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There is a point to putting the cross on the altar, unfortunately some priests do not want to emphasize this point.... "Father, why is there no cross on the altar table, why not face Christ while celebrating Mass?" +++ “If it is physically not possible to celebrate ad orientem, it is absolutely necessary to put a cross on the altar in plain view, as a point of reference for everyone. Christ on the cross is the Christian East.”

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Cardinal Pell: The push to open Communion for the remarried is merely a ploy to attack the Church

Here are excerpts from the foreword by Cardinal Pell to new book, The Gospel of the Family.

Cardinal George Pell, archbishop emeritus of Sydney and one of the most senior cardinals in the pontificate of Pope Francis, has written a foreword to a new book entitled The Gospel of the Family: Going Beyond Cardinal Kasper’s Proposal in the Debate on Marriage, Civil Re-Marriage, and Communion in the Church. The book will be published in October by Ignatius Press. The book’s authors are Stephan Kampowski, associate professor of philosophical anthropology, and Juan José Pérez-Soba, professor of pastoral theology, both at the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family in Rome.

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7 Secrets of the Eucharist

Get to know Christ more..

http://www.stmarkbeaman.org/the-sacraments/7-secrets-of-the-eucharist/

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Australian Priest Gives Point-by-Point Critique of Bishop's Controversial Lecture

Fr. Terence Mary Naughtin speaks with ChurchMilitant.com on Bp. Vincent Long's address

To this Fr. Naughtin, responded,

[If] by "inclusion" we mean compromising the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ in order to accommodate sinful lifestyles then we need to reject such an idea. … Jesus came neither to condemn us in our sins nor to condone our sins, but to save us from them...

Finally, Bp. Long's call to stop identifying homosexual acts as "intrinsically disordered" is refuted by Fr. Naughtin. "Respect for homosexual persons and the desire for their eternal welfare are not opposed to one another," he clarified. "They both stem from true love, the love of Jesus Christ."

"In the Church today," he responded, "many prelates seem to adopt a vague form of speech, which can be elusive. I am mindful of Our Lord's instruction: 'Let your yes be yes, and your no be no.'"