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STRANGE THINGS HAPPEN ON THE NIGHT OF CHRISTMAS
By Segundo Llorente, S. J.
A priest told me what happened to him once in his first parish. After the Midnight Mass on Christmas Day he personally locked the church. With the keys in his pocket he went to...Read more
"STRANGE THINGS HAPPEN ON THE NIGHT OF CHRISTMAS!"
By Segundo Llorente, S. J.
A priest told me what happened to him once in his first parish. After the Midnight Mass on Christmas Day he personally locked the church. With the keys in his pocket he went to...Read more
I WILL NOT BE CREMATED!
I do plan to ask my parish priest about this matter soon. I was just wondering why I haven't heard a priest speak about when a person dies, what to do with their remains in a homily...Read more
Daily Reflections with
Archbishop Fulton Sheen
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NATURAL SACRAMENTS
There are certain signs and events in our daily life which are a kind of natural sacrament. Take, for example, a word. A word has something audible about it and at the same time something unseen, invisible. If, for example, I tell a joke and if it were a very amusing one, you might laugh. But if I told it to a horse, a horse would not even give a horselaugh. Why? Because you get the meaning. That's because you have a soul, reason, and an intellect. A horse lacks that spiritual perceptive power and hence does not get the meaning. So it is with a handshake. A handshake is something visible, material, fleshy, but there is also something spiritual about it, namely, the communication of greeting and welcome. If I take my right hand and lay it upon my left, this is not a handshake. It has the visible aspect about it, most certainly, namely, the clasping of hands, but it lacks that invisible element which is the communication of personal warmth. A kiss is a kind of sacrament. It is something visible, and at the same time something invisible, namely, the communication of love.