Pope Francis will lead a worldwide hour of Eucharistic adoration on Sunday, June 2, the Vatican has announced.
Cathedrals all across the world will hold an hour of Eucharistic adoration at the same time, inviting the faithful to pray for the Pope’s intentions. The worldwide session of adoration will take place from 5 to 6 Sunday afternoon in Rome, and cathedrals worldwide will synchronize their vigils to match that time. The Pope has asked the universal Church to pray for two intentions during the hour of adoration: For the Church spread throughout the world and united today in the adoration of the Most Holy Eucharist as a sign of unity.For those around the world who still suffer slavery and who are victims of war, human trafficking, drug running, and slave labor.
We thought it opportune to take this moment to introduce you to St. Francis de Sales’ Sermons on the Eucharist.
You can find them here:
http://web1.desales.edu/assets/salesian/PDF/SermonsonEucharist.pdf
Fr. John Cryan O.S.F.S. comments about these sermons:
“While Francis de Sales has a real concern for what we believe (fides quae), he was as much concerned about how we are enabled to believe (fides qua). Like Justin Martyr, the apologist he much admired, the faith of the past could only be preserved in its purity by someone who accepts responsibility for the future, not by creating new doctrines, but by delving more deeply into the articulation in light of current situations. Like Augustine who wrote The City of God while Rome and western civilization tumbled down about his ears, Francis de Sales witnessed the collapse of feudal loyalties and the birth of nationhood, the demise of seigneuries and the rise of democracies, the end of Christendom and the emergence of pluralism. It must have been confusing and painful. Francis de Sales kept his feet planted in this world, but like Augustine his vision was always on another kingdom. That vision must be kept in mind when we read his sermons.”