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August 6, 2024 by sd

International Youth Festival in Medjugorje
The apparition site of Medjugorje, its initial apparitions authenticated several years ago by a Vatican commission, continues to go strong.
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Consider its recent Youth Festival (an annual event): our friend Denis Nolan from Notre Dame, Indiana, who operates Mary TV (based right there at Medjugorje), counted 710 priests concelebrating at the main outdoor Mass, and estimates that there were seventy thousand in attendance. The amphitheater seats five thousand, and so if this figure is close to actual attendance, the crowd was fourteen times larger than normal. Pope Francis, whose Vatican has been approving a good number of older apparitions, sent the event his special greetings.
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Pope Francis to Medjugorje Youth Festival: 'God Has a Plan'| National Catholic Register+++
The National Eucharistic Congress in Indianapolis, meanwhile (which is not annual), had sixty thousand attendees (it was indoors), more than  a hundred bishops, and 1,170 priests.
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Bottom line: both were huge successes.
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Watch as Indy streets fill with Eucharistic Procession participants
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Is nothing sacred?
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Sad it is, to hear of fraud.
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This was sent to us by Father Chad Ripperger, a well-known exorcist (and author). YouTube videos are circulating, imitating him and fabricating accounts.+
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“For over three months, my media lawyer has been working with Youtube to get them to get to take down the videos on Most Holy Trinity and its affiliate Spiritual Messengers,” he says. “Youtube has admitted that it is impersonation and illegal but refuses to take the videos down. The author (the same for both channels) puts my face and name on the videos and then literally makes things up, claiming I am having visions of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Michael which is completely contrary to the truth.
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“The channel also claims to have official information from me but this is a complete falsehood. As I mentioned,  we have over forty requests to Youtube to require the author to take the videos down because they do not reflect either my personal experience or even my theological thought regarding certain topics. Even when my media lawyer contacted the author of the channel, she essentially ‘gave him the finger’ and attacked him verbally. Even the images they use are copyright-protected and Youtube has been notified of that and yet they still refuse to take down the channels.  I talk about this problem in the video below]. As time goes not the claims of these two channels gets stranger and stranger. I appreciate your taking the time on this. God bless!
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Sometimes you just feel like touching Jesus! 🙏. pic.twitter.com/AzpedEXjft

— Fr. Edmond Nyoka (@ednyoka) August 2, 2024

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Reader John Laurence writes from Texas (of a recent headline story from our archives on the Eucharist):

“A disturbing part of this article (to me) is about that priest that wrote to you. Unless I am mistaken (please correct me if so), I would think that as an ordained priest, he, above others, would have been obligated to confront the ‘man who took Communion, had no idea what to do with it, and just walked away’ (quote from article). How can an ordained priest, who has been given the power and authority to consecrate the Eucharist, merely ‘observe’ such a thing?

“I am no priest, but I have served as an extraordinary minister many times — and over the years there have been times when I would literally follow an individual who had obviously been given the Eucharist mistakenly and either retrieve it or insist that they consume it–and not leave them until (and unless) they did!”

As for the seeming “lack of faith” in the newly consecrated Eucharist that I described above, I did mention it to one of the priests in this diocese when I had an opportunity. I didn’t do so in a derogatory manner but with kindness and respect. He immediately saw what I was talking about. He wondered where he learned that as well. When the bishop of this diocese says mass, he NEVER looks away from the Eucharist right in front of him – from the very moment that it is consecrated. Obviously, he IS very conscious of the newly consecrated hosts…oddly enough. Should he “confront” his priests on their lack of faith? NO!!! I’ll explain why in a moment…

Many people do not realize that ordained priests do not have to have faith to consecrate the Hosts. Nor do priests even have to ‘be’ in the state of Grace in order for the Consecration to be valid. It is no wonder that many priests treat the Eucharist with very little respect. They don’t do this intentionally nor knowingly, but rather from a certain ‘lack’ of faith whether they realize it or not.

“Should priests be ‘confronted’ about this? Absolutely not! They need our love, prayers, and gratitude more than anything else. The greatest ‘priest’ story I ever heard is the one that is told about Saint Francis of Assisi when he was approaching the end of his life. Saint Francis never felt ‘worthy’ enough to become a priest, but he was an ordained deacon. Sometime after losing his eyesight, some of the brothers complained to Saint Francis that there was a priest who was living with a woman in an adulterous relationship. Being unable to see, he asked that he be taken to him. When the priest came to the door, Saint Francis reached out to grasp his hands, kissed them, and said: ‘These are the hands that bring me Jesus’…!” The point is that priests need our love and prayers and gratitude more than anybody else! Without priests, there would be no Eucharist.”

[resources: Secrets of the Eucharist]

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