With people carting the Blessed Sacrament away from Papal Masses, blissfully unaware, at least in most cases, that they are perpetrating an enormous sacrilege, and then putting the Eucharist up for sale (or, as I now prefer to say, "ransom") on E-Bay, it is a good time to revive the custom of reparation.
Here is a preliminary list of ideas of ways to offer reparation for Eucharistic sacrilege. Given the horrendous nature of the offense, these are tiny efforts; we can only ask the Lord in his tenderness to accept them as if they were more adequate. (Please add your own ideas in the comments section.)
- Make a visit to the Blessed Sacrament, even if only for five minutes of adoration.
- Make a spiritual communion.
- Go to Mass during the week.
- Participate more attentively in Sunday Mass.
- Read John 6 (the "Bread of Life Discourse").
- Learn more (or more deeply) about the Eucharist. A good starting point would be the Catechism of the Catholic Church. There are also several wonderful papal documents on the subject.
- Promote awareness of the Eucharist and Catholic teachings on the sacrament.
- To really put yourself into this, volunteer for your parish religious
education program! - "Fast and abstain" from E-Bay until they agree to a change of policy
regarding the sale of the sacred.
1 comment:
Thanks for the ideas. I am a scheduled monthly adorer at my parish, but a holy coupla minutes extra would be a good thing, too, especially and specifically in reparation for the unworthy and thoughtless communions and sacrilege in the world.
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