We have had lots of reading from the Imitation of Christ thus I thought you might enjoy this little posting about the Mass. "The author of The Imitation of Christ, Thomas a Kempis lived to the age of 92. Of the 63 years he lived as a monk, 58 were spent as an ordained priest. In his Chronicle of Mount St Agnes he relates two miracles of the Holy Eucharist. Regarding the first of these he tells us:
One of our brethren commenced to say Holy Mass at the altar of St Agnes. For a long time he had been obliged to make use of two crutches in order to go there. After having said Mass he found himself, through the power of Jesus Christ and the intercession of St Agnes, so much strengthened that he was enabled to leave his crutches behind, returning to us in choir with a joyful heart.
One of the brethren asked him of what he had done and thought during Holy Mass; he replied, 'I considered the words of the Evangelist St Luke, who himself relates of Jesus, "And all the people sought to touch Him, for there went virtue out of Him and he healed them all." Therefore the Most Holy Sacrament, in union with the prayers of the saints, is able even now to heal the sick in soul and in body."
.......Today is the feast of St Agnes..........
SOURCE: Eucharistic Miracles, Joan C Cruz
SOURCE: www.catholic.org (Saints and Angels)
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This was nice. Thanks for sharing.
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