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FONTGOMBAULT - Sermon for Corpus Christi: "The mystery of the Eucharist is a mystery of life. It is the life of God wanting to become the life of man."
CORPUS CHRISTI
Sermon of the Right Reverend Dom Jean Pateau
Abbot of Our Lady of Fontgombault
Fontgombault, June 11, 2020
Hic est panis, qui de cælo descendit.
This is the bread that came down from heaven.
(Jn 6:58)
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
My dearly beloved Sons,
What a contrast! At dawn of mankind, an apple in the hands of man became the cause of his sentence. When the times had reached their fulfillment, a little portion of bread and wine in the hands of God became, and still remain, instruments of salvation. Such is the great mystery of this Bread, a living and lifegiving Bread, that the Church invites us to meditate, so as better to adore.
As the living Father hath sent Me and I live by the Father: so he that eateth Me, the same also shall live by Me. This is the bread that came down from heaven. Not as your fathers did eat manna and are dead. He that eateth this bread shall live forever. (Jn 6:57-58)
The mystery of the Eucharist is a mystery of life. It is the life of God wanting to become the life of man. The same holds for all sacraments, which are the admirable means used by God to touch the heart of man, the precious manifestations of an unfathomable and boundless love for our poor humanity. In the case of the Eucharist, it is God Himself, the Author of every gift, Who is present and makes Himself a gift.
A Special Article for the Feast of Corpus Christi:
- THE HOLY EUCHARIST ACCORDING TO CATHOLIC DOCTRINE
by Father Konrad zu Loewenstein
[A booklet with the basic doctrine on the Blessed Sacrament - reposted.]
Adoro Te devote, latens Deitas,
Quae sub his figuris vere latitas:
Tibi se cor meum totum subicit,
Quia, Te contemplans, totum deficit...
Devoutly I adore Thee, O Hidden Deity,
Who beneath these figures truly liest hidden:
My heart subjects itself entirely to Thee,
because in contemplating Thee it fails entirely...
St. Thomas Aquinas
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PREFACE
We have considered it important to re-state clearly and concisely the sublime doctrine of the Holy Catholic Church in regard to the Holy Eucharist, in an age when notable sectors of the Catholic laity, clergy, and even of the hierarchy, trapped in a bland and merely human way of thinking, and\or seduced by a resurgence of Protestant Eucharistic heresies, manifest the most lamentable ignorance or heterodoxy in its regard, together with a conduct entirely unbecoming to such solemn realities.
Grateful acknowledgment is made to the diocesan
authorities for having verified the conformity of this text with
Catholic Doctrine, and to the translator of the original into English
INTRODUCTION
The Holy Eucharist is one of the seven Sacraments of the Church. The term ‘Holy Eucharist’has two senses: The Most Blessed Sacrament of the Altar, and the Holy Mass. In the first sense the Holy Eucharist is considered in Itself, in the second sense It is considered in so far as It is offered.
I
THE MOST BLESSED SACRAMENT OF THE ALTAR
As a Sacrament, the Most Blessed Sacrament:
1) is a sign of Grace;
2) confers Grace on us;
3) was instituted by our Lord Jesus Christ.
In particular:
Fontgombault Sermon for Corpus Christi 2019: "The Eucharist is a folly that sprung out of the blazing love of God’s heart!"
Sermon of the Right Reverend Dom Jean Pateau
Abbot of Our Lady of Fontgombault
Fontgombault, June 20, 2019
Cibavit eos ex adipe frumenti.
He fed them with the finest of wheat.
Ps 80:17
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
My dearly beloved Sons,
It may not come amiss to begin the homily of this day, consecrated to the adoration of God present in the sacrament of the Eucharist, by recalling the wonderful text “to the glory of God most holy and of our Lord Jesus Christ”, commonly called the Credo of Paul VI, and solemnly pronounced on June 30th, 1968.
We shall limit ourselves to the passage concerning today’s feast (the emphasis is ours):
We believe that the Mass, celebrated by the priest representing the person of Christ by virtue of the power received through the Sacrament of Orders, and offered by him in the name of Christ and the members of His Mystical Body, is the sacrifice of Calvary rendered sacramentally present on our altars. We believe that as the bread and wine consecrated by the Lord at the Last Supper were changed into His body and His blood which were to be offered for us on the cross, likewise the bread and wine consecrated by the priest are changed into the body and blood of Christ enthroned gloriously in heaven, and we believe that the mysterious presence of the Lord, under what continues to appear to our senses as before, is a true, real, and substantial presence. […] Every theological explanation which seeks some understanding of this mystery must, in order to be in accord with Catholic faith, maintain that in the reality itself, independently of our mind, the bread and wine have ceased to exist after the Consecration, so that it is the adorable body and blood of the Lord Jesus that from then on are really before us under the sacramental species of bread and wine, as the Lord willed it, in order to give Himself to us as food and to associate us with the unity of His Mystical Body. The unique and indivisible existence of the Lord glorious in heaven is not multiplied, but is rendered present by the sacrament in the many places on earth where Mass is celebrated. And this existence remains present, after the sacrifice, in the Blessed Sacrament which is, in the tabernacle, the living heart of each of our churches. And it is our very sweet duty to honor and adore in the blessed Host which our eyes see, the Incarnate Word Whom they cannot see, and Who, without leaving heaven, is made present before us.
The words used by that Pope are fraught with sense: a true, real, and substantial presence of Christ in His glory, so as to give Himself to us as a food, and associate us to the unity of His mystical Body; a presence which it is our very sweet duty to honor and adore. Yet, can God give Himself as a food? Can He debase Himself by giving Himself as a food to human beings?
Fontgombault Sermon for the Feast of Corpus Christi: "The Eucharist is not a right."
Sermon of the Right Reverend Dom Jean Pateau
Abbot of Our Lady of Fontgombault
Fontgombault, May 31st, 2018
Hoc est corpus meum…This is My body…
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
My dearly beloved Sons,
After the feast of Pentecost, when the coming of the Spirit fulfilled the Father’s promise, according to which the Apostles would not remain orphans, after meditating last Sunday the mystery of the Holy Trinity, the feast of Corpus Christi contemplates again the mystery of the Blessed Eucharist. We have already commemorated the institution of this Sacrament during the Mass in Cœna Domini,on Maundy Thursday, at the beginning of the Triduum.
As she places us again before this mystery, the Church presents the Sacrament in itself, and no longer in its institution. Which lights might we hope to get on such a great mystery? Before God’s mysteries, there are two temptations, neither of which respects the mysteries. This word, “mystery,” indicates that beyond what is visible, the reality of the Eucharist contains an invisible and impossible to understand dimension.
Reminder: Summer Theology Program in Norcia, Accepting Applications
As announced here on February 21, the sixth annual Summer Theology Program of the Albertus Magnus Center for Scholastic Studies, held in Norcia, Italy, is accepting applications from prospective students. With the program running from July 2-14, now is the time to apply!
In addition to our usual heady round of prayer, study, conversation, quiet walks, and ample Italian meals, this year's program is going to be special in two ways.
The Ridiculous Synod: The Sacrilege that made the Synod Hall Weep
Update (Oct. 16): the story told (or made up) by a Synod Father sounded like a Mexican telenovela because it really was one! It was told by Bp. Alonso Gerardo Garza Trevino, of Piedras Negras.
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We do not know if any of this is true. We do not know if the original story is true - the unidentified Synod participant who may have told it may well have made it up. We do not know if it truly caused "commotion" in the assembly (other than perhaps the horror for the sacrilege of how Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament is treated in the narrator's diocese). If it is true that the "commotion" was "general", or if only the Spanish-language spokesman of the Holy See Press Office (Chicago priest Fr. Manuel Dorantes, the Spanish-language counterpart of Fr. Rosica) was "moved", and decided to share his own "emotion". What is true is that Fr. Dorantes told this story in the official press conference today.
Sermon: The Fleshliness of the Catholic Faith
Delivered at a Solemn Traditional Mass, at St. Mary's, Norwalk, Connecticut
“At this the Jews began to quarrel among themselves, saying, “How can he give us his flesh to eat?” Jesus said: “The man who feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him. The man who feeds on me will have life because of me.” (John 6:52-55)
The Greek verb for the English translation that says “began to quarrel among themselves” has the overtones of a nasty fight. Jesus statement, “I am the bread from heaven”, his personalization of what was understood to be spiritual caused the Jews to murmur as they did in the desert at Meribah. But then Jesus’ words about feeding on his flesh and blood causes a near riot to break out. I would suspect with just cause that in many Catholic parishes today a riot would break out if the parishioners were told that they had to take Jesus’ words seriously about eating his flesh and blood.
Fontgombault Sermon - Corpus Christi: No Other Religion Has Dared This
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Abbot of Our Lady of Fontgombault
(Fontgombault, June 4, 2015)
Tantum ergo sacramentum veneremur cernui.
Let us fall down in adoration of so great a sacrament.
(Hymn of the feast of Corpus Christi)
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
My dearly beloved Sons,
In today’s solemnity, we are brought face-to-face with an essential mystery in our faith, that of the real and substantial presence of Christ’s Body and Blood under the sacramental species of bread and wine.
Apart from Christianity, no other religion has ever dared assert such a close propinquity between God and men. Indeed, even among Christians, all do not believe in the reality of this presence.
A Special Article for the Feast of Corpus Christi:
- THE HOLY EUCHARIST ACCORDING TO CATHOLIC DOCTRINE
[A booklet with the basic doctrine on the Blessed Sacrament.]
by Father Konrad zu Loewenstein FSSP
Adoro Te devote, latens Deitas,
Quae sub his figuris vere latitas:
Tibi se cor meum totum subicit,
Quia, Te contemplans, totum deficit...
Devoutly I adore Thee, O Hidden Deity,
Who beneath these figures truly liest hidden:
My heart subjects itself entirely to Thee,
because in contemplating Thee it fails entirely...
St. Thomas Aquinas
***
PREFACE
We have considered it important to re-state clearly and concisely the sublime doctrine of the Holy Catholic Church in regard to the Holy Eucharist, in an age when notable sectors of the Catholic laity, clergy, and even of the hierarchy, trapped in a bland and merely human way of thinking, and\or seduced by a resurgence of Protestant Eucharistic heresies, manifest the most lamentable ignorance or heterodoxy in its regard, together with a conduct entirely unbecoming to such solemn realities.
Grateful acknowledgment is made to the diocesan
authorities for having verified the conformity of this text with
Catholic Doctrine, and to the translator of the original into English
INTRODUCTION
The Holy Eucharist is one of the seven Sacraments of the Church. The term ‘Holy Eucharist’has two senses: The Most Blessed Sacrament of the Altar, and the Holy Mass. In the first sense the Holy Eucharist is considered in Itself, in the second sense It is considered in so far as It is offered.
I
THE MOST BLESSED SACRAMENT OF THE ALTAR
As a Sacrament, the Most Blessed Sacrament:
1) is a sign of Grace;
2) confers Grace on us;
3) was instituted by our Lord Jesus Christ.
In particular:
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