De Omnibus Dubitandum Est.

Sometimes we need the "democracy of the dead" to understand the supernatural reality we Catholics are a part of...we need the experiences of the saints to inform our limited temporal perspective. As our approach to sin and hell seems so watered down these days, it is well worth watching this reflection from Father Paul Nicholson on St Veronica Guilliani. I'd love to hear what you think and if it makes you think; it certainly made me think!

Further to my post on Tuesday , which looked at the need for a more balanced understanding of the Mass as Sacrifice, and how a change in our understanding from emphasing the meal aspect, to a more proper understanding of Sacrifice, how how this could be the key to a more reverent attitude toward the reception of Jesus in the blessed sacrament at Mass, one reader, Adam Coates, directed me to this excellent video on the subject by Fr. Paul Nicholson. (Sorry, that sentence was far too long!). Receiving communion on the tongue or in the hand is nothing anyone else can make you do. You are free to choose the manner of your own reception and the way you approach God, but these sorts of things are what led me to change the way I receive communion myself. I have found that if I approach Christ in the blessed sacrament with humility and temerity, properly disposed and longing for communion with Him who is God, the experience is an extraordinarily powerful one. And this is something I have hea...