Thought for the Day
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Beautiful.
And people, non-believers, say that miracles don’t exist. We are privy at each Holy sacrifice of the altar. In time we become what we eat. We become the miracle.
Thinking on the Hypostatic Union, that God loved man until the very end. How can we mortals love God enough. We cannot in our imperfection.
Life is a miracle, Your life and my life is a miracle.
Jesus coming to man in the Holy Eucharist to thank each one of us for accepting our life and choosing to love Him is simply Holy.
I agree with St. Francis!
And yet, in many parishes, the faithful are told not even to kneel.
When describing the moment of transubstantiation, I have told my children that it is the most amazing thing you’ll never see.
Just because you can’t see something doesn’t make it less important.
I wonder if that’s why God made air transparent…
**I wonder if that’s why God made air transparent…**
I’ve used the wind as a simple explanation;
Can you see wind? No, not the wind, but the effects of the wind can easily be seen, felt, heard
and in some cases even tasted.
The Word made flesh and the flesh made meal gives great effects to the world that says * it’s only bread.* For the dead rise. I was dead and I’ve been risen to new life by the flesh of the Son of God. “Eat my flesh and drink my blood for without it you have no life within you.”
I continue to explain the life giving effects, the transformative tangibles that are as plain as the wind blowing through the hair.
Oh no …this was bread, but is bread no longer.
In our church’s vestibule large posters on easels are displayed that depict the history of various Eucharistic miracles. The diocese sends them out.