I have never in fifty-five years missed spending an hour in the presence of our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament. That’s where the power comes from. That’s where sermons are born. That’s where every good thought is conceived.” (Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen) “A visit to the Blessed Sacrament declares at once the simple, hearty, practical belief in the real presence of Christ, a plain conviction, a meeting with God face to face.” (Cardinal Wiseman) “Trust all things to Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament and to Mary Help of Christians and you will see what miracles are.” (St. John Bosco) “ God in his omnipotence could not give more, in His wisdom He knew not how to give more, in His riches He had not more to give, than the Eucharist.” (St. Augustine) “I beg you to recommend to everyone, first, adoration of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament and then reverence for most holy Mary.” (St. John Bosco) “Therefore, when we celebrate the Eucharist, the memorial of Christ’s Passover, the memory of His Mother’s suffering is also made alive and present, this Mother, who, as an unsurpassable model, teaches the faithful to unite themselves more intimately to the sacrifice of her Son, the one Redeemer.” (Pope John Paul II) “You must propagate veneration of the Most Blessed Sacrament with all your might, for the devotion to the Holy Eucharist is the queen of all devotions.” (Pope Benedict XV) Mother Teresa of Calcutta lived her life in adoration and love of the Holy Eucharist, saying: “The cross is the proof that He loved us and the Tabernacle is the proof that He loves us now with tender compassion.” Of the Holy Eucharist, St.
Thomas Aquinas writes: “No other sacrament has greater healing power;
through it sins are purged away, virtues are increased, and the soul is
enriched with an abundance of every spiritual gift.” “Perpetual Adoration, Eucharistic Adoration offers to our people the opportunity to join those in the religious life to pray for the salvation of the world, souls everywhere and peace on earth. We cannot underestimate the power of prayer and the difference it will make in our world.” Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta “We adore Thee most holy Lord Jesus Christ, here in all Thy Churches, which are in the whole world, because by Thy holy cross, Thou hast redeemed the world,” St. Francis For World Peace “What will convert America and save the world?”
My answer is prayer. What we need is for every parish to come before Jesus
in the Blessed Sacrament in Holy Hours of Prayer Please pray for peace in our world. But also remember that “peace” means not being hungry or lonely, cold or homeless, sick or afraid. Help your St. Vincent de Paul Society give our neighbors that true sense of peace with a donation, a check in the collection basket. Perpetual Adoration Quotes “The Eucharist thus appears as the culmination of all the sacraments in perfecting our communion with God the Father by identification with his only-begotten Son through the working of the Holy Spirit” (Pope John Paul II, Ecclesia de Eucharistia, 34). “You must open a little, or rather raise on high your corolla so that the Bread of Angels may come as divine dew to strengthen you, and to give you all that is wanting to you,” St. Therese “The Eucharist engages us unreservedly; it is a pact of love, an alliance signed in the deeper recesses of our being. All our potentialities are called upon to warrant the protection and fulfillment of this pact.” From Francois Mauriac’s Holy Thursday : An Intimate Remembrance “My main aim is to institute perpetual adoration” spoke St. Maximilian Kolbe, for he considered this “the most important work.” “The Eucharist is at the very center of our life; such was the teaching of Jesus. When commenting on the miracle of the multiplication of the loaves He told His apostles that He Himself is the Living Bread that came down from heaven. He called on the twelve for an act of faith and it was Peter who answered in the name of all: “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of everlasting life. We have come to believe and know that you are the Holy One of God’ (John 6:69). Christian faith is faith in the Eucharistic Christ, Jean Galot, S.J. “O Jesus, You instituted this Sacrament, not through any desire to draw some advantage from it for Yourself, but solely moved by love which has no other measure than to be without measure. You instituted this Sacrament because Your love exceeds all words. Burning with love for us, You desired to give Yourself to us and took up Your dwelling in the consecrated Host, entirely and forever, until the end of time, “ - St. Angela of Foligno “Especially from the Eucharist, grace is poured forth upon us as from a fountain” (Sacrosanctum concilium) How many of you say: I should like to see His face, His
garments, His shoes. You do see Him, you touch Him, you eat Him. He gives
Himself to you, not only that you may see Him, but also to be your food and
nourishment.” “Your faith will help you realize that it is Jesus Himself Who is present in the Blessed Sacrament, waiting for you and calling you to spend one special specific hour with Him each week,” -Pope John Paul II “In Cana of Galilee Christ changed water into wine, and shall we think Him less worthy of credit when He changes wine into His Blood?” -St. Cyril of Jerusalem “Come to the foot of the altar. Here graces will be
showered on all, great and little, who ask for them. Graces will be
especially showered upon those who ask for them,” I want to stress the centrality of the Eucharist for the life of the world to which the Lord has sent us as the seed of renewal. If the Church returns to her Eucharistic source, she will recover her authentic nature and strength. Pope John Paul II –January 2002 |
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