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Pope at Regina Coeli: A truly Christian life bears witness to Christ Pope at Regina Coeli: A truly Christian life bears witness to Christ
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May 2, 2021
Pope Francis addresses the faithful on the fifth Sunday of Easter and reflects on how in order to bear witness to Christ, it is necessary to be united with Him and abide in Him actively,
By Linda Bordoni
Commenting on the Gospel of John (
Jn 15, 1-8) in which the Lord presents himself as the true vine, and speaks of us as the branches that cannot live without being united to him, Pope Francis explained that just as we need the Lord, Jesus needs us.
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Denver’s Archbishop Samuel Aquila and Chicago’s Cardinal Blase Cupich have disagreed over the proper reception of the Eucharist. The Pillar news site reveals that Cardinal Cupich who has argued against withholding the Eucharist from supporters of abortion wrote to request a “public clarification” after Archbishop Aquila, in a published essay, said: “None of us have the freedom to approach the altar of the Lord without a proper examination of conscience and proper repentance if grave sin has been committed.” Archbishop Aquila wrote a second essay to clarify but not change his stand.
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Archdiocese of Denver, April 15, 2021
04/14/2021 at 1:58 AM Posted by Kevin Edward White
By Samuel J. Aquila, America, April 14, 2021
At my first Mass as a priest, and at Masses I have offered since, I have prayed quietly one of two prayers offered by priests around the world before we receive the Lord’s body and blood:
May the receiving of your Body and Blood, Lord Jesus Christ, not bring me to judgment and condemnation, but through your loving mercy be for me protection in mind and body and a healing remedy.
That prayer echoes the words of St. Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians. Paul was encouraging the church to live the faith authentically, entirely and with integrity. Paul reminds the Corinthians: “Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of profaning the body and blood of the Lord. Let a man examine himself, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup. For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgmen