Blessed Sacrament
The Eternal, Loving, Life-Giving
GOLD DUST
by the Very Rev. Fr. Alphonsus Maria Duran,MJ
by the Very Rev. Fr. Alphonsus Maria Duran,MJ
Some portions below are quoted or paraphrased from Fr. Duran's phamphlet.
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| Eucharistic Benediction at Fatima Shrine, Portugal
Fr. Maria Duran in the pamphlet Particles of the Blessed Sacrament the Eternal life giving Gold dust wrote that he had a non-catholic
friend who told him that: “You Catholics must no longer believe in the
real presence of Jesus Christ in the Blessed Sacrament” He said that he
assured him that we did and his friend retorted back: “Then you have
really grown callous in the way you handle your Eucharistic Services.”
“My
grandfather was a jeweler and some of my other relatives are also
jewelers. I grew up amid the work of jewelers and their jewels. As we
all know, jewels are very precious and costly. Even their dust is
carefully saved by the jeweler.
Jewelers
calculate that when they carve a ring or a pin, ten percent of the
precious metal used, gold for example, is lost in dust. That has to be
calculated in the price and the weigh of the jewelery. Jewelers carve
their jewels on special metal plates which they clean with a very fine
brush in order to save the dust.
One
of my cousin jewelers told me that they even wear an overall which is
cleaned by a special procedure to save the dust or particles of precious
metal that have collected on the clothing. Each particle is carefully
saved and used.
This
reminds me of the care that the priest who has faith in the presence of
Jesus in the Most Blessed Sacrament should have. If such precious care
is taken of the jewels of this world, how much more care should be taken
of the Body of Christ since our faith tells us that He is really and
totally present in each particle of the Most Blessed Sacrament.”
Fr.
Duran felt he was referring to those people who disregard the laws of
the church and her doctrines making up their own laws and regulations to
do as they please. Unfortunately, today there are many and they are
more vocal making themselves heard. Giving the wrong impressions and
contaminate the faith of others in different degrees.
 Despite these people the Church herself has always shown her faith and respect in all her rules and laws given for the care of the most Blessed Sacrament these laws are not what some would say scrupulosity but a matter of detail in love. Pope Francis on Corpus Christi stated that: "Communicated in the Eucharist is the Lord’s love for us: such a great love that He nourishes us with himself; a gratuitous love, always at the disposition of every hungry person and needy of regenerating his strength. To live the experience of faith means to let oneself be nourished by the Lord and to build one’s existence not on material goods, but on the reality that does not perish: the gifts of God, His Word and His Body." Pope Francis Corpus Christi 2014  “Tell me if someone gave you some grains of gold would you not hold them with all carefulness lest you might lose some of them and thereby suffer a loss? Will you not, therefore be much more careful in keeping watch over what is more precious than gold or gems so that not a particle will escape you?” (ca. A.D. 315 A.D. 386 Mystagogic Catecheses) Each Particle is Precious Indeed  The
Eucharistic presence of Christ begins at the moment of the consecration
and endures as long as the Eucharistic species subsist. Christ is
present whole and entire in each of the species and whole
and entire in each of their parts, In such a way that the breaking of
the bread does not divide Christ. (Catechism of the Catholic Church from the second Vatican Council promulgated by Pope John Paul II, 1377, cf. Council of trent: DS1641.) eucharist Pope Francis It is my firm belief that if Catholics do not recover the respect for the Holy Eucharist we are fast preparing our own punishment as pictured in the 3rd Secret of Fatima revealed in 2000.
Remember
that St Paul said that whoever eats the bread and drinks the cup of the
Lord unworthily will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord; and
any one who eats and drinks without discerning the body, eats and drinks
judgment on himself (See 1 Corinthians 11:27, 29).
This can also be applied to all those sacrilegious communions made by those receiving in mortal sin as well as for Extraordinary Ministers of the Eucharist who do not take care to carry Our Lord in a dignified manner and make sure that there are no particles remaining in their pyx so that Jesus is not carried into restrooms or other unspeakable places! Eucharistic Ministers You are responsible for every lost particle! And the weight of your commission also falls upon your pastor and your bishops who are the ordinary ministers of the Eucharist! They will have to account to God for you! |
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| Pope Francis gives Benediction |
On
April 23, 2004, Cardinal Francis Arinze, prefect of the Congregation for
Divine Worship and the Sacraments, presented, in the Vatican, a 70-page
instruction entitled “Redemptionis Sacramentum”, on
“certain matters to be observed or to be avoided regarding the Most
Holy Eucharist.” In his encyclical letter “Eucharistia de Ecclesia,” published in 2003, Pope John Paul II announced this
document, which is aimed at putting an end to abuses against the
Eucharist, “which have been a source of suffering for many.” “No
one is permitted to undervalue the mystery entrusted to our hands,”
the Holy Father added. Here are some important excerpts from this new instruction: Read more...
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Penance! Penance! Penance! Why are the Shepherds Silent?
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