Ideas for Celebrating the Year of the Eucharist

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This might need to be in the Misc. forum, or Sacraments, but what are your parish’s plans for celebrating/focusing on the year of the Eucharist?

My own parish, I would guess, is going to ignore it, however I’ve been thinking of getting a group together to study Ecclesia de Eucharistia.

It would be really interesting to share different ideas… also, let’s really pray that the Church is renewed.
 
we have started a monthly holy hour with benediction (yawll remember benediction, right?), hoping to make it weekly if all goes well. Extended adoration chapel hours, including some evening hours. Throughout the CCD program Pre-K thru 12, adult ed, catechist formation & parent meetings we focused on the Mass last year, and the Eucharist and Real Presence this year. Youth will plan and participate in holy hours as part of confirmation prep, and a Eucharist centered youth rally (ala Youth 2K) is planned for our deanery. The bishop has requested parishes to come up with formal programs, including adoration and holy hours, and some diocesan wide events are planned, including pilgrimage to Eucharistic Congress in Mexico, and we had diocesan wide celebrations at Christ the King.
 
Make the Traditional Latin Mass legal for all priests to celebrate without scruple of conscience and hounding by eccelesiastical authorities.
 
I believe the question was what could your parish do to celebrate the year of the Eucharist. Parishes do not have the power to do what you suggest, Catholic Eagle.
 
Okay Have monthly 40 hour devotions and celebrate Corpus Christi and Ascension day on Thursday with massive processions. More adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. Disobey the USCCB and keep Jesus in the Tabernacle all the time.
 
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Okay Have monthly 40 hour devotions and celebrate Corpus Christi and Ascension day on Thursday with massive processions. More adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. Disobey the USCCB and keep Jesus in the Tabernacle all the time.
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Corpus Christi and Ascension Days cannot be celebrated contrary to what the Bishops have decided by parishes unless they are FFSP Parishes which have daily Mass and all their Masses in accordance to the 1962 Missal. (and even then I am not sure if they can ignore the Bishop’s decision)

Many Parishes already have 24 hour adoration of he Blessed Sacrament.

How can Jesus be in the Tabernacle if he is on the altar in 24 hour adoration in the monstrace.

Where do you think Churches keep “Jesus” if not in the tabernacle otherwise.

So you do advocate disobedience, then?

Can’t you contribute something that is not dissentive to this forum and something that is possible to this discussion?
 
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… what are your parish’s plans for celebrating/focusing on the year of the Eucharist?

My own parish, I would guess, is going to ignore it, however I’ve been thinking of getting a group together to study Ecclesia de Eucharistia.

It would be really interesting to share different ideas… also, let’s really pray that the Church is renewed.
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My parish plans to study the gospels really, really hard and retranslate the words of institution correctly into English so that the Eucharist is licit!

Sorry, just kidding. There probably aren’t any such parishes.
 
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Corpus Christi and Ascension Days cannot be celebrated contrary to what the Bishops have decided by parishes unless they are FFSP Parishes which have daily Mass and all their Masses in accordance to the 1962 Missal. (and even then I am not sure if they can ignore the Bishop’s decision)

Many Parishes already have 24 hour adoration of he Blessed Sacrament.

How can Jesus be in the Tabernacle if he is on the altar in 24 hour adoration in the monstrace.

Where do you think Churches keep “Jesus” if not in the tabernacle otherwise.

So you do advocate disobedience, then?

Can’t you contribute something that is not dissentive to this forum and something that is possible to this discussion?
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Well most churches don’t keep Jesus in the tabernacle in my diocese. Last year a letter was put in all the church bulletins in my diocese I think that Jesus shouldn’t be kept in the tabernacle to make it look as a storehhouse for extra Eucharist. The letter was titled implementation of the 2000 Missal or something like that. Perpetual Adoration is not in most parishes. In my diocese I think there are 6 perpetual adoration chapels for 300 parishes. That’s 2% percent of parishes and I added the Maronite cathedral which has Perpetual Adoration.
 
Pre-Vatican II- I remember 40 hours of Devotion but I never remember any parish having perpetual Adoration of the Eucharist.

At Benediction was the only time I remember there being any adoration of the Holy Eucharist.
 
Wow. Impressive list of speakers!

I brought up the subject to my pastor, and he didn’t acknowledge that anything special will be done.

However, under a different pastor, the entire Jubilee Year went by unnoticed by my parish. Not a single special activity. Maybe a banner got hung.:rolleyes:

I do hope to meet with my pastor in the near future to discuss some things to help make the Year of the Eucharist more fruitful for our parish and for the Church.

I would love to see a weekly holy hour, as is done in my daughter’s parish.
 
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