{"id":27027,"date":"2012-06-11T08:38:44","date_gmt":"2012-06-11T12:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/06\/washed-in-christs-blood-st-cat\/"},"modified":"2012-06-11T08:38:44","modified_gmt":"2012-06-11T12:38:44","slug":"washed-in-christs-blood-st-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/06\/washed-in-christs-blood-st-cat\/","title":{"rendered":"Washed in Christ’s blood St Catherine’s parishioners take to NYC streets for Corpus Christi"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n\"Corpus<\/a>Yesterday was the great feast of The Solemnity of the
\nBody and Blood of Christ. At Saint Catherine of Siena Church in New York City
\nthe parish community with the Dominican Friars led by Father Jordan Kelly
\ncelebrated a Solemn Mass for the feast and then took to the streets with the Monstrance containing Our Lord and Savior. For the
\nfirst time in years Our Lord in His Eucharistic Presence was carried in
\nprocession in the neighborhood of the church. Imagine the faces of Catholics, Christians, Jews, Muslims and those who do not share our Eucharistic faith seeing such display of faith and devotion! <\/span><\/p>\n


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Graces beyond imagining:
\nbeautiful weather, lots of people, terrific sacred music given to our worship
\nby Daniel B. Sañez and his superb choir, an insightful homily and a rededication to the Sacred Heart with Benediction after an extended period of adoration. <\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/div>\n
I
\ncame across this reflection from Saint John Chrysostom: <\/span><\/div>\n

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\n
If we wish to
\nunderstand the power of Christ’s blood, we should go back to the ancient
\naccount of its prefiguration in Egypt. ‘Sacrifice a lamb without blemish’,
\ncommanded Moses, ‘and sprinkle its blood on your doors’. If we were to ask him
\nwhat he meant, and how the blood of an irrational beast could possibly save
\npeople endowed with reason, his answer would be that the saving power lies not
\nin the blood itself, but in the fact that it is a sign of the Lord’s blood. In
\nthose days, when the destroying angel saw the blood on the doors he did not
\ndare to enter, so how much less will the devil approach now when he sees, not
\nthat figurative blood on the doors, but the true blood on the lips of
\nbelievers, the doors of the temple of Christ.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\n

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Indeed, washed in Chris’s blood,
\nand not that of a animal is what saves, and we ought to scream this from the
\nroof tops. Well, we actually didn’t yell anything but we walked together in
\nprofessing our faith.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

<\/span><\/div>\n
The Church of Saint Catherine of Siena NYC will never be the same! Thanks be to God.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday was the great feast of The Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ. At Saint Catherine of Siena Church in New York City the parish community with the Dominican Friars led by Father Jordan Kelly celebrated a Solemn Mass for the feast and then took to the streets with the Monstrance containing Our … Continue reading Washed in Christ’s blood St Catherine’s parishioners take to NYC streets for Corpus Christi<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[2105,2969],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27027"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}