The following comes from an October 17 Catholic San Francisco article by Valerie Schmalz:
Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone led hundreds of Catholics praying the rosary through the streets of the city in a eucharistic procession that wended past City Hall to United Nations Plaza.
“To pray the rosary is to look at Jesus through her eyes, to see him through the lens of her faith and love,” the archbishop told those gathered on the pavement a stone’s throw from Market Street under a hot noonday autumn sun Oct. 8. The rally included praying the rosary and Benediction.
The rosary rally was re-established in 2011 at the initiative of the Legion of Mary on the 50th anniversary of Servant of God, Holy Cross Father Patrick Peyton’s Family Rosary Crusade. The 1961 rosary rally drew a half million people to Golden Gate Park’s Polo Field. The annual San Francisco rally is timed for October. In 1883 Pope Leo XIII officially dedicated the month of October to the Holy Rosary.
Father Peyton was known as the “Rosary Priest” because he tirelessly promoted the powerful prayer of the rosary around the world, preaching to an estimated 28 million people over the course of his life. Father Peyton first proclaimed the phrases “The family that prays together stays together” and “A world at prayer is a world at peace.”
“The world needs Christ more than ever and his mother is the example of how we can carry him to a waiting world,” Archbishop Cordileone said in his homily at the Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral. The Mass was followed by a short period of adoration before the Blessed Sacrament and then the archbishop led the procession along some of the city’s busiest thoroughfares to United Nations Plaza.
The closest witness to Jesus is his mother, Archbishop Cordileone said. “When we pray the rosary then, we are privileged to enter into Mary’s heart and contemplate Christ with her.”
I applaud the Archbishop for lifting up the faith among the people of San Francisco!
GOD bless San Francisco.
Archbishop Cordileone is, at his core, a good and honest man and bishop. He tries very much to elevate a sense of Christ in everyone’s life. Marching past City Hall, in a City with a grand history but a sordid present life, is important. Now, the good Archbishop needs to step up and take control of Most Holy Redeemer and oppose the homosexual lifestyle, so in vogue with Catholic Church. Actually, Abp. Cordileone needs to also oppose the easy and irresponsible sex of all Californians. Fornication is also a vile and mortal sin. Rosaries needs here, too, Excellency. (PS/Francis should have made you a Cardinal.)
When it came to reforming the Church, the *Eucharistic Saints* always recognized the powerful supernatural graces that were bestowed with Eucharistic processions. The fact that there are not numerous Eucharistic processions taking place during these very trying times is indicative of a great laxness in faith, either due to very poor understanding OR an outright rejection. Thank you, Archbishop Cordileone, and may Almighty God bless you for recognizing and publicly sharing this most powerful gift of the Source and Summit of our Catholic Faith.
Eucharistic Saints
Taken from the Archives of The Servant of God, Father John Hardon SJ
https://www.therealpresence.org/archives/Saints/Saints_011.htm
Eucharistic Saints
https://www.therealpresence.org/archives/Saints/Saints_011.htm
That is why the Holy Eucharist is called The Mystery of Faith. The Eucharist is nothing less than Jesus Christ. It is not only that God became man to redeem the world by His death on Calvary, God is constantly redeeming the world by communicating through the humanity of Jesus the graces that He won for us on Good Friday.
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At the heart of our faith is the belief that God assumed our human nature in order to serve as the channel of the graces that we need to reach our heavenly destiny. The Holy Eucharist, therefore, is the principal channel of the light and strength we need to embrace the cross in this valley of tears in order to join the Savior in His eternal glory.
ttp://www.therealpresence.org/archives/Saints/Saints_011.htm