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Veneremur Cernui – Down in Adoration Falling, Bishop Thomas Olmsted of the Diocese of Phoenix recommends to the faithful daily Mass and more frequent Eucharistic adoration, and asks priests to lead an annual Eucharistic procession in their parishes. The bishop’s letter, promulgated on April 1, 2021, explains that the Church “requires Catholic leaders who have publicly supported gravely immoral laws such as abortion and euthanasia to refrain from receiving Holy Communion until they publicly repent and receive the Sacrament of Penance.”
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Diocese of Phoenix, April 1, 2021
Apostolic Exhortation of The Most Reverend Thomas J. Olmsted, Bishop of Phoenix, to Priests, Deacons, Religious and the Lay Faithful of the Diocese of Phoenix on the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist
out of egypt?
“They were begging Him to go away from their district.” Mark 5:17
It is thought by some that the devotion of Catholics to the Crucified Jesus, to His Passion and sufferings, the Stations of the Cross, the Precious Blood of Jesus, and to the relics of martyrs is morbid. This is hard for a non-Catholic to understand.
Yet there is fascination with the macabre in the secular culture of death. Rock groups celebrate the Grateful Dead, the Satanic and Gothic. Halloween is often twisted into a straight-out celebration of the ungodly.
In today’s Gospel passage Jesus triumphs over the demons possessing the demoniac. Why did the Gerasenes beg Jesus to leave after He set their town free of many demons? (Mk 5:17) In His Gospel, St. John declares: “Men loved darkness rather than light” (Jn 3:19).
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