Year of the Eucharist

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This is one to bookmark! It seems to be full of useful links and current information! plus its own discussion forum.

How is your parish planning to participate in the Year of the Eucharist - October 2004 - 2005 ?

We are hoping to do an outdoor Eucharistic procession for Corpus Christi next May and encourage more parishioners to participate in Eucharistic adoration.
 
Great idea for a thread. We haven’t planned anything yet, but I’ll be anxious to see what ideas others can offer.

I am quite shamelees about copying good ideas. 😉
 
In part of a pastoral letter from our Bishop he says this:

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Eucharistic Year in the Diocese of Phoenix
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How shall we celebrate the Year of the Eucharist in the Diocese of Phoenix? We shall want to look for special ways to do this in our homes and parishes, and in special events as a whole diocese. These will include additional catechetical instruction and ongoing implementation of liturgical norms. It will include more Eucharistic Adoration and devotions that foster greater reverence for the Blessed Sacrament. With daily efforts on the part of each of us individually and as families, it will lead to a greater appreciation of Sunday as the Lord’s Day and to the precious value of daily Mass as a way to deepen our loving communion with Christ.

We can be sure that the Holy Father also expects the Year of the Eucharist to generate a keener awareness of the apostolic dimension of the Bread of Life, giving us fresh enthusiasm to engage actively in the Church’s mission of evangelization. As our lives become more intensely Eucharistic, we move from mediocrity to commitment, from lethargy to action, from indifference to charity. As we become dissatisfied with an inadequate understanding of the mysteries of our faith, we become similarly dissatisfied with an inadequate understanding of moral and spiritual issues in our world and with half-hearted efforts to address them. This moves us to serious study of our Catholic faith and on-going Christian formation. We hear in a new way Christ saying to us, at the end of Mass, “Go forth to love and to serve the Lord.”

Sounds like a full order to me. I think a good place for individuals to begin would be to read , Ecclesia de Eucharistia and Redemptionis Sacramentum for a fuller understanding of the Eucharist.**
 
did anyone see the issue of Our Sunday Visitor with the cover story of The Year of the Eucharist? It doesn’t seem to be posted on their website. I’d really like to read it and get some ideas from their article.

www.osv.com does anyone see a link to this story last week? They show the cover with the title but posted the story on the church in Latin America.
 
I asked the deacons wife what our parish was planning on doing for the Year of the Eucharist. She had no idea what I was talking about. Now I know she is NOT the deacon, but I gotta wonder if they talk :banghead:
 
Thank you, marked it and will hopefully have a chance before friday to get some pictures and info off that site to hang them by the chapel for our new campaign for generosity and visiting Christ in the chapel.🙂
 
I did find a followup article in Our Sunday Visitor - with some suggestions and a long list of what major dioceses are doing. Here’s some suggestions on a personal level -

Your own renewal of faith - from OSV 10/3

Not everyone can venture to Eucharistic congresses held a long distance from their homes, but virtually every diocese and many parishes in the country will offer some special ways for Catholics to mark the Year of the Eucharist. Check your diocesan newspaper or parish bulletin for information on such opportunities closer to home and take part in them if at all possible.

Even if such occasions are few, Catholics can celebrate the Eucharistic year on their own. Here are a few possibilities:

· Spend a little extra time after each Mass in a prayer of thanksgiving for the gift of Christ in the Eucharist.

· If you’re primarily a Sunday Mass participant, try to make it to one or two daily Masses each week. Some parishes have early morning, noontime or early evening Masses that accommodate most work schedules, and some have regular Saturday morning liturgies.

· Volunteer to take a weekly hour at a Perpetual Adoration chapel if one is available in your area. Or simply drop in for a few minutes’ adoration any time you are able.

· Step up your spiritual reading, especially on the topic of the Eucharist. Classics like Thomas a Kempis’ “The Imitation of Christ” are excellent, as are some modern works like Cardinal Francis Arinze’s “The Holy Eucharist” (Our Sunday Visitor, $9.95).

· If you are not already in the habit, make it a practice to make a silent, devout act of eucharistic faith just before receiving the Eucharist each time, such as, “Jesus, I firmly believe that You are truly present in this Eucharist.”

· Make it a habit, too, to make the required gesture of reverence at an appropriate mom just prior to receiving the Eucharist - a simple bow of the head will do.

GERALD KORSON
 
Bishop Raymundo Pena of Brownsville has asked all parishes in the diocese to make specific plans to observe the year of the Eucharist, especially with processions, holy hours and adoration, preaching and teaching on the Paschal Mystery and on the pope’s encyclical. A large contingent is travelling to the Eucharistic Congress in Mexico which begins next week. We started this summer with monthly holy hours, and are planning an extended vigil and round the clock adoration, initiated by a candlelight procession. We have started a special choir for this event and subsequent events, and are involving all parish groups, especially the youth in events. Our chapel will be open extended hours, which we hope to continue after the year is over. Our goal is to institute regular periods of exposition of the Sacrament for adoration with parishioners committed to participate. Education on the encyclical and the Real Presence will be presented to all age groups through CCD and adult education.
 
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