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An extraordinary minister of the Eucharist.

Don Marco, my friend from Rome is in the U.S. for a time. He must be helping out at various parish liturgies and has come to see how the American Catholic church operates. (He is currently chaplain to a community of Benedictine nuns.) In his latest post, he does not say where a recent experience of Eucharistic ministers occurred, but it spurred him to write about it. You have got to read it on his blog “Vultus Christi“. Many of us know all of this already and yet have had to live with it for decades - it’s nice to read a fresh take on the matter however. Good job Don Marco!

(When I left the novitiate at the Trappists, one of the most difficult adjustments for me were the liturgical goings on in the various parishes I attended Mass.)

Pictured: Botero - “Self-Portrait On My First Communion Day.”

I was told that I probably had the devil on my shoulder when I wrote critically about the dress company selling modest dresses. The now unnamed website feels their clothes are fashionable, yet modest, for girls. I’ve been told numerous times the post was not nice. (Check out “Fashion Week…”) The fellow who showed the line to me also said he wished he had not. So do I.

A few days ago I was told I’m going to purgatory for thousands of years for the Warhol post. Others say hell.

So let them sell “Little House on the Prairie” fashions - if they believe in it, how does my opinion count? So what?

I also covered the woman’s breast on the Warhol photo for that post.

Inquisition anyone?

The Holy Helpers.

The two physician saints are depicted here in one of their most famous posthumous miracles. They replaced the diseased leg of a man with the leg of another man who had died. It was obviously from a man of color. Hence, the worlds first leg transplant…probably not so astonishing for self-sufficient moderns, who have become accustomed to transplant surgeries. If you are going in for a transplant, I think I would pray to these two saints if I were you. If you’re waiting for a transplant, all the more reason to invoke their assistance.

Go to Don Marco’s site, “Vultus Christi” for everything you want to know about these two saints.