Flannery O’Connor and the Eucharist
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ส.ค. 2018
- Explore a collection of Bishop Barron's resources on the Eucharist here: www.wordonfire.org/presence/
In this behind-the-scenes commentary captured at Yaddo (Saratoga Springs, New York) during the recent "Pivotal Players" filming trip, Bishop Barron relates Flannery O'Connor's profound insights on the Eucharist and stresses the critical importance of teaching the doctrine of transubstantiation.
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Flannery O'Connor is such a force! I am so loving the image of her saying, "Well if it's a symbol, to hell with it!" What a powder keg of conviction this woman was!
Not to mention that the Eucharist WORKS! Just do it. There's nothing else folks. It's all we have. Amen
so true!
When I have the Eucharist held before me II feel joyful because I'm receiving God in to myself.
The beautiful glimpse of Yaddo leaves me in awe wish we could have seen more. What blew me was the message. "The Eucharist is not a symbol but the very presence of Christ" this should be shouted from roof tops. How many of us do not fully understand this meaning. Blessed are those who do. 😇
I believe in what you said Bishop Barron. The real presence is one and the central reason for my coming back to thr Catholic faith.
Flannery O’Connor, “Well, if it’s only a symbol - to hell with it!”
I like that.
Straightforward
To the point
Pithy👍
Saving this one for my eighth graders😊
Thank you, your Excellency 🍃
The Catholic church actively protects pedophiles.
🙏 Dec 2019. Pray for Fr Nolan, a young Catholic priest in Kent County Michigan USA. He follows the teaching of the ⛪ Church. He told a Michigan judge not to come forward to receive the Eucharist because she persists in mortal sin by living in a same gender marriage. WOOD TV in Grand Rapids and judge Smolenski have been very critical of him. Pray for his Bishop who supports his decision. Amen. God bless America.We need more priests like Fr Nolan.
God became our food so that we know how unsatisfactory the apparent best delicacy can this world prepare. Finally only when God is our food then is our soul be satisfied and filling.
That's where I wanna be, too! The Eucharist -- our greatest treasure.
Young yet profound. Cautious yet courageous. Thank you Bishop Barron and crew💜💜
I love how Bishop Barron describes- "breaking in to my experience. Inside the adoration chapel this is something that holds me.
God bless you too Bishop
O Come Holy Spirit, Living In Mary. Teach us to Love, Faith and Hope. Ps. 78
“Arm yourself with prayer instead of a sword; be clothed with humility instead of fine cloths.”
Lk 11:28
😇 st Dominic please pray 4us
Thanks for this video, we will keep praying for you, God bless.
Loving these little behind the scenes moments, Bishop!
None of my reasoning seems to be working or getting me anywhere. But I'm regularly present to receive the Eucharist. That is all I've got.
Thank you for all your work and the Word on Fire team.⚓
"Whatever you do anyway, remember that these things are mysteries and that if they were such that we could understand them, they wouldn’t be worth understanding. A God you understood would be less than yourself." (The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O’Connor)
This is just great. I think this way too. Does it mean I have at least a bit of her wit and intelligence? That would be nice 😊 Looking forward to seeing the farm where she lived.
"And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me." (KJV 1Corinthians 11:24)
"What a pity, and how much we ought to regret that we are so lukewarm and careless, as not to be drawn with greater love to receive Christ, our Lord ... If this most holy Sacrament were celebrated in one place only, and consecrated by only one priest in all the world, think how great would be the longing of people's hearts, and how they would flock to that place and visit that one priest of God in order to see the divine mysteries celebrated!" --Thomas a Kempis, The Imitation of Christ
We don't 'have to' attend Mass - we 'get to' not only attend but participate. I started reading along with the celebrant (to myself, of course) the Eucharistic Prayer several years ago. After a couple months of trying to figure out which of the four the celebrant was praying (I memorized key words in the beginning of each), the sacrament started getting a whole lot more interesting for me. I'm not sure if that was the trigger or not, but now the Mass is my highlight of each week.
Paul Miller Good for you Paul Miller. It’s in every edition of the Magnificat. I subscribed probably 5 years before a friend who I gifted a subscription mentioned it to me. Last week I forgot to take mine to Mass. Lady next to me left hers on the seat during the Eucharistic Prayer. After Mass I politely asked: you don’t read the EP?
I said usually the priest reads it very fast, it’s hard to follow. I let her look for it and she wasn’t sure what it was. Felt okay to help someone, just like you are doing here, Paul
3:37 - what an intersting way to refer to the time after the liturgical "reforms" of the so-called second Vatican Council!
That’s why I decided long ago to be as close to the altar as possible during Mass.
David Kern
Me too i have always felt closer been closer to the altar.
That was a good little poem Mike
If the Eucharist is not a symbol, let us kneel down before our King and receive him reverently on the tongue. If it is merely a symbol, that would be silly and superfluous, and we ought to do as the Protestants do and receive on the hand.
Keep in mind that the apostles at the Last Supper were ordained as priests. St. Thomas says that only consecrated hands may touch what is consecrated. Also, the Mass is not primarily a re-enactment of the Last Supper but of Christ's sacrifice on Calvary.
You are totally right!
"If anyone shall say that by the words ‘Do this in commemoration of me’ Christ did not institute the apostles priests, or did not ordain that they and other priests should offer his body and blood: let him be anathema" (Council of Trent, session 22, ch. 1).
Excellent comment.
A sacrament is not a symbol. Brilliant
AMEN !!!
Greetings in Christ , Dear Father, thanks for telling the truth , stressing the truth which is EUCHARIST, the heart of the Church and without the real presence of Jesus our churches would merely be a prayer hall and cannot be worthy to be called as Churches. As you rightly said many of clergy as well as laity, either do not believe in the real presence or do not bother about the presence of God in Eucharist , nonetheless they are very busy in social work and administrative measures and think as they are effectively manage the parish affairs. Clergy do not consider that they or anybody can not do anything worthwhile without Christ, without personal prayer infront of the blessed sacrament. They consider this an orthodox argument and look down the person who talk about Eucharist and Adoration.
If You view the book of Isaiah as Septum Vitae, the Ecclesiastes as a cupbearer, and your prayers attentive, then one it might come to the realization that SSPX is to protect and preserve the councils, not the priests: write them on the tablet of your heart And so find favor and high esteem In the sight of God and man, that you may preserve discretion And Your 2lips may keep knowledge. For where there is no Counsel, the people fall, But in the Multitude of counselors there is safety , and before Honor is humility. And as iron sharpens iron, So a man sharpens the countenance of his friend, But if a ruler pays attention to lies, All his servants become wicked.
(( I love You Father Barron 😍 💖👣...
Flannery hated it at Yaddo. Ironic to film this there.
Bishop Barron, I wonder if we have made symbol smaller than it is in some ways. Of course I understand what O’Connor means in rejecting the modern liberal use of the word symbol, but I wonder if a use of the word symbol more like Jonathan pageau uses the word would help us out.
For example, pew studies saying Catholics don’t believe the Eucharist is literally the body and blood of the Lord I think are often traps, because to us moderns literally means physically, which we do not claim the Eucharist is physically the Body and Blood of the Lord, but rather metaphysically. In some sense that is an increase rather than a diminishment then the Eucharist is a symbol.
Gorgeous
Flanneey O'Connor was a daily communicant.
Shallow Pink
I’m a heroin addict, my head tells me I’m too bad of a person to take the Eucharist. I got Baptized and went through RCIA 4 years ago. I go to confession at times, but I still can’t stop using drugs. It’s like I need a exorcism I think. It’s hard being a Catholic and being an addict
Adam and Eve, their first instinct after the fall was to run and hide from the Lord. Don't do the same, run to him instead.
You should not take communion less you should take it more. Go frequently to confession. It is only through Christ and through his sacraments that you will be Safe And saved. Get yourself into a 12 step program.. you will fall down many times but eventually with Christ help he will pull you through it. GOD BLESS BROTHER! You are only alone if you choose to be. God is always there for you. His love for you is the same for each person. Have faith brother God's speed!
Jesus said this is my body he didn’t say ghost is a symbol of my nody
Space Truckin’, Smoke on the Water, Highway Star, Woman from Tokyo
Yes, it is a symbol of what it symbolises, but it also is the symbolised.
It points to Christ and it is Christ at the same time.
Mason come on dude
Yes cheese balls are not very good
If I am a “New Believer” in Christ but, have
already read the New Testament, how am I supposed to
reconcile the many contradictions between the teachings
of the Catholic church and the Bible itself? Will you explain?
Is it TRUE that this was NOT “Christian” Doctrine but was made
Catholic Doctrine only after Paschasius Radbertus wrote an
exposition on the nature of the Eucharist entitled De Corpore et
Sanguine Domini, written around 831???
What is TRUTH?
Case in point: the Eucharist
From The Bible-
Hebrews 9:24-28
24 For Christ has entered, not into holy places made with hands,
which are copies of the true things, but into heaven itself, now to
appear in the presence of God on our behalf. 25 NOR was it to
OFFER Himself REPEATEDLY, as the high priest enters the holy
places every year with blood not his own, 26 for then He would
have had to suffer REPEATEDLY since the foundation of the
world. But as it is, He has appeared ONCE FOR ALL at the end of
the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. 27 And just
as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes
judgment, 28 so Christ, having been offered ONCE to bear the
sins of many, will appear a second time, NOT to deal with sin
BUT to save those who are eagerly waiting for Him.-------------------
Catechism of the Catholic Church - the Eucharist
1366 The Eucharist is thus a SACRIFICE because it re-presents
(makes present) the sacrifice of the cross, because it is its
memorial and because it applies its fruit:
[Christ], our Lord and God, was once and for all to offer himself to
God the Father by his death on the altar of the cross, to
accomplish there an everlasting redemption. “BUT” because his
priesthood was not to end with his death, at the Last Supper "on
the night when he was betrayed,”[HE WANTED] to leave to his
beloved spouse the Church a visible sacrifice (as the nature of
man demands)
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Exactly how do YOU KNOW WHAT CHRIST “WANTED”?
And, HOW can you say that Christ is SUBJECT to our demands?
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by which the bloody sacrifice which he was to accomplish once
for all on the cross would be RE-PRESENTED, its memory
perpetuated until the end of the world, and its salutary power be
applied to the forgiveness of the sins we daily commit.189
1367 The sacrifice of Christ and the sacrifice of the Eucharist are
one single sacrifice: "The VICTIM is one and the same: the same
now offers through the ministry of priests, who then offered
himself on the cross; only the manner of offering is different."
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Your church labels Christ as “the victim”. Why?
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"And since in this divine sacrifice which is celebrated in the Mass,
the same Christ who offered himself once in a bloody manner on
the altar of the cross is contained and “IS” offered in an unbloody
manner. . . this sacrifice is truly propitiatory."190
www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p2s2c1a3.htm
Not cool
Idk...I just bought "The Complete Stories for Flannery O'Connor"...I'm literally on page 10, and she threw down then N-word so many times it went from grotesque to redundant. Not really impressed, and not sure how a "devout" Catholic could talk about other human beings in such a way.