Bulletins
June 5, 2016
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At times we notice. Who could fail to notice this past Sunday evening? St. John was packed! Servers, choristers, First Holy Communicants, Confirmandi, Knights of Columbus, Knights of the Holy Sepulchre, Knights and Dames of Malta, hundreds of faithful bore witness to the truth of Jesus Christ really present, Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity in the Most Blessed Sacrament.
When we are able to gather worshippers of the Ordinary and Extraordinary Forms, when we bring together Catholics from Central America and Central Europe, when we convene students of home school and St. John Academy and Religious Ed, when young and old, believers and doubters, mischief makers and mourners are all gathered around one altar we are becoming the family that deserves to be called the Body of Christ.
And then we took the witness to the streets… or to the driveway as the case may be. Undeterred by the drizzle, the procession of hundreds of adorers behind the Holy Eucharist down to the temporary altar in the lower parking lot must have made for quite a spectacle for passersby on Old Dominion.
As I carried the Blessed Sacrament I could see in the corner of my eyes each person who touched knees to the wet ground. Every genuflection revealed a creature animated by the supernatural. The crew of altar servers kneeling in the rain to receive their blessing after all was said and done can be compared only to an army of angels glimmering after battle.
Rose petals littering the sidewalk and pavement the next morning left evidence that something sacred had happened. Embers still smoldering in the fire box of the smoker and porcine debris in the parking lot testify to the holy rites have been followed by something delicious. How food prepared for two hundred fifty souls managed to feed over five hundred can only be explained by the Divine Master.
Needless to say, all of this happening on Memorial Day Weekend when so many of us headed for the beaches bodes well for a Corpus Christi Sunday in 2017 that will fall on June 18. We might as well mark our calendars now. When expressing your Faith deepens it like this, we will surely want to do it again. As you know, moments like this do not just happen. Please volunteer to help Pat and Sharon next year.
God bless you!
Fr. Christopher J. Pollard
