The miracle of the Eucharist (Part 3)

Pictures of the people of the parish at the Mission

Third day: First part
Third day: Second part

Second day

First day

The miracle of the Eucharist (Part 2)

Fr. Scott's second homily on the Eucharist.

Part 1 here

The miracle of the Eucharist

Fr. Scott is giving us a three day Lenten Retreat at our Church on the Eucharist. Yesterday his homily at Mass was part one.

"Every time the Eucharist begins, God parts the veil between Heaven and Earth. We enter in and become part of that eternal Liturgy in Heaven. We join the Angels and Saints, we become part of the Liturgy of Heaven. At every Eucharist we join in and are present with Jesus, the great high priest offering himself to the Father on our behalf."

Our greatest treasure is Jesus in the Eucharist

Last night was the third and final talk given by Father Terry Donahue for our Lenten Mission.

Fr. Terry spoke about the Eucharist. How the transformation of the bread into Our Lord's Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity, is called Transubstantiation. The Host only looks like bread. It becomes the Body of Christ in fact.

How do we draw strength from Jesus? By the Eucharist which is our greatest treasure: Jesus in the Eucharist. Jesus is wholly present in the Eucharist, spiritually and bodily.

Why would Jesus give himself to us in this way? Because of Love. Love adapts itself to the beloved`s needs, always putting others first.

Pictures taken from the three nights of the Mission

Lenten Mission (Part 2)

Below is part two of our Lenten Mission at the Annunciation of Our Lord Parish in Ottawa. Father Terry below speaks to a parishioner after his talk. The audio is below that. 

In last night's segment, Fr. Terry talks about Saint Thérèse of Lisieux and her Little Way and about God's love for us.

Thanks to Maureen Ward for the audio below and yesterday's audio as well. We will post tonight's talk tomorrow.

The Existence of God

 Fr. Terry Donohue is giving our Parish a Lenten mission for three nights.

Last night Father Terry explained the intellectual reasons for believing God's existence, and for believing that Jesus is, who he says he is. His talk last night, was "from the head" approach as he said.

He uses physics and philosophy in this part one of his talks.

Tonight and tomorrow night he'll speak to the Faith aspect for the existence of God.

Here are his five reasons for the Existence of God that he goes into detail on:

- The need for an uncaused cause

- The universe had a beginning

- The fine-tuning of the laws of nature

- Modern day miracles

- Moral obligation

It's a great talk and it leaves me with two questions I'd love to ask Richard Dawkins.

1) How does Dawkins explain the origin of life (I think even Dawkins admits he can't answer this question)?

2) How does Dawkins explain bone fide modern day miracles?

Fr. Terry also does a great job in discussing the Resurrection.