On the move...again.
So the first week in Rome has been PACKED with stuff, naturally.
Thursday we went to Orvieto, a little mountain city in the Umbria region. In the neighboring town of Bolsena in 1263 is where a Eucharistic Miracle took place. A very holy German priest was having doubts about the true presence of Christ in the Eucharist, and begged God to help him believe. While celebrating Mass, the host began to bleed, dripping all over the corporal on the altar! The blood of Christ was made visible for this priest, and the corporal, still intact, is encased in a glass container and housed in the Cathedral in Orvieto. We had the opportunity to have Mass in the private side chapel right in front of this corporal.
This miracle is the reason we as a Church have the Solemnity of Corpus Christi, which was instituted in 1264. St. Thomas Aquinas composed the "pange lingua" (final 2 verses are what we call "tantum ergo") and "Adoro te" for the feast--and we sang them both in entirety during Mass. It was beautiful.
Today is a free day, so after pranzo people will probably just walk around and explore the city and get to know the area around the NAC better. I'm hoping to find someone who wants to go to Chiesa Nuova--where the remains of St. Philip Neri are, so I can pray with him.
Tomorrow we all depart Rome for our respective language schools--Verbania, Asisi or Siena...I will be going to Siena and living in a monastery there---not too sure that the monks will have wifi...and language studies begin on Monday.
Until next time...
Pax Christi vobiscum,
kpl
Thursday we went to Orvieto, a little mountain city in the Umbria region. In the neighboring town of Bolsena in 1263 is where a Eucharistic Miracle took place. A very holy German priest was having doubts about the true presence of Christ in the Eucharist, and begged God to help him believe. While celebrating Mass, the host began to bleed, dripping all over the corporal on the altar! The blood of Christ was made visible for this priest, and the corporal, still intact, is encased in a glass container and housed in the Cathedral in Orvieto. We had the opportunity to have Mass in the private side chapel right in front of this corporal.
This miracle is the reason we as a Church have the Solemnity of Corpus Christi, which was instituted in 1264. St. Thomas Aquinas composed the "pange lingua" (final 2 verses are what we call "tantum ergo") and "Adoro te" for the feast--and we sang them both in entirety during Mass. It was beautiful.
Today is a free day, so after pranzo people will probably just walk around and explore the city and get to know the area around the NAC better. I'm hoping to find someone who wants to go to Chiesa Nuova--where the remains of St. Philip Neri are, so I can pray with him.
Tomorrow we all depart Rome for our respective language schools--Verbania, Asisi or Siena...I will be going to Siena and living in a monastery there---not too sure that the monks will have wifi...and language studies begin on Monday.
Until next time...
Pax Christi vobiscum,
kpl
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