@tlamin that's the importance protestant churches lack, it's the presence of Jesus Christ himself within the tabernacle & within the Eucharist. Any catholic that still thinks the Eucharist is symbolic instead of reality needs to pray to be filled with The Blessed Mothers limitless faith & Jesus Infinite love
What’s needed for this revival is a deep study into the theology, history, philosophy and customary/cultural practices of the Eucharist. Guides should be written and study groups/classes should be organized on this as well. I converted 42 years ago from the Lutheran Church and intense, deep study on the Eucharist was a requirement for all preparing for Confirmation (First Communion) in that denomination.
Here’s a prayer I jotted down from RUclips while someone was giving his testimony at Medjugorje, Crotia, and ever since I have been saying it: (This person was not well for a very long time and the Holy Spirit inspired him to go to Church, to receive Communion, and to say this prayer and he got healed soon after). ”Let your precious body and blood mix with mine and travel through my body, healing me of all my fears and all my sicknesses and fill me with your peace. Let your precious body and blood mix with mine and flow throughout my being, make me into what you would want me to be that I might love like you.”
Some Catholics (and others) might understand the eucharist by watching the 7 minute film titled "The Veil Removed". It's on the internet. It is powerful. Sometimes a visual (an emotion) helps more than words (intellect). Put them both together and it's even more powerful!
When I was a kid, the Catholic Church in town was pretty much always open during the day for Eucharistic adoration. Nowadays, at least in the big city, it seems every church is locked and adoration must be scheduled. One would think that after the archbishop lifted the increased rules from the great sickness, that they would open back up. If I was a retiree or unemployed, I'd have the ability to participate but alas, it's not a possibility for me.
Does anyone remember the alms box and when and why it disappeared? Same thing. Security. We still have an open church. We lost real candles to a person who was later committed. It was the archdiocesan insurance that dictated that. Likely your case.
@@sydneymcconnaughhay5947 the frustrating thing for me is that the advice that I keep getting about discerning converting to Catholicism is to spend time in adoration. The closest I can really do to that is to sit outside the door and do it there. I have no vacation time. I have no sick time. I have to work or my family will starve.
@@Aaryq More importantly than Eucharistic Adoration, I suggest that you attend the Mass (abstaining from the Eucharist, of course, until you have fully converted), front to back. Study the words, understand what they mean. Observe all that is happening in front of you. Realize that it's not simply a community gathering, but a transformative experience. From the prayer of penance to the liturgy of the Word (including Old Testament prophecies, New Testament epistles, and Gospel readings); from the profession of faith in the Nicene Creed to the most important part - the liturgy of the Eucharist, the true substantive offering of Christ's Body and Blood for our sins on the alter. Study the Mass. Do so week after week. If you have any questions, take note of them and ask the priest afterwards. He should be glad to help you in your journey. As great as Eucharistic Adoration can be, it couldn't happen without the Mass itself. Even if it's not performed very well, if the homily isn't all that it should be, if the cantor sings out of tune, it's the full Mass that results in the Eucharist in the first place. Every phrase we utter in the Mass has a history and a purpose. May God bless you on your journey, and may He share entirely in your life's purpose as you do so in His. I have faith in you, brother. God bless!
Here’s a prayer I jotted down from RUclips from someone who was giving his testimony at Medjugorje, Crotia, and ever since I have been saying it: (This person was not well for a very long time and the Holy Spirit inspired him to go to Church, to receive Communion, and to say this prayer and he got healed soon after).
Sorry… I missed the prayer earlier: ”Let your precious body and blood mix with mine and travel through my body, healing me of all my fears and all my sicknesses and fill me with your peace. Let your precious body and blood mix with mine and flow throughout my being, make me into what you would want me to be that I might love like you.”
I asked Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament why I have to offer sacrifices for the conversion of sinners. Just then your video pops up answering all my doubts. Thank you Father for doing the Lord's Work.
Here’s a prayer I jotted down from RUclips from someone who was giving his testimony at Medjugorje, Crotia, and ever since I have been saying it: (This person was not well for a very long time and the Holy Spirit inspired him to go to Church, to receive Communion, and to say this prayer and he got healed soon after).
I look toward to every video you put out Fr Casey. Thank you for the continued education in my faith that I am so lacking. May the peace of God be with you
CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH: "The Eucharist commits us to the poor. To receive in truth the Body and Blood of Christ given up for us, we must recognize Christ in the poorest, his brethren."
Here’s a prayer I jotted down from RUclips from someone who was giving his testimony at Medjugorje, Crotia, and ever since I have been saying it: (This person was not well for a very long time and the Holy Spirit inspired him to go to Church, to receive Communion, and to say this prayer and he got healed soon after).
Here’s the prayer, not sure how it got left out from my previous message: ”Let your precious body and blood mix with mine and travel through my body, healing me of all my fears and all my sicknesses and fill me with your peace. Let your precious body and blood mix with mine and flow throughout my being, make me into what you would want me to be that I might love like you.”
I’m not sure how the prayer got missed earlier…here it is: ”Let your precious body and blood mix with mine and travel through my body, healing me of all my fears and all my sicknesses and fill me with your peace. Let your precious body and blood mix with mine and flow throughout my being, make me into what you would want me to be that I might love like you.”
Hiding the tabernacle in a little side chapel somewhere in the church does not support our understanding of the True Presence, yet so many parishes do that. It is not just words that instruct us, our Catholic architecture also instructs us. ❤
Amen! Just bring back the communion rail, receive kneeling and in the tongue - and that would solve this ~70% of Catholics confused issue. Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi, Lex Vivendi! 🙏🧎👌👅 ➡️ ✝️☦️ ➡️🚶 🤝 🛟❤
To me it was the opposite. In the side chapel I can find a more intimate place, while the major altar is too big and most people mistake it for just another piece of art.
AMEN. Possibly most complete talk on the Eucharist that I've heard. And I, too, have been hearing of this revival and wondering, "is that all there is?". Thank you. You have revived my faith in human understanding of our Lord. Were it not for the Eucharist, I would not bother being Catholic. When in desperate times, all other faith is gone, I know the Eucharist, with all that she is, is the one true thing in our lives. I will be rewatching this and searching for how Christ can be made more manifest in my lufe. God bless you!
All these helpful true and beautiful explantions are so welcoming.Father you have this great convinced and lived faith and knowledge to share with this woorld and people are coming back.we are grateful for all your help and gifts.praise God.🙏👍👍😇😇👍👍
Those who attend the TLM are not confused. Go and receive again while kneeling on the tongue… 🧎 👅 and that would help heal the church. Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi, Lex Vivendi! 🙏🧎👌👅 ➡️ ✝️☦️ ➡️🚶 🤝 🛟❤
Yesterday, I was at a talk about the Mass, and the speaker started to go on the point of transubstantiation. I get it, maybe somebody there needed to hear it, but I wondered for those of us who already believe, isn't there something more we could hear? This video is the answer to my thoughts. Thank you, Fr. Casey
Friar Casey, during one Sunday mass in 2007, I was wondering what should happen to the Eucharist when it was raining and the church was "overly populated" so some had to sit outside under roofings made by the church. I sat outside the church since it was overly crowded and I was like "God, the rain is going to soak the host wet, what would you do? Will you let the deacons get wet too? " And before the deacons delivered the Eucharist... There was a strong wind blowing and the rain ceased... And after every single one church goers had their host and children got the blessings through the hands of the priest, another strong wind blew and the rain resumed... Even though it was like a coincidence, I can only say "God, You're cheating" haha...
@@reintaler6355 I do, there are many experiences that may seem like a "coincidence" but they actually have deeper meanings in my life... Like when I may seem to hear someone chatting about "why not letting go grudges before receiving Eucharist" when I was plotting for someone's downfall while ignoring the priest's homily. It may seem like someone was chatting inside the church and it may sometimes feel like it's completely nothing... But still it has meaningful advice.. The Lord is surely great
Thank you, Father Casey, for this talk delving deep into the significance of the Eucharist. Despite knowing that I am supposed to believe that the Eucharist is the body and blood of our Lord, I have a hard time seeing it as anything more than a symbol. It has always been a struggle for me, as I am am sure it is for many Catholics, to see past the elegant ceremonial aspects of the Eucharistic celebration, and to view it as something far more transcendent. Your commentary is a small stepping stone on my way to a deeper understanding and appreciation of the Eucharist. For that, I am grateful.
A non catholic speaking here, As someone who has been on a spiritual path for the best part of 14 years and still trying to find something that I can connect to .glad it’s not a you must believe in everything, lost of different paths I have looked into researched I tend to find myself not agree 100% with everything so I then dismiss everything. I suppose this would be a good time to say oh Lord please help me please help my troubled questioning mind find some sort of peace and calm even if it’s just a small corner of my mind where we can chat and I can find some sort of calmness.
@@Bestbuddybob I am not trying to criticize you, but the danger of trying to find something you 100% agree with or "glad it’s not a you must believe in everything" is that it often just becomes you worshiping yourself or the zeitgeist. Religion isn't supposed to be easy, it isn't supposed to be a yes man that nods in agreement with everything that you want. Let Christ challenge you.
Thank you Father Casey I’m still a catholic who lost his faith but slowly getting back into it thanks to your breakdowns in videos like this. God bless you
This is a great supplement to my RCIA. We talked about Eucharist relative to its place in the mass, but did not get the motivational talk about this sacrifice, which is lovingly provided by you.
Father, I have been reading, "30 Day Eucharistic Revival" A Retreat with St. Peter Julian Eymard. The saint devoted to the Holy Eucharist. It was written by Father Donald H. Calloway, MIC.- I'm on day 21, I look forward every morning to a new day's reading. This retreat starts my Holy Hour so richly. I recommend it to everyone.
Thank you for this great video, Father Casey. It is priests like you that we Catholics need, for the confusion and lack of knowledge of our own faith seems to be one of the reasons why many Catholics all over the place have been deserting our church. I really think we need more apologists who can teach us Catholics more about our faith and how to defend it.
It changes you. Thanks be to God I'm a daily communicant, 15 years. Thanks be to God. It's about joy and super abundant life. Thank you for posting this important viseo
when I became Catholic in college, the Eucharist and believing fully in the doctrine of transubstantiation was one of my biggest draws. now, despite my struggles sometimes, I remain Catholic because of the Eucharist. nowhere else than at communing at Mass do I receive such life for my soul to manage the slings and arrows of this life, and I find myself unable and unwilling to give that up. I do wonder, Fr Casey, if you have any recommendations for ways to learn more about the theological significance of the Eucharist? books especially but whatever really. I know I wish churches in my area would hold something talking about this, but I haven't found anything yet.
As I look forward to traveling to the NER in July, I will ponder these words in my heart. Live the Eucharist. It reminds me of a book I read early in my Catholic journey. “Eating Beauty” may be hard to find; published by the Cornell University Press. It was, for me, transformative as I was still being transformed to the Faith. Absolutely! Live the Eucharist.
Dear Casey, Thanks for continuing your hard work. I served at the daily 6:30 a.m. mass during my 7th and 8th grades way beyond my share because I was the only one who was reliable. When the discussion of transubstantion came up in high school religion class, I was the only one to say the eucharist was symbolic. It was 1981. Keep carrying on. Love, Uncle Kevin
I appreciate this thoughtful video, especially since I can gain very little from just looking at the caption in the RUclips results and the still image used for it--I think that's called the thumbnail. It is certainly important to recognize that the Eucharist is meant to transform us and send us forth. I plan to attend the Eucharistic Congress later this month and I look forward to how I'll be transformed and sent forth from the experience.
The Church needs to engage with the people. Sinners as we all are, burdened with our sins and guilt and all the other issues and struggles. I honestly don't know where to start, but the most effective RC church nearby has a long bulletin with lots of information and a weekly calendar. Every week there's a: Young Adult Bible Study YA Sorority meeting One all-day Adoration (morning to 6pm) YA Fraternity Lay Carmelites meeting Pre-mass Rosary (Saturdays) And informally, generally 1 or more additional informal meetups. Last month, for Advent & Christmas, there were like 6 additional opportunities between candlelit masses, adoration, and YA events. This month, there's a parish dinner.
Father, everything you say is correct. There is certainly a greater problem in our American Church that poor teaching of the Real Presence. We absolutely need to come what we receive to make a greater missionary impact in our communities. But the problem is, and you probably realize this, is that the grand majority of Catholics have no idea what they have. It’s so true that you can’t give what you don’t have, and this is so true of the faithful today. We can’t expect people to understand something they’ve never been taught or encountered. Why does the beauty and truth of our faith feel like this very well kept secret?? I think this great endeavor to understand the real presence is at least a starting point. Expecting people to go out and bring Jesus to their communities isn’t going to happen unless the fire, and I mean a fire, is first lit within the folks who are regularly coming to Mass.
Impressive the way you speak. Thank you. Grtz from a Roman Catholic in the Netherlands, who - after 57 years in this world and being Catholic - still is looking for answers. One thing I am sure of the last year more then ever. I am glad to be a Roman-Catholic. But far and foremost, I am glad to be a Christian.
POPE BENEDICT XVI: "The Eucharist has both a personal and a social character: Christ unites himself with me, but also with those beside me, and so unites himself equally with my neighbor. We are all one bread, one body. And this is communion."
Thank for your message. For me, I have found greater comfort, understanding and reverence in the Eucharist since I was introduced to the Prayers for Before and After Mass by St. Thomas Aquinas.
POPE BENEDICT XVI: “In sacramental communion I become one with the Lord, like all the other communicants. As Saint Paul says, “Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread” (1 Cor 10:17). Union with Christ is also union with all those to whom he gives himself. We become “one body”, completely joined in a single existence. Love of God and love of neighbor are now truly united: God incarnate draws us all to himself.”
I liked how there was no rock intro or anything. The words themselves adorned the video. It pointed to my hypocrisy deeply, though i didn’t expect it to. Very impactful, very humbling. Thank you
Wonderful,Fr. Casey! I wish other Catholic apologists-especially those on the same platform (YT) would cross-reference this excellent brief on pushing the “Eucharistic revival” farther-from understanding and adoration, to “becoming what we receive.” By the way Fr. Mike Schmitz’s homily for Epiphany Sunday 2023 resonates with the point you make here; that we cannot go to mass and remain unchanged because “if we truly offer the sacrifice of the mass with the priest and with Jesus himself, we would be different, we would be more like him.”
Excellent video brother, beautifully put!!! If the nature of Who HE is isn't sinking in to be the root of the way we do it, is JESUS our King at all? Well said! I know by respect it's father, also a protestant and call all brother or sister, we are one family, Big C or little, and it's a blessing to join at HIS Table. Keep at it!!
Greetings. I am an Anglican and visited a Catholic parish one morning before going onto my normal Anglican one. As is sometimes (typically?) the case, the readings were the same and the homily was on a similar topic. For this particular Sunday morning, that topic was the real presence of Christ in the elements of the Eucharist. The Catholic homily consisted of the deacon pleading with the congregants to accept the real presence of Christ because this is the Church's position on the matter. Then, when the elements themselves were consecrated, the liturgy being read stated *that* Christ said what he did at the table. I would like to contrast these two things with what happened at my Anglican parish a couple of hours later. The homily there was a Scriptural dissertation on why the elements are the body and blood of the Lord Jesus using his own words from the gospels. And when the elements themselves were consecrated, we didn't read *that* he said this is the case, we read his actual statements taken directly from Scripture. In fact, part of the consecration *is* effectively reading Scripture. What I'm trying to say is this: If you want people to take His real presence seriously, put Jesus' own words into the blessing of the elements.
I was raised and married in the Catholic church, but for the last 35 years have gone to mainline protestant churches. Reading the Word filled me with something I didn't even know you could have. My Bible study women are my backbone. But I find I desperately miss the Eucharist. You spoke about Jesus's table being inclusive. Rich, poor, clean unclean.... and yet communion definitely seems like a private club at the Catholic church. Why is that??
Now, that's a good question. I will have ponder more on it. Maybe they are two different things. To be called at his table is different and to receive his body and blood is also different. The gospel of Christ avails itself to all and sundry. The call to holiness is not reserved for a specific set of ppl but to all. Thats what the former is all about. That God does not discriminste. After heeding to Christ's call and believing in Him, then we may share or receive his body and blood. That is what the latter is. St Paul in his epistle also stated that only those that are worthy are capable of receiving his body and blood and tht those who are unworthy, when they receive him, also receive curse( I am paraphrasing).
Catholic literally means "Universal". Its for everyone. I dont get what you mean about it being a private club? All who attend apostolic churches can receive it so that includes Orthodox. Protestant literally means "protestor". It was the protestants who left. The Chruch doesnt (shouldn't) hand the Eucharist to just anyone because we believe it to be body, blood and divinity of Christ. Its our most sacred thing and anyone is welcome to have it (as long as they are a part of the true church and are in a state of grace)
When receiving Eucharist, you are declaring that you are in communion with the one holy catholic church, believing in the apostolic succession of Jesus in His Priesthood. Catholic means universal. When one is a Protestant, you belong to a church that is in protest against the Catholic Church. The Church protects the Sanctity of the Eucharist by asking that one be in union with the Catholic Church. Before receiving the Eucharist.“ whoever receives unworthily brings condemnation on himself”1Cor:29.
This is an excellent video. He vocalizes what has bothered me about the whole Eucharistic Revival. It is more than Processions Adoration. What is Eucharist all about? We are to take in Jesus and go live Jesus in the world! Thank you, thank you, Father Casey!
I am about to write a letter to my parish priest and trying to figure out how to articulate my thoughts re Eucharist, evangelism and caring for the sick. This video of yours just came in time. Thank you so much.
Our great tragedy is how much are indifferent is available within our circle. It feels like about 30% of Catholics actually fully embrace the Christian teachings of our lord
I didn't even know exactly what was the eucharist until 2019 when a southern Baptist pastor asked what the catholic church thought about it. I spent so many years in all kind of protestants churches and here and there in catholic church. Completely lost 😂 Then that pastor told me that the catholic church resacrifies Jesus then it sparked something in me to do my research for the first in my life I did a research to understand my church that I had abandoned because I didn't understand. Not only I am so on fire for God, I even pray the 7 sorrows of Mary and there is no man or woman behaviors that will make me leave the church again. I learn everyday and imagine that I even go to confession and did get my 5 years old son baptised last year while I was told to wait. I am glad and happy that God is forgiving. So on fire 🔥
Thank you, Father, for this excellent video. Eucharistic Revival has been incomplete. Perhaps it needed to begin with confirmation of the Real Presence, but we need to become what we eat. It should be our inspiration for taking Christ's message into the world and helping the poor, the alien, the widow and the orphan.
I did a tiktok video or two, myself. I'm not as eloquent of a speaker as others, Father, but I'm glad people are talking about this. Hopefully, people will begin to really understand and embrace what we are receiving when we attend Mass.
Father Casey, Thank you for the great and inspiring video. Can we ask you to give us the reference of the quote made by St. Augustin on the three sacrements of initiation? Thank you. God Bless ☦☦🔥🔥
Thank you, Father. I have been a catechist for almost 30 years, and I agree with your message wholeheartedly. I have downloaded the transcript. Would you mind if I printed it and offered it to our parish family?
Yes but you don’t have the actual body and blood of Christ you don’t have the authority to transform it. I’m not trying to be mean just saying the facts
Someone I know in the Presbyterian church who was a minister, after giving out their communion ( just normal bread baked at a supermarket), had leftover small pieces (which is their communion). He and his wife took it to the nearest lake and fed it to the ducks!! 😮 Obviously NOT the consecrated Body of Christ!
@@danyshampun5495the Bible says not to eat blood! Why would Jesus say to do it? This is a point/debate that causes discord in the church Jesus had built along with the Holy Spirit! It takes away love which is one of the commands of Jesus! So, you do you….in love let’s end this debate!
Yes! Yes! That’s it! Finally! This video provides a great description of the Eucharist’s invitation to a table where people in all places and conditions gather to become one with Christ. Forgive me as I attempt to do a cartwheel! I get a sense the Church, with its recent attempt at Eucharistic revival, has behaved to some degree like it started a 21-century Counter Reformation. Doctrine camps, dogma lessons, myth busting, and harsh didacticism (exaggerating a bit here) won’t work in the modern era. Mission, vision, charism, love, forgiveness, etc., are what people can wrap their hearts and minds around. They are also the characteristics that made Christ so compelling to begin with. Let’s stop telling Catholics they’re wrong and start reminding them of what Jesus called them to in the Eucharist. The rest of what’s needed will likely follow. I’m so glad I watched this video. The other recent “revival” videos I’ve watched were pretty awful.
Excellent video. The Eucharist is not a "thing" to be worshipped but a source of life to be received, broken, shared and given to others.
bro time travelled
Sure it's not a thing, it's SOMEONE. It's really JESUS, therefore it must whorshipped
@tlamin that's the importance protestant churches lack, it's the presence of Jesus Christ himself within the tabernacle & within the Eucharist. Any catholic that still thinks the Eucharist is symbolic instead of reality needs to pray to be filled with The Blessed Mothers limitless faith & Jesus Infinite love
It's a person that we worship...
@@Thiago_Lamin Amen!
I’m coming into the Catholic Church this Easter. I’m excited to receive the Body of Christ and His blood. I’m excited to see what will happen.
Welcome! It’s a remarkable feeling…..a realization. ❤
Did they offer you the cup?
Father, your videos led me back to Catholicism. Keep up the awesome work!
I think that's awesome. God bless you!
That's an excellent thing to hear. Welcome back!
That's the best thing I've read all year!
So why did you throw your lot in with the child abusers?
@@kevinkelly2162 He didn't throw his lot in with you at all.
What’s needed for this revival is a deep study into the theology, history, philosophy and customary/cultural practices of the Eucharist. Guides should be written and study groups/classes should be organized on this as well. I converted 42 years ago from the Lutheran Church and intense, deep study on the Eucharist was a requirement for all preparing for Confirmation (First Communion) in that denomination.
Fervent prayer from then faithful Catholic Christian islands from the Philipiines. ❤
Here’s a prayer I jotted down from RUclips while someone was giving his testimony at Medjugorje, Crotia, and ever since I have been saying it: (This person was not well for a very long time and the Holy Spirit inspired him to go to Church, to receive Communion, and to say this prayer and he got healed soon after).
”Let your precious body and blood mix with mine and travel through my body, healing me of all my fears and all my sicknesses and fill me with your peace. Let your precious body and blood mix with mine and flow throughout my being, make me into what you would want me to be that I might love like you.”
Some Catholics (and others) might understand the eucharist by watching the 7 minute film titled "The Veil Removed". It's on the internet. It is powerful. Sometimes a visual (an emotion) helps more than words (intellect). Put them both together and it's even more powerful!
I would also recommend Scott Hahn’s “The Lamb’s Supper”.
@@Lucylou7070 But intellect can be very helpful!
When I was a kid, the Catholic Church in town was pretty much always open during the day for Eucharistic adoration. Nowadays, at least in the big city, it seems every church is locked and adoration must be scheduled. One would think that after the archbishop lifted the increased rules from the great sickness, that they would open back up. If I was a retiree or unemployed, I'd have the ability to participate but alas, it's not a possibility for me.
Do you have any idea what people are doing to churches. Vandalism of all sorts,thievery.
I feel the same,I would love to go to my parish and give adoration the my lord ,but everything is locked up. I can't drive at night so I feel stuck.
Does anyone remember the alms box and when and why it disappeared? Same thing. Security.
We still have an open church. We lost real candles to a person who was later committed. It was the archdiocesan insurance that dictated that. Likely your case.
@@sydneymcconnaughhay5947 the frustrating thing for me is that the advice that I keep getting about discerning converting to Catholicism is to spend time in adoration. The closest I can really do to that is to sit outside the door and do it there. I have no vacation time. I have no sick time. I have to work or my family will starve.
@@Aaryq More importantly than Eucharistic Adoration, I suggest that you attend the Mass (abstaining from the Eucharist, of course, until you have fully converted), front to back. Study the words, understand what they mean. Observe all that is happening in front of you. Realize that it's not simply a community gathering, but a transformative experience. From the prayer of penance to the liturgy of the Word (including Old Testament prophecies, New Testament epistles, and Gospel readings); from the profession of faith in the Nicene Creed to the most important part - the liturgy of the Eucharist, the true substantive offering of Christ's Body and Blood for our sins on the alter. Study the Mass. Do so week after week. If you have any questions, take note of them and ask the priest afterwards. He should be glad to help you in your journey. As great as Eucharistic Adoration can be, it couldn't happen without the Mass itself. Even if it's not performed very well, if the homily isn't all that it should be, if the cantor sings out of tune, it's the full Mass that results in the Eucharist in the first place. Every phrase we utter in the Mass has a history and a purpose. May God bless you on your journey, and may He share entirely in your life's purpose as you do so in His. I have faith in you, brother. God bless!
Fr Mike Schmitz & your videos led me back to our holy Catholic church. May The Lord Bless you both. Amen
me too! also Father Chris Alar. he has Explaining the Faith series
Here’s a prayer I jotted down from RUclips from someone who was giving his testimony at Medjugorje, Crotia, and ever since I have been saying it: (This person was not well for a very long time and the Holy Spirit inspired him to go to Church, to receive Communion, and to say this prayer and he got healed soon after).
Sorry… I missed the prayer earlier:
”Let your precious body and blood mix with mine and travel through my body, healing me of all my fears and all my sicknesses and fill me with your peace. Let your precious body and blood mix with mine and flow throughout my being, make me into what you would want me to be that I might love like you.”
Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi, Lex Vivendi! 🙏🧎👌👅 ➡️ ✝️☦️ ➡️🚶 🤝 🛟❤
I asked Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament why I have to offer sacrifices for the conversion of sinners. Just then your video pops up answering all my doubts. Thank you Father for doing the Lord's Work.
Here’s a prayer I jotted down from RUclips from someone who was giving his testimony at Medjugorje, Crotia, and ever since I have been saying it: (This person was not well for a very long time and the Holy Spirit inspired him to go to Church, to receive Communion, and to say this prayer and he got healed soon after).
I look toward to every video you put out Fr Casey. Thank you for the continued education in my faith that I am so lacking. May the peace of God be with you
CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH: "The Eucharist commits us to the poor. To receive in truth the Body and Blood of Christ given up for us, we must recognize Christ in the poorest, his brethren."
Here’s a prayer I jotted down from RUclips from someone who was giving his testimony at Medjugorje, Crotia, and ever since I have been saying it: (This person was not well for a very long time and the Holy Spirit inspired him to go to Church, to receive Communion, and to say this prayer and he got healed soon after).
Here’s the prayer, not sure how it got left out from my previous message:
”Let your precious body and blood mix with mine and travel through my body, healing me of all my fears and all my sicknesses and fill me with your peace. Let your precious body and blood mix with mine and flow throughout my being, make me into what you would want me to be that I might love like you.”
I’m not sure how the prayer got missed earlier…here it is:
”Let your precious body and blood mix with mine and travel through my body, healing me of all my fears and all my sicknesses and fill me with your peace. Let your precious body and blood mix with mine and flow throughout my being, make me into what you would want me to be that I might love like you.”
Hiding the tabernacle in a little side chapel somewhere in the church does not support our understanding of the True Presence, yet so many parishes do that. It is not just words that instruct us, our Catholic architecture also instructs us. ❤
Amen! Just bring back the communion rail, receive kneeling and in the tongue - and that would solve this ~70% of Catholics confused issue. Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi, Lex Vivendi! 🙏🧎👌👅 ➡️ ✝️☦️ ➡️🚶 🤝 🛟❤
To me it was the opposite. In the side chapel I can find a more intimate place, while the major altar is too big and most people mistake it for just another piece of art.
AMEN. Possibly most complete talk on the Eucharist that I've heard. And I, too, have been hearing of this revival and wondering, "is that all there is?". Thank you. You have revived my faith in human understanding of our Lord. Were it not for the Eucharist, I would not bother being Catholic. When in desperate times, all other faith is gone, I know the Eucharist, with all that she is, is the one true thing in our lives. I will be rewatching this and searching for how Christ can be made more manifest in my lufe. God bless you!
All these helpful true and beautiful explantions are so welcoming.Father you have this great convinced and lived faith and knowledge to share with this woorld and people are coming back.we are grateful for all your help and gifts.praise God.🙏👍👍😇😇👍👍
Those who attend the TLM are not confused. Go and receive again while kneeling on the tongue… 🧎 👅 and that would help heal the church.
Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi, Lex Vivendi! 🙏🧎👌👅 ➡️ ✝️☦️ ➡️🚶 🤝 🛟❤
Whenever I receive, I say a private prayer asking God to transform me into what I am consuming.
Yesterday, I was at a talk about the Mass, and the speaker started to go on the point of transubstantiation. I get it, maybe somebody there needed to hear it, but I wondered for those of us who already believe, isn't there something more we could hear? This video is the answer to my thoughts. Thank you, Fr. Casey
Another great video, you were a big part in me reverting back towards catholicism.
Friar Casey, during one Sunday mass in 2007, I was wondering what should happen to the Eucharist when it was raining and the church was "overly populated" so some had to sit outside under roofings made by the church.
I sat outside the church since it was overly crowded and I was like "God, the rain is going to soak the host wet, what would you do? Will you let the deacons get wet too? " And before the deacons delivered the Eucharist... There was a strong wind blowing and the rain ceased... And after every single one church goers had their host and children got the blessings through the hands of the priest, another strong wind blew and the rain resumed...
Even though it was like a coincidence, I can only say "God, You're cheating" haha...
There's no coincidence with God - you can be sure of that
@@reintaler6355 I do, there are many experiences that may seem like a "coincidence" but they actually have deeper meanings in my life... Like when I may seem to hear someone chatting about "why not letting go grudges before receiving Eucharist" when I was plotting for someone's downfall while ignoring the priest's homily.
It may seem like someone was chatting inside the church and it may sometimes feel like it's completely nothing... But still it has meaningful advice..
The Lord is surely great
He was listening.
Thank you, Father Casey, for this talk delving deep into the significance of the Eucharist. Despite knowing that I am supposed to believe that the Eucharist is the body and blood of our Lord, I have a hard time seeing it as anything more than a symbol. It has always been a struggle for me, as I am am sure it is for many Catholics, to see past the elegant ceremonial aspects of the Eucharistic celebration, and to view it as something far more transcendent. Your commentary is a small stepping stone on my way to a deeper understanding and appreciation of the Eucharist. For that, I am grateful.
A non catholic speaking here, As someone who has been on a spiritual path for the best part of 14 years and still trying to find something that I can connect to .glad it’s not a you must believe in everything, lost of different paths I have looked into researched I tend to find myself not agree 100% with everything so I then dismiss everything. I suppose this would be a good time to say oh Lord please help me please help my troubled questioning mind find some sort of peace and calm even if it’s just a small corner of my mind where we can chat and I can find some sort of calmness.
@@Bestbuddybob I am not trying to criticize you, but the danger of trying to find something you 100% agree with or "glad it’s not a you must believe in everything" is that it often just becomes you worshiping yourself or the zeitgeist. Religion isn't supposed to be easy, it isn't supposed to be a yes man that nods in agreement with everything that you want. Let Christ challenge you.
Thank you Father Casey I’m still a catholic who lost his faith but slowly getting back into it thanks to your breakdowns in videos like this. God bless you
Thank you Father always excellent video
This is a great supplement to my RCIA. We talked about Eucharist relative to its place in the mass, but did not get the motivational talk about this sacrifice, which is lovingly provided by you.
Father, I have been reading, "30 Day Eucharistic Revival" A Retreat with St. Peter Julian Eymard. The saint devoted to the Holy Eucharist. It was written by Father Donald H. Calloway, MIC.- I'm on day 21, I look forward every morning to a new day's reading. This retreat starts my Holy Hour so richly. I recommend it to everyone.
Amen. Thank You Father Casey 😊
A beautiful explanation. Thank you Father,
Thank you for this great video, Father Casey. It is priests like you that we Catholics need, for the confusion and lack of knowledge of our own faith seems to be one of the reasons why many Catholics all over the place have been deserting our church. I really think we need more apologists who can teach us Catholics more about our faith and how to defend it.
Amen, Father. Convicting words, thank you for them
It changes you.
Thanks be to God
I'm a daily communicant, 15 years.
Thanks be to God.
It's about joy and super abundant life.
Thank you for posting this important viseo
Does that mean you've eaten almost a whole Jesus?
@@docsavage30. Sit down doc!
@@docsavage30 Through him all things are made...visible and invisible.
Maravillosa reflexión!!
Thanks a million..
Keep motivating us with your word. Pray for you...
This is just a great exhortation. Thank you Father Casey!
when I became Catholic in college, the Eucharist and believing fully in the doctrine of transubstantiation was one of my biggest draws. now, despite my struggles sometimes, I remain Catholic because of the Eucharist. nowhere else than at communing at Mass do I receive such life for my soul to manage the slings and arrows of this life, and I find myself unable and unwilling to give that up.
I do wonder, Fr Casey, if you have any recommendations for ways to learn more about the theological significance of the Eucharist? books especially but whatever really. I know I wish churches in my area would hold something talking about this, but I haven't found anything yet.
Father… a wonderful video. This is what we need as Catholics. Thank you 🙏🏻. A body of mission. Yes! We need to live it! God bless you.
..."We must become what we receive.." ❤❤❤
As I look forward to traveling to the NER in July, I will ponder these words in my heart. Live the Eucharist.
It reminds me of a book I read early in my Catholic journey. “Eating Beauty” may be hard to find; published by the Cornell University Press. It was, for me, transformative as I was still being transformed to the Faith.
Absolutely! Live the Eucharist.
Thank you! I’ll strive to remember you and your work, in my prayers.
Dear Casey, Thanks for continuing your hard work. I served at the daily 6:30 a.m. mass during my 7th and 8th grades way beyond my share because I was the only one who was reliable. When the discussion of transubstantion came up in high school religion class, I was the only one to say the eucharist was symbolic. It was 1981. Keep carrying on. Love, Uncle Kevin
I appreciate this thoughtful video, especially since I can gain very little from just looking at the caption in the RUclips results and the still image used for it--I think that's called the thumbnail. It is certainly important to recognize that the Eucharist is meant to transform us and send us forth. I plan to attend the Eucharistic Congress later this month and I look forward to how I'll be transformed and sent forth from the experience.
WOW!!! Awesome message
Thank you for this, Father.
The mark of an effective Church is NOT how many people come BUT how many people who live differently as a result of having been there.
The Church needs to engage with the people. Sinners as we all are, burdened with our sins and guilt and all the other issues and struggles. I honestly don't know where to start, but the most effective RC church nearby has a long bulletin with lots of information and a weekly calendar. Every week there's a:
Young Adult Bible Study
YA Sorority meeting
One all-day Adoration (morning to 6pm)
YA Fraternity
Lay Carmelites meeting
Pre-mass Rosary (Saturdays)
And informally, generally 1 or more additional informal meetups.
Last month, for Advent & Christmas, there were like 6 additional opportunities between candlelit masses, adoration, and YA events. This month, there's a parish dinner.
Outstanding! Pax Domini Sit Semper Vobiscum! Thank You for your fiat!
Thank you Father, awesome insight into the Eucharist.
Father, everything you say is correct. There is certainly a greater problem in our American Church that poor teaching of the Real Presence. We absolutely need to come what we receive to make a greater missionary impact in our communities. But the problem is, and you probably realize this, is that the grand majority of Catholics have no idea what they have. It’s so true that you can’t give what you don’t have, and this is so true of the faithful today. We can’t expect people to understand something they’ve never been taught or encountered. Why does the beauty and truth of our faith feel like this very well kept secret?? I think this great endeavor to understand the real presence is at least a starting point. Expecting people to go out and bring Jesus to their communities isn’t going to happen unless the fire, and I mean a fire, is first lit within the folks who are regularly coming to Mass.
Impressive the way you speak. Thank you. Grtz from a Roman Catholic in the Netherlands, who - after 57 years in this world and being Catholic - still is looking for answers. One thing I am sure of the last year more then ever. I am glad to be a Roman-Catholic. But far and foremost, I am glad to be a Christian.
This is a fantastic message.thank you Father!!
It comes down to talking about the real presence often and clearly
I love your teaching Father. You explained the topic exactly. love and prayers from India 🙏
POPE BENEDICT XVI: "The Eucharist has both a personal and a social character: Christ unites himself with me, but also with those beside me, and so unites himself equally with my neighbor. We are all one bread, one body. And this is communion."
Thank for your message. For me, I have found greater comfort, understanding and reverence in the Eucharist since I was introduced to the Prayers for Before and After Mass by St. Thomas Aquinas.
POPE BENEDICT XVI: “In sacramental communion I become one with the Lord, like all the other communicants. As Saint Paul says, “Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread” (1 Cor 10:17). Union with Christ is also union with all those to whom he gives himself. We become “one body”, completely joined in a single existence. Love of God and love of neighbor are now truly united: God incarnate draws us all to himself.”
Thank you! You made me cry joyously at the end.
Do you have this video available with subtitles in Spanish???
Thank you father for your explainations.
Thank you, Father, thank you.
Such a beautiful word on being transformed by Jesus in the Eucharist! Amen!
I liked how there was no rock intro or anything. The words themselves adorned the video. It pointed to my hypocrisy deeply, though i didn’t expect it to. Very impactful, very humbling. Thank you
This is my second time listening to this video... I expect it will not be the last. Much food for thought (and action!) here. Thank you
I read the Prodigal Son. I was a lost sheep then I joined a.a. And followed the 12 step and God performed a miracle . Thy will not mine be done.
Wonderful,Fr. Casey! I wish other Catholic apologists-especially those on the same platform (YT) would cross-reference this excellent brief on pushing the “Eucharistic revival” farther-from understanding and adoration, to “becoming what we receive.” By the way Fr. Mike Schmitz’s homily for Epiphany Sunday 2023 resonates with the point you make here; that we cannot go to mass and remain unchanged because “if we truly offer the sacrifice of the mass with the priest and with Jesus himself, we would be different, we would be more like him.”
Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi, Lex Vivendi! 🙏🧎👌👅 ➡️ ✝️☦️ ➡️🚶 🤝 🛟❤
Amen Father, amen! God bless you and the work you do.
Excellent video Fr Casey. Thank you 🙏
Excellent video brother, beautifully put!!! If the nature of Who HE is isn't sinking in to be the root of the way we do it, is JESUS our King at all? Well said! I know by respect it's father, also a protestant and call all brother or sister, we are one family, Big C or little, and it's a blessing to join at HIS Table. Keep at it!!
Profound and excellent as always!!!
Thank you for sharing this video ❤❤❤❤
Greetings. I am an Anglican and visited a Catholic parish one morning before going onto my normal Anglican one. As is sometimes (typically?) the case, the readings were the same and the homily was on a similar topic. For this particular Sunday morning, that topic was the real presence of Christ in the elements of the Eucharist. The Catholic homily consisted of the deacon pleading with the congregants to accept the real presence of Christ because this is the Church's position on the matter. Then, when the elements themselves were consecrated, the liturgy being read stated *that* Christ said what he did at the table. I would like to contrast these two things with what happened at my Anglican parish a couple of hours later. The homily there was a Scriptural dissertation on why the elements are the body and blood of the Lord Jesus using his own words from the gospels. And when the elements themselves were consecrated, we didn't read *that* he said this is the case, we read his actual statements taken directly from Scripture. In fact, part of the consecration *is* effectively reading Scripture. What I'm trying to say is this: If you want people to take His real presence seriously, put Jesus' own words into the blessing of the elements.
Thank you, Father Casey!
I was raised and married in the Catholic church, but for the last 35 years have gone to mainline protestant churches. Reading the Word filled me with something I didn't even know you could have. My Bible study women are my backbone. But I find I desperately miss the Eucharist. You spoke about Jesus's table being inclusive. Rich, poor, clean unclean.... and yet communion definitely seems like a private club at the Catholic church. Why is that??
Now, that's a good question. I will have ponder more on it. Maybe they are two different things. To be called at his table is different and to receive his body and blood is also different. The gospel of Christ avails itself to all and sundry. The call to holiness is not reserved for a specific set of ppl but to all. Thats what the former is all about. That God does not discriminste. After heeding to Christ's call and believing in Him, then we may share or receive his body and blood. That is what the latter is. St Paul in his epistle also stated that only those that are worthy are capable of receiving his body and blood and tht those who are unworthy, when they receive him, also receive curse( I am paraphrasing).
Catholic literally means "Universal". Its for everyone. I dont get what you mean about it being a private club? All who attend apostolic churches can receive it so that includes Orthodox.
Protestant literally means "protestor". It was the protestants who left.
The Chruch doesnt (shouldn't) hand the Eucharist to just anyone because we believe it to be body, blood and divinity of Christ. Its our most sacred thing and anyone is welcome to have it (as long as they are a part of the true church and are in a state of grace)
When receiving Eucharist, you are declaring that you are in communion with the one holy catholic church, believing in the apostolic succession of Jesus in His Priesthood. Catholic means universal. When one is a Protestant, you belong to a church that is in protest against the Catholic Church. The Church protects the Sanctity of the Eucharist by asking that one be in union with the Catholic Church. Before receiving the Eucharist.“ whoever receives unworthily brings condemnation on himself”1Cor:29.
"Eucharist" ... it means Thanksgiving. I am so happy that I may give thanks to Jesus at every Mass.
Thank you, Father
This is an excellent video. He vocalizes what has bothered me about the whole Eucharistic Revival. It is more than Processions Adoration. What is Eucharist all about? We are to take in Jesus and go live Jesus in the world! Thank you, thank you, Father Casey!
I am about to write a letter to my parish priest and trying to figure out how to articulate my thoughts re Eucharist, evangelism and caring for the sick. This video of yours just came in time. Thank you so much.
Our great tragedy is how much are indifferent is available within our circle.
It feels like about 30% of Catholics actually fully embrace the Christian teachings of our lord
Now this was strong, father. This was something I didn't know I needed to hear. I always believed in transubstination, but that is not enough itself.
I didn't even know exactly what was the eucharist until 2019 when a southern Baptist pastor asked what the catholic church thought about it.
I spent so many years in all kind of protestants churches and here and there in catholic church. Completely lost 😂
Then that pastor told me that the catholic church resacrifies Jesus then it sparked something in me to do my research for the first in my life I did a research to understand my church that I had abandoned because I didn't understand.
Not only I am so on fire for God, I even pray the 7 sorrows of Mary and there is no man or woman behaviors that will make me leave the church again.
I learn everyday and imagine that I even go to confession and did get my 5 years old son baptised last year while I was told to wait.
I am glad and happy that God is forgiving.
So on fire 🔥
Thank you for your videos.
A fine video that provides a much more balanced, mission-orientated view of Church than some sort of private members club.
Amen to that!
"He doesn't hold our past against our future." Lines like that earn you subs. Love, Your Departed Brother, Tomas.
Thank you, Father, for this excellent video. Eucharistic Revival has been incomplete. Perhaps it needed to begin with confirmation of the Real Presence, but we need to become what we eat. It should be our inspiration for taking Christ's message into the world and helping the poor, the alien, the widow and the orphan.
Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi, Lex Vivendi! 🙏🧎👌👅 ➡️ ✝️☦️ ➡️🚶 🤝 🛟❤
Go to the Mass of the Ages, while in a state of grace, receive worthily and with great reverence from the priest while kneeling on your tongue. 💥✝️
I did a tiktok video or two, myself. I'm not as eloquent of a speaker as others, Father, but I'm glad people are talking about this. Hopefully, people will begin to really understand and embrace what we are receiving when we attend Mass.
Thank you
My favourite friar, you are Jesus' perfect desciple !!!
God bless you father🙏🏻❤️
Thank you Father, thèy wèŕe all welcome at the table of Jesus
Excellent. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Beautiful video, fr Casey. God bless!
Excellent! Will share! ❤
Thank you for the explainatiin Father.
Father Casey, Thank you for the great and inspiring video. Can we ask you to give us the reference of the quote made by St. Augustin on the three sacrements of initiation?
Thank you. God Bless ☦☦🔥🔥
Thank you Father 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Thank you, Father. I have been a catechist for almost 30 years, and I agree with your message wholeheartedly. I have downloaded the transcript. Would you mind if I printed it and offered it to our parish family?
In the Methodist Church we believe in the presence of God in the elements that are blessed at communion!
Yes but you don’t have the actual body and blood of Christ you don’t have the authority to transform it. I’m not trying to be mean just saying the facts
Someone I know in the Presbyterian church who was a minister, after giving out their communion ( just normal bread baked at a supermarket), had leftover small pieces (which is their communion). He and his wife took it to the nearest lake and fed it to the ducks!! 😮 Obviously NOT the consecrated Body of Christ!
@@danyshampun549569% of Catholics don’t believe in transubstantiation.
@@danyshampun5495the Bible says Jesus is the head of the church and we are it’s body!
@@danyshampun5495the Bible says not to eat blood! Why would Jesus say to do it? This is a point/debate that causes discord in the church Jesus had built along with the Holy Spirit! It takes away love which is one of the commands of Jesus! So, you do you….in love let’s end this debate!
Hello my favorite Friar❤
Thank you for this video ❤️
Great video Father! Thank you 🙏
Hail Mary and Praise Jesus our Lord and our slayed lamb ✝️✝️
Thank you for this video. We'll said Amen
Can you please do a video on the Eucharistic Miracles as well as Catholic apologetics?
Like a beautiful liturgy
This getting posted right after I was wondering about this
Amen!
Excellent video!
This was amazing. Inspiring. Thank you!
Yes! Yes! That’s it! Finally! This video provides a great description of the Eucharist’s invitation to a table where people in all places and conditions gather to become one with Christ. Forgive me as I attempt to do a cartwheel!
I get a sense the Church, with its recent attempt at Eucharistic revival, has behaved to some degree like it started a 21-century Counter Reformation. Doctrine camps, dogma lessons, myth busting, and harsh didacticism (exaggerating a bit here) won’t work in the modern era. Mission, vision, charism, love, forgiveness, etc., are what people can wrap their hearts and minds around. They are also the characteristics that made Christ so compelling to begin with. Let’s stop telling Catholics they’re wrong and start reminding them of what Jesus called them to in the Eucharist. The rest of what’s needed will likely follow.
I’m so glad I watched this video. The other recent “revival” videos I’ve watched were pretty awful.