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Corpus Domini Jesu

Feast of Saint Ann at St. Clement Parish, recently relocated in the heritage Saint Ann church, Ottawa. Msgr Prendergast, Archbishop of Ottawa, distributing communion.

 

The sole purpose of the Catholic Church is to save our souls, to bring us to Christ and in so doing prepare the mystical wedding of the Lamb with his bride, the Church. Ladies wear mantillas or veils as liturgical vestments to symbolize the bridal and spousal character of the Catholic Church. The mantilla is a liturgical vestment that symbolizes and expresses love in response to love, to the love of Christ. It is the absolute opposite of submission and coercion.

 

Only the priests' fingers are consecrated to touch the Blessed Sacrament, hence communion on the tongue. And kneeling comes naturally out of love for receiving our living Lord in the tabernacle of our hearts, for us to be assimilated to the living Christ, so that by Him, with Him and through Him, we can know and love God, our Father. So that we can join Him in His sacrifice to our Father.

 

Diluting the above only brings spiritual and vocational confusion and sterility.

 

 

 

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Uploaded on August 1, 2013
Taken on July 26, 2013