Dear Friend,

On this feast day of Our Lady of La Salette, how about we strengthen our commitment to approaching the Holy Eucharist worthily. Let us never approach Our Lord automatically. Instead, yearn for receiving His Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity. Think of Psalm 52 as you prepare your soul: As the deer pants for the water brooks, So pants my soul for You, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.

It is an honor that The Catholic Company, a trusted resource for Catholics for more than 20 years, sent an email to their subscribers describing why Raymond Cardinal Burke’s book, was written for the laity: Respecting the Body & Blood of the Lord: When Holy Communion Should Be Denied, wasn’t just to be read by priests, like the inaugural version that Catholic Action for Faith and Family sent to every bishop, priest, and deacon in the country!

In the email, which I am sharing, The Catholic Company offered exceptional and inspiring comments on Cardinal Burke’s words. They signify receiving Our Lord more worthily, citing laws that keep the reception as a sacred act of worship, ensuring due reverence, clarifying our Faith and bringing us closer to Jesus’ Sacred Heart. 

Respecting The Body & Blood Of The Lord will help you to understand difficult topics such as:

• What the saints have to say about the proper reception Holy Communion & what it means
• The invisible bond that unites us all as Catholics to each other & to God
• The circumstances that call for a person to abstain from receiving Holy Communion
• The insidious fruits of scandalous behavior and the “objective harm” that results
• When a communicant should be denied Holy Communion (and to whom this applies)
• And many more answers to your questions on this current cultural topic!

Each chapter clearly spells out key aspects and points to ponder on how to receive Holy Communion in a worthy manner and fully benefit from the graces received each time. 

And some of these questions and reflections are so practical that they may radically change how you receive Holy Communion every Sunday!

Each time we receive Holy Communion, at the heart of the matter, is the greatest opportunity we have to more deeply encounter the love in Jesus’ Heart.

But growing in union with Jesus through Holy Communion doesn’t just happen. 

It needs to be nurtured.

It needs to be cultivated.

It needs to be fostered.

Catholic Action remains committed to our Faithful Echo Movement program and campaign. Our goal is to let the true sound of the bell of Truth signify the call for the Mystical Body of Christ to get back to the basics of doctrine and morals and to bearing witness to the timeless and universal attributes of Truth, Goodness and Beauty.

 If you wish to order Raymond Cardinal Burke’s Book, click the link below: 

Respecting The Body & Blood of the Lord: When Holy Communion Should Be Denied

Yours in the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary,

Thomas J McKenna

Founder and President

Catholic Action for Faith and Family
https://www.catholicaction.org/

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P.S. If you have not submitted your intentions for the Three Holy Masses, from 9/21-9/23, which includes the Feast Day of St. Padre Pio, please do so now.